Archive for May, 2008
30 May
Obama Sees Dead People
30 May
Delicious Mustard
We have a pretzel day here at work. How it goes is there’s a rotating pool of people and when it’s “your turn” you go buy a bag (40) soft pretzels. People generally bring in mustard and whatever else. I’m not a huge fan of mustard in general (unlike peppers, it never tasted “clean” to [...]
22 May
Brewing Beer on Todays Subprime Mortgage Budget
Everything is more expensive nowadays. Beer, grain, bread, beer, food, gas, and beer. The important things in life it seems. How can we rectify this situation?
We should conserve food, water, and grain by combining them into beer. But how do we make the jump cheaply without buying one of those $100 beer brewing kits and [...]
21 May
The Spoils of Wort: Kitchen Sink Adventure
Occasionally you’re looking at your box of brewing stuff and wondering what you could possibly make with all the odds and ends on the sly. My target for this adventure was to see how far $20 would get me for brewing. I also had a few leftovers, namely two open bags of Munton’s extra [...]
18 May
Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Movie
10 second review: If you’re a fan, it’s pretty decent but at 1h20m, it’s a bit long in tooth by the end of it. If you’re not a fan, just watch the intro jingle and copyright announcement and find something else to do.
Highlights: Just about everything in the Aquateen inventory is present, including the obscure [...]
15 May
New TLD
From: josh.knarr@gmail.com (12.150.11.25)
First Name: Joshua
Last Name: Knarr
Email Address: josh.knarr@gmail.com
Affiliation: Straight Male
Country of Current Residence: United States
Subject: New TLD
Message: Gentlemen,
I would like to propose a .gay domain. Think we could do this?
Thanks,
Josh
Dear Sir/Madam:
Currently there is no application process for new generic top-level domains.
Please monitor our website at www.ICANN.org for updates on when new applications for generic [...]
14 May
Lou Dobbs and David Olofson
I’m reposting this because it’s getting lost in the Signal-to-Noise ratio since CNN carried it on the Lou Dobbs segment. The best link to the case is here, which includes links to the Lou Dobbs program.
Now, I love a good bit of armchair lawyering, so here goes:
Prosecution: They should bring up the fact that the [...]