After a conversation with Steve today, I went back to investigate the hometown.aol.com/hippogrif website looking for The Equations of Good Stuffness. Unfortunately, the only files even remotely that old are a guy tripping over the letter A, Condiment Man falling from the sky, and the flaming logo from 1997-1998.
These still crack me up. Oh, and it takes a bit for CM to hit the ground.
Success! I left it on my dad’s screenname. All the files have been relocated to loeffert.net in all their original glory.
Old pages: About Me; Winning a Contest (Poor Adam); Old News; New News (Blogs hadn’t been invented yet); How to Mosey; An Index Page for My Dad; Equations of Good Stuffness
Published by Josh at June 20, 2008
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Now that shareholders are giving up on Yahoo!, it’s time for the employees to do the same! Is the company in a death spiral? I have to say, if all Microsoft wanted to do was gain engineers through the offer, they seemed to have accomplished the same goal by taking back the offer as executives and the founders of Flickr and Delicious are bailing. It’s just more confirmation that businesses are three legged stools with customers, stakeholders, and employees holding it up. The whole thing topples if one of the legs isn’t properly supported.
Here’s your very own Yahoo! resignation letter.
Published by Josh at May 14, 2008
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Zero Punctuation came out with a rant on GTA4 that gets me even more excited for the rest of the game. He says the game doesn’t really start to get good until about 5 hours in, when the training mode stops and you’re no longer bothered by tips teaching you how to play the game and crazy stuff starts happening. Can’t wait.
The ad during my viewing of the rant was for the Samsung Instinct, a iPhone clone for Sprint. I have to admit, the phone looks very nice and outperforms the iPhone in the areas I would use it for (GPS, web surfing, and live TV), but the iPhone has a hard drive an plays MP3s, which it doesn’t seem the Instinct can handle. Also, who knows how well the Instinct will compare when AT&T starts upgrading their network over the next year.
If you haven’t yet, check out Microsoft Live Mesh . With it, you can store over 5 gigs of data on their server which you can pull down from anywhere you have internet access over a secure connection. Also, if you can install a bit of software on the wild computer, you can log into your home computer with remote desktop, and run any application as though you were actually on that computer. In the short time I’ve been using it, it’s made transferring files much easier, and I don’t have to worry about bringing my laptop with me every time I leave the house. Plus, here pretty soon you’ll be able to do all of this over your cell phone. I’ve tried to get something similar working with Hamachi, but this is a billion times better, and much easier to get running.
Published by Josh at November 9, 2007
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November 2nd in Chicago, a homeless man walked into a McDonald’s and took a dump in the middle of the restaurant. Mike Sims, a witness to the incident and 57 year old culinary student, was eating a sausage McMuffin at the time. The deuce droppage did not spoil his appetite, and he was able to finish his meal. When asked by reporters about the incident, Mr. Sims said, “What got me was, being a student chef, is that he took a napkin and cleaned it up and placed it on the counter where anyone can put your food and get your condiments.”
I don’t get culinary students.
My sister was married over the weekend in the little old chapel on the KU campus next to the anthropology museum. The winter weather was not fun to work against, but in the end Friday through Sunday were excellent and any hardships suffered will only make the event more memorable. My sister with her new husband, Kris, are probably complaining of the Jamaican heat (where the temperature this week averages to the mid 80s), a problem I at least wish I had.
Monday I attempted to fix the upstairs toilet that has been running constantly since we moved in, but found too late that the broken part was not a part of the replacement kit Laura and I had purchased from Walmart. Another trip will need to be made in the next few days to find on overflow pipe, I believe it’s called, which split about where the flapper is. I’ve decided to try to fix the toilet before the front door frame, which, along with the outer glass door, lost its battle with the New Year’s Eve wind and tore some of the wood away. I had forgotten about it until now, and will need to check with my dad on repairs.
This coming weekend will be my last before school starts on Wednesday. It promises to be full of crazy adventure with the possibility of a Friday night concert even though I swore off them the last time I saw this band play. Hopefully my Magic tournament luck will be with me once again the Saturday as Steve and I battle the unwashed masses with annoying habits. While the people annoy me sometimes, there are a good enough number of cool people and the feeling that comes with competition is sure worth it. Plus, the free card is a huge dragon.
There is also to be a Wii Bowling tournament coming up soon that Liz decided on at the wedding. Laura and I have been practicing, and plan to take down all pretenders to the bowling trophy.
The new Condiment Man story is still coming along. It’s now halfway through its twelfth page and on its way to winding down, I think. It promises to be one of my favorite stories of recent times, and it feels good to once again be writing about the things going on with a skewed perspective, then allowing the condiment hero to take the story in different directions than I had anticipated. My goal is to have the story out by the time school starts next Wednesday. Laura has a dinner tomorrow, so the night will be dedicated to finishing the draft.
