I've been really, really lazy lately. I'm in a slump and I haven't felt like posting. Guess what? I still don't feel like posting.
So I'm just going to throw out a fistful of oddball links.
Just about everything has a website dedicated to it, so it shouldn't have surprised me when I found one dedicated to the metal bikini Princess Leia wore in Return of The Jedi.
Here is a recipe for broiled goat cheese with pumpkin seed sauce.
ABC News says fat people are not really jolly after all.
Rupert Murdoch has a MySpace page.
A 18 year-old California girl was assing around on the freeway with her shiny new Mustang and killed some of the royal family of Tonga. How much does that suck?
With crime dramatically rising, Washington D.C. is apparently descending into the lower levels of hell. Among recent crimes:
On Tuesday night, two women from Texas were robbed at gunpoint by two men dressed in all black, said U.S. Park Police Sgt. Scott Fear. [Emphasis mine.]
How fucking cool is that? The guy's name is Sergeant Fear. I love that. All police departments should have a guy named Sergeant Fear.
posted at 07/13/2006 01:06 am : Permalink
Categorized Huh?, News : Tagged accident, MySpace, Princess Leia, recipe, Tonga
…can people actually use MySpace?
I use RSS to keep tabs on a few pals at MySpace (which completely blows… MySpace only syndicates something like the first three sentences of a post), so I don't need to actually login to see that someone has posted something. But then going to read the rest of that post or, God forbid, comment? Fuck. Forget about it. Not gonna happen.
Sister posted something or other over there today. I right click -> "Open link in new tab" in my feed reader and then I wait. And wait. And wait.
The fucking page never loads. Six times I've reloaded that dumbass blank output page that displays when the operation times out. So far I'm 0 for 6. Or maybe I'm .5 for 6. Once I got the background color to display. Such a lovely shade of pink.
Fuck. I've forgotten what the hell it is I was going to comment on anyway.
How the hell can people tolerate this? News types point out huge numbers like "MySpace.com has 30 million registered users" or whatever the hell the number is. So I'm guessing at any given point in time there are 29,999,500 people who can't get MySpace to do a damn thing.
And of course that's the problem. Demand versus capacity. Demand for the site is high, with a minimum of tens of thousands of users attempting simultaneous access at any given moment. Capacity is comparatively very low, as MySpace.com apparently has the ability to accommodate approximately three simultaneous users.
Explain to me again why people still want to use MySpace?
posted at 06/18/2006 11:19 pm : Permalink
Categorized Geekery : Tagged MySpace, Sister
ABC News has a fun little tidbit. The article is about al Qaeda's communication in the post-9/11 world.
After relying heavily on fixed — and thus vulnerable — Web sites until early 2002, al Qaeda quickly switched to hiding its online operations within more legitimate bulletin boards and Internet sites offering free upload services or connecting through such popular social network sites as Orkut and MySpace. [Emphasis mine.]
MySpace is evil. I knew it! I'm going to start watching my friends list for terrorist activity.
posted at 03/10/2006 09:46 am : Permalink
Categorized News : Tagged al Qaeda, MySpace