Category: department of wtf?

  • i know it’s all in the name of technology, but…

    i’m all for google street view.  i laugh at the claims of invasion of privacy when people file lawsuits against google street view when they find themselves on google maps.  i am amused by humorous street view photos like the one with the guy in front of the camera or the one where they ran…

  • server intestinal implosion

    so the server is having issues. i’m getting a lot of slow loading pages and error 500s on the wordpress sites i’m running.  when i contacted 1and1 to report the issue, i got this fantabulous response: me: > Hi– > > I have multiple sites running on my shared hosting > package, and I noticed…

  • and the award for dumbest news of the week goes to…

    the state department, after a “reply-all” storm caused their servers to crash.  apparently, not only were people pissed at being included on the reply-all lists, and sent angry replies, but the problem was further compunded by more traffic caused by email recalls.   i’m left speechless.  read the post and scathing replies on /.

  • new!! be an interloper and watch my boring webcam

    check this shiznit out

  • a clue! a clue!

    gavin really likes blue’s clues. he’s started finding clues throughout the house.  he says “A clue! A clue!” when he sees something paw-shaped around the house.  this is a really post-modern experience for me and brings up an interesting question. what is this thing that we’re finding clues for?  i haven’t written down all the…

  • computer explosion

    so there we were.  playing guildwars.  trying to get some new characters to a high enough level that we can beat the mission which will unlock the ability to go from the nightfall campaign back to the original prophecies campaign.  we’re running aroung collecting XP from the quests we just finished, when, all of a…

  • he’s a half-blinker

    just a quick update for those who care about my crazy eye issues… i went back for my followup appt. for my contacts. if you’re just joining us, previously i had talked about my keratoconus and that i will be wearing contacts for forever (or until it’s down to eye surgery or nothing) to counter…

  • dig yourself

    nick cave is my hero. i can’t get this song out of my head and when it is stuck in my head i end up doing his crazy strut. this album is fantastic. you should all buy it NOW.

  • TalentProof

    we recently netflix’d two movies in a row with “-proof” in their title: Quentin Tarrantino‘s Death Proof (one half of his and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse) and Adam Sandler‘s Bulletproof. A brief review of these stinkbombs… Death Proof the only thing this flick proves is that Quentin Tarrantino is working on his talentless hack title. seriously.…

  • out of the woods

    so just about all i blog about these days is how the web design gig is going. that probably has something to do with the fact that i’ve been dreaming CSS lately. well this post won’t be any different. and i’m still f’ing dreaming CSS… we recently hit a landmark accomplishment. when we were first…