January 2006 Archives

[...]"The U.S. Navy boarded an apparent pirate ship in the Indian Ocean and detained 26 men for questioning, the Navy said Sunday." [...]

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"Daria, I've got *HIC!* the damn *HIC!* damn hiccups. Please *HIC!* scare me *HIC!* so they'll go *HIC!* away," Jane pleaded.

Daria closed her locker and looked Jane dead in the eye.

"TAG's desided to write another Pause in the Air story line. This time though, he's hooking you up with Tiffany."

Jane's scream was heard for miles.

Post #100

Corinne was napping on the loveseat that her roommate Janis had brought to the Raft dorm. A gentle tapping at the door woke her. She opened the door to see...

Nothing.

She looked up and down the hallway.

There was no one there.

She slammed the door in disgust.

Jane and Daria poked their heads out from the room across the hallway.

"Think we've gotten to her yet?" Jane asked.

"Hope not. Lets see what happens when we call Tiffany over and give her the wrong room number," Daria smirked.

Jane nodded as she went to place the call.

Google's GMail is bragging about their new Delete button.

Too bad they've pretty well trained us to use the drop down menu. I have yet to go to the button first. I'm still using the drop down menu. *sigh* :(

Foo gives us a link to a MENSA Intelligence Test. See how many you get.

I'm still doing it myself. You all know how bad my typing is. I'm sitting here with a dictionary. I'll post my final score shortly. I'm at an 10 currently.

Here we go again.

Here's a list of artwork for you to look over.

-drmike

From Red Herring:

What Net surfers most commonly search for on the web is pretty surprising. Most actually end up looking for search engines themselves, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. It could be that they're just lazy or don't really know what they're doing. The No. 1 search term in November 2005 was "eBay," with 13.9 million requests, followed by "Google," with 13.3 million requests. Rounding out the top five most common search terms were "Yahoo," "Mapquest," and "Yahoo.com." Fully five out of the top 10 search terms were names of actual search engines, and all of the top 10 terms were names of web sites rather than topics. The first topical search term, "weather," came in at a distant No. 23. "Whether this behavior is driven by ignorance or savvy, the end result is the same: The search engine is the focal point of the online experience for Internet users across the spectrum," said Ken Cassar, chief analyst at Nielsen//NetRatings.

SOURCE: Nielsen//NetRatings

`Rules Kids Won't Learn in School.' by Charles J. Sykes, author of the book Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write, Or Add:

Rule 1:
Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2:
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3:
You will not make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4:
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5:
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.

Rule 6:
If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7:
Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8:
Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.

Rule 9:
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10:
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11:
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Rule No. 12: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you're out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That's what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for "expressing yourself" with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.

Rule No. 13: You are not immortal. (See Rule No. 12.) If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven't seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.

Rule No. 14: Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school's a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you'll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now. You're welcome.

Tim over at Ctrl-Alt-Del gives us a report about a gamer taking his life. While that's sad, what bothers me about this entire business is that Mr. Jack Thompson uses the situation to once again push his agenda that "Gamers need to get a life." What he fails to pay any attention to since he can't see beyond the end of his own nose is that the admin of the gaming sites in question went out of their way to contact Mitchell S. and attempt to talk him out of the attempt. While they were unable to do so, the attempt was made. Even Mr. Thompson says that gamers need to "All of you gamers need to put down the controllers and get a life."

Funny how he missed that this is exactly what they did. Imagine that.

Seems like once again that Mr. Thompson is the one who needs to "put down the controllers and get a life."

I wonder if Lynn Johnston is expressing her opinion about herself or maybe for her own artwork.

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