Can somebody please fucking explain to me why the Finder would simply stop copying files without throwing an error? I was backing up all my project files because I needed big space on my laptop for video editing. It said the copy was done, I opened the folder, everything looked okay, I erased the files […]
Tag Archives: Random Stupid Stuff
Why I love Wikipedia
From the entry for Skeletor, He-Man’s mortal enemy (and don’t ask me why I was reading Skeletor’s entry on Wikipedia): Although Skeletor can clearly hear, he has (virtually) never been depicted as having ears. He does seem to have a sense of smell though, as he is shown in the 2002 MYP series attempting to […]
Current Mood
RIP John Andrews
I found out today that my old Internet friend John Andrews, aka jand, died a couple of weeks ago. Apparently he was attacked and beaten outside of a pub in his town in East Anglia, England, and presumably died a few days later from it — I don’t know the exact cause of death, and […]
The Vagaries Of Pronunciation
In the parking lot of this apartment complex, directly below the balcony where I go to smoke, there’s a Best Buy delivery truck with California plates. It has a dealership license plate frame. On top of the frame, in all caps, is the name TODEY. On the bottom, in title case, it reads “Not Toady, […]
Really bad choice of headline
Dead veterans happy to rock again for Obama – Yahoo! News They’re talking about guys who used to be in the Grateful Dead, but, uh, that’s a little creepy. Reminds me of that Masters Of Horror episode where dead Iraqi veterans start rising from the grave to vote George Bush out of office.
Report: Ohio teacher burned cross on kids' arms
Report: Ohio teacher burned cross on kids’ arms Freshwater used a science tool known as a high-frequency generator to burn images of a cross on students’ arms in December, the report said. Freshwater told investigators he simply was trying to demonstrate the device on several students and described the images as an “X,” not a […]
Words Fail Me
If you need an explanation of what might not be quite historically accurate about this, well…I’ll let Bill explain it: [Update: Apparently, this is a trend!]
I Am In Hell.
The AC here didn’t get fixed — it apparently overheated. On the form the repair guys for the apartment complex left, there’s a series of checkboxes for what work they actually do while they’re out. One of the checkboxes is “Replaced flux capacitor”. That cracks me the fuck up. But it doesn’t make it any […]
Bad Form, Old Boy
TRAIL BLAZERS Blog | The Dallas Morning News At the Republican state convention, a booth hosted by Republicanmarket was selling a pin Saturday that says: If Obama is President will we still call it the White House. There were other pins that weren’t necessarily conveying the positive, inclusive, united front that has been portrayed during […]