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I’ve got the power!

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Batteries Charger full view

I tried to take some photos over the weekend with regular alkanline batteries and none of the ones I had around had enough charge left to power the camera for more than 1 picture. I tried about 10 old AAs I had laying around and none of them worked. So I finally got around to buying some rechargable AA batteries and a charger. Finally I don’t have to worry about buying more batteries when my mouse, keyboard, camera, soldering iron, R/C controller, etc. run low.

The batteries that were in my Gameboy Color were so old they still have testers on the side! Any ideas why the stopped putting those on?

All kids, outta the pool!

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[Adult Swim] had a pretty funny bump last night:

America you are fat

It’s cool though.

When France sees you
and is like

onh honh honh America
vous étes le fatty fat

You tell France to go
suck a stale croissant

Why?

Because you are xenophonic
and not that clever

But you are America

and proud to be fat

You’re the world’s
A #1 consumer

[behind China]

So tell those frogs over
there in frogtown

That you love their pencil lead
and City of Light

but you are big and will
crush their dumb French heads.

We call that diplomacy

[Adult Swim]

A Waffle House on every block

  • Post category:Life

Photos from Biloxi, MS have been uploaded to flickr. The opening of the Grand Biloxi Casino went pretty smoothly.

Most of the pictures are shot from the van during our commute to / from the casino which is why they are so blurry. There are several other things I wanted to get pictures of but didn’t have the chance: One of the balconys near the top of a destroyed apartment complex had “MOM WERE OK” spraypainted in blue. Also, the fence of a house had “We are home! We will SHOOT!” spraypainted on the fence to deter looters.

Outside of work things went pretty well. We all went out for hibachi at Yuki’s Japanese Restaurant, and I sang karaoke at Michael’s nightclub.

I can’t escape it

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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1001 PM CDT TUE AUG 15 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR… HARRISON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF…GULFPORT…BILOXI JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF…PASCAGOULA… OCEAN SPRINGS…MOSS POINT

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 1000 PM CDT…LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT KNOCKED DOWN TREES. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM LYMAN TO WADE…OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF GULFPORT TO 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF ESCATAWPA…AND MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR… VANCLEAVE BY 1010 PM CDT ST. MARTIN AND ESCATAWPA BY 1025 PM CDT GULFPORT…OCEAN SPRINGS…MOSS POINT AND GULF PARK ESTATES BY 1025 PM CDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH…PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS…DESTRUCTIVE HAIL… AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER… PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

Woah you post things at 3AM?

  • Post category:Web

Userpics and moods are back on the blog page, and I corrected a bug that was displaying the times in the wrong timezone. Now posts made at 10AM don’t show up as being posted at 3AM! 🙂

Approaching web 1.8

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Rolled out another update to c99.org, this time improving the Blog page. I’ve added a sidebar with a calendar and list of tags, which are pulled using the Livejournal XML-RPC interface. I also grouped the entries by date and removed the userpic.

Also, I noticed LiveJournal has a new style called Quite Lickable that almost matches c99.org’s layout, so I switched my LJ style to that.

RSS overload

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So a lot of the web services I use online offer RSS feeds of various bits of information. I decided to slap all of these together into one gigantic ‘About Me’ page: About Me. It combines the old Contact and Links pages plus NetFlix, Last.Fm, del.icio.us, and a myspace-esque ‘interests’ section into one gigantic profile. There are probably more things I can add to it, like a short bio or something, but I think it’s busy enough as it is for now.