10/20/2003 12:34:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Finally, a quiz that got the real me.
Which Survivor of the Impending Nuclear Apocalypse Are You?
A Rum and Monkey joint.
|||106667124800752884|||10/20/2003 09:25:00 AM|||Skillzy|||Here come da judge, here come da judge. Hey, he was fighting prostate cancer!|||106665993840224569|||10/19/2003 02:13:00 PM|||Skillzy|||People who need to shut up:
Alanis Morissette, the "grunge Anne Murray", thinks we need to fire one of our Deputy Secretaries of the Interior. Hey, aren't you Canadian? Butt out, eh?
Plastic surgery poster chick Pam Anderson (another Canadian!) wants us to boycott KFC cause they're mean to their chickens. I have created a brief response to Miss Anderson's statement and posted it here.|||106659080791601465|||10/17/2003 04:43:00 PM|||Skillzy|||
The top two reasons to miss Columbus. Notice the sky? It was a gorgeous day yesterday, pretty much perfect. And as a bonus, I got to see how bricks are made! The sandwiches at Fat Freddie's were as good as I remembered, and Sweetbriar got a major makeover a couple of years ago, so I got to hang out in a big comfy leather chair while I visited with the guys and smoked a big fat La Gloria Cubana.
|||106642699959143257|||10/17/2003 07:34:00 AM|||Skillzy|||Friday Headlines:
Don't move this old lady's cheese .
There's been an outbreak of nekkidness in Cyprus. Hopefully it's contagious.
The beloved Red Sox finally fall to the evil Yanks. Wait till next year!|||106639409981821409|||10/16/2003 04:20:00 PM|||Skillzy|||No update today, I have much to do (blogwise and non-blogwise). Occupy yourself with some Sugarmama or a random blog till my return.|||106633923756180200|||10/15/2003 07:51:00 AM|||Skillzy|||I get to spend tonight in Phenix City, Alabama, a town with a checkered past. It was kind of the Las Vegas of the South back in the 50's but it cleaned up nicely. I used to live across the river in Columbus, so I'll get to visit some of the old haunts (and have a cigar at Sweetbriar).|||106622227420985819|||10/15/2003 07:30:00 AM|||Skillzy|||Mozilla Firebird 0.7 is out today with some new features. I can't wait to test drive it!|||106622101644879977|||10/13/2003 08:02:00 PM|||Skillzy|||"Monkey's brain signals control 'third arm". OK am I the only one who finds this headline funny? Let the man-bashing begin! Another headline for the same story is "Monkeys Taught Mind Control".|||106609336287028642|||10/13/2003 07:42:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Knobby has Britney's Esquire pics so go get your hoochie fix!|||106609215141101992|||10/13/2003 10:05:00 AM|||Skillzy|||Shop nekkid, get free clothes. Why didn't I think of that? Sales of the video would more than cover the cost of the clothes.|||106605751453377124|||10/12/2003 03:55:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Well I've finally added comments (using Haloscan for now) and finished up a few more buttons, including one for my fellow Alabama Bloggers. I think I'll celebrate with a cigar on the veranda, y'all.|||106599211204965071|||10/12/2003 01:42:00 PM|||Skillzy|||
Can you hear me now?
|||106598412795789386|||10/10/2003 03:12:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Rush comes clean, checks into rehab. The amazing part of this story is that he was able to keep it a secret for as long as he did. Think he'll dodge a bullet, or is he outta here? Time will tell...|||106581673379961053|||10/08/2003 08:07:00 PM|||Skillzy|||
On December 16th (a Tuesday), you can earn your hardcore geek wings by attending a "Screening Engagement" of all three Lord of the Rings movies back to back to back. And not just the regular movies for the first two, the "Special Extended Editions". The whole thing's supposed to take 10 hours, so figure about $375 for Mountain Dew and M&Ms. No word about potty breaks...see if it's coming to your town here. Tickets go on sale tomorrow.|||106566165017716994|||10/08/2003 08:10:00 AM|||Skillzy|||Newsforge has an article about their readers' top 10 desktop Linux apps. Here's my top 7. I still straddle the fence between XP and Linux, but there are certain things (like graphics) that I only do on Linux now. On with the list:
1) Mozilla Firebird - shocker, huh? My favorite browser in any OS
2) The GIMP - excellent graphics program, the source of all those cute little buttons over there
3) nmap - all-purpose network scanner and security tool
4) Emacs (NOT XEmacs!) - text-based programming tool extraordinaire. The color coding is helpful when working with HTML or PHP.
5) Yahoo Messenger (for Linux) - no chat rooms, no cams, just good old instant messaging.
6) gFTP - nice GUI for FTPing files back and forth around the 'net
7) XMMS - media player for Linux
The best part is that all of the above is 100% FREE! And they're all as good or better than their Windows counterparts.|||106561864689074803|||10/08/2003 07:24:00 AM|||Skillzy|||Hmm, looks like another disgruntled Alabama fan is on the loose.|||106561585960735233|||10/08/2003 07:22:00 AM|||Skillzy|||Gee, maybe we aren't supposed to hang out with big, hairy carnivores. What do you think, Roy? Antoine, how about you?|||106561572707306657|||10/07/2003 07:23:00 AM|||Skillzy|||There will be no Half Life 2 for Christmas - it was kinda questionable if it was gonna be ready anyway, but the source code fiasco sealed the deal.|||106552939544081556|||10/07/2003 07:21:00 AM|||Skillzy|||Sox Hold On, Win a Thriller. WOOHOO! Watch out, Yankees!|||106552926055624632|||10/06/2003 09:05:00 PM|||Skillzy|||
Slow blogging day, so here's some blurry majorettes from Saturday night! I promise to get clearer ones next time.|||106549232452674857|||10/05/2003 02:27:00 PM|||Skillzy|||
Wow....yesterday was an incredible day for a football game, and I got to be there for an incredible game. Despite being dominated for most of the first three quarters, Tennessee fought back and were in it till the last minute - Auburn (and their fans) never had a chance to sit back and think they had it in the bag. Pics coming soon. My voice is shot till at least Wednesday.|||106538204938675560|||10/05/2003 01:14:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Al.com, your source for "Everything Alabama", has a compiled and posted a listing of Alabama Bloggers. Pretty darn progressive for a stuffy old newspaper site. I'm in the "Somewhere in Alabama" section, not to be confused with Crazy in Alabama.|||106537769942553501|||10/04/2003 09:05:00 AM|||Skillzy|||Going down to the Loveliest Village on the Plains today with 86,000 of my closest friends to watch the Tigers play Tennessee. Look for me on ESPN tonight! WAR EAGLE!|||106527633882933392|||10/04/2003 09:02:00 AM|||Skillzy|||You can finally buy draft beer in my old hometown. And, no, that's not a typo, Montgomery spent $26 million on a stadium for a baseball team named the Biscuits.|||106527612960015090|||10/03/2003 09:12:00 AM|||Skillzy|||
Someone has perpetrated quite a hack and stolen the source code for Half Life 2, one of the most anticipated upcoming games out there at the moment. Not only did they steal it, they released it into the wild, and copies are flying around the Internet as we speak. Like Gabe says, this sucks...it's definitely gonna hurt both the game and Valve.
UPDATE: They're blaming it on Internet Explorer. You're using Firebird, right?|||106519033551703344|||10/03/2003 06:09:00 AM|||Skillzy|||On the publisher's page, I mention how The Bard's Tale was one of the first computer games I ever played. Now they're doing an updated version. It won't be out for a while, but in the meantime you can have a lot of fun poking your mouse around the characters on the main page (you'll want sound). Bring a lawyer if you plan on goosing the barmaid.|||106517934158514944|||10/02/2003 05:14:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Pics from Orlando...the ones of me and the cannoli were taken by her date so quit lookin at me like that! They were taken at the Scottish Corner down in Kissimmee:
me and her
her and me
me and the nice lady from Glasgow who owns the bar
Sorry I don't have a cool Javascript window opening thingy - you'll just have to deal.|||106513288479849663|||10/02/2003 04:37:00 PM|||Skillzy|||Poor Rush...now all he has left is his quarter of a BILLION dollar radio contract. Basically, the guy is a professional loudmouth, just like Al Sharpton or Al Franken or Sean Hannity - they make money when they get a reaction, and they always have people gunning for them. I don't like the guy, he's kinda boring, but I admire the fact that he's able to say what he thinks. Rush was in a no-win situation, if he had left out the black part and just said McNabb was overrated, he'd still be racist for daring to voice his opinion about a quarterback who was black. We've reached a point where you're only entitled to your opinion if there's not someone out there willing to shout you down if you dare voice it. Is that American? |||106513066100911511|||10/01/2003 07:38:00 AM|||Skillzy|||Got some linkage love from John at rants & raves. I gotta get him a button ASAP...|||106501189430088098|||
