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Today's new word is pizzle. Sounds like Snoop Dogg speak, doesn't it? I'd never heard of the word till I found out they dry these things out and make chew toys for dogs out of them. Kinda painful to think about if you ask me. And dat's the shizzle on da pizzle mah nizzle.
Information security experts all over the place are warning that the big one will hit sooner rather than later. Trust me, if some hacker in Shanghai (or wherever) perfects this exploit and releases a worm, it'll be worse than anything that's come before by an order of magnitude. THOUSANDS of Windoze machines around the globe will go up in flames (not literally, sheesh) overnight. Probably tens of thousands.
How much fun can $9.99 buy? Quite a bit actually. Just think how much you'd save on batteries, ladies.
Part of my summer reading (the only non-technical book so far) was Rick Bragg's All Over But The Shoutin', his autobiographical tale of growing up poor in Alabama, then going on to become a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist at the New York Times. I enjoyed it, it's a great story. As some of you know, the epilogue is that Bragg quit the Times in the aftermath of the Jayson Blair scandal, along with fellow Alabamian Howell Raines. Rumor has it that he's back here in Alabama, and working on a book with Jessica Lynch. Anyhoo, bottom line, read the book if you get a chance.
It's SEC Media Days here in Birmingham, which means football season is as good as here. Please limit all conversations to football, racin, and huntin till Christmas. The best time to talk trash about your team (especially if you're a Bama fan this season) is before any actual downs are played. Once your team starts suckin it's kinda hard to be cocky.
I had to link War Liberal cause it's a fellow Alabamian and the site has lots of local (and not so local) news and commentary. Check it out!
The 2004 Presidential candidates are starting to come out of the woodwork. Cusack dropped out already, I'm campaigning for the one person in the USA who represents me the best. Join us and help put another sex-crazed hillbilly in the White House!
Firebird tip of the day: Firebird lets you have multiple web sites open in one window with tabs. The cool thing about this is you can have multiple home pages - just create as many tabs as you want (Ctrl-t) and open a favorite page in each tab (Mookie, Slashdot, Google, etc.). Go to Tools|Options and click on Use Current Pages in the Home Page section. Then all those sites will open in one window every time you start Firebird!
Have y'all seen that granny on Oxygen(the network, not the gas) that takes sex calls? Why do people need to call her to ask sex questions anyway? Don't they have the Internet? All the answers are right there. While I'm on the subject of TV, Bravo has suddenly been taken over by the gayfers. Queer Eye for the Straight Guy proves that any slob can become fabulous, all you need is about 20 grand and a carload of prissy men. Imagine Kids in the Hall meets What Not to Wear (the American one with the big gay Billy Ray Cyrus) meets Food 911 meets While You Were Out. I gotta get my ears waxed ASAP!
Hate pop-up ads? Give Mozilla's new browser Firebird a try - it has built-in popup blocking. Go ahead, it's free! Note that there's not an install program, you just unzip the files and double click MozillaFirebird.exe. Also note that this site looks broken using it - I gotta fix that! [UPDATE] Never mind I fixed it, I had an extra /tr tag in the template. Thanks, Webmonkey!
This morning I attended the monthly meeting of the local Linux Users' Group (LUG). Like other LUGs I've visited, it was kinda loosely organized (the presenter didn't show, heh), and there's usually not a lot of socializing when hardcore Linux geeks congregate. However, I did meet some nice folks and we took an impromptu tour of a lab where one of the members works and saw some cool cutting edge 3-D display stuff.
I spent the end of last week in Orlando for some meetings. The coolest thing I did was learn how a wave pool works, we went down into the equipment room and saw all the machinery. Very impressive!
I'm going to the RTDA convention in Nashville in a couple of weeks. Never been to one, hopefully they have lots of scantily clad women handing out expensive cigars. If not, I can always fib about it.
Mookie may not know this, but the world's premier motorcycle collection is located right here in Alabama (road trip, anyone?). They just moved to a new location that also contains what some say is the best road racing track in America. In fact it's so good that Indian motorcycles is considering moving their factory here to use the track for testing.
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