While working on the Hotmail schedule I discovered that my worth as a PM has been diminished now that I’m a lead. I know it’s true, our project management software, used for scheduling work, proves it.
Computers can’t lie, right?
Category: Weird
Categories
Get movin’ Maggot!
Er… creative and just plain weird.
Dip a maggot in paint and watch it wander across a page. Use different colors of paint and you get…
wait for it…
The description on their web page really sounds much more wholesome:
Maggot Art™ is a fantastic new teaching tool for use in the elementary school setting. Children get hands-on experience with insects that most people find truly disgusting — maggots — while creating a beautiful piece of artwork to share with others.
Found on Kukla’s blog.
Categories
Table Nutball anyone?
No, it’s not that questionable appetizer your Aunt Mildred serves…
it’s playing table hockey…
with nuts…
against squirrels.
A hint, you get bonus points for hitting the squirrels in the naughty bits.
Enjoy! table nutball
A friend e-mailed me…
[My Wife’s] crt stopped working so I took a look around making sure everything was still plugged in, etc., Then I took a look on top where the cat likes to sit on the cooling vents to keep warm and found a pile of cat barf. After removing the monitor I found liquid had traveled from the top to the bottom, shorting out the crt.
I would have sent a picture of the problem but the dogs ate the barf.
Categories
Software conflict?
Do you ever install a new piece of software and find that it breaks something else? This person had the same problem. 😀
I’m as big an animal lover as the next guy… but this is just… well… odd.
 | “Imagine: your dog, cat, or other pet in full military regalia. I make this fantasy a reality. Using the latest digital techniques, I combine a photo of your pet with the uniform and background of your choice.” |
Fantasy? You mean like: “I love a man in uniform, now lick my boots Sgt. Spot!”? Ewww!!!
Get your freak on at http://www.petsinuniform.com
Ginger Elvis says: “I taste better than fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches! Thank you very much!”
<crunch> Ginger Elvis’s head has left the building.
Categories
God’s food
Perhaps it was made with Swiss cheese, it’s hole-y! Hole-y! Get it? Holes in cheese? Sounds like holy? Anyone? C’mon, this is great stuff!
Update: eBay auction saved for my own little web time-capsule
The reason the World Wide Web is called the World Wide Web is because it’s filled with interconnected links, allowing you to move from site to site. Do you ever do that?
When I first started using the web, yes, I did click around from site to site, it was kind of neat. Now, when I want some information I go to a search engine (typically Google, but I’ve just installed the MSN toolbar, but I digress), type in a search and go directly to the info I want. I do very little “browsing” when on the web. Two reasons:
- Many sites actively seek to keep you on their site
- The web is getting really, really big… wandering is not as interesting as it used to be, there’s just too much random crap.
The thing that has brought back interest in web surfing for me is the concept of the blog sphere. A blog sphere is a subset of a subset of the web; it’s the blogs (one subset) I read (another sub set). This narrowing of scope has made it much easier to navigate the web in an ad hoc fashion as I am no longer presented with the overwhelming scope of the web… I’m presented with the web as seen by people I think are interesting (who find interesting links, produce interesting content or are, simply, interesting).
All day today I’ve been listening to a new, free album I downloaded from Mercedes Benz (yes, the auto manufacturer). Seeing as you don’t expect go looking for music on a car manufacturer’s site and I don’t own a Mercedes (or a Chrysler for that matter) it’s unlikely I would have happened upon this site on my own. I found it because Paul left a comment on my blog, and he entered the URL for his blog. Reading his blog I found the info on the Benz free music download.
Viewed as a whole, the web is full of a bunch of random crap. Viewed through the filter of the people with whom I share a connection it becomes a whole lot more interesting.
Sure… jackhammers… add it to the list lady. (click for big)
Edit 10/7/2004: Snopes picked up the story.