AyalaLand, and then some.
18 Feb 2005
My friend and I are pitching for another Ayala gig, which has been worrying me no end recently because of what happened with the last one. Anyway, to give myself some peace of mind, I’ve been researching the hell out of the local competition, which includes Megaworld, Robinsons Land and Rockwell. This way, I can at least assure myself that the designs I’m pitching with will be marginally better than any of the rival sites’ (at least, that’s the theory).
Anyway, while perusing the Megaworld site, I came across this rather priceless editorial mishap:
lol.
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18 Feb 2005
And in the novel-inventions-that-will-make-little-or-no-impact category, a Ukranian inventor has put together a musical condom, which will not only play louder as the sex gets hotter, it will also change melodies depending on your position. The fact that it costs 20 cents more than your average condom isn’t much of a deterrent, imo, but you gotta wonder who actually needs these things. Methinks that the inventor may have been spending too much time with that other scientist I mentioned yesterday, since they both seem to be pretty fixated on sex with music.
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17 Feb 2005
“The blood rush after climax depletes the muscles of energy-producing glycogen, leaving men feeling physically drained.
“Because they have more muscle mass than women, men become tired after sex and this subsequently leads to them feeling sleepy.”
No kidding.
The bit at the end where the scientist actually tries to recommend ways for women to keep their men awake long enough for some idle chatting is just ridiculous. Play Britney Spears’ Toxic in the background? wtf.
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17 Feb 2005
The motherlode, if I ever saw one. What I found really impressive about this collection is that the entire thing is put together by fans, all 180 episodes of the entire 9-season run. That’s gotta be some kinda record.
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15 Feb 2005
A guy enters bar carrying an alligator. Says to the patrons, “Here’s a deal. I’ll open this alligator’s mouth and place my genitals inside. The gator will close his mouth for one minute, then open it, and I’ll remove my unit unscathed. If it works, everyone buys me drinks.” The crowd agrees. The guy drops his pants and puts his privates in the gator’s mouth. Gator closes mouth. After a minute, the guy grabs a beer bottle and bangs the gator on the top of its head. The gator opens wide, and he removes his genitals unscathed. Everyone buys him drinks. Then he says: “I’ll pay anyone $100 who’s willing to give it a try.” After a while, a hand goes up in the back of the bar. It’s a woman. “I’ll give it a try,” she says, “but you have to promise not to hit me on the head with the beer bottle.”
You can check out the other 99 on this page, although to be honest, these are the sort of jokes that are funnier heard than read.
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14 Feb 2005
This song is all over the radio these days, and it only occurred to me very recently that the spoken-vocal part is a bit strange.
Sayeth the Bono:
Uno, dos, tres… catorce!
Must be the vertigo.
(And in truth, the rest of the song does kinda reinforce this dizzy, montage-type of lyric … so I guess it was done on purpose.)
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11 Feb 2005
Lokitorrent (and its younger sibling Torrentstop) have reportedly lost their legal battle vs. the MPAA, and have thus been forced to close down. Not only that, but they’ve also been ordered to “provide the MPAA with access to and copies of all logs and server data related to his illegal BitTorrent activities.”
It’s interesting to note that the MPAA actually went to the trouble of having their threatening ads displayed on the frontpage of each site they successfully took down. Talk about rubbing salt on the wound.
Word has it that they’re going to try to take down ED2k networks next, which makes me sad because I don’t think I’ve owned a machine in the past 4 years that didn’t have some version of edonkey installed on it. I can’t remember the last time I actually got something big off of it though — bit-torrent was just too darned convenient. Still, killing ED2k at this point would be like taking down the file-sharing channels on IRC … oh wait, they did that already didn’t they? I wonder if the channels will be making a comeback now that BT is going down.
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10 Feb 2005
So the new server has been taking up pretty much all of my waking (non-working) moments recently as I clumsily feel my way around a system that is accessible primarily via a command-line. It feels oddly exciting, typing commands to a machine tens of thousands of miles away, and then receiving long strings of feedback that scroll by so fast you can barely make them out. I guess I should consider myself lucky that I know PHP pretty well, because a couple of basic commands (mkdir, unlink, etc) are common to both PHP and *nix.
Some interesting bits of trivia I discovered today:
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The PING function in Linux goes on forever. Yup, it will ping a given address until the end of time unless you tell it to stop. That’s the default behavior. How do you stop it? By pressing Ctrl + C (a rather unfortunate keystroke combination, because it makes utterly no sense to someone from an Undo-Cut-Copy background).
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wget is the single coolest *nix command known to man. Feed it an internet address, and it will download whatever file it finds at the end of that string. wget http://www.highfiber.org/index.php will grab that page and download it to the current directory, for example. (ok, it’s probably quite far from being the coolest command, but I used it over a dozen times this evening and it sure felt really fucking cool, every time I saw that little =====> progress bar onscreen.
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User-groups are fragile, delicate things. Kel and I fucked up our user accounts earlier by trying to assign multiple users to the “adm” group. I can only assume this was a bad idea because none of our accounts could login again afterwards.
More cool Linux trivia as I learn them.
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9 Feb 2005
I’ve been teaching myself how to administrate the new dedicated server I got the other day, and it’s been pretty slow-going thus far. I’ve managed to get the private nameservers running, and I was actually able to pull my guttervomit files and database from the old machine on to this new one. (If you’re reading this, your ISP has successfully found guttervomit’s new location.)
The only problem is, I broke the FTPD service right after the transfer, so I can’t copy any of my other sites over. Great.
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GoDaddy.com debuts on TV, with mixed results
8 Feb 2005
I just signed up with these guys a few hours ago, and already they’re ripping it up.
[ GoDaddy.com ], which had no previous experience in television advertising, paid nearly $5 million for the right to air two spots promoting its Internet services in Sunday’s [ Superbowl ] championship game.
The [...] commercial featured a bosomy model having trouble with her blouse as she testifies before a panel holding “broadcast censorship hearings.” The spot aired as scheduled in the first quarter of the showdown between the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles, but a repeat appearance scheduled for the fourth quarter never was shown.
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