Category: Randamonium
It’s… De-lurking Week!
Yes, you heard right: it’s De-lurking Week here at KUR, as is the case all over the Blog-O-Sphere!
Are you a long-time reader, yet never commented? A first-time reader and want to say hi? A KUR-regular who comments all the time? Post a comment why don’t you — anything goes! Us here at the office have made a sacred vow whereby no biting shall occur in the event of a posted comment. After all: Would It Kill Ya To Comment?
Here’s to another zero comments entry! Huzzah!
Happy ’07 Yada Yada
… and we’re back — with not much interesting to report really. So why not kick off the year with some inanity: celebrity patents! For example, Patent #4,656,917 — “Musical instrument support”, owned by one Eddie Van Halen:
I say he should’ve patented his hairdo as well.
Barry The Elf
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Barry will do anything, and I mean ANYTHING to keep you online this Xmas. Ho Ho Ho!
Is There A Hungarian In The Audience?
Robin Slick, published novelist, raging liberal, and mother of 2/3 of “the Adrian Belew Power Trio” asks: Okay, Who Knows Hungarian?
Here’s an article about me where I am strategically placed between Pamela Des Barres, Marianne Faithful, Bebe Buell, and Germaine Greer! But for godsakes, it’s in Hungarian and so not only am I unable to translate it, there are no free on line services which will do it for me…
Why that’s a job for BalintMan if ever I saw one!
Year In Review
You like end-of-the-year lists? This list of lists should keep you busy until, oh, mid January I reckon. A tiny sampling:
INTJ
It’s the “I Got A Little Bored On This Dull Monday So I Took An Online Test” Post: The Myer-Briggs Test For Programmers! ‘t Would appear I’m an INTJ which I suspect is psycho-babble for “stubborn asocial nerd”. :)
Balint, Martin & Barry Whip It Out
Had this video-taped remnant of my birthday weekend at hand, thought I’d share…
“It’s on a boat, right?” :D
Not To Mention Imperials
Moustaches, goatees, and beards. They are not the same. Discuss.
Display:inline
Cripes! I just had a chance to see this page in IExplorer on a Windows XP machine. Hadn’t you guys noticed the right sidebar was sitting way too close to the entries? For all these years? Anyway, one display:inline; rule to the #narrow div and all appears to be well again. Carry on, carry on.
WikiDumper
From the bold to the beautiful, from the wicked to the wise, every day the Wikipedia team relegates possibly “inappropriate” submissions to the garbage dump of time. Here, we make selected rejects immortal and preserve them for posterity.
(merci bernard!)
Dog Tricks!
SOFA writes: “I thought this was kinda cool — but I’m a sucker for cute…” Well so are we! :)
You Talkin’ To Me?
What American accent do you have? As for me:
Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.
I’m particularly looking forward to reading Balint’s results. :)
Computer Says Noooo…
Well hi there! I’ve been out of the loop a couple of days as you may have noticed. Finally brought the iMac to an Apple reseller for repair and got it back with a shiny, new, empty hard disk. No data recovered. At all. As we speak, Dr Sharleena is mumbling all sorts of intricate Spanish expletives at the thing which would truly make for a wonderful Friday Boot. So while I try to convince her of the fact that with the new hard disk, the iMac has been given a new soul and can therefor be trusted again, here’s some tidbits from the inbox:
- Pastor Ted Haggard: “I threw the drugs away and never had sex with the man!” (more, some more)
- It’s… Aqua Teens vs Frunobulax!
- Stratoblogster: a blog about… Strats!
- A Photoshop Plugin that enables you to load and save wave audio! (via Tommi)
- Johnny Cash does Elvis! LOL (sic)
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe sings: “Didn’t It Rain?“
Off to buy my second external backup hard disk in two weeks now! :)
Update: In a moving group-hug session, Dr Sharleena has forgiven the iMac for its wrongdoings.
Six Degrees of Separation
Coudal asks: How do you get from Jackson Pollock to Bob Dylan in as few degrees as possible? I’d like to ask the same question, replacing Dylan with Zappa. :)