Boost your Internet Connection in 2 minutes
I just came across a great little utility today, and am amazed I’ve not heard about it before now. Its called TCP Optimizer, and it’s greatly boosted my download speeds.
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euicho
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euicho
Finally Some Snow!
Crazy snow storm here last night. I love it! I actually wish we’d gotten more snow though, instead of the freezing rain that came half way through the storm. The roads were pretty bad last night. Snow removal is attrocious here; I’m used to Caribou where they plow all night. MDI is like that too. They plow non stop until it stops snowing and all the roads are cleared.
Amme and I went down town to go to a restaurant but there was nowhere to park so we went to UNOs instead. On the way out of Old Bangor we almost got stuck, crawling up a steep hill at about 0.5mph. At one intersection there were cars stuck at either end of a light and nobody was moving. We were glad to be heading perpendicular to all that. UNOs was good. In the past I’ve had an aversion to it, I’m not sure why, but their food is really good and the prices are fair. There was a really strange girl in the booth next to us talking to her boyfriend like you’d talk to a kitty going “broccoliiiiii… Eat it broccoliiiiii! brooooooooooooocoliiii!” it was bizzare to say the least.
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euicho
An Uncanny Resemblance
I usually don’t post about celebrities, but I have to get something off my chest.
Have you ever had something trigger a memory or connection in your hind-brain, but it wouldn’t come to the surface? Tonight Amme was watching VH1 and that insufferable show “I Love New York” came on. If you’re fortunate enough to have never seen this show, its about this mentally unstable girl (nicknamed ‘New York’) and her quest for a “man”, with different men fighting over her. Think “Jerry Springer” meets “The Bachelorette” and you pretty much have the idea. Anyway, whenever I saw ‘New York’ on television, something would start nagging me. What was it? I couldn’t figure it out. I vaguely thought it was something to do with her resemblance to someone, possibly about her massive, titanic, eyebrows and eyelashes. Yet unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, it would pass as soon as I changed the channel.
Then tonight, out of the clear blue, it hit me. My high school teacher Mr. Willey would call it a “Wow Moment”. That instant when something finally clicks into place, like the key piece in a huge puzzle that lets you step back and comprehend the whole picture. Tonight I had my wow moment, and finally realized who “New York looked like: (More …)
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rps
rofl
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b
amazing! :)
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Johnny B
aaaaaaaahhahaahahhaha
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Doody
Wow, thats all I can say, but you are so right. And I live in New York so…
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Nyrath the nearly wise
That’s hysterical, but you are bang on. They look just alike.
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Mom
OK, I showed everyone at work tonight, and we’re still laughing! Brilliant, my son!
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breana
all i’m saying is i glad that someone else thinks this too. i’ve thought that about her ever since the first time that i saw her.
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amy
wow, i thought the same thing but i didn’t know the muppets characters name but i thought i saw it somewhere and lol wow somebody thinks the same thing :)
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Dixie Mason
I thought that from the very first time I saw her on Flavor of Love….
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vixen
i always thought that but i couldnt remember janice’s name. Thank you for solving that mystery for me lol
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Jason
She must be trying to look like Janice, cause they look too similar for it to be a coincidence. Super funny.
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Johnny
I have always thought that! Thanks.
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Nabil
When i saw here i just saw the resemblance with a muppet but i didnt knew her name, searching for her in google images i found the link to this page, what can i say? lol
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e
I was actually searching the web for a picture of this Muppet to show to my boyfriend because from the FIRST time I saw New York I was instantly reminded of this muppet but he doesn’t remember her. It’s so funny that I came upon your post.
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chr00fus
thats funny when i was watching this show with my brother and his girlfriend i saw the resemblance and i went and printed of a picture of janice, new york, and donatella versace so i could compare them next to each other and they were all dead on!
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euicho
The Troubled History of the RBOCs
When I took my first Telecom class in college, I learned about the 8 RBOCs or Regional Bell Operating Companies being set up after the AT&T monopoly was ended.
My teacher said although they were all former “Bells”, they had no joint interest. However, I wasn’t so sure. At that time, they had already begun to buy each other and were down from 8 to 4:
- SBC (Ameritech and Southwestern Bell and Pacific Telesis)
- Verizon (GTE and Bell Atlantic and NYNEX)
- BellSouth
- Qwest (US West)
I had a scary premonition that day that this would keep up until there was again 1 company, or at least 2 companies with a joint interest…
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Nyrath the nearly wise
When your aunt Patti and I read about something like that, our code phrase is “It’s just like Rollerball!”. In the original movie, corporate mergers have gotten so bad that there are only five corporations on the planet. They have names like “Energy”, “Food”, “Entertainment.”
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euicho
Mooninite Mayhem
Man, so much to rant about. As far as the Mooninite thing, I was going to be brief but I can’t hold my tongue. Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Austin, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and New York all didn’t bat an eyelash at these effin’ lite-brights, and thats all they really were. They weren’t “hoax devices” because there was no hoax. It was marketing. At best you could call them street art, and at worst they are improvised billboards. (More …)
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Doody
Yeah this is just way too crazy for words. There is no need of this, its an add and everything is well. Let it go, Boston.
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rps
“Terrorists” are really going to invest in making devices light up… Because we all know that LightBright instills fear in people.
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euicho
Hahaha. Run, its got D-cell batteries!!!!
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Nyrath the nearly wise
Most of the forums I frequent are of the opinion that the powers that be in Boston are incompetent alarmist who over-reacted, and are now looking for scapegoats to CYA.
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euicho
Knowledge Is Only a Few Clicks Away
The internet is truly amazing. Check this out:
I was on twitter and read the following on the public timeline (a list of all public updates):
“the song ‘so much’ by spill canvas is amazing”
I thought to myself, “I wonder what that song sounds like.”
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Nyrath the nearly wise
SF author Jerry Pournelle sort of predicted that in the future we would be connected to the equivalent of the Library of Congress.
He ruefully admits he did NOT predict that people would bitch and moan if Google didn’t cough up the data they wanted in under five seconds.
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euicho
Embedding an image in a URL
The up and coming Hackszine, by the people that brought us Makezine, and Craftzine, has a cool (old-ish) post about embedding image data into a URI, using the “data:” URI. This actually works for any data (image, text, xml, etc) but the most fun thing to me is using it for images.
The URI string could get very large very fast, however, so the converter limits you to 51200 bytes. It also takes a little finagling once the converter spits it out, as you have to take out the single-quotes, tabs, plus signs, and carriage returns. This is done pretty easily with a RegExp search-and-replace for: ‘*’ (replacing it with nothing). once you do that, you have to strip off some bits from the beginning and end, so it looks like this: Me.
Fun stuff!
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rps
Quite cool. Not sure I’ll make use of it, but quite cool :-)
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euicho
Chatspeak as symbols
This is a little old, but I found it quite interesting:
An amusing exerciseIt is a discussion thread over at Typophile about what chat shorthand (lol, wtf, rofl) might look like as symbols, much as ‘at’ has ‘@’, or ‘and’ has ‘&’. Though most chat shorthands are acronyms instead of single words, it is still a very neat topic with some great ideas. I prefer the one pictured to the right of this post for LOL, submitted by gmckenzi.
I also have been pondering a discussion I had with someone at work about how we do not *usually* laugh literally “out loud” when we type lol, or actually fall out of our chairs when we type rofl (how would we type it if we were?), although there have been times when it has happened. Instead, maybe we should use an alternative, and leave LOL for more hilarious outbursts. You could just take the acronym of out, producing LIL (Laughing In Loud) but that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, plus it looks like an abbreviation of little.
Perhaps LI or LIW, for Laughing InWardly, would work. Or we could spark a whole new term like TVF (Thats Very Funny) as in “That’s very funny, a fly marrying a bumble bee… I TOLD YOU I’D SHOOT! BUT YOU DIDN’T BELIEVE ME! WHYYYYYYYY DIDN’T YOU BELIEVE ME?!?!“. God I love that show.
In lieu of LOL, I tend to use “heh” when I find something funny, and “heheheheh” when it is funnier still. Note that I mean this as “heh heh heh”, as in a chuckle, as opposed to “he he he”, a feminine giggle…
So what do you all think? Do you like LIL, LIW, TVF? Create your own and post them here. I would love to hear your input on this!
PS: *bonus points for a symbolic for “OMG WTF BBQ” that is not just letters run together.
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B
i’ve just gotten used to typing ‘haha’ and if i am really laughing just typing it longer or with exclamation or something “hahahaha that fuckin rocks!”
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which is awesome when typing to someone and watching each other on a webcam, totally funny the amount of internalization, so you might be having a crazy conversation and … (0_0) [ ] / [ ](0_0)
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Doody
I kind of do the same thing. I usually use “haha” when laughing on the inside. When I am litterally laughing though I will make it more extreme by lengthening it to like “hahahahaha” or if I am really laughing hard HAHAHAHAHA!
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Nyrath the nearly wise
I use “Heh” as well.
Your aunt Patti really enjoys when she hears your laugh in person, she thinks it sounds so delightfully evil.
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chr00fus, 
Nabil and 12 others are discussing. 
B are discussing. 
Doody 1:54 am on 2/19/2007 Permalink
We actually ended up with more snow than Albany because it never actually changed to sleet. We got about 18 inches or so by the time it was all said and done.
euicho 2:16 pm on 2/21/2007 Permalink
dang! Lucky bum.