Easily Amusing

Yes, today's shows are ridiculous...

ben — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:17:31 GMT

but shows from yesteryear are just fantastic BJ and The Bear episodes included such titillating titles as: Detective Finger, I Presume?, Bear Bondage, and my favorite: Intercepted Pass... unfortunately, this awesome show is not on hulu. found via WFMU

Spore - now taking more of my money

ben — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:31:17 GMT

you can pre-order now, and there's even a galactic edition... damn, i want that...

This may be the clincher for me to move up to the new generation

ben — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:30:15 GMT

via penny arcade, i found PlayOn, which will let you watch things like Hulu or Youtube on your console... since i've proven i'm never going to get off my ass and make my own DVR, this is the next best thing... I'm sorely tempted now, to get a PS3 when i get home...

Greatest Medication Side Effect Ever!

typhoid — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:06:00 GMT

that place you go to between places, can be a little intense...

Not dead yet!

chuk — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:28:16 GMT

Really, I'm not dead yet...

Sammich

muhgcee — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:32:05 GMT

Hmm, Peanut butter, ham and mustard sandwich, anyone? I might have to try this...

This just in! Tineye.com, who's been ripping your photos?

n0manarmy — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:42:41 GMT

So I've been playing around with tineye.com which has a database of over 700 million photos, which I'm assuming is still growing. The neat thing is that I can either link photos from the web with the cool firefox/IE pluggin that they have or upload photos that I've cataloged and see who else has them posted or has changed them. This is quite amusing to me cause I used to spend a lot of time doing the photoshop fridays and comedy gold mines on somethingawful.com.

my present to myself

ben — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:22:34 GMT

my present to myself for turning 29 was to quit smoking... now i feel like this...

Happy Birthday, Ben!

elfie — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:33:14 GMT

I'm just a little confused

typhoid — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:29:02 GMT

Make it stop!

ben — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:03:39 GMT

has anyone ever had success dealing with a male cat peeing on things? like couches? any way to get him to stop?

The Simple Dollar

ben — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:22:50 GMT

I'm really liking this site - I'd heard of it before in passing, but hadn't gotten into it, until a few questions about the differences between a traditional 401k and the new Roth 401k came up. The writing is, aptly enough, quite simple, and they lay out for you the ups and downs of things, and very easy to understand answers. Money has never been something I cared about having, but recently that's been changing (owning a house, planning for the future), and this site is proving very helpful, since i didn't get my accounting degree...

How you'll know when not to bother me in august...

ben — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:16:49 GMT

ESPN was kind enough to display a schedule of when i'll be busy for the next month

Problems with Chase's website

ben — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:46:31 GMT

so, something i've been saying to myself a lot lately when thinking about technology, specifically interfaces, has been "could my mom use it?" that is - not only can she figure it out, but would it be intuitive enough that she would use it more than once. Now, my mom isn't exactly behind the curve, but her ability to change with new interfaces just is a lot less flexible than someone who has had less experience - basically her expectations are more hard coded than, say, a 12 year old's... so it really pisses me off when I have a hard time with something, for example, adding a checking account to my list of accounts on Chase's website.

what i'm working on

ben — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:47:27 GMT

playing with U-verse now, can't say much more, but it's very cool, hehehehe

Soon to be relatively famous

rich — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:28:23 GMT

Matthews for Congress is on YouTube!

Look at all that delicious space...

ben — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:32:08 GMT

What would you do with 500GB? update: it's actually only showing as 465GB... wonder where my other 35GB went...

We [don't] want the funk....

ben — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:33:25 GMT

in other news if you stink, they will ask you to leave the casino... awesome, or sucky treatment? how about talking to the other guests?

i made a fancy button!

ben — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:25:48 GMT

you can't really tell here, because it's just a picture, but in a WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) I made a "glassy, animated button", so that when you mouse over it, it glows a bit, and then when you mouse off, it fades back. my button: and when you mouseover it: Listen, this is a big deal for me... I generally am TERRIBLE at this kind of thing, and even these ugly examples are a big leap for me...

crap. now the housing deflation has hit my forest hideout

AnarchyX — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:55:43 GMT

I just realized that the Idiot up the hill from my property near where I do zombie target practice hasn't been there all year and a tree damn near took out the place. Rear deck is crumbling. General disrepair. He bought it in 2005 for 685K. Its listed for 529K with some small time local realtor that does mostly foreclosure sales. I think I will offer them 75K. It will make a nice tol shed + the extra acre and a quarter could come in handy. Asshole took all his firewood though. Anybody want some copper?