Absurd Singularity

May this year be the best one yet. =)

Been a great 2 weeks, although 2 weeks was definitely not enough. More later. =)

No resolutions this year?

Salon finally posted a review on Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. I had found it odd why they hadn't reviewed it when it first came out (and I still do) but at least when they finally did get around to it, it was a favorable one. In case you forgot how to get past their daily pass quickly, read here first.

Wandered onto the Landover Baptist Church site again recently. Had originally discovered the site awhile ago while tracking down an article and for some odd reason, I actually took it seriously back then. After a closer look this time around, I have no idea what the hell I was thinking. Obviously a satire site. With articles like this about the recent tsunami, what else could it be?

Somewhat along the same vein (tsunamis & religion), there's this wonderful article depicting elements of religion that always gets my blood boiling. And a fun commentary on a slightly-related topic that has crossed my mind as well. Nobody cares about Africa. I wonder why....

While we were on vaca, Erin received one of them mass emailings asking why Taiwanese people (and Chinese in general) should bother helping out the hardest hit country (Indonesia) after the black stain of the 1998 riots that brought down then-president Suharto and provided fertile ground for a bunch of atrocities along the way. Numerous photos were included which I'll refrain from posting. Especially since further investigation proved them to be mostly false. Not that that should let them off the hook. Guess bad blood dies hard. Hmm....

This is pretty sweet! =)

And this is just plain kooky! ;-)

I guess the staff at our local tavern (Lighthorse Tavern on Washington Street) have a lot of free time during the afternoons as they erected this gigantic snow couple the day after the "Blizzard of 2005". They've done this before but I think these were the biggest ones yet.

Unfortunately someone, or some people, killed the female snowperson overnight as only the bottom half was remaining this morning.

Maybe the couple will have some snow kids next time.

Ah.... The Onion. Not as funny as it once was but still capable of producing some gems every now and then.

Looks like I wasn't the only person who noticed the missing snow woman:

Pretty funny. The sign says you can get a free dinner if you know what happened to Mrs. Frosty.

Pulled out my Powerbook at work today, started typing, and then the unthinkable happened: it froze dead in its tracks. No spinning beach ball, no kernel panic notice, just one frozen machine. Oookkk, force shut down, turn it back on. Oh wonderful, it won't boot. You hear the regular Mac startup chime but after that, nothing. Greeeaaattt.... spent the rest of the day trying to coax it to boot inbetween work. Zapped the PRAM, reset the NRAM, tried to boot with the original RAM chip, then the other RAM chip, in Firewire disk mode, you name it, we tried it. It would tease us by actually booting up once or twice every 3 or 4 hours but then after a few seconds of use again, froze like a deer in the headlights.

At least I'm 80% sure that it's not a hard drive problem which is a good thing cause I would've been POBAR'ed if it was. That would've meant losing our Hawaii pictures which I hadn't gotten around to backing up yet. Grrrr.....

Anyhoo, hustled it down to Tekserve after work and was told it'd probably take about 7-8 days to get it fixed. *sigh* Shoganai neh?

Figures they'd come out with a new Powerbook upgrade right when mine goes into the shop. =p Hmm... hopefully only 2 more upgrades to go before I get a new model. =)

It'd be cool if they discovered that my Powerbook was royally hosed and that it'd be cheaper to just send me a new one. ^0^ Hey I can dream right? ;-p

I guess since Apple isn't about to make iPhoto for the PC, Google will just have to do it for them. It's pretty darn sweet, I likey.