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    Republican Party raffles a Glock 23...in Giffords' district.

    Pima County GOP raffles off Glock in Gabrielle Giffords' district - Political Hotsheet - CBS News This is sick, clueless and bordering on genius. The Arizona Pima County Republican Party is holding a raffle to raise money for their Get Out The Vote effort. First prize is a Glock 23 handgun...
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    My phirst phish

    I don't have a Wachovia bank account. So I was surprised by the following email: I like the "We demand" part. The "click here" link leads to a site that looks suspiciously like the real Wachovia site. Fake site: http://www.uni-unye.com/chat/inc/patServer/index.html The real site is Wachovia -...
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    Stupid reality variety shows

    Wednesday, July 19, 8pm: Fox: So You Think You Can Dance (2 hours) CBS: Rock Star: SuperNova ABC: The One: Making a Music Star (2 hours) NBC : America's Got Talent (2 hours) Thank you American-Idol-lovers for making network television [even more] worthless.
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    Hard drive mobile rack question

    I'm think of buying a couple of "mobile racks", like these: IDE: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817121113 SATA: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817121172 so I can easily swap out different IDE and SATA drives on my computers. I'm not talking about...
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    I am going straight to hell...

    I laughed at this: http://durrrrr.blogspot.com edit: consolation for ofn:
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    Pink Floyd in "greatest hits" commercial

    It's 4am. I can't sleep so I have the TV on. A commercial comes on. One of those cheapo commercials for the greatest hits of some performer or other. Except it's for Pink Floyd. That's just not right. http://www.tvatlas.com/prod.asp?pfid=136 "FREE “Dark Side Of The Moon” keychain with paid...
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    Vivendi cheats?

    From the T:V Game Registration page at https://reg.vugames.com/home.do?sku=72208&src=WREG Nice. Get your T:V speedhacks from VU, the official source for T:V cheats. (I know that's not what it means, I just thought it was funny to offer cheats on the game vendor site.)
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    [WISHLIST] unbind F1 from help

    Is there a way to set an alternate key for help or something so F1 does nothing. Perhaps make Help/F1 a bindable option like F2/F3/etc. I'd like to use F1 key for voice comms. I've used F1 for voice comms since 1999 tribes1. Is F1 hardwired for help? After playing T:V for 10 minutes, I don't...
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    Solaris: power failed, fsck unhappy

    :( power failed during a compile on my ultrasparc reboot failed asking me to fsck drives fsck is scrolling fixes for past 5 minutes i am worried...
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    Blasting rock music in Iraq: stupid?

    Does anyone else think blasting rock music at someone is a stupid thing to do? http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=5&u=/ap/20040416/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_front_line I remember them doing this in Panama, and in the detainee camps in Guantanamo to keep the prisoners awake for...
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    My new career: dog walker!

    $200K/year. For walking dogs. Wtf?
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    So I was driving down the street, listening to My Sharona...

    So I was driving down the street listening to My Sharona, thinking about the time I saw The Knack play this song in concert, bopping my head and singing along with the music, when this load of teenagers drives up beside me in an upscale Mercedes Benz. I don't know if you know this song; but you...
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    C++ Programmers: it is bad practice to write code like this

    So I inherited a big project and I spent a little time understanding the following snippet. I post it here cause I'm bored and as an example of how not to code. next_try: if( nPingCallCnt < PING_MAX_AMOUNT && IPList.GetCount()) { Sleep(PING_REPLAY_TIMEOUT); nPingCallCnt++; } else {...
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