From the “too funny” department, comes this link: Engrish.com - all kinds of Japanese mangled English things. I get a real kick out of this type of thing, so I’ve read a good chunk of the site. Pretty entertaining at any rate.

In other news, I purchased a domain name - Nodecam.com. It’s not active from here yet, but it is registered, and the DNS is supposedly set up, so it should be active in a day or two. I even have mail forwarding set up, so you can send email to anybody you want @Nodecam.com, and I’ll get it (once the domain is active any way)…At any rate, if you see a bunch of broken links to images and stuff on this site, its because I’ve already set it up to link to www.nodecam.com (which isn’t active yet - sheesh)

I could get used to these four day weeks - they seem awfully short. Especially when I’m busy. I’ve been working on our corporate Intranet pages the past week, and they’re looking decent. I even added the Quick Search bar to one of the pages :)

Simpsons quote of the day:
Homer: “Homer: I’ll never wiggle my bare butt in public again.”
Lisa: “I’d like to believe that this time. I really would.”

I think I’ve found the laptop that I want. It’s a Toshiba Satellite 1800-4K1 - nice size HD (20 Gigs) decent amount of RAM (128 megs, but I can expand it) DVD, 1 Ghz Celeron processor. The only thing that I’d change if I could configure it would be to make the screen a bit bigger (it’s a 13.3, and I’d prefer at least a 14.1) Everything that I’ve been looking for in a laptop, and it’s under $2000 Loonies which is perhaps the most important factor…

I suspect that we’ll go out shopping for the laptop this weekend, though that kind of depends on if I ever catch up on my sleep. I need sleep in a bad way. I think I’ll go to bed at 7:00 tonight :)

Hey, I know that I’ve talked to some of you about the really super cool Stupid.com website, but now I’m going to mention it on here. I saw some really cool products on there - Everything from tin robots (directly from China) to Spongebob Squarepants spin pops, but the coolest thing I’ve seen in a while has to be the Touchable Bubbles. If this place were a store in the mall, I’d have bought some of this junk by now, but I can’t justify spending money on shipping for a $3 item…Maybe someday I’ll order a bunch of crap from them :)

What can I say - I’m a sucker for that kind of junk.

Simpsons quote of the day: “Oh, yeah, what are you gonna do? Release the dogs? Or the bees? Or the dogs with bees in their mouth and when they bark, they shoot bees at you?” - Homer

I don’t have anything to say today. No, really. No cool links, no rants, no gloating over hockey teams (the Habs lost last night) no talk about new features, no nothing.

Ok, I lied. I finished wiring up my Arcade control panel on the weekend, and got to try it out. Sadly, my computer is too slow to emulate any arcade games (well, most of them anyway) I’ll have to set up the computer that is earmarked for the cabinet, because its a lot faster than the one I’m currently using.

That’s it though, really.

Simpsons quote of the day: “What IS your fascination with my forbidden closet of mysteries?” - Chief Wiggum

Well, the mighty Habs are winning again, now that Jose Theodore and Oleg Petrov are back from injury. I think getting Oleg back is just as big as getting Jose back - doesn’t matter if you only allow one goal if you score none… At any rate, they’ve snagged 6 out of 8 points in their last 4 games (2 wins, 1 tie, 1 overtime loss) and things are looking up in Habville. Now if only the injuries would stop happening. I think there’s something in the water in Montreal or something, because the Montreal Alouettes had a huge number of man games lost this year - something like 125, which is pretty big when you consider the length of the CFL season.

And now for something completely different…

I’m going to stop this entry in it’s tracks, so that I can work on the Self Referential Aptitude Test. It looks like fun.

Simpsons quote of the day: “English? Who needs that? I’m never going to England.” - Homer

I was asked by someone to do more Islanders updates on the site. Well, last night the New York Islanders lost to the New York Rangers 6-2. The game was hilighted by a refusal to fight Sandy McCarthy by Eric Cairns. Shortly thereafter, McCarthy scored the Rangers third goal. It was a pretty entertaining sequence at any rate.

There, you happy now? Not to worry, I’m sure this won’t be the last Islanders update of the year :P

Simpsons quote of the day:
Marge: “Homer, did you call the audience ‘chicken’?”
Homer: “No! I swear on this Bible!”
Marge: “That’s not a Bible. That’s a book of carpet samples.”
Homer: “Mmmm… fuzzy.”

I bet you think I’m going to post some links today. Well, you’re right. I found a couple of cool/funny links in the past couple of days, so I’m going to share them with you now. First off, we have this page which is the Arcata California newspaper’s police blotter. Pretty entertainingly written, lots of the entries leave you wanting more :)

Second, we have this page which breaks down death row prisoner’s last meals, and their nutritional merits. I don’t remember how I found it, and I’m not sure that I want to know :) There was also a link to the Texas State penitentiary’s list of last meal requests all the way back to 1985, but I lost the link. It wasn’t that interesting anyways.

I’ve decided not to do a weekly wallpaper thing, because it’s too much of a hassle to get the pictures here, then set up the links, and upload the pictures and stuff. Not to worry though, I will still do occasional wallpapers, just not on a regular basis. Really, I’m not going to do anything on a regular basis for this page (other than update it) I’ll just do things when I feel like it. If you don’t like it, I’ll give you a full refund of the $0.00 that you pay each week to keep this site running :)

Simpsons quote of the day:
Homer: “But every time I learn something new, it pushes out something old! Remember that time I took a home wine-making course and forgot how to drive?”
Marge: “That’s because you were drunk!”

I’ve been playing around with some javascript regular expressions, and I’m having fun trying to figure out why they’re picking up the things that they are. Oh well, not a big deal really things work as they are, and I’m sure I’ll get them figured out at some point in the near future (read the next 20 minutes)

Other than that though, I don’t have much new stuff to report since yesterday.

Simpsons quote of the day:
Insurance Agent: “Now, before I give you the check, one more question. This place “Moe’s” you left just before the accident. This is a business of some kind?”
Homer’s Brain: “Don’t tell him you were at a bar. Gasp! But what else is open at night?”
Homer: “It’s a pornography store. I was buying pornography.”
Homer’s Brain: “Heh heh heh. I woulda never thought of that.”