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7.28.2001
1:40 AM | •
It's about time someone created portable cell phone jammers. I should hide a couple of these in some lecture halls on campus.
[ From Jejune.net ]
7.27.2001
11:46 PM | •
My days are dull and monotonous. School in the morning, work in the afternoon, sleep. Just like that. School, work, sleep. 1,2,3. 1,2,3. Lather, rinse, repeat. And the next thing I know a week has gone by, then another, and suddenly it's August. Geez, what have I been doing? Summer's half over and I have to find a full time job soon.
8:13 PM | •
Woman Not a Star Wars Fan? "A Florida woman who thought she'd won a new car is suing a Hooter's restaurant, after her prize turned out to be a Star Wars toy." See, she won a toy Yoda, instead of a Toyota. And now she's suing. Geez, lady, lighten up.
2:09 AM | •
Irving came to visit today, and my old roommate Khanh is back in Irvine for summer school, so we saw Made at the University Center. The movie was good. It was funny and entertaining and the performances by Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn were great. Hell, even Puff Daddy - I mean, P. Diddy did a competent job. Made is darker than Swingers though, but it's just as funny. So far it's the only good movie I've seen this summer. There was actually a sizable crowd for a Thursday night showing of an indie movie.
7.26.2001
5:15 PM | •
Taming the Wild, Wild Web
Awwww, how sad, the corporations are having a hard time making money off the internet. Boo hoo hoo. Because of the decentralized nature of the net, corporations can't exploit it as easily as they exploit everything else in the world. As a result, they're demanding changes to the structure of the net. "The Internet is an important cultural phenomenon, but that doesn't excuse its failure to comply with basic economic laws," said Thomas Nolle, a New Jersey telecommunications consultant. "The problem is that it was devised by a bunch of hippie anarchists who didn't have a strong profit motive. But this is a business, not a government-sponsored network." I hope corporations never make a profit off the net. I hope they give up and leave it alone. The internet is for sharing information and empowering the individual with a voice that can be heard. It's not for making a profit and restricting and censoring information.
[ From Slashdot ]
7.25.2001
9:40 AM | •
Damnit, Made opened 2 weeks ago and I didn't know about it. That's the problem with indie movies, they don't have much promotion. Anyway, I'm gonna try to round up some people to see it with me. Hopefully, it won't suck like most of the movies this summer. I want to see Ghost World and Hedwig and the Angry Inch too, which also seem like pretty cool movies.
1:35 AM | •
Thieves Try to Steal Entire Garage
"Thieves in Detroit jacked up a garage from its foundations and tried to drive it away in daylight on their truck." My favorite part is this quote: "It is thought the thieves tried to steal the garage because it was made from aluminium." Oh, well, obviously. I mean, duh. Who doesn't want to steal an aluminum garage?
7.24.2001
2:43 PM | •
If you haven't heard yet, there was a fire at my school yesterday. It was in a chemistry lab over in one of the physical sciences buildings. A grad student was trying to purify benzene, but it was exposed to oxygen and exploded, causing $10 million in damage. Also, that building only has sprinklers in the basement. And I used to complain that nothing ever happens at UCI.
7.23.2001
9:48 PM | •
So an email virus is going around, and the message looks something like this: Hi! How are you?I send you this file in order to have your advice. See you later. Thanks. It does random things like filling up your hard drive, deleting all your files, or sending one of your files to someone else. Like most viruses, it spreads through a person's Outlook address book. So I was feeling sad because I hadn't received it yet, which meant nobody has me in their address book, which means nobody ever emails me. I spent most of the day feeling depressed and lonely cause no one likes me. I'm such a loser. But then, tonight, when I checked my email, I got the virus! Somebody has me in their address book! I feel much better now. Yay for me! I'm a winner! Getting email viruses makes me feel all warm inside.
4:42 PM | •
Good ol' UCI is at it again. First a gaming major, now a masters degree in criminology over the internet. You can be sure they'll charge you up the ass for it too. You'll probably need to buy special software for the class that'll cost you about a grand. They'll probably even find some way to make you buy a parking permit. Stupid UCI. I'm so glad I'm getting out of here. I'm not giving a dime to the alumni association.
[ From Geeknews ]
7.22.2001
10:41 PM | •
The Onion presents Dental Hygiene Tips. My personal favorites:
-Brushing should always be done up and down, not with violent stabbing motions.
-An electric toothbrush is an excellent choice if you are such a lazy fuck that you can't even move a toothbrush up and down.
3:39 PM | •
Alright, here's what I've been waiting for: the largest Ascii porn collection on the net. Surprisingly, the pictures actually look pretty good.
[ From Geeknews ]
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