Category: Alex
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To the Nerdery!
Pizza Party: A command line program for ordering pizza. bash-2.05a$ pizza_party -p -m 1 medium thin Oh baby. The mother of all nerd programs. From the product page: Can order pizza with only a few keystrokes. Can save pizza preferences. Can use batch files for ordering many pizzas. Has easy to use flags for ordering…
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7-Up and Vodka keeps your greens green
Here\’s your little known fact for the day. And by \”little known\”, I mean that I was unaware of it. It\’s worth noting that while both 7-Up and Vodka will achieve this result, that they do it by different methods, and as such shouldn\’t be combined. Which is really too bad, because I could totally…
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If a superstar gets traded in a forest, and no one hears it…
Did you realize that there was a blockbuster trade in the NHL on Monday? Seriously. Maybe not quite as big as Gretzky to the Kings, but it\’s as big a name to get traded at the deadline that I can think of, probably even bigger than Ray Borque to the Avs a few years ago.…
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A Very Special Holiday Gambit
As one of the few non-public/federal employees to have today off, I feel entitled to say: ha-ha! As such, I wasn\’t intending to file a Gambit today, but this is just too good to resist. I present you with: footage of the infamous Charles Barkley vs. Dick Bavetta footrace. Ok, so it\’s not very notable,…
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It\’s radiation! And a skull! Run!
Exciting news today from the world of science! They\’ve changed the international symbol for radiation. I suppose to be more accurate what they\’ve done is taken the existing symbol and added more commonplace symbolage for people who don\’t know what the radiation symbol is. It makes sense overall, but what will they use for fallout…
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Just what we needed!
More one-dollar coins are on the way! Blech. If more vending machines accepted them that\’d be one thing, but they\’d still be heavy coins. You know what I\’d rather see? More two-dollar bills. Seriously. If I\’ve got four dollars in change coming to me, give me two twos. Right now my wallet is clogged with…
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In The News
Just a few assorted links for your perusal today. This article is an interesting read to me, as someone who feels it\’s perfectly valid to believe in BOTH evolution AND God, if you so choose. The Governator is making nose that he envisions California may become some sort of nation-state, which is fascinating on several…
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PCP: Random YouTubery
Well, you had to know this was going to happen sooner or later. It\’s Friday, and I just realized that nary a word has passed between Wade and I as to what topic we\’re going to \”debate\” this week. So I\’m taking the Executive Decision Ball (starring Kurt Russell) and running with it. This week…
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Map of the World
Many of you are aware that I have a new shower curtain. It\’s a standard, Target-issue, map of the world on a big piece of vinyl. I had no intent for it other than to be a shower curtain, but apparently it has turned my bathroom into a land of knowledge. People have been giving…
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Useless
I was going to post about the Pi-Search webpage. And since I\’ve mentioned it, you can find my birthday in the first 18,077,849 digits of Pi, starting with the first digit after the decimal place. Neat, huh? Something else caught my eye as well: an offhanded reference to the Useless Web Pages pages. Is it…