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Friday, March 29, 2002
Things I'm looking forward to:
1 hour till lunch. 5 hours till long weekend. 1 day till jammin' with Bro Menlow and Unky Tom. 3 days till day off, Sox opener, NCAA finals. 9 days till spring's first frisbee game, and an hour of extra sunshine. 10 days till HBO reruns episodes 1 and 2 of Band of Brothers. (I strongly recommend episode 2 @ 10:00) 11 days till first ultimate frisbee practice. 17 days till Patriot's Day, day off, head into town to catch some of the Boston Marathon. Then a bunch of springtime routine till one month of WORLD CUP action starting in 63 days. Wednesday, March 27, 2002
LongBets.com. Pretty interesting idea, where anyone can make expensive bets about stuff... all proceeds go to charity. They're not the kind of bets like "I'll bet you $20 you can't eat this pound of flour in one hour", they're more philosophical and large-scale than that. A lot of them are not exactly light-hearted, for example, the open bet that a single event of bioterror will claim over a million casualties before the year 2025. Stuff like that.
Check out the new additions to Fenway Park. New seats on the roof, the field and the former standing-room-only area.
 Twenty international friendly matches today, including USA (pictured) vs Germany at 2:45 Boston time. ESPN2 is showing the game at 10 tonight.Tuesday, March 26, 2002
More amusing accounts of the Japanese being terrified of World Cup fuurigan (hooligans).
"Rough manners," Mr Funami said, when asked to describe his image of what Japanese refer to as fuurigan. "Dirty clothes, drunk. And from England." "Japanese fans are mild, appreciative and exquisitely well-behaved – at the 1998 World Cup tournament in France, they became famous for voluntarily clearing up the litter at the ground after each of their team's games." 66 days to go.
This site has the toughest IQ test I have ever seen. (I only tried the "ultimate" one.) They say they made it really tough so they can be precise about your IQ. So if you've got a spare hour or so, give it a shot!
This is fascinating. There are people out there getting paid to simulate the 2002 Major League Baseball season. These guys ran fifty computer simulations of the way the season could go, considering every imaginable factor. The article is pretty cool, it goes into detailed depth about their findings for each of the teams.
"In one of our simulated seasons, almost everything went right, the Sox won 109 games, and they still finished three back of New York thanks to a season-ending four-game losing streak." That sounds about right. Monday, March 25, 2002
Jump Street fads.... First it was the webcam, currently it is Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 and P'Zones, and the future... it may well be GeoCaching. It's like treasure-hunting with GPS devices. I haven't explored that site much, but Bill and Dave have been talking about it. Dave ordered a GPS device that will arrive any day now. It seems like a cool idea, but right now I'm still in the make-fun-of-it-because-it-seems-geeky phase. Only time will tell.
"Rich people could have fun with their money by making lucrative caches that could be better than winning the lottery when you find it. " ... Yeah right. P.S. The P'Zone "fad" may be much more than that. I recommend them highly.  Hey people, my comments are working again... try them out! I've only had three so far, and one of them is "You must be a big loser and a geek! you loser".Hmmm I know how to get Menlow to comment: provide links like this one, accompanied by the picture to the right. No, that's not from today's ESPN.com photo gallery... Friday, March 22, 2002
I know some certain college buddies of mine for whom this site could provide endless hours of entertainment (because I've seen it happen before): www.SpeakThis.com. Enter some text or the URL of a website and they'll read it to you using Real Audio. The demo would only read a minute of my site, which was only long enough to hear the listing of the archives and the mispronunciation of "Enlow" (as in, "How now, Enlow?").
Duke lost to Indiana last night in a huge upset, 74-73. They blew a 17-point lead in the second half. Bill described the end as the best ten minutes of basketball he's ever seen in his life. I only saw the last minute, but that minute was probably one of the top ten minutes of basketball I've seen in my life. Now I don't care about men's college basketball, but I am proud to say that in both of the pools in which I participated, I picked Indiana to beat Duke. I still won't win either of them, but it made me look smart or something. I think I had Wheaton beating Indiana in the finals.
Also last night, even though I didn't play any Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3, I dreamed about playing. I was on a really tough level with monkeys running around, and I couldn't find a half-pipe anywhere! How am I supposed to get the sick score without a half-pipe??? I guess you could say it was a nightmare. Thursday, March 21, 2002
This makes for some funny reading. It's really long, but at least browse through it a bit. It's just a long list of things that this guy and his girlfriend have argued about. Try to count the number of times you ask yourself why they're still together.
Check it out... comments. Unfortunately, all comments previously posted on my site are lost, until I find a place that will host them. And I don't feel like doing that, so you'll have to cope. For now.
I'd like to give a birthday shout-out to my Dad. He's in Florida for some spring break fun in the sun... kids these days, I tell ya. When I was his age, I... oh wait.
Anyway Pops, when you return Matt and I will take you out to dinner. How does Chuck E. Cheese's sound? Wednesday, March 20, 2002
Interactive spelling bee. Rather challenging. I won't spoil it by talking about it and giving away what some of the words are, with one exception.... because I still don't know how to spell it. One complaint I have is that you can't see the guy's mouth when he says the word. That would help. Anyway, the word he said sounded like "hee-KAHN-oh". It means a male gypsy. I think my guess was "HICANO". Afterwards, dictionary.com didn't even give me "did you mean...?" matches when I tried to look up hecano, hekano, hicano, hikano... I even tried jicano just for kicks. Can anyone out there enlighten me?
Monday, March 18, 2002
I'm really busy these days. It's hard to juggle all the work that has been piling up and still satisfy my THPS3 cravings (see previous entry). So I'll pipe in now and then only for the really important news and information, like this.
Tuesday, March 12, 2002
 Special shout-out time goes to Roommate Dave. Bill and I have always made fun of him for being a skateboarding enthusiast, for some reason, but Friday he bought "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3" for X-Box and we can't stop playing it. It's a whole new world of video games! No more killing aliens, racing cars or simulating team sports for me... well, until I get bored of THPS3. But seriously, it's a great game. Another great feature is the ability to play our own music. I ripped about a hundred of my favorite hip-hop songs onto the X-Box and a different one plays each time we skate, sometimes to the disappointment of Bill and Dave. But hey, nobody's stopping them from spending several hours putting their favorite music on there! So anyway, we find ourselves sitting around and saying things like "oh, I should have landed that melon grab with a revert, then gone into a nose manual" with a straight face. When I go to sleep I dream about kickflips, McTwists, CrookedCops and 50-50 grinds.So if you have an X-Box, get this game. If you don't have an X-Box, buy one, then buy Halo, then buy THPS3. Next thing you know you'll be out on the streets acting like us and these guys. It's the jump-off, ya bird! Monday, March 11, 2002
"Creation of new Hosted Sites [on the free place where Luke wants to put his comments] is temporarily unavailable, however administration of existing hosted sites is available. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause, and hope to have things up and running as soon as possible."
Friday, March 08, 2002
Painstation.
"Randomly arranged along both sides of the playing field are Pain Inflictor Symbols, each representing a different sort of pain. Depending where the ball hits, the player will feel sensations such as heat, punches and electroshocks of varying duration delivered through the PEU." Leave it to zee Germans. Thursday, March 07, 2002
It turns out the company that hosted my comments for free decided to stop doing that. Something about it not being profitable for them, maybe. So until I can move that poo poo to some other free place, my adoring fans will have to keep hitting "refresh" until they see those counted comments show up. I know you've been doing that for almost a week, but... just think of how rewarding all that refreshing will be when it finally works.
 Pictured: "South Korean special army soldiers demonstrate an anti-terrorist maneuver planned for the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan in Seoul."That's all well and good, but what if the terrorists have guns? This kind of move (whatever it is) would be as futile as... trying to post a comment on my site. Tuesday, March 05, 2002
Have I ever mentioned Not My Desk before? Funny poop.
"A good first step, I've decided, is to be controversial... let's not forget my scathing remarks about coffee funds that drew one slightly-miffed reader to e-mail me about how she knows coffee funds are a pain but sometimes they are necessary. The internet is still reeling from that exchange. " Then there's this link he recommends: Freaky Dreams. I thought it was going to be a joke, but it's not. They REALLY INTERPRET YOUR DREAMS!!! Freaky. Sunday, March 03, 2002
The other day on the way home from work I saw a curious thing. The car in front of me had a "Proud to be an American" bumper sticker on it, but it was half peeled off. What's up with that? Have enough months passed so that he no longer feels required to tell everyone about his pride? Is he no longer proud? Maybe he was removing it to make room for a bigger, better, more patriotic sticker, and he got interrupted by having to suddenly go do something... patriotic. Yeah I'm sure that's it.
Friday, March 01, 2002
Every morning when I check my e-mail, I have about 20 junk e-mails ("spam", if you will) waiting for me. I don't like it. Do some people actually read those e-mails? Maybe companies keep sending them out because it doesn't cost them anything, and there's a chance that 1 out of 1000 recipients might CLICK HERE TO GET OUT OF DEBT!!!!!!!!!!
I came across this website: email911.com. Hey great, they're on my side! They'll help me fight spam! All I have to do is SUBSCRIBE to their NEWSLETTER. Then I'll get a DAILY E-MAIL telling me how to cut down on the amount of DAILY E-MAIL I receive. I want to punch my computer in the face.* *Joke: Copyright 2002, Nathan Van Dyke. All rights reserved. |
