Goofus Maximus

Man! I'm totally going to hide my uneducated head in shame! I thought it was Hamilton, but I doublechecked, and the article I checked with said Jefferson! Argh! At least I got Burr's first name right! Didn't I? At least Jefferson was involved SORT OF! No! Nevermind! I don't want to know! PBS had a really neat series on the French and Indian war, not too long ago.

2920 / 263 Your download speed : 2920 kbps or 365 KB/sec. That is 36.1% better than avg. other reports from charter.com Your upload speed : 263 kbps or 32.9 KB/sec. That is 10% better than avg. other reports from charter.com I get even better results from the Vonage site.

Old guys in Speedos = Walruses wearing panties... Even young fit guys look creepy and non-heterosexual in those yechity thong-like constructions...

Mostly I use the Mach 3. (no shaving cream! Just scrape scrape scrape!), but I do have an electric, which I use when I run out of m3 blades. It takes the mach 3 and shaving against the grain, to really get rid of the "stubble" look for me.

I'm with him. I disable QoS packet scheduling for internet connections, as well as disabling netbios and WINS. QoS is just for reserving a percentage of bandwidth for certain apps (like network printers or file transfers) in preference to other network traffic on your machine. It's pretty much useless for the Internet, unless your computer is acting as an internet server to a local network.

The "bring a smile" video was a great stress reliever from the other vids.

Hmm. I have a little #2 Cone Filter holder thingy, with a hole in the bottom. You put the thingy over your cup, put the filter in the thingy, put in the coffee grounds, then pour boiling water from a teakettle to the brim. One minute later: one cup of coffee. Those folks ought to at least have an emergency coffee brewer (and better judgement as to when the big brewers are almost empty...)

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... because the Swordfish was too heavy to move?

Joint Strike Fighter fun! I'm sorry Boing didn't win that contract, since that would mean St. Louis jobs, but still, the Boing design looked GRODY! Yuck!

I guess they're calling it a subcontinent now, which just happens to be plowing into (and sliding under) Asia, creating the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau.

Egad. Now I feel like an ignoramus. I don't know how many continents there are on this planet. Oh for the days of Pangea, when there was just ONE continent to remember... Lessee... Antarctica, Africa, Australia, Eurasia, India (currently in a bad smashup with Eurasia), North America, South America... 7? *sweatdrop*

An example of the sort of crud I listen to. Hopefully the Farscape video portion should keep you all from total boredom! I loved how she signed off this afternoon! "The station will be closing for..." (long pause, as she thinks to herself, I gotta play some CS, so I'm kicking you bandwidth hogs out!) "... maintainance!"

Not one of my better days, I guess! P.S. Do I have to mention that this isn't really me?

Your stepbrother sounds like a candidate for one of those "JayWalking" episodes, where we learn that Abraham Lincoln was the President during WW-II, and that George Washington fought the Civil War, and that Canada is one of the States in the USA... I blame the 1960s and all the "new ideas" about education that have about ruint the US. New math, and non-phonetic methods of teaching reading are major culprits, while history taught by date-memorization is so mind-numbingly boring that it's not surprising that nobody remembers any of it! I mean, President Andrew Jackson, who married another man's wife, and threatened to INVADE a state that was threatening to secede, is interesting stuff! Ditto for Jefferson's duel with Aaron Burr, after which dueling was no longer acceptable practice in the USA. History is interesting stuff, and you have to work HARD to make it as uninteresting as modern History and Social Studies classes had made it in the 1970s. I hear it's even worse now. Of course, I never learned reading from school, or I'd still be ignorant of History, since learning reading was made even more boring, and overly complicated than History. How dare we subject our poor children to reading Faulkner's "The Bear", just because some hoity-toity snob somewhere declared him to be a "Great Writer". My love of Science Fiction did more for my reading comprehension than all my years of School combined. As for math, I have to use a calculator for math problems my Mom can work out in her head before I'm done tapping keys. This is because I'm crippled by the "new math" way of doing problems, while Mom learned way back, how to break problems apart sensibly (such as 12*28 = 12*30-12*2 = 360-10*2-2*2 = 360-20-4 = 336) and not forcing the problem into some sort of "multiply by 100s, then 10s, then 1s, adding zeros appropriately, then adding them up" method.

I did and I don't. Valve needs to go to remedial programming class

But I have to savor the moment! I am SO dead now!

Wow! I murderized you in Russka, with my lowly AthlonXP/6600GT rig, tonight!

I don't know about it being the stupidest thing I've ever seen, but it sure ranks high among the silliest things I've ever read! Has anyone done a median age study on these worms? Age discrimination!

Alas, she was too good, and got into the games without the proper focus on the goal, and now she's paying in gold for her moment of amateurish behavior. When you go into a world-class event like that, your sole focus should be on winning and setting records for the history books.

I prefer Salmon patties myself.

Hah! Check out what this guy did with MS Paint! Remember to keep scrolling down, and down, and down...

Thanks for the link. However, I'm afraid I'm a weirdo who likes New Age stuff and Final Fantasy tracks, and the occasional oldstyle bluegrass or Celtic music. The theme from Balamb Garden is very soothing, for some reason. Yes. I am strange.

I think that squirrel has been tamed to humans feeding him/her. My mom, way back in the 1950s had a squirrel so tamed that they and he thought he was a member of the family. He'd come right up and sit on your lap to eat nuts, or just be sociable. He'd come up and knock on the door even.

At this point, you'll get more disgust, than discussed. (I love cheep wordplays!)