Next Harry Potter on July 16
The Leaky Cauldron has info on J. K. Rowling’s announcement that the sixth Harry Potter book has been completed. Publication date to be announced within 24 hours. Very exciting for some of us named Jenn.
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8 ball, corner pocket
Is the Apocalypse set for April 13th, 2029? Good news, everyone! A collossal asteroid, poetically named 2004 MN4, is calculated to pass pretty damn close to the Earth on that date. How close? Well, the folks at NASA have given it an unprecedented Torino Impact Hazard rating of 4, with chances of impact currently at around 1 in 63, although this will no doubt change as calculations are made.
Happy Holidays!
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I’m going to be very hard to find for the next few weeks..
Just got my Christmas presents 🙂 yay ! the ps2 + gta:sa will get a -lot- of use. The Jennifer rox.
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Haughy-lujah!
Santa Santa Santa Santa It’s Friday, it’s Flash, it’s Christmas Eve, so….here you go Jenn.
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World’s only revolving building
To hell with revolving rooftop restaurants, I want to live in Suite Vollard, an entire apartment building whose eleven circular units can each revolve 360 degrees. (Unfortunately for me, it’s in Brazil.) More photos are here.
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Starbucks email prank
Check out what happens when a new Starbucks corporate office employee gets into a bizarre email exchange with a mullet headed prankster pretending to be the CEO / president.
I know this may seem petty, but Ms. Crisholm should have told you how we feel about goatees or facial hair in our corporate offices. While I realize they may be considered stylish and acceptable in our Starbucks outlets, we ask that men refrain from wearing them in our corporate offices as we are trying to uphold a certain image. That includes earrings and other piercings on men, which I do not tolerate at all. Unfortunately, there’s little we can do about the appearance of our counter people no matter how much we try. I certainly wish this weren’t the case, because most of them have absolutely no loyalty to our brand, and they have done nothing but tarnish our image. I hope you understand our position. Please have it removed by Monday.
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You spin me right round baby, right round…
The European Space Agency’s Mars Express site has this neat little flash globe lets you rotate the planet yourself and select various viewpoints for more detailed pictures of the surface. Some of the pictures are stunning, others just don’t look real.
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Fun With Pseudofluids, Thixotropy, and Faraday waves
You probably knew that Silly Putty is a non-Newtonian fluid, and that Faraday waves make cornstarch and water do creepy things, but did you know that your washing machine probably has magnetorheological fluid in it? Yes indeed, there are fun and interesting applications for ferrofluids.
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Manybooks.net
This site contains more than 10,000 free eBooks formatted for reading on your Palm, which is pretty neat, being that Palm charges you a nice fee for the same content.
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Sqaush that dragonfly!
Jenn’s Dad was over to help me tear down the wall in-between the kitchen and the 2nd spare bedroom, there.s only 2 of us for now, so 1 spare bedroom is more then enough… for now 🙂
And on that note, me and this IP I’ve only had since October (not July as some websites would have you believe, but what.s a few factual inaccuracies between best buds!), are going to go back to waiting for the day to end so we can go on vacation, and finish tearing the wall down between the kitchen and our 3rd bedroom. If my biggest fan were a pal, they’d come help! But well, inviting people you feel could turn stalker-ish into your house? Yeah, not a great plan.
Oh, and some idiots out there sent me an email asking about the log I posted, yes, I know, it says December 18th, when in-fact the actual traffic mysteriously stopped on the 10th… the magic mystery behind this boys and dumbasses, is that in 2003… there was ALSO a December 18th. a conspiracy worthy of the x-files? I think so. or possibly a course on dealing with time in the real world? Heh, I personally don’t go in for the kind of worthless psychobabble, but whatever turns your crank.
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Thriller!
Michael Jackson’s Thriller…in Lego form! This must have taken days and days to put together. For those of you who remember the video well, you’ll be amazed. I love the Interweb!
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A glimpse through the Wardrobe
A glimpse through the Wardrobe (25meg Quicktime file) at WETA Digital‘s amazing work on The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. Seems another one of my childhood favorites is being brought to life by those Kiwi wizards. The minotaurs look simply amazing!
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Sorry
On a side note, I’d like to apologize to the 1000 other people generating my daily/weekly hits. That “rant” wasnt directed at you. By the way, my sites name is RobDurdle.com not RobxDurdle.com, please have that fixed.
I’ve two kittens playing on my chest while I type, so I’ve gotta be quick, bye.
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And that, would be Artemis, saying goodbye.
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Enter the Dragon
My Mother got me hooked on literature when I was a very little kid. It’s something I have to really thank her for. I would only put down a book to go for a bike ride. Also I was fascinated by military and psychological warfare (I’ve made it my favorite lifelong hobby). So for many of you, that one of my favorite books when I was 12 was Sun Tzu’s art of Warisn’t a surprise. I’ll get back to that later.
Cover of Art of War
For now though, please click here. Now for the public, I’ve just taken random lines from a 1-megabyte log file, and selected one hostname out of a few that hit my site. I wanted to congratulate this person on being my biggest fan. Fan of course, being well-known as an abbreviation of fanatic. And as happens with most celebrities, I am humbled and honored by your deep and intense love for my family and me. If you’d like to join our family newsletter, please, let us know.
Let’s move on shall we? I know I’m your most FAVORITE person on the planet, but really now, can’t we just be adults? My main thought about this whole situation is “don’t start something, wont be something, a’right?”
(Now to cut through the subtlety for a paragraph)
As much as I love watching a good predictable bipolar or anal retentive psychological pattern in a person, I must say that even I’ve gotten bored with it and it’s not even worth my time. If you think very little of me (which is obvious), you might want to imagine where that places you for not being worth the time of a man of such utter unimportance as I.
I pose a general question. How does one predict a thunderstorm?
An answer could be, watch the horizon. If one were to wonder why one were being casually observed from a distance, one might answer, “to avoid the thunderstorm”.
This brings me back to why I love Sun Tzu. One of the most memorable quotes I can recall is attributed to him; it is “Keep your friends close, and your Enemies closer”. While I have no enemies, it’s no secret that some people out there don’t like my family and me.
I presume that some of the hits hitting my website are there to keep a track on me, to help others avoid me/my family. I urge that strongly, I think you should avoid me/my family. I consider it very adult to do such a thing, and I offer you a round of thanks for it. It’s OBVIOUSLY not being done to say, watch/wait for a reaction from thinly veiled slurs or attacks, that would be something a child would do, and I have much more faith in the world then that.
In the long and the short of it, I’ve gotten bored with you, my family got bored with you a long time ago, ergo why they’re my family. Step up, be a man, get the fuck over it, and move on. Maybe then, we’ll be able to stop waiting for another thunderstorm.
Now, here’s a personal story. Back a few years ago, I was engaged to a chick, and she had a wonderful family. I loved those guys, still do, they.re awesome, was very upset to hear about her fathers passing. Now after this woman and I went our separate ways, I didn’t contact that family again, and it really hurt. Possibly more than the end of the relationship with the woman. I can understand and have pity on some of you out there, but the proper social thing to do, is what I did. Leave. Some of you may think that leaving was obvious, but unfortunately not all of you think that way, and that’s OK, children have to be taught from birth, and sometimes, some things get left out. But regardless, the thing I miss the most about any of my ex’s, is their family.
On the positive side, there’s Jenn. I love Jenn, and I love her family. Jenn and I dated back in college, but broke up for a couple of years, and now we’re back together, and I’m ever so glad for it, because I missed her family. When we took our break back in college, I didn’t go see her family, despite the fact her Grandmother lived across the road from the college dorm, that would have been improper, nor did I go see her father, despite the fact he lived right next to a place I used to visit, again, it would have been improper. I don’t mean to look down on anybody that would, but just to remind him or her, it would be improper and insulting.
Insulting you ask? Yes, insulting. Not just to the family and former partner, but it would have been insulting to the woman I was with. I couldn’t picture hurting a woman like that. it would be thoughtless.
Picture it, still being hung up on your ex despite the fact that you’re ‘happy’ with another person? How would that make the other person in this sordid love triangle feel? See, insulting.
Anyway, I’m about to take off to go to the gym, I feel dirty after having this talk with you, and I need to go work out. I hope the intended audience of this little post has gotten the point.
“Don.t start something, wont be nothing”.
P.S., This is the only post I’m going to waste on this subject. You’re really boring us, fuck off would you? It’s so DanBrennan.ca of you. Oh, and we read his site daily for updates, mostly because he’s as funny as you.
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Luna & Artemis
So I had orginally left today to get 1 kitten, and came home with two. I’m such a sucker, heh. I love kittens though, and Jenn loves the little girls, there so damn cute. She spent a good part of the day when she wasnt in school/at work cuddling with either Artemis and/or Luna.. and she says shes not a cat person.. heh.
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US will shut down GPS to “fight terrorists”
If you rely on GPS to get you to work, out of the bush, back to shore, or geocache, it’s time to stop. The Bush administration is paving the way to shutting down GPS in the event of an “emergency” so that “terrorists won’t be able to navigate.”
Nice one, George. Why not shut down the fire-departments, too, so that “terrorists won’t be able to survive fires started by those GPS powered bombs?”
The president also instructed the Defense Department to develop plans to disable, in certain areas, an enemy’s access to the U.S. navigational satellites and to similar systems operated by others. The European Union is developing a $4.8 billion program, called Galileo.
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Cult Leader Buried Alive
Cult leader proves his divinity by being buried alive and resurrecting himself. Except for the resurrecting bit. Good try though, better luck next time.
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And on a more positive note
I’m glad they’re working hard on this, I have a lot of pity for the people out there with undiagnosed bipolar/schizophrenia disorders. There are quite a few good web resources for it I’m noticing, also Schizophrenia.com. One of my neighbors growing up had schizophrenia, it’s a very disturbing disease.
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Hundreds of free 1930s Sherlock Holmes radio drama MP3s
The Sherlock Holmes Society of London has hundreds of free MP3s of Sherlock Holmes radio plays from the 1930s. I’m so about the great detective. I grew up reading all the books and all, this rocks so hard for me.
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Let’s play 20 questions!
20 questions, AI style. Pretty amazing… and addictive. It guessed "Superman" in 15 questions, "harmonica" in 18…"tampon" in 20.
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