Tuesday, October 08, 2002


Interesting:

GEORGE BUSH: When you rearrange the letters: HE BUGS GORE

DORMITORY: When you rearrange the letters: DIRTY ROOM

EVANGELIST: When you rearrange the letters: EVIL'S AGENT

PRESBYTERIAN: When you rearrange the letters: BEST IN PRAYER

DESPERATION: When you rearrange the letters: A ROPE ENDS IT

THE MORSE CODE: When you rearrange the letters: HERE COME DOTS

SLOT MACHINES: When you rearrange the letters: CASH LOST IN ME

ANIMOSITY: When you rearrange the letters: IS NO AMITY

MOTHER-IN-LAW: When you rearrange the letters: WOMAN HITLER

SNOOZE ALARMS: When you rearrange the letters: ALAS! NO MORE Z ' S

A DECIMAL POINT: When you rearrange the letters: I ' M A DOT IN
PLACE

THE EARTHQUAKES: When you rearrange the letters: THAT QUEER SHAKE

ELEVEN PLUS TWO: When you rearrange the letters: TWELVE PLUS ONE

And for the grand finale: PRESIDENT CLINTON OF THE USA: When you
rearrange
the letters (With no letters left over and using each letter only
once):

TO COPULATE HE FINDS INTERNS

Can you believe this?
Here's a good reason to reinstate the death penalty:

From: (an asshole)
Subject: Spam all you want - your ISP will NEVER know
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 10:43:32 -0400

There's a lot of money to be made on the Internet advertising your
products/services. Just count the number of e-mail ads in your own
Inbox.

Most of those advertisers are making money. Even the "Big Boys" like
Microsoft, AOL, and AT & T send out e-mail ads.

Well, there's no reason you can't get in on this, too - but you have to
do so the right way. Mail out from your ISP and your service will be
terminated. Guaranteed. Use one of those inexpensive proxy mailers,
and you'll be lucky to get out 400,000/day. Our proprietary system
gives
you the power to mail out 3m, 5m, 10m, 15m, 20m, or more per day -
because
you're using our servers and our bandwidth to do it. You get a user
interface so simple, a baby or an 80-yr old grandparent could use our
system with ease. All your lists are encrypted on our servers, so
there's
no risk of us or anyone else appropriating your lists. You don't need
cable or DSL or satellite access. Since our sophisticated Internet
infrastructure is handling everything, simple 56k dial up will do.
High speed Internet
access is a bonus, not a requirement.

And wait till you see our fantastic features. When you upload your
lists to our servers, we compare your lists to our Global Remove
Database and
take out those known complainers BEFORE you bother e-mailing them,
saving
you time and resources. Our stats list the number of e-mails removed,
delivered, and killed. Soft bounces are automatically remailed.

Best of all you know the mail is going out.. No need to trust another
mailer who says he'll mail 5m/day for you at a cost of $400-600 per
million. You've got the stats in front of you to prove the mails are
going out
at rates as low as $22/million.

Sound great? Call one of our 24/7 live sales specialists to get more
details: 1-416-[no way i'm givingout that number]

Don't forget to inquire about our Bulk Email Friendly Hosting. Because
if you're going to
send out bulk email, your site better be bullet proof or else your ISP
will terminate
your website.


This guy has the RIGHT idea...
Spam policy of Juhapekka Tolvanen
Groucho Marx Celebriducks for the Connoisseur

Thursday, September 19, 2002

I just heard another radio show say Opie and Anthony are still being paid 5 million a year to do nothing now by Infinity Broadcasting since there management approved of the stunt. Yet folks are still trying to get them back on the air, which would make me happy. Don't these guys realizes that they have achieved the american dream.

Wednesday, September 18, 2002

Although I don't smoke, I have friends that do. I recognize the greedy, unfair, oppressive tax policies of the federal government and states like NY have driven prices up to about $7.00 a pack. It's heartwarming to see our friends, the orginal americans, are coming to the rescue.

Tuesday, September 10, 2002

Linux Guru Bruce Perens Leaves HP - Fired for "Microsoft Baiting"
I'll bet they can get the IP address (on a black market?) and plug that in;
But they can also block routing at the ISP level, and I'm sure that something like
that is being done as well.

China hijacks Google's domain name - Computerworld
Hmm... you probably could see what my desk must look like..
I need some ...
Desk Organization

Tuesday, September 03, 2002

Get this toy for your kid??? Uh, think about removing the batteries first - read the comments!
Amazon.com: buying info: Harry Potter Nimbus 2000 Broom
No "Bye Bye Bye?"
Ready, Aim . . .

At this university data center in the early 1970s, students facing deadlines would sometimes pound on the glass wall to prompt system operator pilot fish to run their decks of punched cards. "There was lots of spare time back then," says fish, "and one evening shift I was using that spare time to clean a rifle." So when one student in a hurry pounds on the glass, fish turns toward him - with rifle in hand. Says fish, "I didn't see him for the rest of the semester."

Shark Tank: Now What?
In refernece to the last post, take up smoking and go work out.
The CigarNexus National Cigar Museum

Monday, September 02, 2002

This was a buffet weekend. Went to a buffet restaurant last night, and wound up going to one tonight as well. We weren't as hungry yesterday, but today this turned out to be the first meal of the day for all of us.

Sunday night: L.A Buffet: (Norhoff across from Northridge Mall, next to Good Earth; I can't count the number of restaurants that have opened in this location and failed, from coffee shops to mini-brewery... But they might actually succeed with this concept.

("Labor Day special") $9.95 for adults, $5.69 for children. Drinks extra (forgot to check for wine/beer license). How about Sushi, Chinese, and Mongolian BBQ in one restaurant? And a regular salad/fruit/jello/pudding bar a la Sizzler.

Bear in mind, I don't expect gourmet food in these places, but after two different visits, I and the family think it's pretty good, and quite
a good value...

Of note: Crab Rangoon, salmon, lobster rolls, pot stickers, siew mai, won ton/hot&sour/egg flower soups, orange chicken, bbq chicken on a stick, Hong Kong Pork, squid, spare ribs, General Tzo's chicken, meatless (I think) lo mein which wasn't bad either - plus they have a minimized Mongolian BBQ (no do-it-yourself oils (I think they add a little) but they have you add "wine", no flatbreads (but I discovered puffy "rolls" that were similar), but tasty and cooked well - You basically have a choice between garlic, curry, or "Mild" - and I noted that the chef was making sure the griddle was very clean.

My wife says the salmon was very good. We don't eat sushi, so I can't vouch, but it looked okay - california roll, maguro, octopus, something else (maybe fatty tuna?). Not ultra desert oriented, they had pound cake with toasted coconut, almond cookies, another kind of light pretzel-shaped cookie, and a soft-serve chocolate/vanilla machine with various sprinkles (jimmie's if you're from Philly) - similar to Sizzler too. Oh, and the jello, puddings, and fruit of course. I was too full to try it, but it looked like they'd done an approximate "taffy banana" kind of thing in a bowl, with red candy-looking stuff on top of bananas.

Tonight's buffet: California City Buffet - $10.69/adults, $.80/year of age for children to age 11. Includes sodas, coffee/tea, milk, and even horchatas. (these are Dinner prices - Brunch and Lunch prices are cheaper).

This place, (NOT in California City, which would have been about 118 degrees today, maybe I should check) next to Chili's on Reseda north of Nordhoff, has been there for a while, and so we finally decided to check it out. A bit more "international" than the LA Buffet (though there was more chinese-style than I expected, otherwise I'm not sure we would have tried it right after the other place), but not quite as exotic either. Salads, jello, puddings, egg-flower and hot&sour soups, a decent orange chicken (sorry, the Panda Express chain seems to have the secret on keeping this stuff fresh-tasting) and a very tasty boneless BBQ chicken that was somewhat similar to the on-a-stick stuff at LA Buffet. Plus, a nice prime rib, pizza (okay - passed Tina's critical test) mashed and roasted potatoes, carrots, corn, rolls, beef ribs (the way Rina's Mom used to make it, marinated in vinegar - I'll try it next time), crab (I didn't taste it), fried rice and lo mein (fried rice was fine, wasn't in the mood for the lo mein after the night before).

This place was not bad, and the thing we really liked: lots of desserts, nice and small: cheesecake pie, pecan pie, pumpkin, carrot cake, chocolate cake, strudels, fruit tarts, cream puffs, cookies, and two machines serving choc/van soft-serve and vanilla and strawberry frozen yogurt (no jimmies, just choc. syrups).

I'm going to post these in chowhound.com and citysearch...

Thursday, August 29, 2002

Monday, August 12, 2002

Thinking of Entering one of those "keep your hands on the car" radio contests? Watch out for this guy! - WSJ.com - Page One Feature

Monday, August 05, 2002

The sad but true story of Chicken Bone Beach
I have never been known as a spicy food lover, but I've noticed
more tolerance over the years. My theory has been that people
who really love spicy food have diminished capacity for tasting food.

Here is a good resource on Chile/chili/Pepper/paprika/Sili/Prik, etc.

Chile (chili, chilli)

Saturday, August 03, 2002

Bad Ass Bill Clinton wants to go kill a mess of Iraquis. He says he's ready to fight and die for Israel. Crazy Bill, what ya gonna do when Bubbas after you. What changed, he didn't go to Vietnam, he didn't want to do anything against them for 8 years in office. Wild Bill has really changed! Movin to Harlem toughened him up I guess. Can you smell what the Bubba is cookin! Shake it up Bill.
Have these guys build you a computer...

Andy L's Home Page (Version Oh-One)

Thursday, August 01, 2002

Let me get this straight. Chang is in jail for bribery, his lawyer is in jail for delivering bags of money to Torricelli, yet Torricelli is not guilty? Neither of the guys in prison is allowed to testify against the senator and the senator doesn't have to pay back the money, just pay for a few bribes errr gifts he got from Chang.
Gee, the law is sooo complex, it's a good thing we have wise men in Washington to interprit for us.
WOW. ;0

...t.y.p.o.r.g.a.n.i.s.m...

Saturday, July 27, 2002

We just saw the International Space Station go overhead (So. Cal.).
Here's how to see it yourself...
Liftoff to Space Exploration

Sunday, July 14, 2002

Friday, July 12, 2002

Thrillseekers Unlimited Inc. - Home Page - Extreme Sports Vacations - Professional Stunts - Live Stunt Shows - Extreme Sports Consultants - Films - Television - Commercials
Ah, the Google Mirror:
elgooG
Can you decode the message we sent to M13?

Self-Decoding Messages
ADAM SMITH WRITES:

Finally, the office in which I was working had a set of
English instructions for the phone system that had been typed up by one of
the Japanese in the office. At one point, the instructions were meant to
include the sentence "Hook the phone," meaning (I assume) "hang up the
phone."

The author of the instructions apparently didn't know how to spell "hook",
so I suppose he tried to sound it out. There is no "hoo" sound in
Japanese. The closest is something like "foo", which generally gets
transliterated as "fu". As for the "k" sound, the author apparently
decided that in this case "ck" was more likely to be correct than just
"k".

So the end result of all this was that the instructions contained the
sentence "Fuck the phone." For the Americans in the office, it was good
for about ten minutes of barely-contained laughter.

Japanese Engrish from YOU

Sunday, June 30, 2002

Okay, so if it IS the next big thing, how come this article is from November of 2000?
Thing is, I've been reading a lot of stuff about it lately - the hype machine must be running...
CNN.com - Food Central - Tapioca milk tea creating waves as fun coffee alternative - November 27, 2000
If you believe that this is the next big thing... Boba Tea... here's how to get started in the biz...
bubble tea, boba drink, tapioca pearl tea, pearl tea products for home use
LA Magazine - the BEST of LA... They only list the first six things out of 101. Maybe they'll post the rest when the edition is off the newsstands.

Best Burger: Pie n' Burger
Best Pie: Apple Pan

no best pizza!!!

News: Free Web-mail waning? This article shows that there are still web sites where you can get free email accounts..
new: I set up an account on Blogrolling
so that I could easily manage favorite links/sites (see "Jeff's Favs" to the left
there - These will probably not be specific articles or pages,
but sites themselves. If others want to do this too, it's
pretty easy and I'll insert the code for you.