What the hell??!? (blah, blah of a wannabe alien)
Archive for July, 2005
People DO Read My Blog!
9Well, I posted a picture of my friend (a guy) wearing a bikini top yesterday at 4:21 pm as an experiment to see how long it would take him to notice and call me. It was less than 24 hours (without anyone telling him).
Sorry if you missed it, but I since took it down since I just wanted to see how long until he saw it. heh
She-She Hoity-Toity Do-Do Dah-Dah
27 years ago
by Shawn
in Weird Stuff
I heard what appears to be a new language today. Does anyone know what it means? If so, please leave a comment so myself (and the rest of the world) can find out.
Internet Explorer 7 Beta
07 years ago
by Shawn
in Tech Stuff
Well, Microsoft has finally started beta testing IE7, which you can get (if you are a developer) over here.
Internet Explorer is a really sucky browser that I don’t really feel like going into WHY (because most people already know, and the ones that don’t already know, probably don’t care anyway). But hopefully they will put enough band-aids on it that people designing websites don’t need to make compromises on what they can do because of Internet Explorer limitations.
And more importantly, maybe I won’t feel the need to write such lame blog entries like this.
Chelsea Clinton Worth 40 Goats and 20 Cows
07 years ago
by Shawn
in Weird Stuff
Some guy in Kenya has offered Bill Clinton 40 goats and 20 cows for his daughters hand in marriage.
He practically had the whole wedding planned too (he knew that Archbishop Desmond Tutu would preside over his grand wedding). hehe Kind of funny I think.
If you ask me, it seems like fair market value.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/07/27/clinton.kenya.ap/
Tom Cruise Kills Oprah
37 years ago
by Shawn
in Uncategorized
This is just funny, so I don’t really have to say anything else about it (so there!)…
Watching The Shuttle
07 years ago
by Shawn
in Uncategorized
You would think that the President of the United States would have a better TV to watch the shuttle launch from, but I guess not. This is George Bush watching today’s shuttle launch.
Battle Of The Bridges
2I got invited to a golf tournament (as an attendee, not a player) that’s going on today. I guess it’s a two on two tournament with Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Retief Goosen and John Daly.
My first golf tournament I’ve ever been to (well I played in 2 before). I know everyone cares.
I need to buy some clubs and start going to the driving range, because golf is fun (but I suck).
Inhale Paint
57 years ago
by Shawn
in Weird Stuff
This dude walked into a hardware store to buy spray paint. The clerk noticed his face and hands were covered in paint, so he called the cops on suspicion he might be inhaling them.
Sure enough… this fool was inhaling paint, and needed a refill so badly, he didn’t bother to clean himself up before heading over to the store.
I love paint. Paint yummy… what an idiot.
Derailing A Train
197 years ago
by Shawn
in Weird Stuff
I’ve always heard idiotic people say if you put a penny on a train track, you could derail a train. Well, I proved them all wrong today. I taped $3 in quarters to a railroad track and waited for a train to come by today. And guess what? It flattened the money, but the train did not fall off the tracks.
The one thing I was worried about was someone seeing me doing “something” to the train tracks while I was down there taping quarters to it. Have them call the FBI and I get arrested as a terrorist or something. heh
You can find some pics here:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=95&c=member&imageuser=1
Mutant Turtles
17 years ago
Not sure what to say about this, but here’s the ad:
No Eyed Red Eared Slider Hatchlings
WELL THE PARENTS OF STEVIE HAVE DONE IT AGAIN!
These little babies are true miracles of nature. They have the same parents as Stevie our no eyed mascot. They are truly unique in every way. They are smart and adapt quickly. They aren’t shy either, when they hear your voice they become excited just like any seeing turtle does. The one thing they need help with until they are use to their surroundings is feeding and as smart as these little fellows are it won’t take long for them to get adapted to your feeding schedule. So if you have the time and love for a special needs turtle, order one of these little gems today and enjoy them for a lifetime.
Half Nectarine, Half Mango
0I went to the store last night, and saw something new (to me anyway). It was a fruit that was half nectarine and half mango. basically was shaped like a nectarine, but looked like a mango. I got a few of them to try out, and they are pretty good… They taste mostly like a nectarine, but are a little stringy like a mango. Kind of weird…
Cool Hansa Wasser Erleben Faucets
27 years ago
by Shawn
in House Stuff
German companies seem to always make some pretty cool stuff. Check out these faucets for example. The first model (the squarish one) even has LEDs that light up the water depending on the temperature (the colder the water, the bluer it is, the hotter, the redder it be becomes). All their faucets are pretty cool looking though.
Long Live King Shawn
57 years ago
by Shawn
in Weird Stuff
I recently moved to the projects to save some money so I could go to Tahiti, and already I seem to have a bunch of minions that stalk/worship me. So I look outside my window and what do I see? This…
Blow Your Face Up With Saline
37 years ago
by Shawn
in Weird Stuff
Dude, there isn’t a whole lot I can say about this, except look at the pictures at the link below.
This guy actually blows his face up with saline for fun (okay, maybe not for FUN, but for performance/body art purposes). I wonder what day you just wake up and decide, “Hey man… let’s use my head as a canteen and see what happens.”
http://www.chapter9photography.com/2005/bio/forehead_inflation.htm
He also cut off his own pinky to create a claw as an “experiment”. Neat. 
Fuck IE! I Don’t Like It Playin’ On Ma’ Site!
67 years ago
by Shawn
in Tech Stuff
Just another note from me to tell you how crappy Internet Explorer is. Hope they fix it with verison 7.
Bam Margera, Steve-O and Chris Pontius
43I’m not much of a TV watcher, but Wildboyz and Viva La Bam are pretty damn funny. Don Vito is such an idiot on Viva La Bam, that I’m not sure if I’m supposed to laugh and this guy or feel sorry for him (although I usually laugh).
Anyway… the whole reason for this entry, is not because I care enough about any TV show to actually write about it in itself. But I had a dream last night with Bam, Steve-O and Chris in it. For some reason (you know how dreams are), I left my Hummer running with the keys in it in some ghetto alley while I went to a friends house. To my amazement, someone stole my truck.
Okay… that sucked, so now I’m walking home (which is some weird dry river bed) where I find Steve-O stabbing iguanas and laughing because he thought it was funny (it wasn’t). I ended up grabbing Steve-O and biting his pinky off to see if he thought that was funny too (he didn’t). Then all of a sudden, I see someone driving my Hummer through the riverbed (it was Bam and Chris looking for Steve-O). I don’t really remember what happened after that, but I remember being pissed off that Bam stole my Hummer. What a dick!
Google Earth KMZ Files
57 years ago
Google Earth lets you generate .kmz files by right-clicking a marker and saving it. Pretty handy, but I wanted to be able to adjust the tilt and direction the default view comes up as, so I poked a little bit (well not that much… heh). The .kmz files are simply zipped .kml files (which are just normal XML). So it’s pretty easy to manipulate them.
My only complaint is that you can’t have multiple
Anyway, for those of you with Google Earth installed, I made two little .kmz files that will plot my old and new property at Cielo.
Computer For Your Car Dashboard
57 years ago
Okay dude, this thing is pretty cool. It’s a full blown computer packed into a double-DIN sized chassis. the thing is made by Infill (a Korean company). I still have a hard time believing they fit it all into the chassis without a hide-away unit, but it seems like they did. It’s basically a tiny PC and includes 40GB hard drive, DVD drive, TV tuner, GPS, voice control, USB ports and even an mPCI slot. Rumor has it you could even install Windows on it if you wanted.
The site is in Korean, but you can find it over here:
http://www.infill.co.kr/product/main.asp
Not only that, but the default GUI on it looks like it’s pretty awesome, and it’s cheap (compared to other car stereos with GPS/navigation)… around $2,300 USD.
Since the thing has a GPS and Internet connectivity built into it, and the $20 version of Google Earth has support for GPS, you could install Google Earth on it and have that be your navigation system.
Damn I want one of these!
AMX vs. visiomatic Home Automation
67 years ago
by Shawn
in Home Automation
Okay, I think I have it down to two companies for the home automation stuff…
AMX, which seems to be more widely deployed (the installers I met with last week have an office here in San Diego). It’s really impressive stuff (although for the price, anything is going to be impressive).
The other company is a German company called visiomatic. I think their hardware looks much better (so does my buddy which made the comment that visiomatic’s hardware looks like art, and AMX looks like computers) and judging from their site, it looks like it has more functionality (will automatically turn off the water main if there is a problem, can detect individual people in the house and automatically adjust music and lighting to their tastes, etc.) But the thing I don’t like about visiomatic (besides the fact they are on the other side of the world) is I can’t get any info from these guys. I’ve put in three different requests for info and/or contact, and I’ve gotten nothing so far. Makes me a little nervous with such a huge investment.
Falling Mannequin
17 years ago
This is kind of interesting… it’s a mannequin that falls forever in a universe of balls, all the time obeying the laws of physics.
Also, you can throw her around with your mouse if you want.
How Smart Is Your Foot?
07 years ago
While sitting, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles with it.
Now, while doing this, draw the number “6″ in the air with your right hand and your foot will change direction.
Stupid, but true…