Digger Dan

A man who apparently snapped into a fit of demolition and atempted murder crazyness decided that the best way to let someone know he was upset would be to calmly tear down their house with a tractor. "Armed police arrived and they had guns trained on him. I was amazed you could destroy a house so quickly. He was obviously a very skilled driver." The owners were in the house and stayed until the police told them they needed to get the #u@& out. only one of the outside walls was left standing, because the neighbor's van was in the way, and they refused to move it. You know it he was dedicated, he could have moved it himself... Enjoy the article

Chain smoking chimp

I read this story on Yahoo news and just had to share. There is a chimpanzee that has been smoking for years, smoking up to 20 cigs a day, donated by visitors who just had to see it for themselves. The Chinese zoo decided it had to cut back, so visitors are no longer allowed to donate smokes. Xiku the chimp has cut back to 4 smokes a day, but has turned to drinking to get him through the hard times. I wonder if visitors are allowed to donate brew? So anyway, Xiku the chain smoking chimp, is now Xiku, the angry drunken chimp. Thank you China for amusing me.

wow, slow week, I appologize to my reader... Last night I took the time away from doing nothing to enter my movies into IMDB.com Besides the few that are loaned out, not listed, and lost, they should all be there now. IMDB will let me keep a list of my movies, do advanced searches through the movies, and supply me with the tidbits of information that I always wonder durring movies, such as, "who is that guy, and where do I know him from" or "did that truck exist when this movie is supposed to take place?" I can search for movies by genre, actor/actress, or one of many other fields. Anyway, enough advertisement, you can see my list HERE.

Fireball update

I found an article that said if you can manage to find another Fireball that somehow has not burned up yet, you can take the board off the bottom of it, and swap it with the burned one and recover data. This was quite useful information. I managed to find a drive that had not started on fire and pulled it's board, installed it on the problem drive, and it worked fine, at least long enough to get the data, which was of course not backed up.

Quantum FIREBALL

I have seen this before, but I was reminded again today why I hate Quantum hard drives. Fortunately they have been bought out, so I am seeing fewer and fewer of these. These "Fireball" drives are quite accurately named. I have seen 4 of them in about as many years that have burned up, literally. There is a chip on them that gets hot, and fast. I have been there when one burned up, and smoke billowed out of the case within seconds of turning the machine on. I would not be surprised if these have been at fault for house/building fires. Upon some searching on google, I found that this chip controls the drive spin motor. More enjoyable information I found on google can be found HERE. Check out the price list at the bottom! a 6.4 GB hard drive for only $379.40 (which reminds me... note to self: take down websites from 1997...)

google buys earth

I have often wondered how a company like google can keep 5680 full time employees, (number subject to change) busy every day. I know that they might not always be "busy" with their new segways, or their rubric cube, but do they really need 5680 employees? Are they actually developing new ideas, or just buying out companies that have already done the work? Well, according to yahoo news, Google needs more space to house their growing population. They are on their way to owning the earth, a goal that they set out on with their release of "google earth." Google will be spending $319 Million to expand their footprint by neerly a BILLION square feet. For reference, they just bought Nevada... (I did not do any computations, and some of my "facts" might be based on nothing.) I would imagine the hallways in this building will need to be wide enough for four lanes of traffic so the workers on one side of the building can get to a meeting on the other side within 3 hours...
Be sure to check out Google employees hard at work!

DesMoines

It appears that DesMoines City Hall has finally checked out Google Maps. City engineer Jeb Brewer insists he does not see the resemblance.
DesMoines Flood Basin

Stolen Sidekick

So, this woman you see to the right is a thief. She stole a Sidekick mobile phone she found in a Taxi. The rightful owner signed in to their sidekick account and found that the thief had taken a bunch of pictures of herself, and her family, and had signed into their email from the phone. So, the rightful owner contacts them but hears back a big "F U." The logical next step is to start a blog to humiliate this person and make them wish that they had died in that Taxi. Enjoy!
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Uber Nerd costume

Playing around on e-bay trying to see how much people still think they can get for an x-box 360, I stumbled upon a "fan made Halo armor suit" This is so friggin nerdy, and YOU can get your ass beat in this suit for only $1200!!! (plus shipping) Looking at his feedback and to see his previous auctions, I find more and more Halo, X-Men and GI-Joe goodies. Why am I picturing Andy Stitzer from 40 Year-Old Virgin?