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Friday, January 26, 2001
Look out B.B., I happen to know that you are in violation of this U.S. patent on a daily basis!
posted by LT2 7:40 PM ET | discuss | link
It's still two and a half weeks away, but our site is already getting barraged with people doing web searches about how Valentine's Day Sucks. Well, not exactly barraged, but one hit a day on the same subject is kind of a lot for us. Anyway, check out the target of their searches: The Angry Pen's column from last year.Also, if you want more of the same, it turns out Google's Directory has an entire category for Anti-Valentine's Day sites.
posted by MES 5:27 PM ET | discuss | link
Did you know that after the first use of instant replay in the 1963 Army-Navy game, the announcer had to say "Ladies and Gentleman, Army did not just score again!" Check out this article on the newest advance in the instant replay. Supposedly, it's going to resemble the "bullet-time" shots from The Matrix... if it works, that is.
posted by LT2 12:18 PM ET | discuss | link
Thursday, January 25, 2001
Check out Thumb Club. Not as funny as it tries to be, but very well done technically.
posted by MES 6:09 PM ET | discuss | link
Good. I've always been a fan of the idea of the Pledge of Allegiance. I mean hey, that school your sitting in for free is being paid for by that "one nation, indivisible", so you can damn well take 10 seconds of your day to say thanks.
posted by LT2 2:58 PM ET | discuss | link
Caught another great show on The Discovery Channel last night called "In The Kill Box", which was an hour-by-hour analysis of Desert Storm. Fascinating. Our boys kick ass! It's a damn shame we don't use them more often. I was watching this newly de-classified video footage of our guys streaming into Kuwait and man, I was getting scared just watchin' it. The Marines and the Seventh Army moved through Kuwait so fast that the lead elements were often as much as 20 miles ahead of their support units. The 18th Airborne, outnumbered by enemy tanks 8 to 1, cleared out the Republican Guard's most committed position in 23 minutes, with no casualties. Hot damn!!!
posted by LT2 11:48 AM ET | discuss | link
Wednesday, January 24, 2001
I have an idea for the folks over at TiVO HQ. Since the damn things call the mother ship every night anyway, there should be a feature where you can instruct your machine to send a program you've recorded to another TiVO user on the network.
posted by LT2 8:40 PM ET | discuss | link
Tuesday, January 23, 2001
Here's a weird one. I got back from a meeting and I had one missed phone call on my cell phone. I looked at the number and the exchange (550) was the same exchange as my office. Well, we don't own the exchange or anything, so I called the person back and, lo and behold, it WAS somebody in my office, our COO to be exact. BUT, and here's the really weird part, it was a mistake. He had dialed the wrong number, quite randomly. So, to sum up, I got a wrong number call on my cell phone from somebody who is actually about twenty feet away from me.
posted by LT2 5:55 PM ET | discuss | link
I also discovered a must-see documentary on... as it happens... the Discovery Channel. It's called High-Speed Impacts and it's an hour of film of government tests of high speed impacts (in the range of 500-1,000 miles per hour) of missles and planes and everything else under the military sun. And it's filmed with cameras that shoot from 10,000 to 27,000,000 (that's MILLION folks!) frames per second!!! Check it out.
posted by LT2 11:31 AM ET | discuss | link
