Archive for the ‘random’ Category
Need a private jet?
http://www.sentient.com/pricing/
Hope you got several thousand dollars per hour 
By the powers of two I command you to dial
Here in Alabama, USA we’ve just acquired the new area code “256″ which means that some lucky (and probably unappreciative) bastard will get
+1-256-512-1024
Which has simply got to be the coolest damn phone number I can imagine.
– David McNettCan i dial 1-255-255-255255 and make every phone in the world ring?
– Tanuki
Personal Gmail Use Statistics
I’ve been using Gmail since the invite only beta, my first received email was 6/15/04, and overall I have 8353 emails stored, which means that:
I am currently using 896 MB (19%) of 4647 MB.
Not bad, wish Google tracked the amount of spam I’ve gotten in that time frame. What does everyone else’s account look like?
Reading about Get Friday on a Sunday
I read way too much and I visit too many random web sites. Today, I was reading the Wall Street Journal online about outsourcing the more common things in your life.
I do a search for Get Friday, one of the Indian firms mentioned, out of curiosity.
Under unusual services they have provided a couple tidbits:
- Apologizing and sending flowers and cards on their behalf to spouses or clients.
- Research on how to tie a shoe lace meant for a kid (client’s son).
- Talking to parents in our client’s stead.
- Reading bedtime stories to a young kid on phone
What kind of person thinks it would be a swell idea to have someone in India read your kid a bedtime story on the phone because they are too busy? Although, it would be fun to have everyone route their requests to a personal assistant, just to see the looks on their faces.
I was a ghost in the machine until the machine woke up
Found this video randomly today…. This is why I do what I do. Computers are great.
The True Reason Halliburton is Evil
They have their very own Class A IP space assigned to them:
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IP_address_blocks
Jabba the Hutt, Hermaphrodite
Today I found out that Jabba the Hutt is a hermaphrodite.
A hermaphrodite is an organism that possesses both male and female sex organs during its life.
Umm, thanks Wikipedia?
Do Lobsters Hurt?
The Canadian Parliament’s Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs has a document summarizing all the salient points on whether lobsters feel pain.
Good reading for a Saturday morning.