Where’s the peanut butter?!

When the south central krumpers…

…meet the Chicago jukers…

…what’s going to happen?

merge conflicts, originally uploaded by Peru Tha Damaja.

Is out! Don’t mind the merge conflicts. I’ve been running the beta for a while and have been much happier with a lot of it, but saddened by the lack of firebug and greasemonkey support (both of which may have been resolved by now).

There is a 1974 green Karmann Ghia coupe for sale in Seattle right now and I don’t have a car.

lions, originally uploaded by Peru Tha Damaja.

This is the best thing since the Panda cam.

The next time I’m in the company of three cell phones, I must try this:

Read At Work, originally uploaded by Peru Tha Damaja.

I don’t know whose need to read poetry is so dire that they are willing to wade through T.S. Eliot in PowerPoint fashion, but it’s nice to know that they can find comfort from readatwork.com.

skirt, originally uploaded by Peru Tha Damaja.

gmail’s ad relevance is not as good as it once was. Not that trannies don’t need ads, too, or that I might not know someone who would like a running skirt, but I suspect the good people at skirtgoddess.com would probably rather that they pay google to show their ads to women.

Minimize the Ribbon, originally uploaded by Peru Tha Damaja.

My old co-workers and anyone who remembers keyboardshortcutguru.com will rightfully tease me for not knowing about this until now, but the above option is officially my favorite preference in Office 2007.

Easynews is the company I pay for usenet access. They have a pretty low cost ($10/month for 20GB of download with rollover) service and an incredibly useful web interface to newsgroups. They also run a “loyalty program” which (if I understand it correctly) gives you an extra GB download quota for every year you’ve been a member - so after being a member for a year you get 21GB/month and after 2 years it’s 22GB/month, etc.

Something in my account recently expired (probably some part of my credit card billing) and my auto-billing just failed so they automatically closed my account. This was a little upsetting because with the GB spillover I’d accumulated about a 65GB buffer of unused download capacity that I wanted to retain. So I contacted their support who replied in 6 minutes informing me that I just needed to sign up again with exactly the same username and my quota would be restored and my status in the loyalty program would also stay intact.

This is the great combination of a great service and support system that makes for a happy consumer. Their service is basically up all the time, priced reasonably, has great incentives to become and stay a member (quota rollover and the loyalty program), and the support is fast, competent, and simple.

Pipe worm, originally uploaded by Peru Tha Damaja.

It’s no secret that I love home improvement. I’m usually pretty handy with it and it’s always enjoyable to do tangible work with my hands where I can see the output of my effort.

It’s also no secret that I hate working on plumbing. Plumbing work is almost always super uninteresting. Unlike working with wood, electricity, or other kinds of tools, plumbing almost always depends on precise measurements (male/female, exact lengths and diameters in metric or standard, right/left-handed threading). And I’m fastidious. Which is why I took no joys in extracting this tapeworm of the plumbing world from the bathroom sink last weekend. A toothpick is overlayed on top for perspective. Excuse me while I go vomit again.