Damn it, you beat me to it, conservationist!

Now I need a wider monitor just for my Firefox status bar. Sigh.

Very cool. I have an iCal inlcusion in my Google Calendar that tells me that there are lots and lots of cons happening every weekend, but I haven't a clue as to where they actually are at.

I just noticed that it is from upcoming.org.

http://upcoming.org/calendar/v2/group/2055/af0ac792d7/

Hillsboro, Ohio.

I have driven through Hillsboro a few times. Columbus to Ripley. I believe that town has about a 50% chance of making my car break down. Yep. I don't drive through it any more. Of course, I don't live in Ohio anymore either. Sigh.

I'm still laughing.

I didn't see that in my hotel last year when I went to Basel.

#2, my family had one too. It was a Sunbeam toaster, it was bought before I was born and continued to work after I turned 20, no repairs had been made. My parents then split and divorced, so I have no clue as to where it finally went.

My best friend couldn't understand how I couldn't start toast (I would just throw the bread in, never realizing that I needed to depress the lever), and he couldn't get over the fact that our toaster didn't have a lever, and started toasting as soon as you threw in the bread.

I'd probably own one now, except I haven't seen any in the stores, and every time it was time to buy one, it was buy one NOW. Dang, a quick Google search shows that there are more ads for the toaster than there are toasters out there. Wild!

I can still remember 40+ years ago (2nd grade IIRC), we had gone on our summer trip to go see my aunts and uncles in Illinois, and we had just gotten a new teal nylon couch (my mother was big into green), and we still had the plastic on it. Our "friends" who were supposed to be looking after the house were quite the pranksters, they threw our newspapers in the fridge, short sheeted the house, but the worst thing was that my mom found that the cat had puked on her brand new couch. She got a pan and a pancake turner to clean the mess up (I would've just used some paper towels, I clean up cat puke all the time now) and found out that it came off in one piece.

Yep, it was fake puke! And it was the same stuff as you just listed. I haven't a clue as to who made it, but I wouldn't be too surprised if it was Fun, Inc. I just checked, and yes, they did exist at that time (early 60's.).

My first online handle was gubed, debug backwards. Then a coworker that started at the same time as I did gave me my oldest working nickname, bytehead. I own bytehead.org. I do NOT own bryanprice.com, which at least now doesn't point to his myspace page. My stepchildren nicknamed me Buddha, but I don't use that online.

Karma's a bitch.

First item on the front page 404's, and the feed looking at it with Bloglines has videos attached at the end. WTF?

Katre, if Comcast and other ISPs had been upfront and honest about this from the beginning, I think 90% of the heart ache about this would never have happened.

Keeping secrets about what levels cause things to happen, and not giving the tools that customers need to monitor themselves (and believe me, they already have the tools, they just do not want to share them) is an accident that keeps happening. They've finally wised up and no longer offer unlimited Internet, just faster Internet. That is one step out of many that has to happen.

Keeping their vendor list secret when said vendors are already blabbing Comcast's name all over the place is just one small part of their total cluelessness.

My wife's ex does this. Sucking down a cig while partaking of oxygen is just stupid. He just hasn't caught anything on fire.

Yet.

Sounds like Cincy to me. That's why I lived in Columbus.