Posted by sam at April 13th, 2006
I checked the stats for DIY:happy today and found this…
But, uhhh… unfortunately it looks like the site just went down … should be back up in a bit though.
Posted by sam at April 11th, 2006
Problems with my macbook (and why it’s being returned for a newer one):
Of those issues, Apple has admitted to and fixed all but the sound clicks and pops. Apparently UVSC will take it back so long as I can prove apple has admitted the problem, which I have done.
Here’s hoping for a trouble-free macbook pro come tomorrow.
Posted by sam at April 11th, 2006
Check it out, a live ticker that shows headlines from DIY:happy. I’d put it in my sidebar, but I can’t edit it anymore because my paid subscription to livejournal ran out. All the more reason to move to my own blogging software - just too lazy to redo my theme….
Anyway, if you’re cool throw the picture up on your page and link it to www.diyhappy.com. It will update by itself. It will make us both happy. Forever.
Posted by sam at April 11th, 2006
My boss wants to get a new rabbit (when his current one dies), and is investigating how to import a rare breed from the UK. What’s so special about this breed? Besides it’s dis-proportionate ears, it’s big enough to eat a small child!
Apparently, though, the bigger the rabbit - the lazier. So, as my boss put it “How freakin’ cool would it be to have a huge lazy rabbit just sitting around the house all the time?! Small children could take rides on it!”
What more can be said?
Posted by sam at April 10th, 2006
You sure can find some interesting things filed with the US Patent office. For example, this gas powered missile launcher. Seriously - read on.
“A toy gas-fired missile and launcher assembly whose missile is composed of a soft head and a tail extending therefrom formed by a piston. The piston is telescoped into the barrel of a launcher having a closed end on which is mounted an electrically-activated ignitor, the air space between the end of the piston and the closed end of the barrel defining a combustion chamber. Joined to the barrel and communicating with the chamber therein is a gas intake tube having a normally-closed inlet valve. To operate the assembly, the operator places the inlet tube with its valve open adjacent his anal region from which a colonic gas is discharged. The piston is then withdrawn to a degree producing a negative pressure to inhale the gas into the combustion chamber to intermix with the air therein to create a combustible mixture. The ignitor is then activated to explode the mixture in the chamber and fire the missile into space.”
Don’t even try to look at the pictures. They will confuse you.
Posted by sam at April 9th, 2006
I made this comic today with Comic life. I stole the picture off of boingboing. That’s right, each frame is part of the same picture.
It’s not very funny - I just wanted to make a comic.
Posted by sam at April 7th, 2006
The google bird has come and blessed DIY happy with a pagerank 6. If you don’t know what that is, basically google ranks every page on the Internet from 0 to 10. This number is directly equal to your relevence on the Internet. It determines where you come up in searches and gives your links to other sites more weight.
So going from 0 (because we were new) to 6 is pretty huge - but we’ve had a lot of good websites pick up our stories and some good press which has helped a lot. The future pagerank predictor says we will have a 7 in the next update.
To put things in perspective MAKE, who is a billion times bigger than us has a pagerank 7. They have linked to us a lot, so that definately boosted us up.
To celebrate I’m buying everyone a Henry Weinhard’s. Meet me by the flag pole at 08:00.
Posted by sam at April 6th, 2006
The RIAA is up to it’s usual tricks again. A college student was told to drop out of college so she could work to pay off her accused copyright infringement. This makes perfect sense as college graduates are likely to make more money, and therefore more able to pay for their crappy music. Dropouts will inevitably have less money, and therefore are less likely to steal again.
Of course, it doesn’t work like that and the RIAA doesn’t care if you do it again. Their business model is to accuse you of something, then give you two options: A.) Ruin yourself in court and pay thousands in legal fees defending yourself - you’re likely to win - that’s why they suggest B.) Pay them around $3,000 and get it over with.
It’s a lose/lose situation. They give you the option to defend yourself at immense cost and risk, or give you the option to accept defeat and pay them.
Do you know it’s more serious (legally) to share a movie then walk into a movie store and walk out with every video there? It’s legally more serious to download a song then steal a store’s worth of CDs. Brilliant.
The definition of extortion is “a criminal offense, which occurs when a person obtains money, behavior, or other goods or services from another by wrongfully threatening or inflicting harm to this person, reputation, or property.”
Extortion is often used by organized crime groups - which is exactly what the RIAA is. They have created their own court system where they decide who is guilty. They just make it slightly easier to go to THEIR court then a court run by the government.
There are no checks and balances. If you are wrongfully accused of copyright infringement your options remain the same. Give in, or go to court. The RIAA is in control and has the power to decide if you live or die, drop out of school or not, etc.
It is obvious at this point that the RIAA is doing nothing for our society except ruining it. As long as I live I will never support them with a single penny unless they change their ways.
Posted by sam at April 6th, 2006
This post is titled “lost” but it’s not about the TV show. It’s a bout my wallet. The last time I used it was to buy my new computer and I haven’t seen it since that night. I checked all the usual places and even the store where I bought the thing. No luck.
I have this vague feeling like I put it someplace weird. You know, you’re like working on something so you put your things down in some odd place thinking “I’ll pick this right back up,” then you find them six months later in the lint trap or something. I feel like my wallet is in some weird place like that. Someplace I wouldn’t normally set it down.
(time passes)
After I wrote that last paragraph I went upstairs to gather up a few key items. While up there I did a quick scan of the table I was working at when I first got my new computer. Booyakasha - there was my wallet underneath a piece of trash. Someplace weird, just like I said…
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Apple released new software today called “Boot Camp,” which creates a window partition, burns all the drivers for mac hardware to a CD, and then fakes a BIOS so you can install and dual boot Windows on your mac. I installed it, naturally, and I have to say I am damn impressed with this machine.
Third party benchmarks show thatr the Mac is the fastest dual core Windows notebook available on the market. That was before Apple even released this software.
I put Battefield 2 on my new Windows partiiton and ran it. What I experienced blew me away. It is 10x faster then my desktop computer which is not only higher spec’d but has a decent video card too. I won’t be going back to PC hardware anytime soon.
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