Mac users can rock it with eDonkey too! Macdonkey is cool, but you have to create an account before it lets you see the interesting stuff. For example, a link to grab OSX 10.3 off the network is right here.

If you’d like to stay up to date on the fires burning throughout Southern California without having to rely on the media, Tracy Justus over at Freq Of Nature has a whole bunch of fire frequencies up on the front page of his site. Bust out the scanner and tune in!

Apple Juice is nature’s cruel little trick on me. It tastes oh so very good when you drink it. However, you can expect the rest of your day to be filled with bad breath and lots of farting. The apple juice is to blame.

The past few days at my house have been like a nuclear winter. There’s so much crap in the air from the fires burning in and around LA that everything outside is covered in ash, the little sunlight that is able to reach us is reddish-yellow, and the sun itself looks like a huge red…

Some random computerish tidbits- I just updated my Firebird installation to 0.7. The ‘automatic bookmark update checker’ thing actually works now. Hoo-ray. I ditched iTunes for Winamp5 the other day, and I feel all warm inside. The media library puts 3.x’s to shame, and it’s a heck of a lot faster than iTunes. Microsoft’s running…

We went to Ralph’s this weekend to do our grocery shopping despite the strike. None of the strikers tried to hassle us or anything. In fact, I can’t remember having a better time shopping on a weekend. The store was loaded with food, the new employees were friendly, they gave us crazy coupons when we…

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I bought a new router over the weekend. My BEFSR41 from Linksys had proven to be a solid performer for the many years that I’d owned it. Unfortunately, I recently found an application that brings it to its knees. Something about peer-to-peer network traffic caused by systems like Overnet would lock up the router after…

A few years ago Disneyland opened up a music store on Main St. that contained these nifty interactive kiosks. The kiosks would let you burn custom CDs containing up to 10 tracks of vintage Disneyland attraction audio from the park’s opening in 1955 all the way up to the present. The system was called “Disneyland…

Someone posted this postcard in the bathroom stalls here at work. I found it very funny.