The dial-up on the home computer has been acting up badly and considering the laptop has no problems connecting or staying connected, it probably means it’s time for another computer cleaning. It’s something I try to get to at least twice a year, although I probably should do it more often considering how much dust and fluff the carpets throw off. Realistically I usually only manage to get to it once a year or so.
I really need to put the computer in a more accessible spot so the routine cleaning is less of a pain in the a** to do.
Hooligan house features
Rick asks:
However, you have not told us where the vomitorium is going to be. You know, the room that you can roll your drunk friends into, where the pizza and vomit stains on the floor are considered part of the ambiance.
Traditionally, the ‘Vomitorium’ is usually in the basement, which in most houses is usually unfinished or at least has one unfinished area (read: easily hosed down) that can easily serve the required function.
However, seeing as how Charleston is in the Lowcountry, and houses here typically have no basements (it’s not called the Lowcountry for nothing you know) it’s not really practical for the new house to have an indoor Vomitorium.
Fortunately, Charleston is sufficiently warm year-round (by Canadian Hooligan standards) that I think the screened-in porch out back could serve quite adequately as an outdoor Vomitorium. It has the benefit of being open with good air flow (so beer flatulence doesn’t build up), is easily hosed down and dries quickly and has ample space for a large group of slumbering Hooligans. Easy access to the outdoors also means no stumbling around searching for the bathroom in an unfamiliar place.
He also asked:
And what about the whore closet? You have to ask pTom and Leanne about that room! although I do believe that pJoe was responsible for naming that one.
Although I’m not familiar with this ‘whore closet’, there are a few places that could serve what I imagine the required function to be. Up in the FROG there are a couple of gnome-sized doors on either side to access a small amount of storage area. There is room in here for maybe 3 or 4 people (2 or 3 large ones) on each side. It is open to the outside though, so these people might have to share the space with the occasional squirrel, bat or other critter.
My PGP key
In case anybody had some strange reason for wanting to send me encrypted mail, this is the public key I use most often (i.e. the one I still remember my pass-phrase to).
Pop-unders are back
Those pesky pop-under ads are back. After switching to Firefox, it was so nice never having to see pop-up/under ads anymore. But someone’s figured out a way around Firefox’s pop-up/under ad blocking and now they’re polluting my eyeballs again.
Argh.
So far only one website I (used to) visit on a regular basis (which I won’t be anymore) has these new pop-up ads. Web advertising has become one of those necessary evils. I can live with ads plastered all over a website (obviously the less obtrusive and annoying, the better), but making ads pop up windows all over my screen like weeds is a guaranteed way of driving my eyeballs away from a site. I’m sure the same goes for many other geeks too.
Pop-up ads…just say no.
GeoURL is back!
GeoURL is back! The 2.0 version is still in beta, but just as easy to use as before. In fact the required tags haven’t changed at all and seems to function in pretty much the same way it did before. It was cool when I discovered it back in July 2003, and still is now that it’s back.