… You get a lifetime.

I saw someone die today. Or as close as I think I ever want to be to it.

I was out driving around looking for work and ended up stuck in a traffic jam that was caused by a car accident on the road ahead of me. I’ve no idea how long before I got there the accident occurred but it couldn’t have been that long. From what I could see of the aftermath, I think one of the cars had tried making a left-hand turn across traffic and got t-boned. They either misjudged the distance, or the oncoming driver just didn’t see them. The police were on the scene and the ambulance had just arrived and traffic was slowly being redirected. As I was waiting for my turn to be detoured away I sadly had a fairly unobstructed view of the crash and watched morbidly as the paramedics and fire fighters pulled a bloody corpse from one of the vehicles. I have no idea if it was a man or woman as they draped a blanket over it and took it away fairly quickly.

I really don’t know how I feel about the whole thing. I’m still in shock and slightly sick to my stomach when I think about it.

Now, while I’m not one of the world’s elite Mac snobs, I do recognize the fact that they’ve got a good thing going with their iPod and iTunes product lines.

Their branding seems to be centered on the logic that Mac users are more computer savvy than the rest of us and are therefore elite. Which is enforced by their packaging (both internal and external) that promotes a minimalist design that, in essence, says that “we don’t need to have flashy product write-ups on our packages, our customers are smart enough to know what they want”.

On the other hand, the evil that is Microsoft seems to be focusing on the general populace who don’t know diddly squat about computers and therefore have to have everything spelled out for them phonetically. Or the other option is that they just like to impress people with big words.

A perfect example of this is this little video I stumbled across the other day that posits a “What if Microsoft redesigned the iPod?”

Talk about truth in advertising.

uh…. Don’t ask… It’s late.

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My Nipples Are
#J32AB3

The color of a one’s nipples says a lot about them. For example, nipples like these typically indicate a person awesome enough to bother getting their HTML Nipple Code. Which is pretty awesome.

Click here to generate your nipple code!

This is just too cool for words. I definitely plan to have one of these in my next house… I might even tell my wife about it.

… and I’ll say it again. Lego is GOD

Case in point # 578430750367362698546845986

Lego Pinball

Until further notice, I’ve gone walkabout.

I’ll post again if and when I can.

Okay, I’ve been watching the annoying NBC coverage of the Olympics (annoying because it’s piecemeal coverage at best, especially if no Americans are competing in the said event) and they’ve been repeatedly showing these stupid Lunesta sleep aid commercials and I’m getting rather annoyed with them. I’m sure you’ve seen them, they’re the ones that show the neon green glowing butterfly hovering evilly over some passed out adults. In my mind they give me the opinion that they aren’t a sleep aid, but a hallucinogen. I mean come on, if something makes me see glowing neon green butterflies after I take them, and I continue to see this evil green bug the next day then I think I’ve got bigger problems than sleep deprivation.

Then again what the hell do I know.

So I’m sitting here casually staring at the stats pages that have been generated by my new webhost for the site and pondering their ramifications.

It seems I’m transferring about 1mb a day in bandwidth, the bulk of which is images. This had me worried at first because I was under the misconception that my package provided me with 50mb of transfer a month. Thankfully I was mistaken and it’s in fact GB rather than MB. Talk about me breathing a sigh of relief because at the rate I was going I suspected I was going to have to switch either to a bigger plan or to another host. Thankfully I’m just an idiot who can’t read.

Still though, I’m surprised at the 1mb a day transfer. That seems fairly high in my mind for a site as low impact as mine is but honestly what do I know. This is the first time I’ve had transfer/bandwidth stats available to see what the site is doing. Maybe for what I have 1mb/day IS a good gauge. I guess I’ll just have to watch and see.

Sadly, I forgot to upload my robots.txt file in my root directory when I transferred the site across and ended up with roughly 90% of the hits I received in the first day being bots and spiders crawling all over the site. Now that I’ve got that taken care of though, the hits from them have diminished a fair bit. Hopefully, that’ll stem the tide of the little nosy buggers.

Anyways, the new host seems to be fine for now. I’ll let you know how it goes.

It’s Thursday and therefore I shall waste your time with another stupid quiz that I stumbled across on the net recently.

This time, It’s the “Which Sci-Fi Crew would you most likely fit in with.”

My results, as you can see, are unsurprising.

You scored as Serenity (Firefly). You like to live your own way and don’t enjoy when anyone but a friend tries to tell you should do different. Now if only the Reavers would quit trying to skin you. Serenity (Firefly) 94% Deep Space Nine (Star Trek) 81% Babylon 5 (Babylon 5) 75% Moya (Farscape) 69% FBI’s X-Files Division (The X-Files) 69% Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda) 50% Millennium Falcon (Star Wars) 50% SG-1 (Stargate) 50% Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix) 50% Bebop (Cowboy Bebop) 44% Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica) 44% Enterprise D (Star Trek) 31% Your Ultimate Sci-Fi Profile II: Which sci-fi crew would you best fit in with?created with QuizFarm.com

Note: For those of you who’re playing along at home and are wondering why this post has today’s date rather than Thursday’s, especially when the post makes reference to it being Thursday, you can blame a wonky Blogger reset of some sort that reverted my blog back to an earlier version prior to this post having been made. So being the kind hearted soul that I am (read: Anal loser who hates it when things don’t go the way he planned) I’ve recreated this wonderful post for you all to play with once more. Enjoy