Postage is going up-again

I saw on the news yesterday that the price of stamps is going up to 42 cents in May. I thought it was safe to buy pretty stamps instead of those ugly "forever stamps" because postage just went up recently, but apparently this was a false sense of security. Now I need to hurry and use all my 41 cent stamps, so if you get any mail from me, you can be pleasantly surprised to see Christmas stamps.

FHSU Bloggination: Nerd Edition

So Paul and I were thinking that perhaps the FHSU Bloggination isn't the best place to talk about our little hobby of programming. Now, I love a good programming joke just as much as the next person (Why do programmers always get Christmas and Halloween mixed up? Because DEC 25 = OCT 31), but it seems to be just outside the scope of the blog, so we've created a new blog over at http://pezad.blogspot.com. But no worries though! You'll still get the same hard-hitting journalistic standards at FHSU Bloggination that you've come to expect from yours truly. For example, here's today's tip: Although widely regarded as better for the environment because compact florescent bulbs consume less electricity than standard incandescent blubs, they do contain mercury and therefore you should avoid eating too many of them if possible.

People use what I post on my webpage?

So I have a googlepages webpage. I put a couple of the papers I wrote for my physics classes on it and figured that was that. I figured I would be the only one who ever looked at my webpage, and perhaps some people I told about it. Well, I was wrong. Today I get an email from some teacher at Sapientia University in Tg-Mures, Romania. He is like I am using your paper on the heat equation and wanted to know about something that was not clear. So I am like hmmmm. People do use the my webpage after. I thought it was cool to get and email from a random guy from Romania anyway.

Morbidly funny typo

Ok, so it's probably wildly insensitive and inappropriate to point this out, but today I noticed a typo that is quite common--and quite funny to me.

I was reading a beautifully written note on facebook about the tragic loss of a someone's dear friend. Unfortunately, the typo made me titter. Yes, I am a terrible person. Anyways, this was it:

"...he was creamated..."

It kind of reminds me of Soilent Green. People are now turned into cream...

So, my anal-retentive inner copyeditor forces me to point this out: the official spelling is "cremated." And just as a side note, Wikipedia mentions that "Contrary to popular belief, the remains are not ashes, but rather bone fragments which are then crushed in a device called a cremulator."

I am sorry if I offended anyone. I mean no disrespect to the dead or grieving. Really. But...people should try to spell it the right way.

some time ago, in a galaxy far far away....

Since last year i havn't done much except:

Beacame a registered geologist in training.
A certified concrete inspector.
Learned how to blast ducks out of the sky.
Learned how to knock down pheasants.
Watched a deer take down a guy at work, (it was hillarious as it sounds).
Got engaged.
Ran a race.
Went to some concert with Shayne.
Broke my elbow.
Drank my raise away yesterday at the Terracon holiday party that was way after the holidays and had an open tab paid by my boss.
Lost an incredibly embarassing bet (it was as hillarious as it sounded).


Oh and I didn't blog that whole time.

Ten Free Windows Tools I Use

There are good freeware tools out there for Windows, but there is a bunch of junk freeware too. Some are buggy, others are loaded with malware, and many are straight up not useful. This list includes nothing that will ask you to pay for the full version, nothing that will spy on you, and nothing that I haven't found useful. Now, on to the list!

1. Ccleaner (http://www.ccleaner.com) - Just before you defrag your Windows machine (yeah, I know, you can stop right there, Mr. Linux-doesn't-need-defragging. And who would change their last name to that anyway?), you should clean out your recycle bin and delete your temporary files. Although Windows includes its own disk cleaning utility, it isn't as thorough as this app. It even includes a registry cleaner as well! The only thing I wish it did was remove all but the last System Restore point (I have to use the Windows cleaner for that after I use Ccleaner). Other than that, it works quicker and better.
2. Process Explorer (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx?wt.svl=related) - Are you using the standard Windows Task Manager right now when you hit ctrl+alt+del? This one is better, especially if you do a little programming on Windows. Why is this?
   • Processes are shown in tree form so you can see which process owns other processes
   • CPU usage graphs for every running process, not just overall CPU consumption.
     
   • Shows which processes contain handles on various files and resources
   • Tons of other things I'm still figuring out.
   
   It even allows you to replace the standard task manager so that the next time your give Windows the three fingered salute, it pops this baby up instead. Because it doesn't come as an installer, consider making a C:\Utilities folder to put it in. My only gripe with Process Explorer is it doesn't have a networking meter. Rats...
3. NetMeter (http://www.metal-machine.de/readerror/) - Don't you wish that the networking meter that comes with the Windows Task Manager had a few more options? Does WireShark give you too many details when all you needed was a graph? Give this majigger a chance to fulfill your network speed curiosities. It gives you second-by-second stats on how much you downloaded, and it will even give total download numbers. It can even run as slightly transparent, and fades to fully opaque when you mouse over it if you so choose. Why care, you ask? Because this thing gives you solid KB/s numbers, to help you figure out if you are really using all of that highspeed broadband that your ISP supposedly gave you.
4. 7-zip (http://www.7-zip.org/) - Why are people still using shareware for their archiving needs like WinZip? or WinRar even? Because they don't know of the many free (and open source, Boo-yah! [boo-yah? really? What is this, the 90's? -Ed.]) alternatives, I think. Sure, this may not look as pretty as WinZip or WinRar, but it has the stuff that counts:
   • Extracts from many different formats, including zip, rar, 7z, bz, tar, iso, cab, blah blah blah
   • Multi-processor archiving support for the 7z format. Two core CPU? Use this. Or maybe you have four cores, and only want to use two or one? Blam, it's done.
   So there.
5. CrossLoop (https://www.crossloop.com/landing.htm) - So my Grandma calls me. Her computer had been BSODing on her a couple of times a day, and it was getting annoying (Interesting fact: Microsoft chose blue for their screen of death because it was a calming color. 23 years later, maybe not so much.). I had talked her through a few things, but nothing worked. I needed to control her machine. The problem, however, was that she was three hours away. Sure, windows has a remote controlling feature by default, but it is also lame. I installed CrossLoop on my Grandma's machine and my own. CrossLoop transcends firewalls and routers, so all I had to do was type in the connection code that she gave me over the phone, have her accept my connection, and I was in! I was able to clean the computer, perform some maintenance, and install some much needed software (including two spyware cleaners and AVG anti-virus). The result? A smooth running machine. Thank you, CrossLoop!
6. Notepad++ (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm) - The standard notepad that comes with Windows is decent. I like it alright. But it doesn't do tabs or session saving. It also doesn't highlight code. Notepad++ does. 'Nuff said.
7. CDBurnerXP (http://cdburnerxp.se/) - Remember back in the day when Nero used to be a great tool to burn CDs? Now it is so bloated you practically need to start one Nero program before you can start another. I just want to put data on a disc, not navigate a labyrinth of options. If you are like me, and you don't need all that extra fluff of transcoding video and making DVD menus, then this is for you. Does data and audio discs for CDs, DVDs, Blu-Ray, and HD-DVD.
   
8. Foxit Reader (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php) - Adobe Reader is bloated. It takes forever to start up. And once it starts up, it has to do a massive update or something dumb. All I wanted to do was look at a PDF document, man! Get it before it gets too bloated itself.
9. VLC Media Player (http://www.videolan.org/) - It isn't the prettiest player when it comes to playing music or movies. But it makes up for that fact by playing nearly anything, even MP4s or FLVs. You can download your favorite YouTube, Google Video, or other videos using http://keepvid.com/, and then play it with VLC Media Player, no extra hassle.
10. The GIMP (http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html) - The new 2.4.x series is finally out, man! Yeah! Slightly easier to use than the older 2.3 series. Although commonly billed as a replacement to Adobe Photoshop, it isn't quite as powerful, but then again it isn't as complicated either. Having said that, it isn't as easy as Microsoft Paint either. Take some time to play around with it, because the benefits won't be immediately realized. Many good sites provide some good tutorials on GIMP. It beats paying hundreds of dollars on Photoshop. (Yeah, yeah I know. But it beats pirating Photoshop too.)

Blatantly obvious: Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/) - I know: you already know about this. It is so recommended by everybody that I didn't put it in the official list. But then again, my list didn't quite feel complete either. Besides, 90% of Web surfers out there are still using some form of IE, so obviously a few more people still need convincing. IE probably is good enough. But I bet you didn't know about that index.dat file (Shout out to Lester for letting me know about that one), a hidden file which I have no idea what it does but probably isn't any good for your Internet surfing security (Ccleaner can remove that file, by-the-way). IE7 does extensions now, but I'm assuming it will never be as popular as the Firefox extensions.

So, do you have any good free or open source Windows apps? Maybe some alternatives to the ones I've listed? I'd love to hear about it.

Name Change

As some of you might of hear FHSU thought about changing there name this year and it got a lot of attention. In the end it was decided not a smart thing to do. This makes me think we should think about a name change of the blog. Perhaps we could have a two facebook groups for and against. Or perhaps make the news. I mean this is a very important blog and all. I bet a lot of people will have an opinion. I don't have a idea of a new name but if I think it needs to be a funny word that has no meaning because that seem to be the way of doing it. Like Google, ubuntu, gentoo, and all the other names you can think of of new tech. products. So bloggers start blogging about a name change.

return paul;

A New Way to Waste Time!

So here I am sitting in class, learning how to open an Access database. I'm really glad I was invited to join this blog, because now instead of aimlessly staring at facebook, I can feel that I'm accomplishing something useful, even if it is just typing meaningless sentences. Plus the people sitting around me think I'm actually working hard and aren't talking to me. This is really cutting down on the amount of awkward conversation I feel compelled to make, so thanks!

Nerd News

So I have been telling Shayne that Cmake is best build tool ever. Today as I was using it some more it just made me more sure of how right I am. So if you want to compile some C or C++ or any task like building you such check out Cmake. If you need some proof cmake it good you should know it is used in KDE4 whch I am sure you are all using. If not you should try. Now that it will work on linux, windows, and Mac you have no reason not to. So download that thing and "be free." So until next time this is nerd talk.

Eating makes me hungrier

It's true; I decided to eat instant oatmeal with fake strawberries in it because I wasn't hungry--and now I am hungry. Anyways, I haven't done much today except go to class and work at the Writing Center. Oh, and homework. I read some of The Red Badge of Courage, and that made me fall asleep, so now I'm reading Stephen King's On Writing, which is a way cool book. You'd probably enjoy reading it even if you weren't that keen on writing. So, nothing as interesting as dropping eggs, sadly.

Speaking of eggs, I found an awesome french toast recipe. If you don't like french toast, stop reading. Take two slices of lightly toasted bread and spread strawberry (or kiwiberry, or bananaberry, or Barneyberry, whatever) between them. Then dip both sides in some beaten egg, milk, and cinnamon sugar (strangely enough, the stuff I use is the same cinnamon sugar, I believe, that Lester gave me when he moved out of Agnew--so thanks, Lester, it's great!). Then just fry it in a skillet and eat with lots of syrup and butter or lots more cinnamon sugar or more strawberry jam. Oh, and it's good to eat with eggs. The toasting is key here since it helps keep the sogginess of the bread to a reasonable level and keeps the bread from falling apart on you as you try to flip it and stuff. The jam is a delightful surprise for people who are expecting regular french toast.

So, sorry for the boring blog that's mostly about food. Blame my instant oatmeal for making me hungrier, I guess.

My Truck

I'm finally getting my truck repaired for damages that occurred a year ago. For some odd reason, I thought it'd be a good idea to drive into the side of a mountain. A whole year later, I finally decided it was time I'd get my truck repaired. Sure, the truck was drivable, but now I can drive it without it shaking out of control if I go over 30 (I hope).
So there's my uninteresting news on my truck.
Oh, also, it has eggs on it.
My roommates and I thought it would be a good idea to throw away the old eggs we found in our fridge by throwing it off our balcony into the dumpster. Unfortunately we couldn't throw that far. And oddly enough, all three of us had coincidentally parked right next to the dumpster. Since we didn't learn our lesson, all three of us continued to throw those eggs until there were none left. They all landed on our cars. That was fun.

Feel the Love

We just witnessed a 243 day lull in our blogging duties. (Thank you, timeanddate.com.) That's a brand new record!

So what's happened on my end in the 7+ months since then?

• I got older
• ...

Yeah, it's starting to come back to me as to why I stopped blogging.

Seriously though, there have been a few cool things. I got to see Weird Al in concert with Jon, Sam, and some family, which was really neat. He even sang a few songs not on any of his albums, such as We All Have Cell Phones, So C'Mon Let's Get Real and I'm in Love with the Skipper.

....Okay, so that was only one cool thing, but still it was quite a ride. Oh, I guess I did also go to a Dave and Busters, a sort of Chuck E. Cheese for grown-ups, where I finally got to play an arcade machine I've been waiting many years of my life to play, called The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Apparently it is based off of some movie. In retrospect, I'm not sure why I wanted to play it so badly. Wait, now I remember: because shooting dinosaurs is awesome.

In conclusion, the secret to happiness is that you will never find it. You have to make it yourself. At least that is what I was able to gleam from Dan Gilbert from one of those TED talks.

FCC started it the wireless auction

After all the talk the the FCC wireless auction started. I checked the news and there was nothing much going on. The sad news it could take months until we know who got what and what it might mean. I guess these people don't know how to auction.

Perhaps next time I will have something cool to say.

Bring the Blog Back!

I agree with Paul, let's bring the blog back to life! I can post about my life in Virginia, and hopefully my life in California when I move there in about a year. And then my life on Mars. Wish me luck guys!

Back in black

So I don't know. I was talking to Lester and we (Or I) decided we should bring the blog back or give it a try. Who knowns what will happen. I don't know how the title apples to this post but it is a notice we should blog. I guess.

iGoogle and Google Reader

FHSU.blogspot.com is no longer my homepage. Nope! Now, I can have one place to check everything I want, including any updates to our blogger page. If you have a Google account, go to iGoogle.com and add the Google Reader. When you adjust your settings for the first time, just type in "fhsu" as the blogspot user you want to keep track of. Easy!

Forsyth Library

Forsyth Library is getting compact shelves in the basement, just like the K-State's library, pictured left. This is really exciting for me, probably because I like to push buttons. Soon, all of the periodicals will be housed IN ONE PLACE. English majors, rejoice.

Lester is alive!

I know, because I facebook stalk. Lester, you just keep breathing, man! And other stuff you like to do, too. :)

Remember this?

http://www.geocities.com/shayne_co/

I sure do. Don't forget to drive slowly and enjoy the scenery when going down memory lane.


And let some people merge every once and awhile. I hate it when I miss my exit.

It's that time of year again...

IIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT'SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS BASEBALL SEASON FINALLY. (My tv beware)

Spring Break in CA

So I went to the International Laser Safety Conference in San Francisco over spring break. I gave a presentation and saw some sites. Here are some photos I took if you want to look at them.

Emergency tips, courtesy of the U.S. government

Fact: It's funny when warning signs are taken out of context. Example: http://www.armenianteens.com/emergency.php

Knowing is half the battle. The other 75% is math.

Get Your Uninumber Now!

Ok, so this isn't pertinent to people who only have one phone number (like me), but I just thought this was darn cool. And it's free (or $15 a month if you don't want ads and stuff)! And it has tons of awesome options, too. This article led me to it. I thought it was rather clever.

Go Viacom, take down those dirty linux users at google

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Dispatch/ViacomSuesYouTube.aspx?GT1=9215

I've got pants.

Just thought you and the rest of the blogosphere should know. This is some high quality news here. They aren't fancy pants, or anything of the like. But they do work for the purpose that pants serve.

But, if you want some useful, free-to-own open-source software, you should look at freemind, which is the digitized form of mind mapping, a technique for organizing streams of thoughts, ideas, and majiggers. I also seem to vaguely recall something like that from my grade school years.

You'll need Java to use it (the link is for Java 5.0 for Windows XP. It's not the latest Java, but it works. For now.)

Ouch

I have an ear infection and it is killing me. It has to go away I only got 5 days till I have to go take a huge test.

Happy Valentine's Day

I'm engaged! Now, what was his name again? ;) But seriously...Lance proposed on Valentine's day in my kitchen. He tied the ring to the stems of roses he bought me, and I found it while I was cutting the stems. It is very shiny.

The News

If you have not hear Jessie has news for the world. I don't have the security clearance to talk about it :). I can say it might have to do something to with todays date.

I have some new to "It's working, it's working." If you do not get it you can just be like "crazy old paul."

Live long and proper,
paul

It's about time: Singing a Song

I planned to put this video on YouTube for quite some time. Around six months, to attach a number to it. Why so long? Procrastination, mostly. But also the realization that prospective employers tend to search the Internet for peoples' names, just like the rest of us.

I then realized that nobody cares. I also already have a job. So it's all good. Enjoy!

Edit: You can find the video on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csbl9td3n-A.

Bill Gate and Pie fun times.

http://www.bitstorm.org/gates/

Down in a hole

Today i got to go down 30 ft. in a man made hole. It was warm. I wanted to stay, but they wanted to put concrete in it as soon as it was drilled. Then I had to come out of the hole and it was cold as outside can be and I had to test concrete. Concrete testing is not fun. Everybody should come test concrete with me and then we can collect all the cylinders and make a giant concrete cylinder house. Now that would be awsome. A house made of 6" X 12" cylinders. Now that would be freak'n sweet. But the coolest thing was that I was at a chemical plant that exploded really really big less than a half hour after I was done testing comcrete there

Microsoft?

I think if there was ever a time to get off the windows boat it is now. I myself have been using Windows XP all the time at home. This makes me sad. I don't know why I can not escape. Vista is the way out. I don't way to buy anymore Mirosoft stuff and I have found some cool eye candy for linux. So if there way ever a time to try linux it is now. Give it a try. There are a lot of live CD's so you don't have to install anything to get a taste of it.

FHSU Bloggination?

So I was thinking should we change the name of the blog. I mean most of us are not at FHSU and what we talk about is not FHSU stuff. Just an idea. I don't know.

news...

Jared Wann shot himself the night before last. I don't really know the details, but I'm fairly certain it was suicide, not an accident.

testing

test 1 2 3.

i found this comment on hi5...thanks shayne!

Shayne says:

Jul 5, 2004 10:14 PM

Jessie is really smart, and I can back this up. One day I was talking to my good buddy Jessie in our Physics class. To make things interesting, I presented to her an impossible dare. "I bet you can't travel around the world in 80 days," I said. Jessie, never to back down from a challenge, went on that voyage. Luckily for her, and unbeknownst to me, there was a handbook and two movies on how to do exactly that. I guess it was fortunate for her that she stumbled onto a Chinese man that knew martial arts, and whipped every ugly guy that got in her way. Of course, thanks to the state of technology today, it only took her five days, including a 10 hour layover in the deadliest place on earth, JFK airport. It's a good thing I didn't make it a real bet, because I would have lost.

It is time.

Remember how I said the blog was changing over a week ago? Well, I'm going to attempt that now.

It will be just like the old blog, only this time, we use our Google accounts! I'll attempt to help you through the process, once I figure it out myself.

Update: I just changed it. So easy. When any of the authors want to make a post, you'll just have to log in with your gmail account. I'm fairly sure that we all have one.

Extremely high resolutions and most of the alphabet

So, think that the much belly-hewed 1080p resolution is nice? Or that your fancy 1600x1200 is top-o-the line?

Latest standards of resolutions have brought us the WHUXGA (or Wide Hexadecatuple Ultra Extended Graphics Array) resolution monitor, which stands at a cool 7680×4800 resolution, which is 37 million pixels. That just puts my 3.2MP digital camera to shame. Too bad nothing like this exists. Yet.

Read more about these crazy things at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HXGA. Or not.

bloging

Bloging is so much fun. I just love to blog. If I had something good to blog about that would be great. I did update my google webpage a little the other day. When I should of been blogging. I also think I am almost am starting to know the how to program. Not good yet, but much better then ever before. Someday I shall know the truth and the truth will set me free.

Live long everyone.

The snow

C++

So I have not bloged in a long time but I just descovered that I can use my time wisely buy blogging in C++ class. O yea. I liked the leader today. A great story Jessie and nice how you got that quote for an alum, Shayne Riley. I wonder how long that took you to get :).

Also Physics Rocks! The snow told me.

The Death of ITV

I am facing the end of an era. What once ruled scores of sites, students, and teachers now lies mostly neglected, relegated to two or three classrooms a night. ITV is coming to an end. Fort Hays State University pioneered the program, building it—and much of the equipment—from scratch. Now, the program is dying, site by site. Night by night. Two monitors can barely work enough to scratch 14 or 15 hours—when before three monitors were needed, one working over 20. The Tomanek control room is virtually desolate, housing unused and broken equipment. The classrooms themselves are breaking down, camera by camera. But why fix it, when soon it will no longer be required? A teacher is experimenting with Marratech--marrying Polycom technology with webcams. If anything can save ITV, that would be it. Right now, though, most ITV classes have been changed to online. I foresee the trend only continuing.

Former ITV moniters, I salute you. You have shared in a glorious past--one that will not be forgotten by..well, at least me. Those lonely nights in the control room, doing homework, surfing the Internet, staying at your post, and doing the odd minute or two of work--remember those days, for they were beautiful. You saved teachers in distress, students who were disconnected, and recorded classes for when all hope was lost. You, Wielder of the Mighty Polycom Remote, knew the secrets of Volume control, Projector sources, and VCR technology. Sure, a trained monkey could perform most of your tasks--but remember: Ron Hart chose You. In my experience, this has been the best job in the world. Well, except for maybe the ice cream taster.

Blog changes are a comin'. Also, a case of Too Much Information.

I just found out that Blogger has a new way of doing things. For us to do these things, however, we have to start using Google accounts. So start looking out for that. I'll email the parties that have been blogging the past year or two: Lester, Jon, Paul, Jessie... I have many more in the current list, but I figure now is a good time to clean out those who have moved on to bigger and better things, like doing absolutely nothing whatsoever. If you are on the original list of authors, though, you can always climb back on board by replying to this post in a timely fashion, or by contacting me in some way. Non-violent methods of communication are preferred (like, hurling a brick through my window would be a bad example of a non-violent method).

Also, stop spam through providing links to false email addresses (mostly fake email addresses to known spamming sites). As some are aware, one method of acquiring email addresses is to use a spider to collect emails from links on websites. What if, however, instead of a real email address, a fake one is used instead? I like the idea. A lot. That's why I did it.

Finally, I'd like to tell you something I've learned this weekend: throwing up for the fourth time in one night is easier than the first three or any of the times after (I think it was a total of six or seven. I lost count). The reason is this: By the third time, you've already lost your lunch. It's pretty much water at this point. After the fourth time, two things are going wrong: 1) Your entire abdominal region feels like it got assaulted by some unholy cross between a Bowflex and Mike Tyson, and 2) Bile is very bitter.

Moral of the story: explosive decompression isn't just for jetliners, but for gastrointestinal systems as well.

Remember when....

Happy New Years!

Its the beginning of a new year. Time to start fresh. I'm going to start by going to work. This is way too early to be writing a blog.

HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYONE!

He-Man !!!

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Turkey day everyone (a day late). Hope everyone ate a lot and got sick. I know I didin't.

I'M STILL ALIVE, YAY!!!!

My computer has a below average I.Q.

and your probable does to. Right click, anrrange icons by name, and then look in the left hand corner. Mine has My Documents and then My Computer.

Nacy Cartwright turns 49

so does Bart Simpsons' voice

Feliz Cumpleanos, Shayne!

The Birthday Penguin wishes you will eat sickeningly large amounts of cake and set things on fire. Have an awesome birthday!

British Police Defend 'Underpants' Advice
Thursday, July 13, 2006 now part of stylesheet -->
(07-13) 14:15 PDT LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) --
A British police force on Thursday defended a magazine article advising women intent on getting drunk to make sure they are wearing nice underpants.
Suffolk Police in eastern England said the "tongue-in-cheek" advice in the police-backed magazine Safe was intended to curb binge-drinking by young women.
An article in the debut issue advises women "intent on getting ratted" to ensure they are "wearing nice pants" in case they pass out.
It also tells young women that too much alcohol can leave them looking like "wrinkly old prunes."
The force said the publication — designed as an eye-catching spoof gossip magazine and distributed free through shops, clubs and colleges — offered safety advice to young women.
It is produced by a coalition of police, local government and health organizations.
"That article is a very, very small part of the magazine," said a police spokeswoman, speaking on the force's customary condition of anonymity. "The whole magazine does not revolve around what people should wear when they go out."
The Suzy Lamplugh Trust, a women's safety charity, acknowledged the article appeared odd, but said the police should be applauded for trying to reach young women.
"When you see quotes out of context, it seems very odd. But when you see it in context you get the spoof," spokeswoman Jo Walker said.
"Perhaps it's gone a bit too far, but you've got to give police credit for trying.
"It's definitely getting attention, and I think it will get young girls talking about it."

Happy Birthday Google!

8 years old (check out the roman numeral candles)!

New Weird Al Video: White and Nerdy

Watch his White and nerdy video. Trust me, this is some splendorific spectacularness.

Be sure to keep your eyes open for the Star Wars Kid reference.

By the way, its available on the 26th, and since this is a dual disc, you're getting an audio disc as well as videos.

Eat Green and Die

According to Time, the $2.6 billion prewashed salad industry is at stake, clinging to their very roots for survival. Right now, Americans are emptying out their produce drawers following an E. coli scare that would have Popeye spinning in his grave. What spawned this mass terror? Over a hundred people have eaten contaminated fresh spinach, causing mass intestinal disturbances and one fatality. California is the source of the E. coli, so this should be the perfect opportunity for Governor Arnold to test his mettle against a new kind of bad guy: non-Predator, non-Terminator, and non-Democrat. Will the Kindergarten Cop defeat the bad bug? Well…maybe with the help of the CDC. Until then, I recommend avoiding manure-contaminated spinach and opting for a healthier alternative instead: twinkies. Lard and sugar are thus far impervious to attacks by the coli family…apparently even bacteria have their standards. Ironically enough, most Americans (including me) would probably risk dropping dead at the tender age of 35 to avoid something that is already present in their bodies, peacefully digesting all those partially hydrogenated oils. Then again, if we lived long enough, we’d develop brain cancer from our cell phones.

Smooth Teddy

this is a demonstration video of a java applet that does some really cool 3D drawing stuff...you can also download the applet at this site.

Epiphany

Peaches are hairy apples on hormones

fuck hays

ITV Strikes Back

Day 2 of classes. ITV is new and different this semester...not exactly better either. The long and the short of it is, all of the colleges switched from the dedicated T1 lines to plain internet at 256K. On top of that, Colby is generally inaccessible because all of their addresses got screwed up I guess. And I broke the VCR today. Yep. If I had a screwdriver, I'd take it apart and try to fix it. So it's good that I don't have a screwdriver. But enough of work. Hays is sunny and a beautiful 82 degrees out. Perfect weather for frisbee golf, laying in a shady hammock, or Oversized Outdoor Ping Pong (also known as tennis) if you're into that sort of thing. So right now there's this girl sitting in Tomanek crying on the phone (she's been doing this for at least an hour now) about various random topics like athletic shorts...I don't really get it but she's getting annoying. For the love of Alltel, get some Prozac! And in other news, there is a tree in San Antonio that is self-watering.

INTERNET

I finally have the internet again!

Flying Paul

So in three days I hit up kansas city, dallas, san antonia, and dever. Yea airports are great. Don't care on any liquids or gel either.

Flying Monkeys

The squirrels have not got me yet. The penguin army keeps me safe. Mind you this is not al gores penguin army as you might have seen on utube, but mine own pengiun army.

Anyway. I am doing good. I am working on the leader webpage and working for the Consortium Research Fellows Program which is a very nice deal. I also am flying to San Antonio this next week. After that school starts which should be a nice change.

That is live in Hays.

Trip into a sticker bush, hit yourself in the ankle with a hammer and roll your truck

So how is everyone doing since i never hear from any of you. I suppose you are all sittting at home watching tv or maybe... yes... the squirrels got you since the last post on the blog was myself and the one before that, which isn't mine, was a month ago. I told you so, those squirrels were going to be vicous in their plot to take over the world. No one ever listens to me and now you are all dead or caputred working in the acorn mines. Sucks you guys. But I TOLD YOU SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

watch out for the killer kangaroos next time you go down under...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13825566/?GT1=8307

and the ducks of doom will cost you one level. (munchkin joke)

Angular People Summer Holiday

More of the same band, I told Shayne about this, so here you go.

In the spirit of YouTube

Ketelbey

Here's a video I really like of a band I fell in love with recently. The song starts off with the singer talking about how he saw a cat, but at closer look it turned out to be a piece of bread, but only one slice, only one slice.

Moskau

Great YouTube video Moskau. Remember The Leafman Group? Think along those lines, only no leaves, just Germans dressed up all Russian like.

And for some reason, here is a longer video of it, in some sort of language I can't understand (Japanese, perhaps?). Also good.

Happy 4th

Free "Weird Al" Song

Courtesy of the offical "Weird Al" website, you can download a free mp3 of one of the songs on his new album. Get it before the RIAA finds out what one of their artists is doing!

And that's the way it was.

The rhyme dictionary

It's a great idea to go
to the rhymezone.
You might want, in fact, to
tell your clone.
Perhaps it would be nice, to
call his home phone.
It's too bad that he has
fibrous dysplasia of bone.

Those words are as the angels burps... beautiful, and smells good.

well its been a long time

well its been awhile since i actully posted, with the exception of the save the internet post. the reason behind not posting much ...well ive moved on i no longer use blogger. i used wordpress now you can find my blog here. the reason i decided to move over to wordpress its alot more simple and more powerful also i have rss feeds setup. which is something that blogger doesnt do. also my other site bgwillers.com is going to be moving from blogger to wordpress as soon as i get the server configs up and going. having bgwillers has been alot of work and blogger seems to be always taken down for maintainance and its rather frustrating.

so there you go this is why biebs had seem to disapear from fhsu bloggination.

Meet Harvey

This is Harvey. I think Harvey is actually a female--I found this out after I named her. She is a Pennsylvania wood cockroach that briefly resided in our basement. Kayla set out "cockroach food" for Harvey, and last night we found her quivering in the middle of the living room floor. I gave Harvey a sky burial on our front lawn this morning. We can only hope that Harvey did not leave any little ones behind. There's a good chance; Harvey is an outdoor cockroach (they don't generally breed indoors) and I think she just wandered into our house while looking for rotting timber. Which, oddly enough, comprises our house....


Hopefully, this ends the saga of the cockroach infestation. Coming soon: The lint monster that lives in the laundry room.

Save the Internet : Fighting for Internet Freedom

Save the Internet : Fighting for Internet Freedom

we must act dont let the the telephone/internet providers win i know sometimes we say how we dont want government involment in thing well this time we do they want to take away our freedom to suf the web. the big ISPs want to control what sites are best for us

"Congress is pushing a law that would abandon the Internet's First Amendment -- a principle called Network Neutrality that prevents companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast from deciding which Web sites work best for you -- based on what site pays them the most. If the public doesn't speak up now, our elected officials will cave to a multi-million dollar lobbying campaign." - savetheinternet.com

Act NOW!!

Diet Coke + Mentos = Fun

So, apparently, the guys over at EepyBird.com were willing to spend hundreds of dollars to spray Diet Coke all over the place. Me? Not so much.

Life

Well, I got married. It went well I think. Now it is thank you card time.

The Song Tapper

I can't believe that the Song Tapper was able to guess the songs I was thinking of, just from me tapping the keyboard. It was able to successfully guess Barbara Ann, Darth Vader's theme (its real name is the Emperor's March, or Waltz, or something maybe), and the Super Mario theme. Too bad it requires at least 10 taps, ruling Shave and a Hair Cut out.

Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents Dinner

Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents Dinner on Transbuddha. My gut tells me this video is hilarious.

Warning: This video is over 22 minutes long. Be prepared for a long haul.

Windows XP Theme - Royale (a.k.a. The Glass Mod)

Tired of that "Fisher Price" look of Luna, the default theme for Windows XP? Thanks to the folks at Microsoft New Zealand, you too can have that neat Windows Media Player Theme, Royale, but inside a regular Home or Pro version of Windows XP! If that's not to your taste, then Softpedia Themes Section might have something that suits you even better (Hmm, like that Windows Vista Look-and-feel for XP with a somewhat strange title Universal Vista Inspirat Bricko Pack 1.1. I might have to try that out sometime.)

Smelly smell - Engrish.com

Smelly smell I have no idea what it's saying. All I know is I want one.

The Elvis is dead T-Shirt is also nice to have.

The show that made sexual phobias a dormitory necessity.

The show that made sexual phobias a dormitory necessity.

ShoutWire - Why Macs Suck - A Video Rant

ShoutWire - Why Macs Suck - A Video Rant

Shayne's big day

So here he is



and walking in



Soon to come (hopefully) is a movie of him on his walk. It needs some editing first. Congratulations Shayne and Jon (not pictured)!

Volleyball Highlight #01

I dipped into the collection of DV tapes I recorded of our college days. Let me set the stage for those of us with bad memories, or weren't there for that exciting night of Sonic Drive-In volleyball action:

This four-year old walks right into the middle of our volleyball game. We didn't want her there obviously, because... well... we're really bad at this and, let's admit, there's a high risk of injury to anyone out there. Rather then flat out telling the little girl that she can't play, we decide to just shove her into a section of the court where (we thought) the ball usually doesn't bounce to.

"Wow. That's some good aim."

Finally...

Another semester (for those of us still in college) is winding down. Papers are turned in, tests are taken, grades are posted, and frantic packing commences in the dorms. I have outdone myself yet again by finding more dirty dishes hidden behind my microwave than I even knew I had. Perhaps dirty dishes have a way of reproducing or cloning themselves....Ditto for dirty laundry.

I'm looking forward to summer though. Classes sure do have a way of cutting into my fun time. Oh wait...I'm taking classes this summer...Oh snap. Well, at the very least, I won't be eating dorm food anymore. Chartwells: eat, choke, and die without me (if I sound particularly irate, it is just because I found a hair in my sausage biscuit this morning). I'm moving on.

So long everybody, and thanks for all the fish...er...blogs.

nothing like a web site of sleeping japanese people

MasaManiA Moral Entertainment: Japanese business man spend valuable time

Microsoft speech recognition

so I just figured out how to use the Microsoft speech recognition in all sorts of applications like fire fox . So I'm using it to write this entire body and I'm not going to correct the mistakes that it makes . As you can see it used the word body instead of log and now it just use the word logs instead of dog and outages to use the word dog. I had a CBack spaceThe spec space backspace backspace backspace . I was trying to correct something but using backspace but that didn't go as what planned. I think I'd train the Microsoft beach recognition software for more it will be a lot of fun. Beach I like the beach two . Everybody should check it out in my opinion because it will just make life so much cooler with all of these audit mistakes that makes. And you can drive a whole bunch of blood in a hurry just by talking. And it just makes me laughAnd

Paul out .

Talk to your computer

So somehow the Mirosoft voice regection just started appearing on the taskbar and I checked it out. You sould to. It is amazing some of the stuff it write after what you say. It is a lot of fun, how it misunderstands somethings.

that is all I got.

iGod | Artificial Intelligence Chat

iGod | Artificial Intelligence Chat This program is great. It is a bit quirky on things at times, but always interesting. Finally, we can ask all those questions we've been meaning to ask, and get a stupid, circular response. Just try it. Fun stuff.

oh no schools ending

you whinners. oh my god classes are going to end. whoopie freak'n who gives a crap. They start and end every semester. and you babies whine every semester, grow up, suck it up and get over it. you don't know what hard is yet

Last Tuesday

So I just woke up...I'm at work and I guess I fell asleep (I don't think I drooled too much so that's always good). Anyways, I woke up and decided to check out what's new on YouTube...my new favorite addiction and ultimate procastinating tool. Guess what I found: the real life Simpson's intro. I was amused. But then, that could just be because I'm not yet up to full mental capacity (it takes awhile for me to reboot).

And in other news, it's cheap hamburger night, Sam's birthday is coming up, and we had Physics Club elections today and nobody died.

Peace out

I can not wait

Class are coming to an end and I am so glad. This year seems like it has been so long to me. So many things have changed over the last year. Change is sad somethings, but good others. If things never changed life would get boring that is for sure. It is just amazing what can happen in a year. Who knows what the future holds.

And it pass' on to a better life...

My cell phone is dead. May it rest in the thousands of pieces that it blew up in to.

Things I've Learned About YouTube

It's been two days since I've posted the Massacre of a Machine video, one day since I've posted The Mase-inator's Donkey Kong Country 2 Tour de Force, and just recently I've posted Lessons In Life.

In that span of one day, the DKC2 video had triple the view counts to MoaM, AND a comment to boot! From somebody we don't even know! She liked it! Too bad nobody's rated it yet. I guess fifty views isn't anything too big, considering some of the most played videos get over a million, easy. The Pokemon Theme music video was #1? Sad. Too bad it's also somewhat funny.

My brief expedition into YouTube is a roaring success. Obviously, we need to get The Mase-inator back into some video game action, if we are to climb up the ranks any.

It is done

I finshed my senor semair (sp) today. I think it is a great day. Lots of rain. Everyone should listen to a Brithish radio station for fun, it is asome. Rightoues

its a big ad

http://www.bigad.com.au/movie.html

YouTube: another way to prolong homework completion

so i found this video of lester..... check it out.

crazy guy...he just can't keep his feet on the ground.

:P

Massacre of a Machine: Now on YouTube

I'm behind the times. Apparently this YouTube site is getting hit almost as much as Google.

Anyone can create an account and upload nearly any video file they want (registration required, videos can only be up to 100MB in size and no longer than 10 minutes). It then transcodes that video file, from whatever format that might have been, into a standardized format that can play on almost anyones computer (It's Shockwave Flash video, I believe).

So I uploaded a video. Let me tell you, the process couldn't have been less painless. They even let you either link to the webpage, or let you embed it right into your own site if you want! I'll be posting more videos to this in the future.

It's free, and it doesn't sell advertisements. I don't quite get their angle... yet.

California

I decided to post a few pics. I'll probably post more once my sister sends me more pics.


Went to the beach and saw this sign, thought it was funny.




I got to ride one of these things on the beach. My sister has an awesome job.

It rained!

It rained early this morning and is cloudy today. I like the break from all the heat. Everything seems so clean and nice after the rain. I also finshed my semiar paper to. A great day it is. If only school was done. Have a happy and wonderfully day.

What's the deal with those links at the bottom of MSN IM chat screens?

As I was IMing to Paul today, I noticed a sentence that seemed a little out of place. It wasn't something Paul or I typed. In fact, it wasn't anywhere near that section of the IM window. It read "I'm pretty sure I could be your life coach." Curious, I clicked.

That's what brings me here today. In continuing with this serendipitous free music series, here is ADitty4You.com, including the songs "I'm Pretty Sure I Could be a Life Coach" and one of my favorites, "Laugh Tracks Make Me Feel Lonely." I haven't listened to them all, but some of the titles alone tended to tickle my funny bone, until the tickling went on for just too long and got annoying and painful... you know who you are, over-ticklers. Don't think it's cute. It's annoying, and very tiring. What part of "*gasp* I can't *gasp* breathe," don't you understand?... Oh, yeah, the ditties. They were good and funny. Listen to them.

The REAL song that never ends (although this one does)

Play The Pi Song (If it doesn't work, try using IE, or just download it direct). Annoying at first, it somehow grew on me the more it went on. And then it stopped, which is annoying (It's one minute, four seconds long). Try to play it once every day at 3:14. Twice at 6:28. It's a smaller part of a bigger video which somehow fits rap and lasers into the mix. You'll feel geekier for having seen it, and not in the good way.

I'm not sure on this next song (it's a shockwave flash file). I've heard it before, and I may have even posted it to this blog, or someone else did. In any case, here it is for the first time or again: Mathematical Pi.

And a wikipedia entry on Pi Day. Which this blog didn't celebrate. I forgot. In fact, nobody posted anything between 3-11 and 3-29. Tsk.

But today is significant as well. April 21, 2006. That's the day that Mr. Kraztensatz decided to go for a walk and found out that his name wasn't German. In fact, he also found out that his name turned up 0 results in Google and is therefore not even a real name at all. Then he found out that he himself is not real, just a figment of Shayne's imagination. Realizing this blew his mind. It was kind of gross, because he was out walking on a hot afternoon, and exploded brains really smell.