eric’s extremeboredom

Happy new year everyone. Completely unreated, this video is *hilarious*.

An interesting read: http://fuckchristmas.org/ (Courtesy Miguel). My opinion: I think that if someone wants to say “Merry Christmas” then they should be able to, just as I think people should be able to say “Happy Holidays” or “Happy Hanukkah” (or whatever) if that is what they want to say. I don’t think anyone can disagree [...]

In movies, “hackers” usually end up having to perform long drawn-out operations to obtain information about a target. Back in the real world, I am thinking now interesting it would be if they actually had to do that much work… There was a lady sitting in front of me on the bus this morning making [...]

I asked my parents, who are jewish, if I could put lights outside the house this year for the holidays. Surprisingly (to me), they were extremely offended by my question, saying that the lights directly represent christmas and christianity, and not the general holiday season/spirit which is what I have always thought. The modern-day version [...]

What kind of crap is this? Fitzgibbons [the defending lawyer] said in July that plea negotiations had broken off because prosecutors insisted on prison time, which he said would be too dangerous for someone as attractive as Lafave. I really hope that didn’t have anything to do with the judge’s desicion… would be a very [...]

I thought this was too amusing not to post (quoted from preveous link)… “Also cool: I was browsing DAPreview (the site for those addicted to MP3 players…I’m on #15, I think?), and found Wooden Headsets. As pleasingly Non-Apple-Hipster-White as they are, they’re transformed into pure awesomeness by the truly awesome cautionary imagery that accompanies them, [...]

This is no doubt the best episode of south park all year. The best part of it is that almost the entire story, which sounds so stupid it’s hilarious, is actually the exact story that scientologists believe is what happened 75 million years ago. In fact, had they not written the words “This is actually [...]

I just got home from Seattle Mind Camp… the event was absolutely awesome. Everyone who attended is already eager to do it again. I met a lot of people, learned a lot, and had a lot of fun. Here is a list of everything I learned: * Riding a Segway is a lot of fun. [...]

I will be giving an informal presentation with Andrew about Mono and Meshwork at Seattle Mind Camp next month. Seattle Mind Camp is a self-organizing, digitally minded, entrepreneur-driven, overnight Seattle confab. What happens when you put 150 of Seattle’s smartest geeks in an empty office building for 24 hours? We’re not sure either, but we’d [...]

This is something I actually came across a while ago, but never got around to blogging it. With the recent news of Dell’s Open PC Costs More Than Windows Box it seemed like I might as well stop putting it off. Here is a set of screenshots, taken not more than minutes apart in both [...]