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Time Killer For The Day

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:05:21 -0800

Yes, it may be on a kid's site, but Whizzball is a fun puzzler that unfortunately has the stupidest username signup (you're best off just mashing the keyboard to find an available username).

I Don't Think This Guy Trained The Dog

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:01:56 -0800

I think the dog trained the guy to dance like this...

Bored?

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:35:53 -0800

Need something to do? This might help.

Because There's A Video For Everything...

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:43:51 -0800

...here's a dude speed-solving a Rubik's Cube in 31.5 seconds while free falling from 14,000 feet sitting in a rubber boat.

Reading Material

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:15:29 -0800

If you gave a pan handler a free credit card, how would they use it?
Logic and thinking is hard for some people.
Eight Clever Ways To Take Advantage of Free Calling in Gmail.
SpongeBob dubs the classics.
Why are people in the IT field so insecure and territorial? Read up.
MonaVie Blackmails Me?
How do you search for back doors from previous IT staff?
An SNL Set is Built in Seconds.
Free Wordpress 3.0 theme for educational websites.
Should you use that jQuery plugin or roll your own solution?
Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium (I've always been for this kind of research).
I'm looking into getting a new wallet, and these look interesting.

It's Snowing. In August.

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:53:23 -0800

It's August, and it's frickin' snowing outside. It was over 100°F last week, and this morning, it's cold, nasty, and snowing in many places. Here's what Mt. Bachelor's Web Cam looks like right now:

The office web cam is giving me fits (and isn't very good quality), otherwise I'd take an image from there, but we're getting a mix of snow and rain right now in Sunriver.

As usual, Barney's all over it.

Don't Try This At Home

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:00:22 -0800

Seriously, how in the hell would anybody think this is a good idea (mildy NSFW)?

Time Killer For The Day

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:54:49 -0800

Treadmillasaurus Rex is...well...I'll just take the description from Reddit:

You are a T-Rex running on a treadmill avoiding lasers and saw blades during which the Wheel of Awesome relentlessly spins and doles delights such as +1 Confetti or dishes determents such as +1 Obstacle. There's also unlockable top hats.

That pretty much sums it up right there.

Reading Material

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:47:26 -0800

Where's my red turtle shell for that guy that just cut me off? Mario Kart Symbols appearing on bike lanes in Portland.
If you have an iPhone 4, here's a pretty good collection of wallpapers.
I'm doing a bit of research on creating a iPhone-friendly version of a site for my day job and the UiUIKit CSS and HTML framework is going to help out quite a bit, I think. PhoneGap, Appcelerator and Sencha Touch also look interesting as well. Booking marking that all for my reference.
I'm terried of older web developers because I'm becoming one.
Introducing JITB. a Java-based Flash player that runs pretty dang fast.
Because you never know when it will come in handy: File I/O in Every Programming Language.
Looking for a way to compress JS and CSS? Convert it to a PNG.
Great list of Lifehacker's best Android apps.
What's my computer doing? is a simple way to figure out what programs are thrashing your CPU and hard drive.
A graphic illustration of music industry licensing madness. That flowchart makes my head hurt.
How to disable Facebook's new "Places" feature.
12 Great Ways to Customize Your Facebook pages.
Need to see if a site is safe for work before visiting? Variably Safe For Work might help.
100 Quality Wordpress Themes.
That's going to sting a bit.

How Big Is It, Really?

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:58:55 -0800

One of the coolest sites I've seen in a while, this BBC project puts a dimension onto current events that makes the news much more interesting. For example, here's how big Burning Man would be if it were held in Bend.

Really Bad Movies

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:25:29 -0800

You they're some of the worst of the bunch when Roger Ebert and the late Gene Siskel tore into them like they did.

Time Killer For The Day

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:21:49 -0800

Wear out your mouse button with One Button Arthur.

A New Generation Of Yo Yo Man

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:56:49 -0800

Tommy Smothers had nothing on this guy:

Updating The Archives

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:22:31 -0800

You may or may not know, but when I first started blogging, I blogged on the jake.orty.com domain. I started this blog back in '02 during a brief time of unemployment. Once I found work, I neglected the blog for several months, until I finally got around to posting again (was still at jake.orty.com back then -- hadn't moved to utterlyboring.com yet). When I got back to posting again, I had bulldozed the previous archives from the brief blip in May that I was posting here.

I finally got around to getting on the Web archive and getting my old archives, and now have May 2002 back in my archives. Most of the links in those old entries are long dead, but at least they're back in the database.

Now I just need to get my dozens of old dailyemerald.com columns into this database, since they're not accessible on the Web anywhere. I was an online columnist back before "blogging" was all the rage. I've been writing online since the 90s, you young whipper-snappers (get off my lawn) and it'd be nice to have that all in one place. But I figured I should probably ask the Emerald's permission first. so that's coming next.

Time Killer For The Day

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:21:57 -0800

It took me 22 throws (and a good majority of my lunch break) to save the peasants by catapulting one of them 50,000 feet. How long did it take you in Catapult Madness?

Update: So I played it again today on endless mode, and got up to 86465 feet. Somehow. No idea how, the fat king just kept bouncing.