Eric Covener’s Journal

gaim-thinklight debian package

This plugin for Gaim will blink your IBM ThinkPad’s ThinkLight when you get new messages, so you notice them even if the conversation window ist not up front and you don’t have or don’t see the window list.

Duff’s Device

How do you speed up:

 do {                          /* count > 0 assumed */
   *to = *from++;
 } while (--count > 0);

Shaving Gel Warmer Machine

Hot, moist lather softens whiskers, raises hair follicles and relaxes facial muscles for an easier, more comfortable shave.

Hot, moist loads, in my face, on demand!

I think this is a meat crash.

http://www.b-rent.com/blog/posts/2060.html

He was supposed to have the aisle seat, but he had the window. And when a lady matter-of-factly informed him of this, his reaction was, and I quote “well, should we flip for it or does it really matter?” which of course blew both me and the lady away.

Awful Commercials

Rich: hm, yeah, must be lots of mexicans in the southwest
Rich: according to ol Pat Buchanan they think they own that land and will eventually try and retake it
Jason: haha
Jason: i just dont think theryre that on top of things
Jason: unless theres some mexican equivalent of a starship troopers brain bug
Jason: coordinating them all
Jason: biding its time

Women be shoppen!

That’s true, women do be shoppen.

What’s the difference?

Which one goes w/ sweet potatoes?

What is a horseshoe? What does a horseshoe do? Are there horse socks?

Overheard on the radio, with credit given to the webbernet:

After declaring a state of emergency on Tuesday, France has now escalated its terror threat level from “run” to “hide”. Chirac hasn’t ruled out escalating the alert to “collaborate” or even “surrendur”, as muslim rioters have recently torched France’s largest white flag factory, completely disabling the French military.