Older: March 2007
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My refund for ICANN Fee overpayment

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN(R)) recently agreed to reduce their Registrar Transaction Fee from $.25 to $.22. What does this mean for you?

Good news. You have been credited $.03/yr for each domain name you registered or renewed dating back to July 1, 2006* -- $.18 has been placed into your Go Daddy(R) account with this customer number: #######.

GONNA 18¢ PARTY ALL NITE

I have no idea what spammers are thinking

Some recent spam subject lines in my inbox:

"I mean, suicide's a civil right, isn't it."
"I am going to the Murgatroyds' dance tonight and shall not be back till Monday."
"Upper case letters are sorted before lower case letters."

It doesn't even mention whether or not the Murgatroyds can help me refinance my home.

Inescapable galactic fireworld

:]

About a year ago I talked at length about the sun and other stars. I meant to make a neat little trilogy out of it with a post with one of my favorite observations about the sun, but I just never got around to it and forgot. So here we go!!

The sun is HUGE. According to Wikipedia it is like 860,000 miles across. So imagine you somehow ended up in the center of the sun. You'd be like, GOD, I really don't want to be here1. So you start walking out. Assuming the average sun-prisoner can walk at around 5 MPH for 16 hours a day (I'm being generous). It will stiill take almost 15 years of walking just to get out!! Imagine if you had to escape from two suns back-to-back!

~Afterword~

When I first thought about this last year, I guessed that it would take more than one lifetime to walk out of the sun, so I was surprised that it would be relatively easy to do. I am so disappointed in you, sun!

1 Because it is like nuclear bombs hitting you in the face constantly.

Mega Man Star Force

This is NOT MEGA MAN.

Seriously, try just calling it Star Force or something and put it in a DS case the anime characters on it. Boom, brand new IP for Capcom to milk endlessly, and Keiji Inafune can stick to the (mostly) traditional-style Mega Man series, which the ZX series has apparently been promoted to. Actually, I don't know that he's involved in this one, but just in case.

I wouldn't mind some God Hand spinoffs, though.

Bulletin:

Nothing says "Mr. Cool" like a matching sweatshirt and pants.

No, sir.

I love getting run over by trucks

Near the top of my long, long list of driver pet peeves is one that doesn't even happen while I'm in the car, and it probably sounds weird, but anyway: I get so furious when drivers stop to let me cross the street and there are no traffic lights or stop signs in sight. I'm sure a lot of people would appreciate the convenience the driver is affording them, but I can't help transposing myself into the car behind the one now stopped in the middle of a block, going BLGSHDLGHLGH:L YOU ARE DISRUPTING THE TRAFFIC FLOW (ALSO MY BLOOD FLOW). Back on the pedestrian side, I have to wait to see whether some car that's like 100 feet away is actually going to slow down and stop in the middle of the road just because some guy is standing there, maybe thinking about crossing. (I MAKE A CONSCIOUS EFFORT TO STAND AWAY FROM THE CURB SO THEY WILL JUST CONTINUE ON AND I CAN CROSS NORMALLY.)

Another reason why this is really not a great idea: While waiting to cross a two-lane, one-way street, a car speeds out of the distant intersection and sloooowly comes to a halt in front of the invisible stop sign in the lane nearest to me. The driver generously motions for me to cross. About a second later, a HUGE TRUCK zooms through the intersection in the other lane. THANKS, I GUESS I SHOULD HAVE CROSSED BECAUSE I LOVE DYING.

Even better than 2-for-Tuesday

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Here's hoping for an 8-core Tuesday. :]

8-CORE WEDNESDAY
8-CORE WEDNESDAY
8-CORE WEDNESDAY
8-CORE WEDNESDAY
8-CORE WEDNESDAY
8-CORE WEDNESDAY
8-CORE WEDNESDAY

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