“you’re either covering it,
laughing it off ,
kicking it,
kissing it,
busting it,
trying to get a piece of it,
or behaving like one.”

Some of you may or may not know that the “Comments” section of each new post for the last couple of weeks has been turned off due to a signifigant increase in “Comment Spam” lately. I have now collected a database of “Banned IP addresses” and have turned them over to the “Comment Spam Police” which has successfully limited the comment spam to a more tollerable level.

I’m sure most of you don’t need any “Enlargement” parafanailia or 100 Viagra pills for a dollar. If it is graphics of scantilly clad 60 year old women that you want, then I’m sure that you have your own select private spot on the internet for that.

So long “Comment Spam”

Hiddenpcmaster

Now hear this!

DO NOT INSTALL WINDOWS SP2!!!

….. that is all.

How to keep an idiot busy

Great link to a story about a gentleman trying to get a interview with Microsoft. Very cool read.

Via Michael Swanson’s Blog

Read what secrets people reveal of their profession

OnStar: Hello, OnStar.
Customer: My ice cream, it�s locked in the car, and it�s melting.
OnStar: Your ice cream is melting?
Customer: Yes, please hurry! It�s like 200 degrees in there!
OnStar: I�m unlocking the vehicle now, ma�am.
Customer: Hurry! My three-year-old is in the car, too! I�m worried he�s going to eat the ice cream!
OnStar: OK, the vehicle should be unlocked now, ma�am, and I�m just going to go ahead and notify child protective services right now, too.

The following information is taken from Everything2, from ‘The Smell Of Rain’ node:

If you’ve wondered why the ground, or the road smells a bit odd when it rains after a long dry spell, wonder no more… The smell is given off by Streptomyces bacteria, a genus belonging to the Actinomycetales order of Gram-positive eubacteria, also called actinomycetes.

The bacteria grow in damp, warm earth before fine weather dries out the soil, which then blows around as dust. During a dry spell, actinomycetes produce spores that are released on contact with moisture. Rain hitting the ground kicks up an aerosol of water and soil and you breathe in fine particles of soil containing the bacteria.

If you invite somebody to smell a plate of these bacteria grown in the lab, they always comment on how it smells just like the soil after rain.

Actinomycetes are also a source of many of our current antibiotics. Apparently, actinomycetes were also responsible for the distinctive smell of Glasgow’s old underground system.

Source: The NewScientist: reader contributions by Duncan Simpson and Cary O’Donnell

I have temporarily turned off the “Comment Section” due to an enormous surge of spam I have been receiving. You may continue to post any comments you may share on the “Zonkboard”.

Hiddenpcmaster.

Hello all — sorry for the lack of postings Lately! It’s the usual complaints: Crazy deadlines, massive work backlog, etc. Things should go back to normal this weekend, at which point I will have an enormous pile of things to post.