Urban Challenge 2003…

Seven months WAY late, but I finally found all the hardcopy materials Sean and I had picked up when we did the Urban Challenge race in San Francisco way back on July 19, 2003.
First, what is an Urban Challenge? It’s an exciting race within the bounds of a given city, where two-person teams locate and [...]

Degree Confluence 42N 71W…

I can’t believe that I forgot to log my successful degree confluence visit when I nabbed it way back last November!
This was a difficult confluence for me to nab; not only am I completely unfamiliar with the area so I got a bit lost wandering around the windy neighborhood streets, but as noted by the [...]

Sites Related to Richard’s Ramblings…

For fun, I clicked on the “Similar Pages” option in the Google Toolbar when visiting my site to see what Google thought was related. The results:

richard’s ramblings…
The Many Facets of Lynette Cook
Reporting Unlawful Sales of Medical Products on the Internet
Federal Bureau of Investigation - Contact Us
Spam Laws: California
Microsoft Office
ARIN Home Page

Interesting collection. Weird, but interesting…

Citibank E-mail Verification…

This is a warning to all Citibank credit card customers:
I received an email today that read as follows:
Dear Citibank Member,
This email was sent by the Citibank server to verify your E-mail address. You must complete this process by clicking on the link below and entering in the small window your Citibank ATM/Debit Card number and [...]

Speaking of Ashamed Panties…

She should be less concerned with who she’d descended from and more concerned with who she’d descended to.
She doesn’t know the meaning of the word stupid; in fact, she doesn’t know the meaning of a lot of words.
She’s got a rip in her bag of marbles.
Trying to explain something to her is like trying to [...]

Complain, Complain, Complain…

I’m in a foul mood today:

it’s raining.
Petco couldn’t find my PetPals account number, no matter if I tried looking it up by phone number or last name.
I forgot my key to the post office box at home, so I couldn’t get my mail.
Aurora Loan Services has sent me to collections AGAIN, despite the fact that [...]

More Googlewhacking…

Hah!

phytoremediation hippopotamus
belshazzar saponification
zebu barfing
polyglot swizzles
somnambulistic weltschmerz

OK, I’m done…

I’m a Googlewhacker…

I tried Googlewhacking today. Sounds a bit kinky, doesn’t it?
Thanks to my bestest buddy who sends me weird and funny emails all the time (unlike ol’ boring bonehead me!), I know now what Googlewhacking is.
Go to Google. Search for any two words, but not words surrounded by quotes. If you get only one website in [...]

Stumbled Upon: Suicide Girls

So, here I was, searching the ‘net for “Watoosi” just to see if I could find anything. During my brief Googling, I stumbled upon the Suicide Girls, not pørn, but nowhere near rated G — let’s just put it that way. I got a giggle at some of their snide answers to their Frequently Asked [...]

Windows XP and ZIP Files…

The Windows operating system has made a lot of advances in the last ten years — that admission a shocker coming from me, eh?! However, Microsoft has not been the innovator; rather it is the third-party companies that develop enhancements that have been the driving force behind the improvements.
For example, Norton Utilities was (and probably [...]