Posted in grrrrr, heads up, ranty mcranterson, well you see officer, words, wtf on July 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I live in Texas and just learned this today — according to a few websites that interpret a recent bill passed by Texas lawmakers, if you fix someone else’s computer and you’re not a private investigator, you could be fined up to $4,000 and get a year in jail! And in order to become one, [...]
Posted in dooftards, news, ranty mcranterson, utter tragedy, well you see officer, wtf on June 6, 2008 | No Comments »
It always flabbergasts me the things some people will do out of protest. Half the time, they are acts that would — instead of making a statement of, hey, this is a valid protest, actually communicate that, hey, my argument has zero credibility because I’m such a dooftard.
The incident this time is the tale [...]
Posted in debunking forwards, forwards, heads up, ranty mcranterson, words on May 22, 2008 | No Comments »
There’s an email forward that’s been circulating since at least 2003 that lists loads of statistical data about various accomplishments in Iraq now that Coalition forces have been present. I doubted that I could find verifications for all of the individual stats listed, and Snopes doesn’t bother to go that far either. One post [...]
Posted in debunking forwards, heads up, images, ranty mcranterson, well you see officer on May 14, 2008 | No Comments »
I came across this forward in my immense backlog of unread emails that I decided to sift through today starting with the oldest. The forward was sent to me in July of 2006, so I figured I would look it up first, to see whether the placards the demonstrators are holding were perhaps photoshopped [...]
Posted in General Stuff, advice, big freakin woop, commercials, crybaby, dooftards, heads up, helpme, pwn, ranty mcranterson, solutions, utter tragedy, well you see officer, words, wtf on May 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been looking into subtle advertising resources for the site here and I was just about to sign up with AdBrite, but it’s a good thing I opted to actually read the Terms of Service agreement.
I found a particular clause in the TOS that changed my mind about signing up, especially since you’re required to [...]
Posted in crybaby, grrrrr, halo 3, heads up, humor, life hacks, ranty mcranterson, well you see officer, wiki-ref, words on April 29, 2008 | No Comments »
After posting this Ask Metafilter question, I have learned that I am a linguistic descriptivist whereas my accuser is a linguistic prescriptivist. In a nutshell, it means that I believe language rules can be identified by ways in which they have been demonstrated to operate in the past — whereas my accuser subscribes to [...]
Posted in dooftards, grrrrr, heads up, news, ranty mcranterson, science, toothpaste snag, unlikely wallpaper, wiki-ref on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Apparently we should already know how big a Swinhoe Soft-Shell turtle is, because the article never states its size, other than the headline of “giant.” But anyway, a big one was found, and it has some elements of being a legendary figure, not especially unlike King Arthur’s “Lady of the Lake” except without the [...]
Posted in debunking forwards, forwards, ranty mcranterson, well you see officer on April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Possibly titled, “She Really Was A Traitor”, this particular forward warns that Jane Fonda is about to be honored as one of the 100 Greatest Women. There are a number of major red flags that pop up that just shoot down the credibility of this supposedly truth-telling forward.
(a) She will not soon be given the [...]
Posted in images, ranty mcranterson, s&m, words on April 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
S&M, as in, Software and Movie. One review combining both. Yeah.
So I wanted to review this cool software I just installed called Topaz Moment that is basically a media screenshotting program but has an immensely clever feature that takes frames before and after the spot you want to screenshot so that it can [...]
Posted in crybaby, dooftards, news, ranty mcranterson, solutions, well you see officer, wtf on February 28, 2008 | No Comments »
1. Stop acting like a criminal.
2. Profit.
Home Depot Customer Detained by PD, and as noted by BoingBoing.
Here we go again with yet another anusclown complaining to the world at large who could frankly give a nonzero’s worth of big-freakin-deal, who refuses to show his receipt at the exit to a store, gets detained, and then [...]
Posted in dooftards, ranty mcranterson, words, wtf on February 27, 2008 | No Comments »
The link here, of a non-Creationist going on about a science fair he recently visited of Creationist-taught kids and their projects, irked me a skosh. I am a former atheist, but still tend to look at most everything with a very skeptical eye — particularly those who are overly assumptive and tend to make [...]
Posted in japanese, music, ranty mcranterson, video on February 25, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve been a fan of C-ute for a while now, but I can’t say their latest PV offering much followed along in the same quality as most the others have (except the Masara Blue Jeans video, not a fan). This particular tune was good but the video just never seemed to match up in [...]
Posted in crybaby, dooftards, heads up, life hacks, ranty mcranterson, utter tragedy, well you see officer, words, wtf on February 18, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Being childfree myself (that is, possessing the mindset of “I do not plan to ever have children” for a multitude of reasons), I naturally sought out a few online communities that other childfree people gathered unto, after I discovered that I wasn’t alone in this style of living. What I immediately latched onto was [...]
Posted in news, ranty mcranterson, science, well you see officer, words on February 8, 2008 | 6 Comments »
In Mythbusters Season 6, the duo tackles a highly controversial physics thought-problem regarding an airplane resting upon a conveyor belt — whether the plane would lift off the ground if the conveyor belt was moving at the same speed relative to the thrust of the propulsion.
The Mythbusters link on Wikipedia considers the myth busted, but [...]
Posted in ffffound snag, ranty mcranterson on January 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in advice, heads up, ranty mcranterson, words, wtf on January 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
While it’s a nice idea that your computer will prevent a program from running some suspicious software that could really mess things up, Windows Vista’s DEP (Data Execution Prevention) just needs to get the frack out of my face on certain programs. I was trying to publish a Windows Movie Maker movie to post [...]
Posted in crybaby, forwards, heads up, ranty mcranterson, well you see officer, words on January 20, 2008 | No Comments »
My grandfather frequently sends me email forwards that are in crazed hysterics about some virus warning or unresearched heresy. The latest issue is over the gold-colored dollar coins that purportedly no longer bear the words “In God We Trust”. The email included pictures as proof that the coins do not in fact bear [...]
