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History 1700 Midterm

I’m diverting from my normal fare to work on a study guide for my History 1700 Midterm.

The book used is “The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People Concise 6th Edition”

Guide after the bump

History 1700 Midterm
Posted Tuesday, May 18, 2010
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Egypt Sucks

For those that have already seen this, I apologize, I posted it in Reader a few minutes ago.

Today was the first day non-latin tlds have gone live. TLD = top level domain eg: .com .net .org .us .whatever

The first one to go live is .egypt, which is in arabic مصر
I wanted to find the domain and see how it wokred in my browser so I did a search but apparently if you remove the last character (the one furthest to the left) it means something else entirely
مص = sucking
مصر = egypt
so all this porn came up in the search results because I copied and pasted it slightly wrong.

I thought for a minute that the BBC got punked and was provided dirty words in arabic for their news story.

The moral of the story? Egypt is only one character off from “sucking”

Egypt Sucks
Posted Thursday, May 6, 2010
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April Fools Day Background 2010

People are always coming up to me and asking “How is it that you never get tricked on April Fools day?” The answer is simple! I make a desktop background that reminds me that nothing I see or hear is real, sort of a one day mind bend to solipsism!

Anyway, you can download the background below!

Or check out last years.

April Fools Day Background 2010
Posted Wednesday, March 31, 2010
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The Last Question – By Isaac Asimov

The last Question is, in my estimation, one of the greatest short sci-fi stories ever written. I’ve been pestering people around me to read it for a while without much luck. So, I’m publishing it here so that those that follow my blog can, at least, get some exposure to it. It should only take about 10-15 minutes to read. Enjoy!

The Last Question – By Isaac Asimov
Posted Sunday, February 21, 2010
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Unable to Comment on Google Reader -fix it!

I know a lot of people have have had problems commenting on reader because people haven’t setup commenting correctly. But don’t worry, its easy! First of all, if you can’t comment on someone’s shares, they have to fix it. So this guide is written to allow people to comment on your shared items.

Step 1: Click on Sharing Settings

From Google Reader, click on “sharing settings”

goto sharing settings-1

Step 2: Select Groups

Google reader uses your contact list and groups from gmail to manage contacts in reader. In order to enable commenting you have to add someone to a group that has commenting enabled. Before we move people into the right group we have to enabled group commenting.

Enable Commenting By Group

Enable Commenting By Group

Add People to Groups

You can manage groups through your gmail contact list, or from that same screen click on the people that you’re following and by each of their names will be a groups setting link. That same link is available from the shared page of each person. Add them to a group that has commenting enabled and you’re done!

Click Edit Groups

Click Edit Groups

Unable to Comment on Google Reader -fix it!
Posted Monday, September 21, 2009
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Obama is so racist

jackass-racist

I always thought Kanye was a jerk and now everyone agrees!

Obama is so racist
Posted Friday, September 18, 2009

My New Hobby – Star Trek Comparison

My new hobby is putting everything in context of star trek.

For instance, debating the need for a nuclear attack in WW2 all I have to say is that the Japanese would never have surrendered any other way because they were the Klingons of World War 2.

Now you understand why we needed to use a nuke.

PS.  For those wondering who everyone else was:
Federation -> USA
Vulcans -> Great Britain
Cardassians -> Germany
Klingons -> Japan
Betazoids -> France
Dominion -> Russia

My New Hobby – Star Trek Comparison
Posted Thursday, August 6, 2009
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My Ninja Dojo Attacks

I’ve been reading some of my journal entries from when I was in high school and found a gem. The entry is recreated here, word for word. Enjoy.

FBI ninja relations Nov. 24th, 2002 @ 12:01 am

Lastnight I learned some lessons.

It started out innocently enough. i convinced james it would be funny to dress up as ninja’s then to go into safeway and king soopers to read magazines and look at greeting cards.

It was funny, people just look and then laughed. I mean, 2 ninja’s comparing mothersday cards and reading about kung-fu monthy is pretty funny. So we were just going around to all the diffrent stores. We figured if we stayed too long the cops might get called. So we’d gone to like 5 diffrent kingsoopers and safeway locations wihtout any trouble. No one cares and they just laugh.

So then we goto the one on Wads. We head into safeway and read some magazines, Standard op. No one shows up so we decide to leave after 2-3 minutes. As we’re walking out and right as we enter a parking lot a guy behind us says “hold it right there fellas” I figure safeway security. I aint stopping for safeway sercurity, so I goto my car, BAD move.

The guy is taking down the license plate so I drive up to him and say hey buddy whats the problem? He responds with a “well first thing” PULLS A GUN “put your hands where I can see ’em!” When he first pulled it I thought “wow, over zealous safeway security with a pellet gun” so I let out a short laugh while james puts his hands on the dash.

The guy is still standing there so I put my hands ont he dash. He then says “hold up here for my partner” I look over to see a big dark blue suburban pull up infront of my car. Keep in mind that we are both still in ninja garb. So I say “who are you? Safeway security or the police or what?” “uhh..police” So we go through the process of getting us out of the car.

I get frisked by the partner while james gets his hood revoked from the first guy. I ask the partner who he is and he doesnt say anything. He just pulles out a wallet and shows up one of those FBI cards, followed by turning it over to show his badge. I respond with an “oh…” and let the FBI guys handle it. They said they’d just call the police and let them handle it. so the police got there, called our parents and told us not to be such big idiots in the future.
Lessons learned:
1. its illeagle to walk into a store with a mask on
2. The FBI really really hates ninjas walking around at 1:30AM
3. A training sword, all wood no edge is considered a weapon.

darn FBI.
Its too bad we didnt get it on film ::smirk::

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: fight club sound track
My Ninja Dojo Attacks
Posted Saturday, June 27, 2009
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Can you say “proved my point?”

It sort of goes without saying…
9:53:10 AM Gary Hall: dude whats the best program to get a virus of my comp
9:53:43 AM Dan: I won’t help you until you admit that windows is inferior to OS X
9:54:10 AM Gary Hall: lol
9:54:13 AM Gary Hall: right
9:54:29 AM Gary Hall: i forgot you are a religious fanatic
9:54:43 AM Dan: just say “Windows is inferior”
9:55:09 AM Dan: Ive got the software right here, I’ll give it to you. That’s all you have to say
9:55:45 AM Dan: who’s the fanatic? You aren’t willing to say three simple words to solve your problem?
9:55:55 AM Gary Hall: or you could be a normal person and just give me the program
9:56:57 AM Dan: Its very easy, just say it and I’ll help you.
10:00:07 AM Gary Hall: yup windows is inferior to OS X
10:00:20 AM Gary Hall: now give me the program
10:00:22 AM Dan: http://free.avg.com/download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition
10:00:24 AM Dan: there ya go
10:00:38 AM Dan: download it and then reboot in safemode and install it

Can you say “proved my point?”
Posted Monday, April 27, 2009
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TodayWasAwesome – Best Of

Some teacher once told me I was worthless and would amount to nothing but look at me now, I have my own blog. I’ll prove him wrong. Sometimes people don’t appreciate my super extra greatness. Ordered by date you’ll find some of my “best ofs” enjoy!

Humor

Inspirational/Informative

Photography

Whoa, you made it this far! I’m thoroughly impressed.

TodayWasAwesome – Best Of
Posted Thursday, April 9, 2009
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