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I need <lj user=”substitute”>’s NO icon.
Creme Brulée from your friends at Kraft Foods.
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Commercial flops
Substitute drew my attention to this entry from Nihilistic_kid. (Go and read the story about the envelope guy.) I could tell from the story that Sierra Mist was some kind of pop, but I’d never heard of it, so I went over to Wikipedia to look it up. It turns out I’d never heard of […]
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mysql argh
Fun MySQL problems at work today. An application update introduced a handful of regularly-run but poorly optimized queries — full table scans, temporary tables, the works — on a box that was already pretty heavily taxed. The end result was a run queue of 20-60 when things were bad, alternating with inexplicable periods of idleness. […]
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silly pet talk
MetaChat participants confess about the things they say to their pets. Mine’s in there somewhere. What about you folks?
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Ok, this is creepy.
I was playing with Yahoo’s new SiteExplorer last night, browsing through its list of incoming links to my website. All sorts of interesting and less-interesting stuff, and one creepy thing: some guy in Kansas city is using a picture of me as if it were a photo of him on his Blogger profile and on […]
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SS knives, you say
Maybe it’s time for the NTSA to do another background check on its photographer, eh?
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I can spell banana, but I don’t know when to stop.
Check out the goodness that is one banana: Man, that’s some good stuff. I really need more bananas, less Corn Pops. I was also relieved to find that they are not going extinct. Did you know bananas are herbs? The organic food store near us sells baby bananas. I haven’t tried one yet, but I […]