Author Archives: Scott Blomquist

Oooh, I’m scared now.

Was visiting a whole bunch of buzzwordful web sites this morning to stay up with current events. Grokster.com was on my rounds to see what had become of it (yeahyeah, not quite current events). Absolutely hilarious result pictured below. What’s sad is that having your IP logged by the RIAA probably is terrifying to non-savvy [...]

Canada border guards walk out on the job…

Yeah–I know my title sounds made up. It’s seriously not. According to the CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/bc/story/bc_peace-arch200601125.html Dozens of unarmed Canadian border guards walked off the job at Peace Arch and the nearby truck crossing when they heard the heavily armed suspects were heading their way. Supervisors stepped in at each crossing to protect the Canadian side. [...]

Rotate the tires, please, HAL

Having reminded myself earlier today that it’s time to rotate the tires on my vehicle, I also flashed back to when I was a youngster and first heard mention of "rotating tires" as a maintenence procedure. I simply could not understand how tires, which rotate a lot during routine execution of their duties, could be [...]

Cheesiest sounding book I’ve ever considered reading…

Cheesy from title to description. Anyone know if it’s any good? http://www.ereader.com/product/detail/20994?refid=45522&source=ERNR010306_M2

The Grand List of Console Role-Playing Game Cliches

Probably old news, but I got a huge kick out of this: http://project-apollo.net/text/rpg.html

Intriguing…

http://avantgame.com/key.htm Doubt that I’ll plunk down the $28, but this does seem like it oughtta deliver on its promises: "We guarantee that for as long as you search for your lock, surprising people and places will reveal their secrets to you. We cannot guarantee that you will ever find the lock that your key opens. [...]

SeaTac’s little-known third runway

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002621198_seatac13.html

Radar crashed, but plane did not

Insert software joke here. http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/69B5A23CB6ACF3F1862570B5001C7AA4?OpenDocument

Amazingly cool illusion!

Unreal! http://www.patmedia.net/marklevinson/cool/cool_illusion.html

Survey incentives

Lately, I’ve seen a new type of spam-like thing emerging. It’s always some email or web advertisement that offers you some incredible incentive (free laptop! free XBox 360! free beachfront house!) for your opinion on some completely irrelavent subject (should Bush be replaced? which is better WalMart or Fred Meyer? which Olsen sister is cuter?). [...]