Speak, friend, and flush

Via boingboing, news of toilets in Finland that unlock when you text “open” at them. “I’m pooped!” said Sam as he staggered beneath the dozen or so backpacks Frodo, Merry, and Pippin had piled upon him after the pony Bill had been sent back to Bree. “Just wiped out,” he added, his face red from … Read more

TV: Lost season 4 tonight, Jericho season 2 Feb. 12

“Lost” returns to television tonight for the seven weeks of its fourth season. At the close of season three, we saw that Jack and Kate, at least, had managed to escape the island in a “flash forward”, but Jack was desperate to get back, ranting that they were not meant to leave the island. Charlie … Read more

Amazon will help you violate copyrights… for a price.

As someone who has purchased music at Amazon.com, you might be interested in turning those CDs into MP3s. Rather than spend your valuable time ripping your CDs, let Riptopia do the work for you. Just send your CDs to Riptopia via padded/protected, prepaid, and insured spindles. In a few days, Riptopia will return your new … Read more

Why this site was dead today

The reason for this is because we needed to temporarily disable your website earlier today to prevent it from effectively “crashing” the webserver; your site was receiving a large number of hits to PHP scripts and was basically preventing other customers websites from loading. I have unsuspended the account now and the website should be … Read more

EQ2 (et al): Random Bits

Kind of a mishmash post today. I start out with some EQ2, then move on to TV and lastly a little bit about work right at the end. Being a recruit in a highly successful raid guild going through Veeshan’s Peak for the first time leaves me plenty of time to play alts and watch … Read more