Roll Over, Play Dead

Alright, I don’t have time to write tons of shit that nobody is probably reading anyway, but here are some amusing links:

• Cooter, from the original Duke’s of Hazzard, thinks you shouldn’t go see the new movie starring Jessica Simpson unless they clean it up. Who the hell would still want to be called Cooter, after all these years?
• CIA? Paranoid? You might think, but have you heard about the Coca-Cola promotion involving Coke cans that were actually GPS transmitters, and you’d win a prize when it’s activated? Well, the CIA caught wind and started checking Coke cans at the door.
• Ever seen the Airplane Graveyard? Thousands and thousands of planes parked in the desert. And who says Americans are wasteful?
• Like a capella music? How about Nintendo? Put them together, and you get this, from a group at the University of Wisconsin Apparently, they do other things besides make cheese up there. When you watcht that video, try to guess what games they are emulating by the sound and the theater-like performance. If your parents were Nazi’s and never let you play Nintendo, view the list of games here:
  1) Mario Bros. “Flag/Stage Clear”
  2) Super Mario Bros. Main Theme
  3) Dr. Mario
  4) Mario Bros. 3
  5) Mario Bros. “Star”
  6) Tetris
  7) Mortal Kombat
  Mario Bros. “Dungeon”
  9) The Legend of Zelda
  10) Mario Bros. “Game Over”.
• Funny video about real life vs. the internet

This is the most bad-ass computer accessory I have evar seen. I have no idea how much it costs, but it doesn’t matter…I’m sure I couldn’t afford it.
Optimus keyboard

Being a Matrix fan, I had to post a link to this…probably the best spoof-type thing I’ve seen on the move in quite a while:
Matrix Ping Pong

Well, I can’t think of a whole hell of a lot to update you with. Morpheus is still a boy, although he tends to hump girl dogs only 33.3% of the time. The other one-third is spent humping male dogs, and the final third is split between my leg and whoever walks in the door. I’ve been trying to ask him which way he swings, but he just won’t tell me. Or we could just paper-rock-scissor for it, though Morpheus lacks opposable thumbs, so I’m not sure that he could play. On second thought, I just acted out all of the paper-rock-scissor combos, and there are no thumbs involved. Come back soon for the Paper-Rock-Scissor-On-Morpheus-and-his-preference battle. And I’ll be damned if there isn’t already a PaperRockScissor.com website already registered. I could have come up with some pretty funny shit for that.

On the home front, the countdown is on for roomie-arrival-day, which is tentatively scheduled for July 29. I think we’re going to hafta do a house-warming party, aka come and get tanked for the hell of it, sometime in August. I may be headed to Vegas (no, not to get married, you condescending fool…I’ve already done that, remember?) for the second week of August, but if you think you’d be interested in attending the party (and/or Vegas), drop me a note and I’ll see about adding you to the guest list. No guarantees, though (except for Vegas).

Come to think of it, that was a fairly decent update. And now, I think I’ll make a Run For the Border ™. I’m starving and there are double decker tacos and mexi-melt burritoes just around the corner.

Fuck yeah.

I came across some good comedy the other day, so I thought I’d post a link here. I laughed a few times, mainly at the stupid-yet-highly-likely possibilty that this could actually happen: SatireWire | Fed Drops Interest Rates, Acid at Policy Rave

I had the opportunity to attend the FAIR 2005 Conference in Orlando Wednesday and Thursday, and actually got to do a short presentation on two websites that I put together for USF: the Planning, Performance, and Accountability site and the Survey Research site. The presentation was a success and I received some very good feedback from the attendees. Although I’ve done a number of presentations for the sites in the past (and it turns out, even Governor Bush has seen the PPA website, Believe It Or Not™), I was still slightly nervous at the beginning of the presentation.

There were a few other good presentations on using SPSS to present data on the web, as well as some GIS tips and tricks. I met a couple knowledgeable ladies from the FL Dept of Education and a very nice guy from the Board of Governors (the BOG oversee all colleges and universities in Florida). Overall, the conference was definitely beneficial, and it’s got me thinking of a few innovative ideas for our office here at USF. Stay tuned for more action - Same bat time, same bat place.

The hotel I stayed at Wednesday night was the Orlando World Center Marriott. The place was massive, and considering it’s the world’s largest Marriott, it damn well should be. With 2,000 rooms spread acroos 3 towers, it was a bit difficult navigating the resort, but with all of the conferences going on in the hotel, wondering around was rather entertaining. I thought I’d be cool and skip out on all the O-town traffic last night by leaving after dinner with the conference crew. We didn’t wrap up with the food until 9, though, and by the time I took the shuttle out to the parking garage and got on the road, it was nearly 9:45. I ran into a short 30 minute delay and things picked up again but not for long. Sure enough, they were raising a bridge into place near 98 in Lakeland, so that pushed my arrival time all the way back to 12:45 am. Not fun, considering I had to be in early today for a big meeting. The traffic jam was so bad, I nearly took 98 to Dade City, then 52 to I-75 and head south for home. I kept thinking the traffic would pick up, though, so I just stuck it out. Bad Idea. I-4 is one more reason I will hopefully never live in Orlando.

Random side note that’s got nothing to do with this post but that’s still newsworthy: I’m getting a roomie at the end of the month. It’s a roomie I’ve had before, going all the way back to a summer at Leo. This promises to be a good time