I fooled around with jpg2asc (jpeg to ascii converter) today, and also with manipulating the output with CSS to make it look right… well, here are the results. pretty cool stuff, tho’ the original image is 6k and the asciified version is 25k!

There was a story this AM on Ananova — Dolphin massacre turns sea blood red. The images were of an EXTREMELY red body of water, and men in small boats hauling in large amounts of dolphins. The photos were snapped by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and well, they look fake. The water is FAR to red, and the amount of blood in the water to make that happen would have to be up around… maybe 75% of the water’s volume? If these aren’t fake, then I think the only possibility is as I’ve created below:

The actual Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s site is down at the moment, so I’ll point you to Consumer Freedom’s overview of The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (with choice quotes from SSCS founder Paul Watson — e.g. “There’s nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write the history.”)
(I should point out that I don’t know who Consumer Freedom is backed by, but they were one of the larger sources of info on the SSCS.)

Everyonce in a while, i’ll see someone i don’t often see, and they’ll ask me about something that I posted on my website. this happened this weekend, and i was thinking that i’d like to know who is just out there lurking and checking my site.

So, if you are one of these folks, then just drop a comment in the comments below! thanks!

Random confessions of every sort can be found at grouphug.us.

#980375231: In high school, my friends and I made it a point to carry around screwdrivers. Every day we would each remove a single screw from some piece of school equipment. By the end of the year everyone was involved and the school was falling apart. It was mean and cost someone lots of money, but I still think it was funny.

#592811178: I resent my wife and kids. I think I’m jealous of the closeness they enjoy while I’m out working to keep it all together.
I know it’s just how things are, and how things have been for centuries. I know it’s right and I’m wrong. But still…

Oddly compelling — but not in a voyeuristic way. Makes me think of all the regrettable things in my life. Note to self: don’t stare into the abyss!

Yep, you can check it yourself. Even the Wayback Machine has no memory of it. I will never be able to read “QA Confidential” again! Oh, for sadness. I even donated once to Mr. Tristan Farnon, the genius that he was.

update: after doing a little googling, I noticed that not only has The Wayback Machine had its LeisureTown stuff removed/block, but so has TextFiles.com, at the behest of Tristan himself! Oh man. I don’t know what to think! It reminds me of that Internet/USEnet worm I heard about eons ago — where a guy wrote a worm that would find all of his postings on USEnet and destroy them, as he was in the depths of depression and bordering on suicide. I can’t say that much for Farnon, though…

Internation Talk Like a Pirate Day is tomorrow, September 19th! Check out the official TLAPD site, replete with English-to-Pirate translator!

Bear prowls Montana neighborhood. Climbs tree. Animal Control. Tranquilizers. Trampoline. Hilarity ensues . . .

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…on the eBay. Saltic Shiwa Mens Size 9 US.

Jackson recommended that I:

A: Go here.

and

B: Watch the linked video.

I did both, and both were awesome. I’d heard that Junior Senior song a couple of times, and liked it — but combine that with a wacky/awesome 8-bit likeness of a squirrel et alia, well… I don’t think I need to explain that to you.

Yeah, i’ve looked at most of the PHP open-sourced content management systems out there… PHPNuke, PHPWebsite, PostNuke, none of them! I mean, PostNuke even has “Post” in the name! If they do have PostgreSQL support, then it’s either half-baked or in a state of disarray. It’s damned depressing as Postgres is very stable and has a lot of things that MySQL doesn’t have… ah well…