Alex Meyer’s Random Rants

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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Bizarre pornograpy found on judge presiding over obscenity trial’s personal website, hilarity ensues

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-kozinski12-2008jun12,0,6220192.story

Pot, kettle, black?

Also, “a photo of naked women on all fours painted to look like cows”?

What. The. Hell.

posted by Alex Meyer at 7:45 pm  

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Former Confederate general, Sears sued for 2.7 million dollars over makeshift masturbatorium

What the hell was Robert E. Lee thinking?

After Lee surrendered to Henrico Police, investigators discovered the Sears manager had created a makeshift masturbatorium from a service platform just above the ladies’ dressing rooms.

It appeared to investigators that the prefab peeping hutch had been in use for quite some time, the victim’s lawsuit alleges, and that Lee admitted to watching the girl and her mother trying on bathing suits.

“During the search of the room, police officials recovered sexually explicit magazines and seminal fluids,” the suit says.

While I think the damages the plaintiffs are seeking are somewhat excessive, Robert E. Lee shouldn’t be allowed to work at a clothing store ever again.

posted by Alex Meyer at 6:46 pm  

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Idiot blocks Firefox, Firefox users tell idiot to take his site and shove it.

Some idiot and possible Microsoft shill set up a website at whyfirefoxisblocked.com (WARNING 509 Bandwidth Limit Exceeded) explaining that he had to block popular open-source web browser Mozilla Firefox because of the popular Adblock extension, and gave some horribly misleading and incorrect legal reasons that adblock is illegal. I believe that, while a webmaster is certainly welcome to block users that he/she believes are blocking ads, such a measure is counterproductive due to the backlash that might occur and the ease with which a user can work around such a measure. In addition, any site that does this sort of thing probably believes that content is what you put between all the ads.

posted by Alex Meyer at 3:30 am  

Friday, March 30, 2007

Windows 2000 and Windows ME both suck?

Why don’t any of your laptops run Windows ME or 2000?

To make a long story short - because they’re inferior operating systems. Microsoft released Windows ME prematurely and as a result, the operating system had tons and tons of problems and bugs. To combat this, Microsoft then released a revised version of ME that it called Windows 2000. Windows 2000 is the same operating system as ME, just fixed up a bit. Honestly though, they both just suck. The system itself is unstable and unreliable - which is why Microsoft worked around the clock to produce Windows XP so quickly afterward (2001). We choose not to install Windows ME or 2000 because of these problems.

from here

posted by Alex Meyer at 10:59 pm  

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Fun with unix permissions

This morning I had inadvertantly chmod -R 711′ed my ~, causing a 403 forbidden error for about 9 hours. Whoops

posted by Alex Meyer at 3:01 pm  

Saturday, January 13, 2007

The governors of Illinois and Seattle make a friendly wager on the outcome of the Bears-Seahawks game

Who knew Seattle had a governor?

posted by Alex Meyer at 1:03 am  

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