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Four Things

I don’t usually do this sort of stuff, but Mike at nomadic_audio hit me with the Four Things thing… (As did Aaron)

Four jobs I’ve had in my life:

  1. Dish Washer
  2. Serigrapher
  3. Digital Media Specialist
  4. Corporate Lackey

Four movies I can watch over and over:

  1. Lord of the Rings (all of them!)
  2. Star Wars (almost all of them…)
  3. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
  4. Office Space

Four TV shows I love to watch:

  1. Seinfeld
  2. Futurama
  3. Arrested Development
  4. Curb Your Enthusiasm

Four places I’ve been on vacation:

  1. Wisconsin
  2. Maryland/Delaware
  3. “Down South”
  4. “Out East”

Four of my favorite dishes:

  1. Pizza
  2. Burritos
  3. Egg and Cheese Bagel
  4. Cookies

Four websites I visit daily:

  1. del.icio.us
  2. Google
  3. Wikipedia
  4. RasterWeb!

Four places I would rather be right now:

  1. Hawaii
  2. New Zealand
  3. Outside
  4. Somewhere else…

Four bloggers I am tagging:

  1. Chris
  2. Mike
  3. Drew
  4. Czeltic Girl

Damn, that took a while…

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Olympics + Blog = No Way

I don’t think I’ve admitted this, but I really enjoy the Olympics. I generally do not like most professional sports because I think most professional athletes are overpaid cry-babies and criminals. (The exception is surfing, which is the classic battle of man (or woman) versus nature!) Anyway…

Those control-freaks at the Olympics once again are banning the participants from blogging.

I’m still not sure what they are afraid of…

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Naming del.icio.us

Did you ever wonder how del.icio.us got it’s name?

Joshua explains it:

When .us became available, I wrote a quick script to figure out the shortest prefixes that would allow me to generate the most number of names:

$ grep us$ /usr/dict/words | sed 's/.*\(....\)\(us\)$/\1.\2/' | sort  | uniq -c | sort -n | tail
    6 aceo.us
    6 mino.us
    7 ario.us
    7 onio.us
    7 urio.us
    8 aneo.us
    8 orio.us
   10 itio.us
   14 icio.us
   18 acio.us

I’ve used /usr/dict/words in the past to find strange and unique words. I’ll really have to remember to do that more often…