from the desk of stinkpot

woohoo, a new server now hosts this site. the computer i had previously been using to serve music, webpages, photos, and files was an old stalwart i built in high school (a 500 MHz P3). to its credit, that machine never broke down. unfortunately, it’s been starting to show its age lately, especially as i […]

there’s a hilarious video over at google video about how microsoft would go about packaging the ipod, if they invented it. turns out the video was actually made in redmond … it’s nice to see that some softies have a great sense of humor.

so apparently, there’s this video of a juggler/comedian – chris bliss – with a juggling routine choreographed to the beatles’ golden slumbers, floating around the internet. and, it’s really pissed off professional juggler jason garfield (you may have seen him on espn’s televised showing of the national juggling competition). for some reason, garfield has written […]

ah, the bar has been raised for simpsons geekery.

this really is a better mousetrap. the idea is that you balance a toilet paper roll on the end of a table and place a bit of food at the unsupported end. when the mouse goes for the food, the toilet paper roll will give way and fall into a bucket you’ve placed beneath the […]

i was playing with my camera the other night and snapped this picture of pythagoras’ bust on my desk. it reminded me of a question a professor asked me once in college. it was meant to test whether i belonged in science or business. he asked, “would you rather own the empire state building or […]

here’s a fun site i came across today: gullible.info. the people who run this page post a bunch of official sounding pronouncements every day. these things look like great daily email signatures. for instance, yesterdays’ factoids: • In 1953, Virginia governor John S. Battle unsuccessfully attempted to change the state’s motto from “sic semper tyrannis” […]

seems like buy.com slipped up and is giving out free domain names. you might want to give this a try. just follow the link in the forum and proceed to the checkout. apparently, you’ll receive an email within a day or two from godaddy.com confirming your new domain. can’t hurt to give it a whirl. […]

apparently, chuck norris has a good sense of humor; he’s teamed up with the absurb “chuck norris fact” website to produce a line of t-shirts. you can buy them here. and here’re the top facts getting put on shirts: Guns don’t kill people. Chuck Norris kills People. There is no theory of evolution. Just a […]

a cool video showing the interior of the netflix dvd stork.