What do I do for fun on a Saturday night? Well, after steam vacuuming the carpets, I like to install new operating systems on small computers. Seriously though…I’ve got Windows 7 Beta up and running on my ASUS Eee PC 900.
How does it work? Here’s a crappy video, see for yourself.
I used to love installing software, inserting disc 1 of 34!
Remember when software used to come on disks, not discs? You know, the old floppies that could hold a whopping 1.2 or even 1.4MB of storage? Well, one Firefox enthusiast over at Spread Firefox decided to see how many disks it would take to hold the Firefox 2.0.0.11. The answer? 5.
But the experiment doesn’t stop there. Not only did “JustZisGuy” manage to use WinZip to spread the installer over 5 floppies, he also went and made up some retro-style installation labels.
Of course, this experiment is more art installation than practical demonstration. We can’t remember the last time we used a floppy disk drive to save data or install any applications. And even if you’ve got a PC with a floppy drive, if you plan to use Firefox, that probably means you have an internet connection, which means that you can probably just download the installer yourself.
[via Mozilla Links]
I was bored so I decided to clean out my spam trap and found this gem. What makes it unusual is that it wasn’t hocking some kind of perverse sex site. It has a link to some UK golf site & a marriage equality site.
First off, ataxophemia is not spelled correctly, it should be ataxiophemmia, which refers to an incordination of the speech muscles. Then we have trinary, consisting of three parts. Followed by exponency, which isn’t a word, but for sake of argument will say that it is the “ency” of exponent and therby means the act of explaining. Learner is pretty simple, a student. Unrulableness, hmm, not a real word, but I assume it means not able to be ruled. Eldery = aged. Albino = deficiency in pigmentation. Rebellious = defying or resisting some established authority.
So what we are left with is three folks with speech issues trying to explain to a student what it means to throw off the shackles of tyranny imposed by the old white rebels? And these are the folks trying the spam me to a golf site. Seriously?
Very interesting program on the local PBS station KERA called Nowhere but Texas. The opening segment featured a story about the Gainesville Community Circus. “Gainesville Community Circus” The television special opens with the remarkable story of the acclaimed Gainesville Community Circus, an amateur, three-ring circus ““ complete with high-wire acts, clowns and tamed animals. The circus was conceived as a means of paying off the debt of Gainesville’s community theater. Interviews are supplemented with vintage footage featuring amazing performances by some of the nearly 1,500 daring citizens who performed during the more than 25 years the circus operated, and put Gainesville in the national spotlight.
Statistics compiled for the 1953 official program showed that from 1930 to 1952 the circus troupe gave 359 performances in fif
ty-seven different cities and canceled only one performance, after a tornado destroyed the big top in 1939 in Ardmore, Oklahoma. In the twenty-five years of the circus at least 1,500 Gainesville citizens took part in performances before 500,000 spectators. In 1954, shortly after its twenty-fifth anniversary performance, the circus’s tent and equipment were destroyed by fire. Gainesville citizens gradually rebuilt, occasionally presenting isolated acts until the entire show made a formal comeback in Odessa in 1958. That year, however, saw the organization’s demise. According to former circus president and chief clown Frank E. Schmitz, “Television and air conditioning killed” the circus, which had “just got too big.”
Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. (accessed December 2, 2007).
When I started out on the internet back in the early 90′s I was the only Junyor out there. Fast forward to 2007 2008 and a Google search of the term “junyor” returns a whopping 43,600 51,000 results. I know what you are thinking, “wow Junyor, you are famous.” Although that is true, many of the results are not about me. In fact, the folks using my birth name have done so not because some twist of genetics make them relatives of mine, but because they simply like the name (or they are bad spellers).
A MySpace search of the term “junyor” returns 209 55 results, I suppose some of these are duplicates, but again, many folks are just choosing to abscond with my name and use it as a nickname.
I guess I should be flattered, but for so long I was the only junyor out there. Now I am one voice among many. In my pseudo brand marketing role, I wonder how this degenerates or devalues my worth. Oh well, I salute you, junyors of the world. Whether by birth, by choice, or by bad grammar, welcome to the club.
