Wednesday, July 02, 2003
Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition! Well, my latest effort on the Web is up; it's really just filler until I figure out what I actually want to do with the domain name, which was way to good to pass up: NobodyExpectsTheSpanishInquisition.com. There is someone out there who has the domain name spanishinquisition.com for sale, with an asking price of $15,000! (I made them an offer of $35 for it...) Anyway, I think mine is a lot better; just gotta figure out what to do with it...
posted by Ray Trygstad |
12:30 PM
Tuesday, July 01, 2003
More Weirdness from the Web
The weird entries of the Week are: An tInneal Mallachtaí (The [Irish] Curse Engine): lets you select from three menus and build a typical (or not-so-typical) Irish curse, and then translates it into Gaelic for you! For example: "Go bpléasca na gráinneoga cealgrúnacha do dhiosca crua ids" is the Gaelic for "May the malevolent hedgehogs blow up your hard disk."
Legawarz: The Game: Little Lego guys battle each other for supremacy of the toybox (looks a little like northern Ireland to me). The World Rock Paper Scissors Society: Home of the rock paper scissors strategy guide as well as pages for the Rock Paper Scissors International World Championships. Google Languages: Everybody knows by now that Google comes in a variety of languages but did you know that they include Bork, bork, bork! (Muppets Swedish Chef), Elmer Fudd (Ewmew Fudd), Hacker (H4x0r), Klingon (tlhIngan Hol) and Pig Latin (Igpay Atinlay)? It's good to know somebody still has a sense of humor.
posted by Ray Trygstad |
3:26 PM
Sometimes...
I went to the store last night to get some lime juice and took my youngest son. He's just learned to whistle and was whistling as we walked back to the car from the store. It had taken him a while to get it figured out and he was a bit frustrated as he was trying to learn so I said to him, "John, I bet you're glad you can do that now, because I know you were a little frustrated trying to learn". He just sort of casually threw one arm heavenward and said, "Sometimes I just get gifts from God." It made the whole trip to the store worth far more than a little plastic bottle of lime juice.
posted by Ray Trygstad |
2:25 PM
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