citibank is my first CC with rewards – free of $$ charge; free of cost however – not even close. #1 Gripe: thankyou network is pathetic. the “reward” points you receive are approx. 100/dollar spent. ok fine. I decided to use some – 13,500 points for a PS2 – cool – about $135. I order [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2006
thankyou network / citicards bullshit
26-Dec-06D&D huge nerd alert!!!!! (weeeoooweeeoooweeeooooo) thank you people of youtube for the much needed lol.
why isn’t googlebot crawling my page?
18-Dec-06I’ve been trying to figure this out for over a week now. this is what my google.com/webmasters page says: Home page crawl: Googlebot last successfully accessed your home page on Sep 20, 2006. what the fuck? I added a sitemap to the same page about a week ago… no change. google is downloading the sitemap [...]
naraku the story
16-Dec-06the story behind the name is long and sorta sappy, but I won’t go into much of that. here’s the short relavent version: Naraku is a Japanese word with many translations: kanji: 奈落 katakana:ならく english:naraku – (n) hell, hades, eternity, theater basement what Naraku use to mean to me: – eternity is what we [...]
amusing (waste of time) trivia bits
15-Dec-062. Mohammed is now one of the 20 most popular names for boys born in England and Wales. 14. It’s possible for a human to blow up balloons via the ear. A 55-year-old factory worker from China reportedly discovered 20 years ago that air leaked from his ears, and he can now inflate balloons and [...]
I am loving Ask Mefi more everyday; this question: “How long in the freezer to chill a Coke from 89F to 35F?” is answered by a couple people, but the best answer (and most favorited) comes from Adam Savage of Mythbusters. That would be about 20-25 minutes in a freezer. If you put it in [...]
so, you set up your site, it’s got some cool stuff. but nobody is coming. why?! here’s a quick and dirty way to get the link out. first of all, especially if it is brand new, go ahead and submit it to the biggies: Yahoo (inktomi) Search Google Search second, since google is the most [...]
oh the humanity… these mod crazy foos reconstruct an innocent fender squire guitar into a wireless guitar hero controller. is there a market for this? probably. the culprit blog: toolmonger – how to build your own wireless guitar hero controller
naraku presents: a brief homage to the wonders that are component cables; a side-by-side comparison to composite cables; a ps2 component cable review. I had a problem with my Playstation 2 on my 42″ Westinghouse LCD: using the composite cables included, it looked like utter shit! …I almost broke down and hooked it back up [...]
scrubs dubs charlie brown christmas
12-Dec-06based on the characters from the show, the dialog is completely redone and dubed over the formerly cutsey-wewtsy story. in a word – awesome. little background detail linky: A Charlie Brown Christmas… Scrubs style in case the above nutscrape video barfs, here’s a youtube link to the video.
family guy behind the scenes
12-Dec-06peter/quagmire/stewie (creator – seth macfarlane), lois/loretta (alex borstein), meg (mila kunis), cleveland (mike henry) all doing their thing. I’d love to see adam west doing his thing too.. mmm taffy. link nabbed from abram’s blog.
how far will your car go?
08-Dec-06betcha not 1,000,000 miles like Peter Gilbert’s 1989 Saab 900 SPG. pretty damn impressive; only other vehicles I’ve heard going this far are old(er) toyota trucks [got a link? I can't find shit]. my bro has an early 90s Saab and he recently rebuilt the transmission, I wonder how far his will go.
the yule logs rock the holiday/christmas spirit! I really enjoyed their show last night, nothing like seeing friends and enjoying a bit of holiday cheer. all was good except for the fact that it was so fuckin’ packed (crammed in like sardines style, yo) in duffy’s I couldn’t find a comfortable place to stand… nor [...]
addictive tower defense gameplay
08-Dec-06my buddy abram told me about this game a few days ago. I asked him not to send it to me. yesterday I broke down and searched for it on digg… found it and blew a few hours out of my day strategizing and getting utterly (and consistently) destroyed around wave 60+ (personal high score [...]
these kind of sites are a great idea for charities. they are basically the only type of webpage advertisement I will intentionally click. http://www.TheAnimalRescueSite.com – Your daily free clicks provide food for animals in shelters & sanctuaries. on the other hand – I imagine there’s a lot out there, with this ideal front and foremost, [...]
