Hilarious video

I can’t believe I’m posting on a Friday nite, but this is the funniest damn thing I’ve seen in awhile…I’m crying!!!!

Video of people freaking out on amusement park rides

Too funny to try to intro myself…

Man Dates Gal on Internet for Six Months — and It Turns Out She’s His Mother! [article]

Coming soon…

Site’s on the move again…this week I’ll resume posting…meanwhile, check the new layout (scroll down)…

When will it end?

The tinnitus, that is….crimony! I’ve been back and forth to the doctor twice now. Antibiotics, nasal decongestants and steroids have been no match. Actually the juice (well, ‘roid tablets) was helping, but as the dosage is lessening, I’m almost back to square one.

Hence my lack of interest in posting anything here…lucky for me jury duty is coming in just over a week. Note tongue-in-cheek there, hopefully this forsaken ringing is gone by then. Tomorrow the ENT appointment is being scheduled, referral from my doctor is already in hand.

Those aren’t sleigh bells!

Aaaaggghh! The past few days (ironically everyday since the 1st of the year), I’ve had this ringing in my ears. Nothing where I can’t function, it’s not that loud, just like that noise you hear when a TV’s on in the background. Haven’t done anything noticeable (loud noise, etc.), I do feel kind of ’sinus-ey’, so perhaps it’s a cold/ear infection.

Hopefully nothing serious; if it persists, I’ll be seeing the doctor, pry get antibiotics and be on my way to see if it works (the classic first prescription). I researched tinnitus, its most common name, and it is usually nothing major, and can be caused by many things. Note the word ‘usually’, though….

On the sports front, I thought I heard Jimmy Johnson of Fox saying that the Bears were screwing up their momentum in last week’s game where they yanked or didn’t play most starers against the Vikes, in a totally meaningless game, as they were essentially getting killed with backups in. Jimmy, I’m sorry, but these guys are professional athletes, and if they can’t sit on the sidelines for one game, enjoy the rest, especially for the sake of having a healthy team in the playoffs, then we’d lose in the playoffs regardless.

And what if they did play and lost that meaningless game anyway? Still a momentum killer? So then make them play the whole game? C’mon, the starting defense played a couple series, did their normal stellar job, and then later we still lost 2 guys to sprained knees in the game; that Dome turf is notorious for gobbling up players (see Rex Grossman, 2004).

I normally love the guy, but apparently the other morons on that show (the 2 to his right) are rubbing off on him after these few years…

I’m officially a Blogger!

Hey, everyone! I decided over the lengthy holiday break I took from posting, that I’d start using a 3rd party service for blogging from now on. WordPress was an awesome piece of software, but I need more time for myself, not having to upgrade software, or maintain my own database, or figure out how to get more exposure.

So here I am! I’ve had a Blogger account for awhile, never had the itch to switch or actually use it, until now. Hopefully it’ll mean more posting and less clutter; you’ll notice a cleaner interface right now. I’ll be further tweaking the look and feel soon.

I’m in the process of uploading my old posts from the old site (a tedious process). Please do NOT bookmark this page. Bookmark or use http://www.illiniguy.com That way you’re assured you won’t get lost in case I move again.

I’ll be back in a few…

Coolest FF extension yet!

Tab Sidebar

If you’ve ever used iRider the browser, it’s somewhat along those lines. Shows pictures of the current page for each tab you have open, in the sidebar that is. I’m digging this so far…..

Might I also say one of the few innovative features for Firefox, albeit the aforementioned (and little-known) iRider has had something similar for awhile.

October?

Wow, talk about a lapse…over a month has passed since my last post, and as you know, alot has happened in the world. Heck, just check out my last post, Katrina was about to hit New Orleans, Rita wasn’t even a depression yet, and then summer was still in full effect. Even the MN state fair wasn’t over yet.

Where to start? First, alot of wiffle since then…our season ended, my team ended up in the lower-half of the league, not in the playoffs. But I’ve done alot of spectating since then, our World Series is about halfway over, could be wrapped up tomorrow nite. Two weeks ago went to WiffleSlam, a tournament in Iowa, let’s just say it was a guy’s weekend, alot of debauchery and plenty of wiffles. My team was a little under the weather and tired out over the day, but the HRL was able to take 1st, 3rd and 5th place in the 8-team tourney, just a sweet weekend all over! Props to the Dutch-man, a fellow Hollander who planned the whole weekend, right down to a place for everyone to stay; not too shabby a fella, even being from Iowa.

But mainly I’ve been working my arse off at my new gig. I left BORN, not happy with the work I was doing, and am now contracting at a national insurance company. Things started out great, but have become bumpy, so we’ll see where it goes…all I’ll say for now….

So that’s about it; I’m tired from a weekend of being sick (literally) and pondering design questions for work…I’ll get back in the swing this weekend…

Katrina bears down on The Big Easy

This has all the makings of a major humanitarian disaster…Hurricane Katrina is due to make landfall sometime before sunrise, in of all places New Orleans. But even right now it is starting to dump rain on New Orleans, that part of the storm that is the real issue. Of course it will be a killer hurricane, all storms of similar size have been. But New Orleans, being under sea-level, will more than likely not be able to avoid severe flooding. Its pump systems that keep it dry in normal times will not be able to keep up (more than likely). This could flood the whole city under 20-30 feet of water….

All you can do is watch and hope…

Research breakthrough

Cripes, can we frickin’ use research money for bigger issues? Instead we have yet another ground-breaking study which pointed out the apparent gender bias of users related to website design, what each sex likes and doesn’t like asthetically when they view a certain website. That’s it’s not all about the substance, but the style of a site..

Well, well, females liked more color and fonts, males liked straightforward designs, and the person who builds a site, their gender influenced the look and feel of their site…yawn….I need that research job. Tomorrow, we’ll evaluate which sex is for or against the vase cupholder in the Beetle…

Just give the damn money to another company doing worthwhile work, like fighting famine, or finding a cure for diseases…