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Cool stuff, silly

OH MY GAWWWD! The Honey Badger just doesn’t give a shit!

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Gay people SHOULD NOT narrate wildlife films…. or should they?

I laughed so hard at this I hurt! All I learned is that the “honey badger is a hungry bastard and it just doesn’t give a fuckin shit!”

This is welcomed courtesy of Matt Clark – who should stop being a stranger and comment on this damned blog. Maybe he just “doesn’t give a shit like the honey badgerrr…”

Connect-O-Pics, Cool stuff

Philly Apartment Rooftop Connect-O-Pic

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These may seem pointless, but I have fun doing them. This was taken as 4 pictures and I scrapped the 4th picture (which would have been on the far right). I just stuck with these three. This is on the roof of my apartment in stinky, junky, dead beat, south philly back in September (I think). I was shooting toward North (skyline behind the tree, Delaware river to the right – not really visible, so don’t look for it!) Took this long for me to finally dig’m up and slap’m together. They look washed out intentionally so you can see the blended edges of the 3 photos – I feel that’s the point of making Connect-O-Pics in the first place.

As always, click this sucker to blow it up and see it big!

DISCLAIMER:  I do not do this for art!  I do this for fun and my own amusement.  The images don’t match up “perfectly” and that’s point.  I’m just standing there, snapping with my cell phone, turning a little, and snapping again.  Fun little exercise.  It’s supposed to give you a cheap “cyclorama”, “sensaround”, or “panoramadingdong” perspective (or whatever the stupid trendy buzzword is supposed to be in the day of stupid internet fads).  Then again, it might just be a psychological profile for my dormant madness.

In review:

  • See my Sears (Willis) Tower Observation Deck Connect-O-Pic by clicking HERE.
  • See my North Atlantic City, NJ boardwalk Connect-O-Pic by click HERE.
Computer Suggestions/Support, Cool stuff

Listen To Your Computer! You May Save Your Data, Money, and Time!

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Found this very interesting article about the sounds made by a failing hard drive. If I had a nickel for the times I have heard most of these (and yes… the Maxtor sounds are the most common. This is why I use Maxtor hard drives as door stops only).

OUCH!

Folks, if you care, it is a good thing to get a quiet moment, press your ear to your computer, reboot, and listen to the drives spin up. It may tell you a lot.

This site contains sound samples of various brands of hard drives in many different states of failure or near failure. Before you test your own computer, check out this site.

http://datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php

And like Todd Rundgren said, “Now, if ya have a pair of headphones ya better get’m out and get’m cranked up, cause they’re really gonna help ya on this one…” The samples on this site are a bit hard to hear on external speakers.

I may even send you a 10 Gig Maxtor hard drive (probably not functioning) if you can make a hit song out of the sounds!  HAHA! (Nobukazu Takemura is ineligible for this contest!)