Doppel's Dementia

Has it been six weeks already?

Doppelbock — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:34:54 +0000

Wow, has it really been six weeks or more since my last post? In all fairness I had a DNS problem that I stupidly didn’t detect so the site was effectively offline for the past three of those weeks due to technical difficulties. Now that it’s back up I really need to get some pics of my Warmachine and Hordes builds going.

The Poking Man Pen Stand

Doppelbock — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:41:09 +0000

How can anyone live without the The Poking Man Pen Stand? I swear this must have been invented by the same guy that came up with the humping dog USB drive. Please, whatever you do don’t click on the video at work.

Don’t drink the Kool-Aid

Doppelbock — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:11:29 +0000

Actually drink all the Kool-Aid you want, just don’t go around spouting the “Drink the Kool-Aid” cliche that’s so popular right now. Also please don’t say anything about “peeling back the layers of the onion”, I am so sick of that phrase right now you wouldn’t believe it.

Christmas Resistance

Doppelbock — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:31:11 +0000

Thanks to John Cleese’s Cheese Podcast site for this one. Check out xmasresistance for more (or their Facebook page).

That’s more like it: 12Mb down/1900k up

Doppelbock — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:43:15 +0000

That’s more like it, DOCSIS 2.0 is good:

The test says “Warning: ISP upload compression was detected. Your upload speeds may be inaccurate.” but I don’t know how the test is effective.

Negative speed?

Doppelbock — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:48:07 +0000

Well that was really odd: after replacing my cable modem (who knew that a DOCSIS 1.0 modem would be deprecated and suffer degraded performance?) I ran a few speed tests at DSL Reports and the third one (to Ontario) came back with this:

I knew something was up when the needle on the meter started going below zero but I thought it was just a problem with the display in the Flash applet. Of course the tech told me that I should see higher speeds with the new DOCSIS 2.0 modem but so far it’s actually a bit slower (but I only have a small sample size so far).

Did You Bring Me A Monkey?

Doppelbock — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:15:19 +0000

This one is for my friend Shack who will someday have his own monkey.

Should we be thanking him for keeping outbreak over there on such a heavy-duty chain, or should we call someone to come and do something? I feel the latter is more appropriate.

via Did You Bring Me A Monkey? @ peopleofwalmart.com

Dick Towel anyone?

Doppelbock — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:38:47 +0000

I saw that on an episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philidelphia (about my favorite comedy show right now) and laughed my ass off, it’s the DICK TOWEL. That’s right, they actually created a web site for a gag from the show, including a Yahoo shop so that you can apparently actually buy them.

Happy Birthday Sesame Street

Doppelbock — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:18:01 +0000

Today is the 40th anniversary of the first episode of Sesame Street, it was nice of Google to notice.

Sesame Street @ Wikipedia

Proud to share my country with these folks

Doppelbock — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:59:49 +0000

Wow, the people that Wal-Mart brings out of the woodwork is just amazing. If you deign to shop at Wal-Mart then be sure to take along your camera next time you go.

People of Wal-Mart