Archive for March, 2006

The Freaks in My Office

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

These are just my immediate coworkers, not everyone in the company/building… and I’m sure I am missing a few.
http://www.darkdaysdawn.com/
http://www.pyromantic.com/
http://www.juan2003.com/
http://bigbaldbastard.com/
http://www.michael9.com/
http://www.evilburn.com/
http://solidmercurie.blogspot.com
http://pompy704.blogspot.com/
I will probably update this list when the 40% of my team that isn’t represented here starts feeling left out…
[UPDATE: added Big Pomp's site]

“sirshannon” != “Sir Shannon”

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

Tom Jones can be knighted, apparently but I am an American and therefor can never be knighted.  Which means I will never be “Sir Shannon”.  Nor have I never claimed to be.  sirshannon is 1 word, all lowercase (even when it was listed in the local phone book).  To even capitalize the first letter would [...]

I Never Believed Jesus Was White

Friday, March 24th, 2006

I grew up thinking Jesus was black. Or Jewish. Greek? Something other than white.
But then I went to church last weekend and found out that I was wrong.
I had communion for the first time and I am here to tell you: He was definitely a cracker.

sirshannon makes passes

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

at girls who wear glasses.

Yahoo! Radish! w00t!

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

Rhapsody Radish was my favorite Rhapsody site by far but Rhapsody never returned the love I gave it and I moved on to better things: Yahoo! Music Unlimited. Y!MU allows users to share playlists via their Yahoo! profiles (I’m sothym there, if you care), but I still missed the Radish’s seemingly endless supply of [...]

UMPC = Origami / Ultimate Mobile PC Community Site

Monday, March 6th, 2006

Intel’s Ultimate Mobile PC Community site had a favicon that I recognized as belonging to Community Server, so I tried ading a known Community Server directory to the URL and bingo. UMPC.com is a community site for Microsoft’s tiny portable “Origami” project. I was able to register as a user (please don’t kick [...]