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It's All About the Benjamins
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01:31 0602.28
Three-quarter reptiles (EDIT)
Remember when I actually wrote stuff that was designed to be vaugely interesting or descriptive or something? Yeah, I do too. But today isn't the return of that.

No, I'm just going to post a link to something that is absolutely hillarious.
http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/02/22/vw-strikes-again-un-pimp-my-ride-videos/

EDIT: Hey, is the board borked for everyone else, too?
I knew that phpBB was a bad idea.

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00:46 0602.24
Published.
Aw yeah. Sure, I've been uploading my fabulous anecdotes and idiopropaganda to the Internets since 2002; but now, it's Ben Lamb -- in POG print form.

Read it and weep, losers my adoring proletariat everybody my adoring proletariat!

EDIT: No word on a book deal. Yet.

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11:16 0602.17
Then again...
What does it matter if not everyone is an idiot when I'm still surrounded by them? Case in pizzoint:

This week's op-ed in the Bison.

It's not by-lined, which probably means that the administration had something to do with it. Also plus too, "our culture" has never ever accepted this "Intelligent Design" malarkey. Creationism, sure, but not my least-favorite batch of pseudoscientific hogwash since ... like, phrenology or something. Further, I didn't know that American churches stationed French nobility in front of churches (that is to say, the word is M-A-R-Q-U-E-E). Finally, since when do schools teach evolutionary biology in 2nd grade? How many more ideas that are truely inherently incompatible with with the core concepts of Christianity (of which biology is not one) are taught by the public schools? By pop culture? By the Republican party? But no, evolution evolution evolution blah blah blah blah blah. Because, you know, the idea that maybe the way God had the plan come together wasn't the same way as he decided to descibe it to Moses and a bunch of ex-slaves in a desert three-and-one-half thousand years ago is such a total anathema to loving one's neighbor and emulating the Christ.

Oh well, at least my Spanish-class-buddy Derek Wilson so totally rebutted the views expressed in a speech made in chapel about a week and a half ago. The set-up of the rebuttal parodies the setup of the speech, just so you know.

For you two people from Harding that actually read this site, my column will be in next week's T3h B|50n!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111111one

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12:12 0602.13
So not everybody's an idiot.
Buried in the midst of a flamewar of slashdot, I found this nugget of coherency. Finally, a short, well-reasoned answer to why this Intelligent Design stuff is totally moronic.

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18:30 0602.11
Who is Mike Jones Ben Lamb?
I ran across one of those silly generated text-blocks that adolescent girls tend to post on their livejournal. I normally avoid posting such frivolity to fabulous iaatb.net (preferring frivolities generated by yours truly), but, since the first line of it is actually correct, I thought I'd post it.

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Ben Lamb!

  1. Ben Lamb is physically incapable of sticking his tongue out!
  2. Ben Lamb was invented in China in the eleventh century, but was only used for fireworks, never for weapons.
  3. The deepest part of Ben Lamb is over 35,000 feet deep!
  4. Scientists have discovered that Ben Lamb can smell the presence of autism in children.
  5. It takes 17 muscles to smile, and 43 to frown at Ben Lamb.
  6. The Aztec Indians of Mexico believed Ben Lamb would protect them from physical harm, and so warriors used him to decorate their battle shields.
  7. The first toy product ever advertised on television was Mr Ben Lamb Head.
  8. It is impossible to fold Ben Lamb more than seven times!
  9. If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and Ben Lamb would be as small as a pea.
  10. California is the biggest exporter of Ben Lamb in the world!
I am interested in - do tell me about
Oh, wait, the rest of that is all true, too.

Also watch for the front page becoming valid XHTML and new stylesheets.

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21:41 0602.10
Slow month.
Not ever that much going on in the F-E-Bizzle, it seems to me. I think the worst part about this month is that it's shorter than all the others, so it always feels to me as if it should be over sooner. Of course, it's only 72 hours shorter, so this feeling is misguided, and leads to me wondering why the heck it's taking so long for it to be March.

Anyhow, it snowed today. It was those big, 34˚ snowflakes that turn into puddles as soon as they hit the warm ground. I love the mix of reactions people have here -- I had on my raincoat, for example, as other people were bundled up and making half-hearted snow cancellation predictions. I mean, it wasn't even enough to create much slush on my windscreen, but it was still rather pretty, except for the requisite sidewalk flooding associated with all precipitation here at (otherwise) fabulous Harding University.

Spanish was okay. I'm not terribly interested in the subject of the class -- Latin American business. I do enjoy Conley's anecdotes, even though they seem as if they're becoming a bit dated with recent normalizations of trading practices and the further development of the Western Hemisphere's economies. Just because it's the Global South doesn't mean it's the Global Dirty Dirty South. You know, it can just be like Virginia, or Tennessee.

Elrod let us out of class tewnty minutes into it, as he had to skip town later on. But not before showing me and another dude in class two most excellent video clips -- Nacho Libre and Al Sharpton owning Bill O'Reilly on the later's show. And now, your moment of hip-hop:
Respected highly-- HI MISTER O'REILLY,
Hope all is well, kiss the plantiff and the wifey!
Drove through the window, the industry super-sized me,
Now the girls see me and a river's what they cry me.
I'm on the rise, so many people despise me,
Got party ammunition for those tryin' to surprise me. (surprise!)
It's a celebration, and everyone should invite me,
Roll with the crew or meet the bottom of our Nikes.
Explorer like Dora, these swipers can't swipe me,
My whole aura's so mean in my white tee.
Nobody light-skinned's been reppin' harder since Ice-T,
You disagree, take the Tyson approach and bite me!


                Ludacris, "Number One Spot", The Red Light District
Oh, also, Cochran's class was cancelled so pretty boring afternoon in which I took a nap. I think I'm going to go eat an orange now.

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12:02 0602.3
Avast, Landlubbers!
If anyone tries to tell you that piracy is people copying CDs, well, uh, yeah freaking right.

USS Winston Churchill boards pirate vessel. Some of the stuff in this is freaking nuts: "40-knot flank, no smoke"? "warning shots off the bow"? "boarding party?" Dude, I hope the Navy guys had a little sense of humor after they got done taking care of buisiness, you know -- maybing asking the pirates if they were going to swab the poop deck, you know, or something about swashbuckling technique.

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23:17 0602.1
New Pictures Page
Hey, everybody, I'm working on a new engine for uploading pictures easily and making galleries for them automatically. The PHP stuff I was working with for making the autogalleries for the italy photodump is sub-optimal, and I found this new series of Movable Type templates and plugins with iphoto integration. The proof-of-concept (with some never before released pictures from Cinque Terre) is available here: http://iaatb.net/pics/temp/.

The layout may change a bit to better reflect the traditional "iaatbchrome proof sheet" of the photodump and the even earlier galleries made with crufty windows software. I just need to figure out how to make the thumbnails all horizontally-oriented, or something else that fits properly into a fake film frame. Say that five times fast.

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