Anthony’s Ramblings

Tires
On Friday, I bought new tires for my car. I settled on getting a set of Yokohama YK520’s from America’s Tire as they seemed to be the best tire for the cost. So far, I like them and am happy with my purchase.

Car Maintenance
I spent most of my Saturday sitting at Los Gatos Acura waiting for my car to be serviced. All I needed was a routine oil change along with a 4 wheel alignment (since I bought new tires). What was supposed to be a simple $140 combined job turned into $450. The technician working on my car discovered that a suspension component related to my right rear wheel was bent which would prevent them from being able to give the car a proper alignment. So, I opted for them to replace the component. The part itself wasn’t expensive (only being $75) it was the labor and second alignment that brought up the cost of the repair. I’ve had a relatively good experience with Los Gatos Acura, so since I was there I figured why not.

Rooster T Feathers
Brianna’s parents bought tickets for the four of us to go to a comedy show Saturday night at Rooster T Feathers in Sunnyvale. It was a lot of fun! The night’s acts were Mike Gardner, Robert Mac, and Brent Weinbach. Our table was right up against the stage, so naturally we were the inspiration for some of the comedians’ jokes. Mike Gardner happened to notice Brianna’s dad was wearing a fanny pack and did a bit about that. It was pretty funny. At one point while he was doing his thing, he stopped, looked at Brianna’s dad, and said “Are you with me Fanny Pack?!” I don’t know why, but that hit the funny spot and had me laughing for a few minutes. It was fun.

Somebody needs a little more science in the classroom…

ABUJA (Reuters) – The Nigerian government, anxious to avoid a repeat of riots that marked a solar eclipse in 2001, warned citizens they may suffer “psychological discomfort” during a new eclipse this month but urged them not to panic.

Information Minister Frank Nweke said an eclipse five years ago caused riots in northern Borno state because people did not know why it happened.

“Some people even felt some evil people in their communities were responsible for the eclipse,” he said in a statement on Thursday aimed at reassuring Nigerians that the eclipse is expected to darken parts of the country on March 29.

“The eclipse is not expected to have any real damaging effect, only social and psychological discomforts are envisaged,” Nweke said.

He did not explain what the discomforts might be.

Link to Article

I never even thought of trying this…

http://phoenix.cc.edu/MegaFloppy.htm

The only downside, since they did a striped set, is if ONE of the floppies goes bad…all data is lost. We all know how reliable a floppy disk is…yeah.

How do you get an elephant out of Safeway?

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Apparently Jorge’s neighbor was having issues changing the flat tire on his Ford Ranger. Keep in mind, this guy has “Disabled Veteran” license plates. Here’s a 30 second clip:

Frustrated Veteran Can’t Change His Tire

Note how you can hear him throw the wrench used to un-do the lug nuts.

Sam showed me this website, bash.org. It’s IRC quotes. Check out the top 100 quotes. Very funny. Almost makes me wish I was an avid IRC chatter…could contribute.

Speaking of IRC. Colloquy is a very nice IRC client for OS X.

I just ran across a wiki for the Homestar Runner site. It’s the Homestar Runner knowledge base that anyone can edit! People sure get into the nitty-gritty of the website.

Check it out!

And the Compy…just peed…my carpet.

This is a rather old Strong Bad E-Mail, but it’s still funny. Strong Bad gets a virus in an e-mail, and it all goes down from there.

Watch it here

…half of 10 minutes battery

This Strong Bad E-Mail is actually about what kind of weird creature he’d like to be…but the beginning introduces his new computer. It’s pretty funny, too…but then again I’m a geek.

Watch it here

Random Text: Whoo…dad’s painting outside…I can smell it. Time to close the window. *plugs nose*