Archive for January, 2004

  • 30 Jan

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    mizidy


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    Own3d of the Month

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    Well, I am proudly taking credit for the total own3d of Tanwhore.com. I submitted this site to Something Awful's Awful Website of the Day on Tuesday as a joke. I had no expectations to see it on SA as I am sure they get any number of submissions per day. However, to my glee, I went to SA on Thursday and found it posted right on the front page. Here is a permenent record of what it looked like on the site.

    The after effects have been nearly as amusing. As of 9AM this morning, the site had been closed due to excessive bandwidth. It was reported by Nick that almost 6GB was transferred yesterday alone. Nick also sent a number of the e-mails he received about the site to the Help Desk junk list, here is a number of great quotes:

    "You are way too into yourself, and would be beyond Metrosexual if you weren't huffing pole all the damned time."

    "You are a stupid dork."

    "You're obviously a fucking idiot."

    "Also, your taste in music sucks shaved balls. I know you like shaved balls, because you're a bodybuilder, and a fucking idiot."

    I hadn't planned on the backlash from the posting, but it also provided plenty of humor. Kudos for Nick taking this so well and for his site providing so much humor the last 24 hours.

  • 29 Jan

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    mizidy


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    Bowling for Columbine

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    So, I decided to give in and see this movie knowing full well that there would be parts that annoy me. And of course, this did come true. I did find some interesting parts, I am pretty sure that Mr. Moore discovered that a mix of American media and guns is the cause of a lot of scared Americans. But then to approach Chuck Heston about it, demanding answers from him after it took a couple of years for Mr. Moore to find the answers seemed a bit egotistical. I think if the movie ended with the success of KMart getting rid of the bullets, I wouldn't have come away still believing that Mr. Moore is just as self interested as Mr. Heston or any of these other fanatics. I definately didn't hate the movie, I just wish that the advice that Mr. Moore suggested in that the shock value isn't the most important thing, was applied at the end of this film.

  • 28 Jan

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    mizidy


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    The Big Ten Sucks…

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    Now why can't I find the proof of this?

    So, after watching the Big Ten suck it up this year, I decided to investigate how they are matched up against other conferences in the RPI. Now before finding out, I would like to remind everyone of the current record the Big Ten has against other conferences:

    2-7 in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge
    2-11 against the Big 12
    1-5 against the SEC
    0-4 against the Mt. West

    So seeing that, I would assume that the Big Ten has a conference ranking of around 7 or so in the following order:

    1. Big East
    2. ACC
    3. SEC
    4. Big 12
    5. C-USA
    6. Pac 10
    7. Big 10

    So I hit up a number of RPI Projection web sites and to my surprise, the Big 10 is ranked 4-5, ahead of the Big 12 in one of them. Now I don't know if they are using BCS computers to figure out this RPI thing or what, but this just does not make sense. In any case, at this time, there should be no more than 4 teams from the Big Ten in the tourny, with the possibility of 5 if IU were able to keep this streak up.

    As for Iowa's chances for making the tourny, they are gonna have to put a win streak together. Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be an easy part of the Big Ten schedule this year to make a good streak, so the NIT is looking more and more probable.

  • 26 Jan

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    mizidy


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    Good News for Mediacom Users

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    So I checked my mail today and I had forgotten that I had my Mediacom account forwarded to my webmaster account for MyTungsten. In any case, I was delighted to find that Mediacom is doubling both upload and download speeds for all cable modem users. For those of you who are sceptical, Mattbot found this press release.

  • 26 Jan

    Posted by
    mizidy


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    Job Interview #2

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    Since graduating, job interviews have been fairly few and far in between. However, a call last Thursday night got me setup for a position I did not apply for. They saw my resume on Monster and decided to give me a ring. So today I trudged up to Cedar Rapids in the snow and met with an employee of American Income Life.

    I was told over the phone that this was for a management position and not much else. Unfortunately today did not expound on that too greatly as the position is called a Management Business Associate. Unforunately with no business classes or degree under my belt, this doesn't mean much to me. However, if they do like me after the interview today, I get invited back on Thursday for a presentation and a detailed explaination. So I await the call this afternoon and we will go from there.

    For those of you who want to see me all spiffy in my suit, you can click here and here.