Monthly Archive for June, 2008

Fun with Google Maps’ street view

Pike House

Hey look, it’s the old Pike House. No letters. It looks like a skeleton of itself. Ten years ago today, I had only been an active in the house for a quarter and a half. Here’s the full-size image.

And just around the corner…

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Gavin Rossdale: Bad Poetry

Gavin Rossdale Lyrics

It’s not often that something is so bad, I’m driven to write a post about the topic. But it’s not often I hear lyrics as bad as ones featured on Gavin Rossdale’s new album Wanderlust. I’ll just get straight to the lines:

You will never get it die for you
I know there’s pain in everything we do
Hamburgers so that we stay alive
Happy meals means something died

Woah

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It’s Firefox 3 download day!

Firefox Protection

Today is the release date of Firefox 3. If you’re still using Internet Explorer, today would be the perfect day to test drive the highly superior Firefox browser. As of publication of this post, the software has yet to be launched, but when it is, you’ll be able to find it here.

So far, more than 1.5 million people have pledged to download the software today in Firefox’s bid to break the Guinness world record for most downloads in a 24-hour period.

Metal Gear Solid 4: Buns of the Patriots

Solid Snake

I only just began the second chapter of Metal Gear Solid 4, so I can’t yet provide an accurate review of the game as a whole. I can, however, warn players that have not yet garnered a copy for themselves, of the most glaring annoyance offered right away in the game. One that’s going to be hard for the game’s deeper chapters to trump…

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Turpin included in list of top public schools

Turpin SpartansMy alma mater, Turpin High School, was included in Newsweek’s list of top public schools in America. The list names the best 1,400 or so high schools out of more than 27,000 across the nation.

Though the Spartans ranked in at 1,232, they were beat out by 30 other schools in Ohio, perhaps making their standing seem a little less impressive.

Which school is the best in Ohio? Walnut Hills in Cincinnati, which ranked 57 overall. Wyoming High School in Wyoming, OH, came in second at 89 followed by the 124th-ranked Indian Hill High School in Cincinnati.

Efing with B.A.

B.A. posted a photo of his young niece (or something) in her shirt and diaper on his Flickr photostream. The pic was perfectly normal and fine, but I left a comment that said “Dude, Chris Hansen’s gonna show up and tell you to have a seat.”

Then I got this e-mail from him:

“What up yo? Thank you for giving me a complex… after you commented on Tiffany’s picture, that one and her others got favorited by a perv… which I blocked. I really hate to make it private because my family checks my Flickr page out… I could send them all a guest pass invite… I don’t know. Now I’ll question everything I put on there.”

Then this e-mail from him literally two minutes later:

“I hope you don’t take offense, but I deleted your last comment… I really don’t want people to think I’m a pedophile with my site consisting of mostly a little girl”