Archive for November, 2005

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Dot.com boom?

Single letter domain names being released. $1M+? Maybe I should have hung onto nwx.com.

2 Comments » - Posted in Internet, Asides by nach

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Winter Schedule

My schedule for the next few months:

11/21-11/22
11/22-11/23
11/23-12/04
12/04-12/06
12/06-12/08
12/08-12/11
12/12-12/16
12/16-12/17
12/17-12/19
12/19-12/21 or 12/22
12/21 or 12/22-12/24
12/24-01/05
01/05-01/06
01/06-01/08
01/08-01/09
01/09-01/10
01/10-01/16
01/16-01/18
01/18-01/19
01/19-01/22
01/22-onwards
03/16
mid-April to mid-May
05/21

Hobbs, NM
Albuquerque
Hobbs, NM
Phoenix
Hobbs, NM
Boston
NYC
Stony Brook, NY
Boston
NYC
Boston
Hobbs, NM
HOUSTON!!!
Sunday River, ME (?)
NYC
Worchester, MA
Boston
NYC
ATLANTA!!!
MIAMI!!!
Boston (phew)
Match Day
Egypt/S.Africa/Botswana
Graduation

18 Comments » - Posted in School, Tufts Med by nach

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Chuck Norris Kicks Your Ass

Facts about Chuck Norris:

The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.

Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs.

Chuck Norris built a time machine and went back in time to stop the JFK assassination. As Oswald shot, Chuck met all three bullets with his beard, […]

26 Comments » - Posted in Asides, Lists by nach

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

Tara Reid’s nipples?

Last Sunday’s episode of “Family Guy” just reiterates my love for the show. “The Simpsons” were never so brazen (but it was funny in another way). “Family Guy” gets its humor from the strange, absurd, or uncomfortable things that it shows. Like a 2 minute chicken fight, or the PBJ time song. But it’s clear […]

9 Comments » - Posted in Internet, TV by nach

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

Google SMS

I feel like I’m on a promoting binge here. Check out Google’s SMS info service. It’s saved me at least one on the road when I was lost and needed directions (and didn’t want to lose 20 minutes by trying to find a gas station for directions). And I’ve used to figure out the the […]

3 Comments » - Posted in Asides, Technology by nach

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

Sprint Messaging

I’m crazy excited. Sprintpcs forces you to use its website in order to text message someone (for free via the web). I was able to socially engineer (well not really socially engineer, more like convince) a customer service rep to give me the email address format to text Sprintpcs phones via email (1234567890@messaging.sprintpcs.com). This allows […]

58 Comments » - Posted in Asides, Technology by nach

Monday, November 28th, 2005

Cultural Influence Maps

An update to crazymonk’s link to Common Census is in order since the map has been updated many times since its post due to the number of links that it’s been getting from blogs.

The map has become a lot more accurate. All of New Mexico isn’t covered by Albuqueque. People of Hobbs generally idenitify with […]

43 Comments » - Posted in Internet, Maps by nach

Sunday, November 27th, 2005

British Headlines

A British headline from my bookmarks:
Man fingers daughter in Elvis eBay cock-up.
There was an Australian headline a week or so ago on Fark.com about a sports team having to swallow [their pride over their loss to] the black cocks, but I can’t find it any more. Obviously doing a Google search for that news article […]

16 Comments » - Posted in Internet, Asides by nach

Saturday, November 26th, 2005

Malaise de l’Orange


9 Comments » - Posted in Internet, Asides by nach

Monday, November 21st, 2005

Peanut Butter Jelly Time

Tonight on “Family Guy,” Brian, the dog, dresses up as a banana and does the Peanut Butter Jelly Time dance, which took an old banana dancing animation and made a flash video of it singing to a really awful, but catchy, tune.
It makes me wonder if all those other random moments in “Family Guy” are […]

9 Comments » - Posted in TV by nach

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

Marathoner

In light of my preparation for the Boston Marathon this April, I present this Boston Running Map.

25 Comments » - Posted in School, Asides, Tufts Med, Boston by nach

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

Football

The Indo Jew Bowl VI, a Thanksgiving Day football game in Skokie that separates the men from the boys . . . and the Shahs and the Mehtahs from the Engelmans and the Weintraubs.

22 Comments » - Posted in Asides, India(n) by nach

Monday, November 14th, 2005

surprise!

Do not open at work: From my list of bookmarks, a German site dedicated to “surprising” Japanese people. There’s no sound, but you should probably open this at home.

5 Comments » - Posted in Internet, Asides by nach

Monday, November 14th, 2005

Ikea

Ikea’s been getting a bunch of hype here recently.

1 Comment » - Posted in Boston by nach

Saturday, November 12th, 2005

Muscle Cars

Sweeeeeet! I knew production of my car would resume.

3 Comments » - Posted in Asides by nach

Friday, November 11th, 2005

Nazi Forest

Probably offensive to most: oh yeah, the nazi forest. WARNING: has sound and is an annoying YTMND thingy. Other good YTMND thingies include the picard song and nigga stole my bike. It’s one of my favorite websites, but you need to be a little ingrained in internet culture and geekery to enjoy it. It’s based […]

1 Comment » - Posted in Internet, Asides, History by nach

Friday, November 11th, 2005

Unimpressive Inventions

I came across this article on the most underrated inventions in history. It was kind of interesting to see how concrete changed the world. But the authors sometimes extrapolated a little too much. Horse collars allowed a farmer surplus which allowed an Adam Smith’s type professional stratification which destroyed the feudal system and allowed for […]

3 Comments » - Posted in Asides, History, Technology by nach

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

MMOs

During my first year of undergrad, I got hooked on Ultima Online, the first successful massive multiplayer online RPG. I remember playing for hours without embarrassment even as my roommate (you may remember him, doorframe) wondered what the hell I was doing. After a few months, I realized even with my massive amount of free […]

17 Comments » - Posted in School, Internet, Tufts Undergrad by nach

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

Young Alum Get Together

Speaking of Andover, I got this in my email about a week ago.

We hope that you will join us as we continue the tradition of getting
together periodically for a few drinks.
Please bring your local Andover friends and come to Young Alumni Cocktails at Clery’s on Wednesday, November 8th.

Clery’s
113 Dartmouth Street
(617) 262-9874
6:30pm - 8:30pm […]

11 Comments » - Posted in School, Andover by nach

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

Nachoworld v.5

I thought I would start up the newest iteration of NachoWorld with a link of my former schoolteacher. David Cobb was a great guy. I must say that it really was a surprise to everybody at the school. He seemed well grounded. He was a Green Beret, drove a bike, had a normal […]

27 Comments » - Posted in School, Andover by nach