Jim and I bought these servers from a guy in Battery Park...psst, you need any 2U servers...cheap.

The Ocularist - a short film.

Open your eyes to the fascinating world of an ocular prosthetician. This award-winning documentary brilliantly displays how art and science are intertwined in the creation of acrylic eyes.

Today I am making a pot roast. I am roasting a wad (so I say wad a lot, that don't make you right) of meat in a pot for dinner tomorrow with my family. My mother has been very careful not to utter the word Easter whenever she calls to talk about this weekend. I'm pretty sure she planned dinner for Saturday just so there would be no mistake that this was not an "Easter" dinner.

Why the double speak and subterfuge? I'll tell you. After years of complaining, blathering and/or bitching about how I am not a Christian, so why am I celebrating easter/christmas/Jesus did something like being born or dying day, It has all finally paid off.

Apparently, everyone in my family is tired of hearing my flapping jaws, and they have decided to pretend like nothing special is happening this weekend. I'm hoping it'll be like I have been in a coma, and nobody has the heart to tell me its really 2051. "What are all those colored eggs for?" I'll exlaim. "Oh, they just turned bad." my mom will say. "But why do you have bags of fake grass in your closet?" I'll reply. "Oh, just filling some pillows." she'll say.

Maybe in the middle of dinner I'll scream, "The baby Jesus!", just to see if they'll respond.

And let's be sure take a few moments this weekend to remember the ODB...

Fuzzy Math LTD., a subsidiary of Yummy Foods Inc., is proud to announce the initial release of iPet Rock® version 1.0.

IPet Rock® leverages the latest in web technologies to provide a feature rich user friendly digital pet rock. Fuzzy Math utilizes an array of savvy web tools to implement an exciting web platform to proved the best pet rock experience for our users. IPet Rock® was built on a solid foundation of LAMP, AJAX, ATOM, RSS, XHTML, J2EE, J3EE, J4EE and Ruby on Rails to provide a robust standards* based virtual Pet Rock platform for today and into to foreseeable future. iPet Rock® can fulfill your current pet rock needs for today and tomorrow.

One major concern expressed by our current clients has been, "What about my current analog pet rock? Is there an upgrade path to iPet Rock® 1.0?" Fuzzy Math has strived to make migration from our analog pet rock products as easy and painless as possible**.

iPet Rock® - the future is now.

* iPet Rock® 1.0 does not currently support Internet Explorer 5, 6 and most likely 7.

** there is currently no upgrade path available for Pebble Pet or Lime Stone Larry.

Important saftey information about IPet Rock®
The most common adverse events reported with IPet Rock vs a real rock (approximately 5% or greater and approximately 2x real rock) were nausea, insomnia, ejaculation disorder, somnolence, increased sweating, fatigue, decreased libido, and anorgasmia. Adults with Major Depressive Disorder may experience worsening of their depression and/or the emergence of suicidal ideation and behavior (suicidality) while viewing iPet Rock. IPet Rock® may cause bleeding from the rectum and/or massive ocular hemorrhaging.

Mark says, "I thought of a great idea for a story on the train today, it's called Wad."

Jim's eyebrow raises.

"See, it's about a guy who is in love with a girl, but she doesn't know he exists. He accidentally places his hand on some gum that she has stuck underneath a desk, and he becomes both repelled and aroused by it. He becomes obsessed with chewed gum. He starts collecting it. He starts Asking people for their gum, collecting it from all around. He eventually creates the world's largest gum wad ball. It becomes a huge midwestern attraction."

Jim, on the brink of dry heaving, "ugg, that's, that's...yuck."

"You see, the gum wad is a metaphor for love and loneliness."

"uh, sure..."

"Well, it seemed like a good idea on the train ride in this morning."

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

note: gina's IM handle has been altered to protect the innocent.

gina (6:43:03 PM): fred durst¹ is suing gawker²
gina (6:43:15 PM): link to gawker mocking Mr. Durst for suing
gina(6:43:34 PM): "subpoena the root password ³" was uttered
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mwilkie00 (6:45:49 PM): I just IMed fred the root password, that should settle this...
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mwilkie00 (6:50:03 PM): so what are you called when you are a lowly sysadmin to a media whore?
gina (6:50:30 PM): a monkey?
mwilkie00 (6:50:46 PM): a dirty little monkey...

1. Fred Durst is a rock star who video taped himself fornicating with a, what I imagine is a very regretful, woman.
2. Gawker is the current internet media company for who I am contracting as a Unix System Administrator and is being sued by Mr. Durst for publishing the dirty little video tape of himself and some poor women on its website. Why the entire universe isn't suing gawker for making said video public is a question for another day.
3. root is the master account on a unix system. A user with the root password has access to all files and data on that system, they are also quite l33t.

Tam and Julie have been working super hard to get their new website online...so I'm proud to present the new Petal Soaps & Bath Products web site and online store:

http://www.petalny.com

You may notice that this store's backend is technically superior to most, and you'd be right. How they found the resourses to hire a super high tech developer to build this site for them is a mystery.