Miscellaneous Stuff

Here's some stuff which I thought funny. Granted, my sense of humor can run from 'dry' to 'off-center', but I'm sure something here will--at the very least--make you smirk.

Do any of these sound familiar?

" (something/anything) is not responding"

"Could not find xxx.dll."

"Explorer.exe has caused an invalid page fault..."

If so, then your search for vicarious relief is here. I give you a not-so-elegant solution to your Windows frustrations!
Click the logo and smile!

I'm sure to take some heat for this!


	Okay, on the surface this one seems cruel, almost lacking compassion or kindness, but after doing for a living what I've done these last several years gallows humor such as this smacks of truth and make us say "if only!"...ENJOY! Oh, should you need some examples or evidence to justify such rationale, then look here; and yes, these are real stories, submitted by techs all over the country to Computerworld magazine. (Thanks to Les for showing these to me).


	The advertising world pokes fun at itself here. I actually saw the SmartBeep commercial once. You'll need Windows Media Player for the first one, and Quicktime for the other two.

	Need Quicktime? Get it here →

	All you can say is "woops!" (.asf) *Note: NOT for little ears

	Funny spoof of WASSSSUP! (.mov)

	First date faux pax - Classic! (.mov)

	Here's a somewhat visual list of my meager movie/DVD collection.

	This interesting link about a Pakistani composer was sent to me some time ago and I kept it out of sheer interest. I heartily recommend a quick visit. Be patient, and make sure to have your sound up as the background music is a little low.


			Nothing new can be said of 9/11, so I won't even try. However, I take particular pride in our American brand of resilience and attitude. Sure we're sometimes a self-centered country, driven by capitalist greed, even apt to berate, belittle, and beat on one another. But who does the world cry to when they're getting their asses kicked by a bully? Who always stretches out an empty palm with sad doe-eyes when their own economies are in the toilet? Hmmm, maybe the rest of the world? So excuse us if we
	become defiant in the face of some psychopathic zealots, if we muster up some of our good old-fashioned arrogance and do what we need to do to show the rest of the world that we take zero s*** from anyone. With that chest-thumping-righteous-indignation-jingoistic spirit in mind, here's a few pics I've saved as a mild reminder of what we're made of!

			Sacred ground or economic bastion? I live in Arizona so my input hardly matters, but for what it's worth, I believe a memorial should be constructed on-site, just as we did for the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor--but I also believe some structure of economic importance should integrated into the site as well. This gets my vote as the top message sender. Beautiful and a bold architectural statement!

	I honestly can't say that I mind my tax dollars being spent on something like this (see below). This bird is packin' some serious pride and major cajones. I'm thinking it'd be a hoot to fly it over some of the local yokels over there and scare the hell out of 'em!