A local Iowan phoned the Oculon.org 24 hours news flash hotline to report that sports writer Tony Baranowski III was repeatedly 0wn3d on the underground drag racing circuit of Iowa City. Witnesses reported that despite the thrashing at the hands of a mysterious BMW, Baranowski continued to talk trash and may continue to do so […]

I’ll be editing these templates at some point, but for now, the 4000+ spam comments have been eliminated.
It feels good that my sql database is no longer 12 megs

Well the comment spam is somehow getting past my blacklist and to make things worse, I’ve got something like 10,000 unapproved comments sitting in my database.
So I’m upgrading my blog software because it allows me to mass delete all unapproved comments. Hopefully this will go smoothly, we may be off the air for a bit.

Well for those of you who haven’t heard, I’ll be heading out east to join Mattbot in Ann Arbor to study Human-Computer Interaction. I found out just yesterday (best valentine’s day ever) and spent the evening drinking a bottle of wine and giving Harvey as many kitty treats as he wanted.
As I wrote in […]

So let’s all hope that this is the one and only time I blog about a vacuum cleaner or vacuuming in general. Quite frankly, I find the use of the double ‘u’ in vacuum to be a little disconcerting.
So last week I was cleaning up the place in anticipation of my land lord showing off […]

Sorry about the infrequent/lame posts. I’ve had about 20 aborted posts over the last two weeks because I either decided they were lame or that I was too apathetic to finish them. So I’m posting this update no matter what. Don’t be surprised if it trails off at the end…
This weekend I polished off the […]

From the desk of Ocu-Master ITC Monitor Extraordinaire
2/4/05
To whom it may concern:
I am one of the monitors at the Main Library ITC. Tiffany had some printing problems as a result of a server outage when she finished her paper at about noon. We were able to get the paper eventually printed but after her deadline. […]

The Steve Miller Band — Does anyone doubt their awesomeness?
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That’s what I thought.
(updates with actual content forthcoming)

Thank god for Weekly World News, the answer to all my problems:
So you’re an unhitched loser who is just dog-tired of trying to make up excuses to tell your friends about why you never have a date. The phrase “No, I’m not gay. Really, I’m not,” is getting a little old.
I mean this article is […]