The O’Blog

Easier than the first. Turns out yesterday was about as difficult as it got since I was able to experience express mail, certified, advertisement flyers and 3rd bundle advertisements (ads you have to manually sort into your pile as you walk). Basically, walking around all day with 3-4 separate stacks of mail that [...]

I think at least Annie or Sean, probably Annie, needs to get this.

Well, after having made it through application, interview and more applications, and then 2 days of orientation, it was finally time for training. I had my first route today as a tagalong postal carrier. Basically, the guy I was with just gave me nearly everything to hand out and told me how to [...]

Good god… someone recreated a typical katamari damacy scene with play-doh. Gave me quite a laugh. Now all we need is someone to take this to the next step and animate it with stop motion.
hmmm…
Katamari Doh-macy

So, someone yesterday tried to DDoS me, or at least this server. Thousands of UDP requests making up 3.3M/s that absolutely hosed my entire internet connection. Now, my modem isn't that fast, but the machine didn't know any better than to keep trying to push out that much, instantly causing the entire network [...]

So really the entry below was the result of digging about 4 pages deep into wikipedia links after having seen this: the trailer for Comedian. Then I found out who that guy is, Hal Douglas, by reading his page on wikipedia. And reading that page will take you to the other two guys [...]

I never knew that it's as easy as this page from wikipedia says it is. I thought there was some complex constant breathing thing going on that allowed people like Kenny G to play a note for 45 minutes straight.
Circular Breathing

Some of the most gorgeous fractals I've ever seen

Well, it's small and crappy looking, but it's an exclusive and I'm thinking this movie is looking good. Looking good, yes. Will it be good? I'm setting my bar way low…
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trailer

Well, that was interesting. Not that you don't fill out enough paperwork just to apply, but this second application/interview step has even more paperwork. Don't know how many times I filled out my S.S. number, full name and date of birth, but it was a lot. However, I realized I had a [...]