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  • rajbot 5:38 pm on April 24, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Mammenschanz! 

    I remember seeing Mammenschanz on the Muppet Show when I was much younger… It was the strangest and most surreal thing I had seen at the time, and memories of a creepy long-limbed spider-person has been hiding in the back of my brain for a long time. I stumbled upon this MetaFilter post and the memories came rushing back.. So, apparently the Mammenschanz are real and not some kind of half-remembered wonderful nightmare.

    The Muppet Show was amazing. I wonder if kids’ shows these days are of the same caliber…

     

  • rajbot 10:37 pm on April 8, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Sasha’s Kats! 

    Shasha recently got a couple of very cute kitty kats! They like to sit on her head!
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  • rajbot 10:01 pm on April 8, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Zara and Ice Bat, BFF 

    We found Ice-Bat at Archimage in Rochester, and brought him home to live with us. We didn’t know how Zara and Ice-Bat would get along, but they’ve become fast friends!

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    More pics!

    Also, don’t let your dog play with things that aren’t dog toys. It is dangerous.

     

  • may 3:03 pm on April 2, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    killer bunny! 

    Peliom didn’t believe me when I told him I saw a bunny attack a snake, so here it is…proof!

     

  • rajbot 9:24 am on March 6, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    The Bernal Owls 

    A pair of Great Horned owls relocated to Bernal hill a couple months ago. Bernal resident Art has been taking beautiful pics of The Neighborhood Owls!



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  • may 11:58 pm on February 24, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    they’re like banana peels 

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    Spotted while on my bike somewhere near Rodeo Beach today. I didn’t see any frogs though.

     

    • rajbot 10:43 pm on February 25, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      I think this post is in need of the bobslobster tag!

    • may 11:57 pm on February 25, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      ah, how could i have forgotten? here you go Bob! :-)

  • may 7:57 pm on February 21, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Pair Programming 

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    I never understood what pair programming was until now. Glad someone drew a picture for me. (found on Pivotal blabs).

     

    • rajbot 12:01 am on February 22, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Zara and I are always pair programming in front of the fireplace.

      Zara: You forgot to obsessively check the internet! Someone might have posted something somewhere!
      Raj: I’ll get right on it right after I type this semicolon!

    • peliom 10:24 am on February 22, 2007 Permalink | Reply

    • rajbot 10:54 am on February 22, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      When in reality, pair programming is where one guy sits there and makes Rajbot do all the work.

    • mangtronix 6:51 pm on February 26, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      The weird thing about knowing lots of different languages is that you get to the end of a line and you’re like “semicolon… or not?”

      The answer of course, is that I need a kitty or a rajbot.

    • may 9:11 pm on February 26, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      yeah i didn’t get this until someone told me there are no semicolons in ruby :-)

  • rajbot 4:51 pm on February 20, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    The Camel Bookmobile in Kenya is the best thing I’ve seen all day! Check out the pictures, video, donation info, and amazon wishlist. They need donations of books in English and Swahili. You can ship eleven pounds of your old books to them for $11.55. (via boingboing)

     

  • bobslobster 1:23 am on February 9, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Screwed by Netflix! 

    My life is saga of bad customer service/customer experiences. This morning, the latest culprit was Time-Warner Cable. Assholes. My plan to decompress from the stress of the day was to pop in a netflix movie and chill out before going to sleep. I had just rented Rang De Basanti, which I had been looking forward to watching for a while. However, when I put it in my playstation, it turned out to be an audio CD!!! They gave me the soundtrack!!! Now, you may say, “Bobslobster, this soundtrack looks pretty good, maybe you should make some lemonade out of this lemon and give it a listen?

    Well, Mr. Smart Guy, it just so happens that I just went to India, a country of 1 billion people, and came back with exactly 3 cds. One of which was the SOUNDTRACK TO RANG DE BASANTI!!!!!!!

    ARRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! NETFLIX. IS. SCREWING. ME.

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    • Fascist Nation 9:34 am on February 14, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Sorry to hear your problem with Netflix. I rather like their service. Their web site customer account complain/error reporting form is really good, and I have had to use it myself on occasion (boo-hiss). But sometimes stuff happens. But like you my biggest frustration is this: If you report the disc is defective, Netflix will immediately send a replacement without waiting for the defective disc to be returned.

      But if you claim the disc is not what you ordered, you have that 3-4 day turnaround to look forward to. And that is just wrong!

      In your case, I suspect Netflix or their DVD supplier made an error in ordering an Indian flick in which they got the CD soundtrack by the same name, and did not realize it. I do kind of wish they had a make up and say we are sorry idea to smooth one’s disappointment after a rough day of kicking back to watch a movie, and instead you get WTF!&*@!!

    • rajbot 8:34 pm on February 14, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      You think Netflix or their supplier made a mistake?? DID YOU NOT READ THE POST??

      Crazy fool.. The CEO of Netflix is obviously out to personally ruin bobslobster’s day!

  • rajbot 11:48 pm on January 1, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Meet Bear! 

    We’ve been spending more time with dogs than people lately.. Mike and Thea are on a honeymoon so we’ve been hanging out with Bear!

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  • rajbot 11:37 pm on January 1, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Meet Ziggy! 

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    Ziggy + Zara BFF!

     

  • rajbot 5:55 pm on December 28, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Meet Ella! 

    Ethan and Emily adopted Ella from Wonder Dog Rescue. What a cuuuuuuutie!!!

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    • may 10:43 pm on January 1, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      awww, she is *adorable* i want a dog!!! i called earlier today to see if i could walk zara but alas you were not home. another day!

  • rajbot 1:04 am on December 28, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    MetaFilter: Louder and Dumber than the YouTube commenters? 

    XKCD captures the stupidity of YouTube commenters who are quick to shout FAKE:

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    The thing is, for a site with open membership, YouTube comments are pretty damn good. Check out this video of our friend, a genius film director, on YouTube:

    Check the comments at YouTube, and then go read the MetaFilter comments about this video. MetaFilter is supposedly a community of 20,000 of the smartest people you know. Bob even jumped in the thread and tried to correct people who were shouting FAKE!

    Looks staged, but I’ve got no audio at work.

    This has done the rounds before – and IIRC, it’s staged.

    Yup! That’s definitely what’s happening. Look what his cheek is doing while he has his fist to his mouth — definitely filling up with something.

    It’s definitely staged. Too poor production value to not be. And no tv show in their right mind would let an unknown in his condition on live television.

    Actually, it does look staged. Had me fooled though.

    meh. if you’re going to faux vomit on television, try and make it looks real. or exciting.

    Eventually BoingBoing linked to the video, which I put online for FFFF, and it killed our server. The clip has been linked from everywhere (MetaFilter, eBaumsworld, fark, VH1) but it took BoingBoing to kill it. I moved the video to InfiniteBandwidthTube.

    Anyway, it’s not fake.

     

    • bobslobster 12:57 am on February 9, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      MeFi is a community of the 20,000 smartest people i know? If you say so. But, they are not the 20,000 most informed people i know. The only reason (besides the awesome power of my laziness) that I never created a MeFi account is because the comments on most medical topics on Mefi is a deluge of meaningless anecdotes, fallacies, and rants that don’t educate anyone about the topic at hand. One of these days I will start my OWN blog……oh, wait.

  • may 6:25 pm on December 13, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    This year’s must-have fashion accessory 

    as documented by our expert TR trend spotters and seen
    here, here, here, here, here, and here! I dunno…looks like red is in.

     

  • rajbot 12:37 am on December 13, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Oscar Vs Treadmill 

    Oh noe! It’s cold outside and the snow is soooo deep! I’m a little pup-pup with little feets.. but even us little doggies need walkies!

    Meet Oscar, Amy J.’s sister’s cuuuuute pup!

     

    • may 2:37 pm on December 13, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      i always wondered what dog owners do with their dogs when it snows :-)

    • rajbot 3:09 pm on December 13, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      I took Zara out for her walkies this morning.. it was raining so there was no one out except a couple dogwalkers.. maybe there is an indoor doggie gym in Bernal that I don’t know about? If there isn’t, there should be!

  • bobslobster 3:02 pm on November 17, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    this calendar is good for another month or so…. 


    Due to my general distaste for getting tasered, I have been avoiding the UCLA library. However, I found this odd calendar among their online collections. It was made by a chemical company 1899 and intended for physicians. Coincidentally, the dates match up with 2006. Here is the library’s description:

    “The Antikamnia (“Opposed to Pain”) Chemical Company of St. Louis, Missouri produced several calendars (1897-1901) illiustrated with “Skeleton Sketches”–chromolithographed series based on watercolors by the local physician-artist Louis Crucius. The limited edition calendars were mailed to physicians who provided business cards or letterhead correspondence as evidence of their medical standing. Antikamnia was a proprietary product consisting of acetanalid (antifebrin) combined with sodium bicarbonate, citric acid and caffeine.
    The Liebeskind Collection recently acquired a copy of the calendar for 1899, which matches 2006′s calendar day-for-day.”

    Also, check out some more of their online medical exhibits here to learn about things like bloodletting, and be glad that today’s healthcare system is so much less absurd.

     

  • may 5:23 pm on November 3, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    I was gonna get a kitty cat, but then… 

    although, since i’m not likely to make it to heaven, maybe none of this matters…

    plus, look at these kitties!

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  • may 8:11 am on October 31, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Happy Halloween! 



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    • Arena 9:59 am on October 31, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      why limit yourself to pumpkins?

    • Travis 11:05 am on November 1, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      I see a site mascot! lol Or the original site pineapple coming back to get revenge on the TikiRobot logo..just a thought! lol

    • peliom 2:40 pm on November 3, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      This is just one of ideas that is so simple it’s just brilliant.

  • may 12:53 am on October 27, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    aren’t you glad you’re not a dog? 

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    • Travis 10:56 am on November 1, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      I would call it abuse but i’m laughing too hard!

  • may 11:17 pm on October 25, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Mmmwwwwaah! 

    So, for the past few weeks, I’ve been seeing an ad link for $32 lipstick in our sidebar and for the life of me I can’t figure out why. Amazon seems to think I really want it. I’m pretty sure none of you people want lipstick, but in case you do, here’s the stuff i really do like. Burt’s Bees Lip Shimmer True it’ll make your lips tingle like Ben Gay, but you all give your lips a regular workout, right? consider it the lipstick of choice for active lips – at $3.75, you can get them in all available colors and still go out for ice cream.

     

    • may 1:05 pm on October 26, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      fantabulous! now the entire line of Burt’s Bees beauty products is in my sidebar. next up, a post on why i really need new shoes.

    • rajbot 1:14 pm on October 26, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      I still get the $32 lipstick and some ‘viral marketing for dummies’ title..

    • may 5:53 pm on October 26, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      uh oh, now weird yoga things are appearing. drat.

  • bobslobster 3:58 pm on October 24, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Party in the LA subway tonight. 

    I don’t know a lot about this, but it seems pretty self explanatory. A celebration of LA public transportation, with art from the cobra snake and Shepard Fairey as a guest DJ. Sounds fun! You need to ride public transportation to get in. I will be there as soon as i figure out how…

     

    • Travis 10:53 am on November 1, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      lol I love the wonderful LA Metro! You meet the coolest people ever! It’s like going on an adventure to DisneyLand lol Check out my friend Felony on my myspace; I ran into her when the train broke down!

      http://www.myspace.com/traviswilbur

  • may 9:44 pm on October 18, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    khraigslist! 

    is a place where you can find stuff like

    khraigslist is a production of kasperhauser. They’ve got a book coming out at the end of the month called SkyMaul: Happy Crap You Can Buy from a Planeand there’s gonna be a party to celebrate (at Cobbs on 11/14). I’m gonna go. you should go too. and buy their book cause my friend John really really needs a new haircut. (actually that’s his twin brother James but they look so much alike…)

     

    • rajbot 5:02 pm on October 21, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Your friends are entirely too funny.. are you going to the party at Cobbs?

    • may 9:21 am on October 22, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      yep! colette and i are gonna go for sure (i think you met colette at the lobster show :-) You guys should come too! Tickets are over here.

  • may 5:05 pm on October 11, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    I guess it was payback time 

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    Apparently this plant ate a mouse at the Botanical Gardens in Lyon, France on Friday. “Botanists discovered a partially digested mouse inside the plant after several people complained of a horrible smell.” The plant is called Nepenthes truncata and can be found on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.

    (via boing boing)

     

  • peliom 1:52 am on October 6, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    TXTing in First Life 

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    There is this amazing new game that just came out called First Life. Everything is rendered in 3D. It has full ray-tracing, reflections, environment mapping, textured surfaces with self occlusion, radiosity, gamma correction, color matching, just about everything. It’s amazing, it looks just like everything in Second Life … you can hardly tell that it’s real!!! The game starts out in this huge world and you start out with no money and no weapons. All you get when you start the game is thing called a Handset. But you can get stuff by helping other people. You help them with their projects and they will give you things. And gradually you can get more and more stuff and you can buy land and build things and make things. There is even a monetary system so you can exchange First Life money from the game and get back Linden Dollars. So you can play around in First Life and then you can actually convert the money you get in the game so you can use it here in Second Life. It’s like a real economy!

    So I was checking it out today and someone was doing this cool project where I showed up. It’s called TXTual Healing. This guy travels around in First Life and sets up these things where you can project messages onto buildings and walls. You use your Handset to send the messages. You can be anywhere in First Life and send a message to this thing and people who are in that part of the world can see it, it’s really fun. The messages have these cute cartoon bubbles around them.

    There’s another guy doing something similar they call the Wiffiti Network. They set up these screens in different towns in First Life and you can send TXT to a public screen using your Handset. My favorite is at this place some guy created called Toscanini’s. It’s in Cambridge Sector, I think it’s supposed to be a cafe or something.

    You guys should come play First Life with me! It’s really cool, I’m getting kind of addicted to it …. Scary!!!

     

    • may 12:36 pm on October 6, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      OMG! I totally wanna play!!! where do I sign up?? I can’t wait to tell my dad about this…he’ll think this is SOOOO MUCH cooler than Second Life :-)

  • peliom 2:42 am on October 4, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    My New Phrase is “And So On …” 




    I’m just tired of “etc.” People never pronounce et cetera correctly anyway.

     

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