What’s Your Stance?

Being bored, I took the Liberal Test. Most if not all of the questions are (not surprisingly) slanted so there is no middle ground. It’s barely scientific and some of the questions are a howl. Surprisingly, I came out as

I guess that means I’m a free thinker. *shrug* I’m still not voting for Nader this fall.

I went back and took it again (see bored reference above) to see what kind of different response I could get. The second time I came out with

I smiled and thought to myself “Hey, that comes out pretty close to my Chaotic Neutral alignment.”

Doomed

I don’t normally make consecutive posts of unoriginal material, but I had to post this because it is a pretty powerful social commentary (at least from my warped perspective).

Little Gamers is Copyright 2000-2004 Christian Fundin & Pontus Madsen.

Danged Gnomes

Heh. This Red Meat strip is particularly funny. Bug-Eyed Earl always manages to make me laugh.

Red Meat is Property of and © 2004 Max Cannon.

Windows Error Messages in Japan

Earlier today one of my coworkers forwarded this bit of fluff on to me. I found it somewhat entertaining so I am posting it here.

As per my usual habit of debunking urban legends such as this, I went out to my Urban Legends research site to do some background research on it. (I’d rather know for sure if it’s true or not. Just because a friend says it is true doesn’t always mean it is.) I couldn’t find anything to specifically debunk this particular story, and the closest I could come up with were several websites that have taken Windows error messages and redone them has Haiku poetry. This seems far more likely and the e-mail below could be a natural “cut and paste” evolution from creativity to “hey look at this” to gossiped Internet folklore about our screwy Japanese friends.

Enjoy!

---

The following are reported to be 14 actual error messages seen on
computer screens in Japan, where some are written in Haiku.

1. The website you seek cannot be located, but countless more exist.

2. Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent and reboot. Order shall return.

3. Program aborting: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much.

4. Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams.

5. Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that.

6. Your file was so big. It might be very useful. But now it is gone.

7. Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is down.

8. A crash reduces your expensive computer to a simple stone.

9. Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has occurred?

10. You step in the stream, but the water has moved on. This page is not here.

11. Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky, but we never will.

12. Having been erased, the document you’re seeking must now be retyped.

13. Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared.

14. Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

Aren’t these better than “your computer has performed an illegal operation”?

Which OS are you?

This was a relatively entertaining personality quiz. It managed to blow at least 5 minutes of my time, then left me wondering if I needed to be compiled or not whenever I wanted to do something new. I found solace in the fact that I am considered extremely stable and durable though. (Some Linux in-jokes. I guess you had to be there).

Which OS are You?

Medium Rare Please

One of my favorite Red Meat comic strips. Red Meat is Copyright 2003 Max Cannon.

Some of you may wonder why I posted this particular comic strip given my professed Christian beliefs. Some of you may look at this and think that I’m not a Christian at all, or that I am poking fun at people who profess to be Christian. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I believe that my faith has to bear criticism, skewering, and taunting from all angles. It has to withstand scrutiny and testing. In other words, I have to be able to read this strip, then laugh at myself sometimes in order to be a stronger Christian. This comic strip lets me do that.

In all honesty, do you think that you could handle seeing the world the way that God sees it? I know I certainly couldn’t.

Open your mind while staying true to your beliefs. You will appreciate what you believe in all the more. If it doesn’t add up, it probably because you don’t have all the facts yet. (Hint: That’s where faith comes in.)

Enjoy.

-C-

Chuckles

I don’t know why, but today’s her! struck me as particularly inspired. A related site also adds background to why the Great One is so Great.

Apologies for not posting any more photos recently. As Emma gets older the “firsts” are fewer and fewer. I do have a new photo album that I will be posting soon, as well as some “classic” photos from my family photo album. Also look for me to post a “Rogue’s Gallery” of family members and friends that you can link to as you read through my posts.