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All Hallow's Eve
It seemed like a shame to delete all the Hallowe'en submissions coming in today, so let's see if we can figure out something useful to do with them. Tonight is a full moon, which is a bad thing if you happen to be around animals. Several readers sent in Mac O' Lanterns of various types. One soul sent in a Jack O' Linux. This guy carves big pumpkins (be sure to click the arrows to see the finished versions). And if all else fails, bring out the Gimp.
10-31-2001 Duuude, me and my buds have a great idea -- we took our machine and put it in a pumpkin -- we call it "Jack-O-Linux" get it? Linus would be proud!
11-04-2001 JOL (Jack-O-Linux) has begun to smell. I'm beginning to regret not putting in a fan as playing Quake tends to heat it up quite a bit and makes the rotting stench almost unbearable... should've used a Crusoe.
11-06-2001 JOL caught on fire today. I think a piece of rotting pumpkin flesh fell onto the sound card and caused a spark... I'm not really sure though, as I'm afraid to look inside the pumpkin.
11-07-2001 Fabreeze doesn't work on pumkins
11-09-2001 The JOL exploded today as I was browsing slashdot. Apparently the Methane inside the pumkin built up to critical levels. Now my room smells like an odd mixture of farts, pumpkin pie, ozone, and death. Funny thing though -- JOL still boots.
11-10-2001 Drinking with my buds tonight we came up with a great idea: B-E-O-W-O-L-F..
There are 10 types of people in this world, those who can count in binary and those who can't.
Shamelessly stolen from yahoo..
To make the superstitious even more jittery, a constellation associated with the some end-of-the-world beliefs will also be at the top of Wednesday night's sky.
The Seven Sisters constellation, which looks like a small cluster of grapes, has long been a signal for the time of year to honor the dead - such as All Saints Day, Nov. 1.
According to myth, the Seven Sisters constellation is at its highest point in the sky during a great calamity, possibly the biblical flood or the sinking of Atlantis. The Aztecs and Mayans believed it would be overhead at midnight on the night the world comes to an end, Horkheimer said.
The Seven Sisters and the full moon will both be directly overhead at midnight, he said.
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I guess its time to tick off items from my Disaster Check list...
Rapid Nirvana
My (very religious) friend told me today that it's Martin Luther day for Lutherans.
I suggested that he should go trick-or-treating; as a "trick", if people don't give him candy, he could nail the 95 theses to their door.
Don't forget the lovely and talented jack-o-lanterns up for display on Rotten.com.
-j
Torg, come out of the spaceship. Nothing can stop Torg.
After carving my pumpkin last night, a friend noticed that it strongly resembled one famous kernel hacker: http://www.xeme.com/~elanda/pumpkin/possessed.html
Its not just a full moon, its also a blue moon
I'm often said to only get laid one in a blue moon... Hot sex for me tonight! YAY!
Shayne
Today I didn't even have to use my AK; I got to say it was a good day -- Icecube
Today, I bought a bus ticket.
The expiry date is 01.11.01 11.10.
Of course, the purchase date was 01.11.01 10.10.
I found this totally hilarious. Perhaps I should get out more often.