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chinese restaurant prank call
old but funny chinese restaurant prank call.
Coffee Cake
Ingredients large bowl 1 cup butter 1.5 cups sugar 3 eggs 2 tsp. vanilla small bowl 1 1 cup sour cream 0.5 tsp. baking soda small bowl 2 3 cups flour 3 tsp. baking powder small bowl 2 (after) 0.25 cups sugar 2 tsp. cinnamon Directions Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In large bowl, …
Possible Jeopardy “Before & After” answers
You come up with the questions: Screen real estate agent Sleepless in Seattle Seahawks Len (Rosario) Dawson’s Creek Update: Corporate identity crisis Pulitzer prize fighter Norman Mailer-Daemon Best friends with benefits Judge Judy Bloom Tom Cruise control Dry Clean Sweep Southern Bell(e) Pepper John Daly Show Green House Dressing Hammond organ transplant Lawn Bowling Green …
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Broken: Alsoft’s online ordering system
Alsoft is one of my favourite companies. DiskWarrior is the best Mac OS X disk repair utility, hands down. Well, well worth its price. As soon as I found out DiskWarrior 4 had been released, I immediately ordered the upgrade, without even finishing the article. This was around December 11. So, what’s broken? First, Alsoft’s …
New album release
Did you hear Bob Dylan is releasing an album of Sarah McLachlan covers? It’s called Mumbling Towards Ecstasy.
Stupid microwave trick
While many modern microwaves have an “express cook” button, allowing you to heat something for one minute just by pressing “1,” other less-user-centered devices do not. In these cases, to heat something for a minute, most people press Time-1-0-0-Start. Instead, press Time-6-0-Start. Same 60 seconds, one fewer keypress.
What hotels should do
The Chandler, AZ SpringHill Suites has both the Gideons’ Holy Bible and The Book of Mormon in the desk drawer. How about they place a copy of The God Delusion in each room instead?
My Toronto Star crossword puzzle fetcher
On weekday afternoons, the Toronto Star publishes an eight-page PDF edition, “Star PM.” I download this for one reason: the free crossword puzzle. But sometimes I forget to download this, and since there’s no archive, I lose the opportunity to do that day’s crossword. So I wrote a script to automatically fetch today’s Star PM …
How to fix Safari if it can’t view plugin content
For a while, I haven’t been able to view plugin content (Flash, QuickTime, etc.) in Safari. I decided to do some quick regression to determine the source of the problem. First, I viewed the pages in another browser, Camino, and they appeared correctly. So my plugins themselves were not corrupt. Next, I logged in as …
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