Archive for November, 2008

There are so many things about that ad that are awesome. Including the fact that the jersey appears to fit perfectly. Oh and the fact that it is dead.

once again, i am reminded of one of the great ironies i have encountered in my travels:<br><br>Welcome to Kentucky! Where Education Pays.

Kentucky “Slam Dunkin” Wildcat
For a cool $1000 you can have this one-of-a-kind actual cat, posed and stuffed in mid-dunk. Awesome?

Is it wrong for me to somehow wish that that truck had collided with a Cap n’ Crunch tanker truck?

Super Obama World
With horrible collision detection and kind of lame controls, this SMB clone featuring the President-elect is entertaining for about 5 minutes.

Creamy Buttermilk Accident On I-5
A tanker truck carrying buttermilk collided with a pickup truck about 1:30 Wednesday morning near exit 105. Only minor injuries were reported, but 1,000 gallons of thick, rich buttermilk spilled onto the roadway. Pancake enthusiasts around the Sound mourned the setback.

Cool, thanks for the clarification, that might help her some. Because it’s a cookbook I assume it’s got some real wonkery going on in there.

Fox Attack!!!
No, really. Fox attack.

There are <a href=”http://www.doc2pdf.net/converter/” target=”_blank”>various tools out there</a> that will convert Office (and other) documents to PDF. Most of them license the technology from Adobe – the creators of the PDF format. But most also use the “light” version of the technology that is less sophisticated than the full Adobe Acrobat product. Conversion results can vary significantly with these. If you have the full Adobe Acrobat product (not the Reader plugin for viewing them), try printing the document to the “Adobe PDF” printer or “Distiller” printer that should appear in your printers. This will invoke a “Save As” dialog and you can drop it right on your desktop or folder of choice. If there are not printers with these names, you probably don’t have <a href=”http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatstd/” target=”_blank”>full Adobe Acrobat</a>.

If you’re using Office 2007, you can get a free plugin from Microsoft that will allow you to simply <a href=”http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4D951911-3E7E-4AE6-B059-A2E79ED87041&displaylang=en” target=”_blank”>save as PDF</a>. This tool has been pretty successful for me, although not 100% perfect. It is possible the source document is just too funky to convert perfectly. If it’s got weird pagination or front-to-back layout or something, it might require the full Acrobat to better control conversion parameters.

America, Fuck Yeah.