Today’s young men are overly feminized, indecisive, binge drinking good-for-nothings who need a backbone and a brain. Or so my grandpa might say. For those of us who endeavor to rise above that description and desire to achieve real manhood, Tom Chiarella has a few things we can work on to get there. My favorite?
29. Understand quantum physics well enough that he can accept that a quarter might, at some point, pass straight through the table when dropped.
Sometimes the laws of physics aren’t laws at all. Read The Quantum World: Quantum Physics for Everyone, by Kenneth W. Ford.
Followed closely by:
30. Feign interest. Good place to start: quantum physics.
It’s Esquire, so you know going in there will be questionable content in the general area. You’ve been warned.
I could care less, but Facebook launched their GoogleTalk clone chat utility the other day. And apparently, just like GoogleTalk you can run it in the sidebar in Firefox. Woot.
The upside to this is now you can chat with all your friends without having to open up Facebook, and you’ll be free to browse other websites while chatting.
To add the Facebook chat to your Firefox sidebar, press Ctrl+Shift+B to bring up the Bookmarks Organizer.
Go to Organize -> New Bookmark and type the following address: http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php
Also mark the box that says “Load this bookmark in the sidebar”.
Yes, I did just use the word “pwns” in the title of my post… blame it on the fact I’m typing this on my iPhone since Apple has my computer for the next week.
So apparently Spybot has a nasty habit of taking away your ability to disable your Windows Firewall, go figure, so now when you go to disable it, the disable option is grayed out and cannot be selected.
Here’s how to disable it manually:
Click Start
Hit Run
Type services.msc
Once it opens, find the entry marked “Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing [ICS]” and right-click on it and hit Stop.
Now right-click on it again, and select Properties.
On the General tab change the Startup Type to Disabled. Click Ok.
And there you have it, no more Windows Firewall. Of course I would recommend installing another firewall solution after disabling the Windows Firewall, but that’s your call.
Here are some instructions for installing NES games on your iPod touch or iPhone. These will best benefit you if you already have a jailbroken iPod or iPhone and a wireless network.
To understand that title, you have to know that I’m nowhere close to a cyber geek , or even a guy that really has a clue about websites. Strange then that I list web designer in my “career” list on our handy dandy About page. How does that work?
Alright, when I last updated you guys, I was finishing out my last week after having quit my job. They let me go Wednesday after we finished the biggest job we had in production and I took the rest of the day to celebrate. I gotta tell you, it feels really good to quit your job, you should try it sometime! (I guess now is about the time I should tell you that Hijinks Inc. does not take any responsibility for any advice you take from this blog)
I was checking my usual sites today and stumbled across this great article over on Lifehacker. Sounds like a very cool, and fairly inexpensive way to make yourself an incredible Media Center. Check it out!
If I didn’t just get a Media Center of my own (thanks again Aaron) I’d definitely look into this. Add in the functionality of being able to mod your Xbox and save all those games illegally and you really start to feel a little like a pirate. Add in a peg leg and don’t shower for about a month and you’d be good to go!
That’s right ladies and gentlemen, you read that correctly. I’ve embarked on the journey of becoming the ultimate housewife. Ultimately, this path will lead to becoming a stay at home dad, but I don’t feel the need to expound on that portion of the experience. I hope to use this as a sort of guide to starting your own business, learning how to help out around the house, and becoming a more “well rounded” individual (that’s what my wife says it’s called).
