Ted Carnahan

Who says that Microsoft doesn’t have a sense of humor? Well, pretty much everyone - but apparently they are wrong. Enter Ms. Dewey, the strangest search engine to date. This is the first and only search engine that I have actually watched, as opposed to used. In the past five minutes, I have been heckled, treated to disco dance moves, and been ‘lasso’d’ by this megalomaniacal woman.

Beyond the eye-candy factor, this is just a wrapper around Windows Live Search - and a pretty useless one at that - so this has got to be proof that Microsoft does in fact have a sense of humor!

Cory Foy happened upon what is, quite possibly the coolest toy ever. It’s too bad he didn’t buy it for Anabelle - just imagine the fun! “Oh no! The nasty wormies are attacking the mail server! Ahhhh!”

Plus, because it’s for ages 3+, it’s fun for the whole family… especially for those of us who have computer science degrees… nevermind.

This graph, from our new release of SAGrader at work, is proof positive that students wait until the last possible moment to complete their assignments. This is the average load on the server for an assignment that was due at 11:00pm on Sunday, December 3. And, happily, we weathered the onslaught with nary a hiccup!

We were talking in ACTS tonight about funny cartoons, and one of my favorites is Reverend Fun. There are archives going back to 1997, and through their voting system, they have a list of the highest-rated cartoons. If you get a few minutes, check it out.

But not just any artificial dangly bits. According to NPR this evening on the way home, “Neuticles” are (and you can’t make this stuff up) “the Cadillac of Prosthetic Dog Testicles.” Apparently some men are so completely insecure about neutering their pets that they are willing to spend as much as $1000 to replace their pets missing nuts with the equivalent of silicon breast implants.

Grow up, man up, and do like Bob Barker. Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.

And don’t feel the need to replace what you remove. They won’t miss them. Promise.