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November 12, 2005

Get your idioms right! (, , )

by fluffy at 1:57 PM
It's "Without further ado," not "without further adieu."

"Ado" means "fuss" or "delay." "Adieu" is not a noun but a complete statement which simply means "goodbye."

Why have I been seeing "without further adieu" on weblogs so often lately? It's stupid and wrong and makes no sense in any way! (Unless you're trying to cut a goodbye short.)

July 30, 2005

The transformation of bad Ikea speaker stands into good speaker stands (, , )

by fluffy at 7:16 PM
A photo journey of the transubstantiation of the useless to the functional:

March 8, 2005

Scenes from today (, , )

by fluffy at 10:59 PM
Told in the third person.

3/9 Some minor edits, and fixed some dialog where the original speaker told me the exact words he used.

June 26, 2004

Gmail invites (, )

by fluffy at 10:42 AM
I have 6 gmail invites. If you want one, post a link to an interesting site I haven't seen before.

(Invites to actually be provided at my discretion.)

August 24, 2003

dear fluffy, (, )

by fluffy at 4:03 PM
I'm a time traveler stuck here in 2003.

Upon arriving here my dimensional warp generator stopped working. I trusted a company here by the name of LLC Lasers to repair my Generation 3 52 4350A watch unit, and they fled on me.

Since nobody in this timeline seems to be able to deliver what I need (safely here to me), I will have to build a simple time travel circuit to get where I need myself. While it might be hard to find parts in this time to build anything decent, I need easy to follow schematics from the future to build one which is safe and accurate that will not disrupt the time space continuum with both forward and backward capability accounting for temporal location settings (X, Y, Z), which can be built out of (readily available) parts here in 2003.

— Brian Appel

Wow, that's a tough one...