I saw this today and had to share it. My friends and I used to do similar, albeit much smaller, shit like this in the woods. Nothing ever blew up, but we did fire that rocket off where we were almost wounded.

Two posts in one day? WTF

Apparently the Oscar Meyer Weiner-mobile is truly a sight to behold. I got this in my in-box today, font screwiness and all:

Look what we saw this past weekend on our way back from Austin along I-10. Last time I saw this I was about 10 years old!

My dad, who is now in his mid-50s, must not get out much. I’m 23 and I’ve seen the Oscar Meyer Weiner-mobile a handful, practically a dozen, of times. I’m compelled to say something like “You saw the hot dog car; how very exciting for you,” but that’s just hateful. I then thought to share in his enthusiasm, but that’s just like lying, you know? I can’t lie to my dad.

Next time we speak on the phone, I’ll just say I saw it and say it was neat when he asks me about it.

That is what I truly want to be
‘Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener
Everyone would be in love with me.

Surely I can’t be the first one to note that software piracy isn’t completely cost-free, can I? I won’t go too in-depth here, but computers don’t run on fairy dust, they run on electricity. Delicious electricity. As for myself, my computer has a 650 Watt power supply and I pay 14 cents per Kilowatt-hour of electricity. This means that if I run my computer for one hour, I pay the electric company:

(650 Watts / 1000 [1 Kilowatt]) * $0.14 = 9.1 cents

Another way to conceptualize this with easier math, is if I have a 1000 Watt (1 Kilowatt) computer, and I run it for 1 hour, it costs me 14 cents. So, if I were to download a 5 GB file through unscrupulous means - which, for the most part have abysmal transfer rates unless you pay for other, faster, services (another can of worms to this line of reasoning) - for 500 hours, it would cost me about $45 versus, the $30-$35 cost of going to the store and picking it up legitimately. Piracy is more expensive than acquiring software through legitimate means to the end-user (pirate). The money just goes to a different place. I’d prefer actors or musicians getting a fraction of a penny for my purchase than the power company getting my dime.

Now, this whole argument goes out the window if you download in the background casually, and only when you would be using the computer anyway. At which point, the extra cost of piracy to you, the pirate, is zero. Understand though, that you are still using your computer to do… whatever it is you use it for, and you still pay the electric company.

You dirty pirate.