tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30378392024-03-13T18:20:55.668-04:00the Mai-King Chinese RestaurantWhatever random crap I can pull out of my head. Just like every other Blog out there, really.
Boosh!The Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037839.post-68012224375170049102017-01-06T22:53:00.001-05:002017-01-06T22:54:15.501-05:00Because the US is apparently part of Russia now...
Merry Christmas!
The Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037839.post-46358300904645754652012-10-11T05:24:00.000-04:002012-10-11T05:24:52.472-04:00Would you like to pin this .ini file?
The saddest part is that this would still be more meaningful than 98% of existing Facebook posts.
Microsoft recently released an updated configuration menu for my keyboard. It still doesn't let me change the function of the stupid zoom slider so I can use it to scroll. It does, however, include handy little buttons that, presumably, allow me to easily share my hotkey settings on Facebook and The Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037839.post-1152179259770100482012-10-09T04:29:00.003-04:002012-10-09T04:29:51.578-04:00Know Your Defunct Amusement Parks in Pennsylvania
Remembering the Labor Movement in 2012
iPhone photograph on Blog
$35,000
So I have this great idea for a First Friday meta-exhibit! It's called "We Parked at the Mall," and it consists of exterior photographs of various First Friday galleries that, for whatever reason, decided to turn out the lights and pack it in by 8:15 or so, the event's official 9 PM end time notwithstanding.
Apparently, The Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037839.post-72434519448647606242012-10-02T03:53:00.000-04:002012-10-02T03:53:10.508-04:00And speaking of shameless endorsements
A message from the National Chicken Tenders Bureau.The Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037839.post-36358534257713785342012-10-01T22:00:00.002-04:002012-10-01T22:07:45.208-04:00I'm sure this is *exactly* what Stallman had in mindFrom the "Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root." dept.
Launch Firefox? Are you sure you don't want to buy a Kindle Fire instead?
(Wallpaper source: Fuji Choko [alternate link])
So last weekend, I found myself having to upgrade my Linux box to the beta version of the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" release. This release consists primarily of minor version bumps: new kernel version, newer The Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037839.post-21234689932223211332011-09-09T09:14:00.000-04:002011-09-09T09:15:02.903-04:00It's a brand new record for 1990...
They Might Be Giants' brand new album, Join Us Flood!
The local stations' 24-hour flood coverage has been nothing short of magical, in the "college radio show when the CD player breaks down" sense.
The anchors on 16 are currently showing Facebook photos in order to kill time until something, anything, new comes in, and as I'm typing this have forgotten the meteorologist currently on duty, whoThe Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037839.post-84563514633358631252010-07-03T01:02:00.007-04:002010-07-03T04:59:37.703-04:00Great news!From the "No, not the Dacia Sandero" Dept.Since we last checked in on the progress of Scranton's luxury condominiums in 2006, they've finally managed to tear down the other half of that building in the back of the lot, as well as another to the side! Well, most of the one to the side:Still, this sucker's gonna be ready to open any day now!We now conclude "Things that tick Peter Hocking off" week The Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037839.post-69079572944911321652010-07-01T00:16:00.005-04:002010-07-01T05:40:37.032-04:00This is why I still read anime blogsSeries reviews such as this:The phrase "Train wreck" comes to mind, but it’s really not accurate. Trains have momentum and direction. This does not. A better analogy would be a pack of feral chihuauas in heat. With grenades taped to their backs. Entertaining and destructive, maybe even cute and tragic at times, but ultimately a waste of explosives and snake food.from Aroduc's post on the final The Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037839.post-24132028667725676662010-06-29T20:06:00.005-04:002010-06-29T20:34:12.664-04:00We have our priorities in order!Number of days it took to fix the broken images on this blog: 2Number of days it took to produce the stupid video in the previous "Technical Difficulties" post: 4Of course, most of that time was spent just trying to find a free video editor that actually did what I needed it to, without having to resort to Windows Movie Maker....And after going through about fifteen different Linux video editors The Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037839.post-44871671634345335392010-06-27T06:29:00.003-04:002010-06-29T05:04:50.815-04:00We are experiencing technical difficulties, please stand up.Well, yay. Enough things on this blog are now so completely borked that I'm going to have to start paying attention to it again. Maybe all of the forthcoming image fixes will convince me to start updating this thing on a regular basis.Okay, okay. You can stop laughing now. Get off the floor. Please.In the meantime, while I scour ten years of hard drive cruft trying to find the stuff that was hereThe Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037839.post-45556946500333532972009-03-13T05:02:00.006-04:002010-06-29T05:02:16.776-04:00So when do we get to have another World's Fair?Let's see, we have Obama, of course, then Biden, Hillary's at the end, and then we have... Wow, I never knew that Morrissey was a high-ranking cabinet official. Or is that David Byrne?I've been maintaining for a few months now that the presidency of Barack Obama, if nothing else, will at the very least result in a level of kitsch that has not been seen since the JFK era ended.Here, now, is the The Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037839.post-14095486472127170232009-01-21T04:11:00.008-05:002010-06-29T05:00:16.445-04:00So now I'm left wondering...The crowd being informed that they're actually in line for the Carousel of Progress.(photo by ryptide)What, exactly, would have happened if he did swipe the pen?Well, that and why the Chief Justice of the United States can't seem to remember thirty-five goddamn words.And why they didn't send Bush out of Washington on a vehicle more fitting to his legacy than Marine One.Like, say, a tricycle.With The Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037839.post-16213987249882036642009-01-10T22:46:00.004-05:002010-06-29T04:54:53.203-04:00WUSR Fun Fact #4,012Total number of people affected by this announcement: 2The Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037839.post-25202395916141015282009-01-01T00:06:00.005-05:002009-01-03T05:13:36.944-05:00Really, guys, Regis could use the work...I swear that Dick Clark and Jerry Lewis are having some kind of competition over who can look more pathetic in their yearly television appearance.The Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037839.post-65729907096812422352008-10-31T06:10:00.004-04:002010-06-29T04:51:34.236-04:00I, for one, welcome our new Muppet Kate Pierson overlordsI take it back, this is the best video ever.The Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037839.post-43452892618789324292008-03-30T03:57:00.001-04:002010-06-29T04:45:39.501-04:00Don't get too excited now, guys.Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a new winner for the "Creepiest Photo on this Blog" award!In the months since the Lucky☆Star anime aired, Saitama prefecture, the setting of the series, has been finding new and innovative ways to make a quick buck from the franchise. This includes the show's Hiiragi family being registered as official residents of Washimiya, and the Washinomiya shrine (where TsukasaThe Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037839.post-36486695236474394182008-02-26T03:29:00.005-05:002010-06-29T04:41:13.187-04:00DemotaggingRed arrow - approximate location of Scavenger Hunt.This room is also the location of the latter half of In which I realize far too late...The Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037839.post-14880822363291336852008-01-01T00:34:00.000-05:002008-01-01T00:35:54.343-05:00Just a reminder:Next new year's eve will be the last time you'll be able to wear the incoming year as a pair of glasses for the next nine hundred and ninety one years.Start planning now.The Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037839.post-57870036115160197612007-11-17T02:10:00.000-05:002007-11-17T02:55:22.083-05:00In which I realize far too late that I have chosen the wrong university to attendMan, it's amazing the kind of halftime show you can pull off when you don't have only ten poorly-funded band members trying to share the field with 412 vapid cheerleaders.There are certain high schools around here that could possibly learn a lot from this, but then again, who needs silly things like funding for the arts, when you can have hundreds of teenage girls in miniskirts kicking their legsThe Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037839.post-77065821298195079222007-10-23T18:48:00.001-04:002010-06-29T20:05:37.269-04:00Still a pain in the ass at 4 AM, thoughIt's kind of nice to see that I'm not the only one who has had to resort to the old "Bed or Chair System". In fact, it seems to be a time-honored tradition. Of course, the best solution seems to be to get a nice, big apartment and clear the local IKEA of shelving units, but A: I'm stuck in retail for at least another two months, and B: there's no IKEA around here, anyway.I have begun collecting The Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037839.post-68541198936862303732007-10-16T04:54:00.000-04:002007-10-16T06:14:50.366-04:00Bug BouncerSo as I was in the kitchen a while ago, looking for the usual late-night "I should really be writing that paper, but I don't feel like it" snack, I spotted this really big, really nasty centipede hanging out on the wall. I lunged into the closet and pulled out the old bug spray, and gave it a shot. It immediately dropped to the floor, and began slowly wandering about randomly, stopping every The Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037839.post-75824547840709695322007-10-08T09:32:00.000-04:002007-10-08T09:35:35.120-04:00Her last fanLeaving breakfast at the Guster Student Center today, I saw an old man walking up the Commons carrying two trash bags, and wearing a Hillary Duff T-shirt.Just another day in Scranton.The Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037839.post-39663465978983228842007-09-02T05:40:00.001-04:002007-09-02T05:50:44.767-04:00Festa EtiquetteSome advice for those of you attending La Festa Italiana this weekend:Do: Enjoy your food while standing off to the side, out of the way of walking traffic.Don't: Just plop your plates down on top of your baby stroller and proceed to gather around it and have a picnic right in the middle of the sidewalk, causing that entire side of the festival to become gridlocked with people trying to get The Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037839.post-22123248444915342202007-08-29T09:33:00.001-04:002010-06-29T04:34:36.050-04:00Scavenger Hunt468: Abstract portrait of Yuki Nagato in a hipster outfit with donkey ears: Check.The Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037839.post-6890467075972969082007-06-13T00:33:00.000-04:002007-06-13T02:39:52.044-04:00PollRheumatismSodium PentahydrateWhopper™ with CheeseThe 1967 Boston CelticsFive Pounds, Four and SixpenceNeko Mimi ModeFrench HornRobert Pollard Solo AlbumAir-Conditioned LobbyThe Fibonacci SequencePiece A Pie, Bud?Cowboy NealNOTE: You have only one vote, but you may use it however you wish.The Other Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11090163194412088503noreply@blogger.com4