05.14.06
Posted in Geekdom, Personal, Humor at 7:56 am by Leopoldo
The People With A Sense Of Humor (PWASOH) mailing list was started in 1991 when I sent a joke to a set of co-workers and got cheers from some and jeers from others who did not want their message boxes (this was before email) filled up with crap. I let people know that they could be added to the ‘People with a sense of humor’ list if they wanted to get more jokes and that anyone could be added or dropped at any time. Over time the list grew to friends, their friends, their friends’ relatives, people who they happened to chat with at a coffee shop.
Sometime around 1997 a picture I posted of an airport hangar filled with fire-retardant foam got passed around aviation web sites and my web server (running out of a closet in my home) was brought down to it’s knees as traffic increased 200 fold overnight. The following hundreds of requests to be added to the list forced a move from personal email management to a Yahoo Group where people could sign up and drop off as they wished.
I knew the list had ‘made it’ when, during a vacation in Hawaii, a perfect stranger stopped me on a street corner to ask if I was ‘that joke guy’. Honest engine, it really happened. The encounter left me a bit dumfounded but was neither the first nor the last. Then in 2001 disaster struck. Read the rest of this entry »
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02.24.06
Posted in Humor at 9:21 am by Leopoldo
Who said that small dogs aren’t cute?
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02.06.06
Posted in Geekdom, Humor at 8:58 am by Leopoldo
Some of you might disagree, but i think Chewie makes a good point on his blog.
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01.30.06
Posted in Humor, Movie Making at 9:55 am by Leopoldo
Here is one for all you indie filmmakers out there that have had to pitch a script:
Pitching Mother.
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01.10.06
Posted in Humor, Food, Movie Making at 9:34 am by Leopoldo
I loved the short instructional video: The Japanese Tradition - Sushi. Go watch it and enjoy.
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12.06.05
Posted in Humor at 6:42 am by Leopoldo
A short Quiz that is worth taking.
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12.01.05
Posted in Humor at 11:34 am by Leopoldo
Feeling a bit under-decorated this Christmas? Well check out this Syncronized Christmas Lights Display and then think about just how much time you can put into decorating.
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11.30.05
Posted in Geekdom, Humor at 5:41 pm by Leopoldo
How damned geeky can you get? Try an animated hard drive explaining superparamagnetic effect to a bit in Hitachi’s Get Perpendicular.
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10.23.05
Posted in Humor at 3:09 pm by Leopoldo
Have a bunch of time? Want to play a game? Give your try at Guess-the-google.
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10.12.05
Posted in Humor at 10:43 am by Leopoldo
Halloween is coming, have you bought your candy yet?
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