Author: Eric

Pilot and Travelers Subdue Hijacker

Now, here’s a great way to handle hijackers. The pilot here is to be commended. Read the original article. Basically, it went like this: A fast-thinking pilot with his passengers in cahoots fooled a hijacker by braking hard upon landing, then accelerating to knock the man down. When he fell, flight attendants threw boiling water […]

Popular Blog Topics at The Quagmire

These represent UNIQUE hits and not page loads. So they don’t add to the total hits. And these stats have only been collected for about one year. But you want to know what have been the most popular blog keyword for the past year at The Quagmire? Here ya’ go: 2784 5.71% crazy 2778 5.69% […]

Roof News and Cat News with an Acid Reflux Kicker

Weird combination, I know. In the good news department, my roof today passed its final inspection. Blown away around 29 October 2005 by that bitch, Hurricane Wilma whilst I was in China. Installed by BET Roofing over a grueling 16 months, and finished and passed final inspection 13 February 2007. Now, I have to pay […]

Eddie Murphy in Norbit (Review)

Eddie Murphy plays three starring roles in this film (Norbit, Rasputia, and Mr. Wong). It’s a really funny film, and makes you fondly recall back when he was funny before he started making really bad comedies. Yes, you remember those films. Happily, this movie is fun and funny. Nobody will mistake it for art, or […]

I got a Wii today :)

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In My Ongoing CD Ripping Project

In a previous post or two, I’ve commented on this project. As of right now, I’m at 20.5 days of continuous music, representing over 7400 songs and counting. I’m on the Classical section and it’s slow going because of various discrepancies in the process that don’t happen with Rock/Pop CDs. With all the foreign names, […]

The 100,000th hit will happen….

…. in the next 12 hours but I won’t be on-line to see it. The counter is down near the bottom, and you can even click the little planet icon to get some semi-anonymous type statistics. I’m just amazed at how far this blog has come. I could thank Technorati, but they have contributed all […]

Any Excel Gurus?

I need help. Here’s a sample spreadsheet:   A B C 1 alex fred ted 2 5 8 31 3 7 16 20 4 14 19 11 5 21 22 4 Pretty easy for this example. I want to get the maximum of a row (say MAX A1,b1,c1) and then print the name associated with […]

Why Blogger Beta Sucks

This was reported over one month ago via the Blogger contact mechanism. I never got any reply. I understand it’s free, and I guess I’m getting what I’m paying for. This problem happens only with New Blogger (Blogger Beta that is not theoretically Beta anymore — it was not an issue with the Original Blogger). […]

Prince’s Halftime Imagery Questioned

Green Stuff From Associated Press article dated February 06, 2007 11:16 PM EST First, this: “In the sensitive post-wardrobe malfunction world, some are questioning whether a guitar was just a guitar during Prince’s Super Bowl halftime show.” Well, I have to wonder myself. It was amazingly suggestive, and we were all, “Oh My God” but […]