Boxes are the essence of moving…and cardboard is the essence of boxes If you have a pending move on the horizon, you should most assuredly buy boxes from ABF U-Pack Moving…and not just because they paid me to say that. They offer a superior product, plain and simple. Having undergone several moves in my day, I can tell you with some certainty that having the right boxes will make the entire process far, far easier. U-Pack offers bundled packages, box assortments, and single boxes of many given sizes. In addition to the actual boxes themselves, they offer moving and packing supplies…basically your moving one-stop moving shop. FTW. Hit the above link for a clearer picture of what U-Pack has to offer…FWIW, you can schedule a reservateion for your move and get 10% lopped off the cost. Not too shabby.

Oh snaps…look who’s a MF-ing THOUSANDAIRE!!!! WHOOMP SHAKA LAKA SHAKA LAKA SHAKA LAKA SHAKA WHOOMP SHAKA LAKA SHAKA LAKA SHAKA LAKA SHAKA WHOOMP SHAKA LAKA SHAKA LAKA SHAKA LAKA SHAKA

I’d absolutely love to spend my time with all of my nerd accessories fired up and the thermostat cranked up to 80 degrees. Unfortunately, if I had both TVs, all 4 notebooks, the PS3 and Wii fired up, the power meter would move faster than Blanch from the Golden Girls. Oh snaps! Energy saving in our house is a tricky beast, not so much from the obvious (use less energy) reasons as in physical reasons…plain and simple, the sucker is old as dirt. Like Sophia from the Golden Girls. Now I’m reaching a bit… Enter Microsoft Hohm. When presented with an opportunity to rattle on about something for a small sum of money, I only accept said opportunity if I can rattle on with some sort of insight into the topic. This one definitely strikes close to home. I’d much rather spend my well-earned money on things I enjoy, like gadgets and vacations. Last fall, Kate and I managed to seal our leaky windows with plastic wrap in order to drive down our heating bill…I’m guessing we saved well over the price of a funny blended drink in Vegas per day during the cold months. As far as home energy in general…we have been taking steps to unplug unused (sad panda) powered items. Not much, maybe, but something. Anyhow, I logged onto Microsoft Hohm’s website and fired up an account, which was free. You do need a MS email account, and my old Hotmail guy worked just fine. You are prompted for basic info about your abode…pretty straight forward. The cool (and somewhat embarrassing in the case of our place) thing is seeing how you stack up against the averages in your area. Check out how we rank against the Bozo crowd: And more specifically Ouch. Looks like it is back to the drawing board. The good thing about Hohm’s site is that they drill you with recommendations after they analyze your scenario… So they good news is they have a grip of solutions to drive down your costs, from changing settings on your home appliances to blowing in additional insulation into your attic. Pretty slick stuff They also have tips for nerds, like changing your machine to enter sleep mode. Maybe on Vista, Microsoft. Maybe on Vista. I’ll be wrapping my water heater with a jacket well before I’ll horse around with my Linux desktop settings. Hit one of the above bumps and check it out for yourselves…it is definitely an eye-opener.

Cross-bot was totally like, “grr–that sux I’m all angry” and I said, like “dude, whatever, ur a green robot-dude w/ some claws or whatevs” just chillax cross-bot. chillax.

Just a friendly reminder, 26outs.com is still up and rolling. And Carlos Zambrano is less than good. Horrible, in fact…first outing was a dismal 4-fucking-outs-horrible. Quite unfortunately, the other Big Z, Matt Zignego, has been sitting on his thumb and not blogging. As bjordan would say, sad panda. Regardless, Gameday Audio is functional again, and I’m streaming currently. Go Dempster; Go Cubs.

SPILLS MAKE CUP-BOT SAD

Have you ever wished that there existed a fruit that looked like a strawberry, only white, and tasted like a pineapple? Here you go, you sick weird-fruit-wanting-son-of-a-bitch. Per DailyMail:

Seeing their juicy red flesh in the shops is a sign that summer is on its way. But this year your strawberries could be as white as the cream poured over them, after a new variety went on sale today. The pineberry is said to combine the shape and texture of a strawberry with a flavour and smell closer to that of a pineapple. … They join other unusual recently introduced fruits such as the strasberry, which looks like a cross between a strawberry and a raspberry. Grown in glasshouses, the pineberry - as they have been dubbed for the British market - starts off green, gradually turning paler as it ripens. When it is sweet and juicy enough to eat, the flesh is almost completely white but studded with red seeds. Waitrose fruit buyer Nicki Baggott said: ‘Pineberries offer our customers the chance to add a new fruit into their diet, and the berry’s bright appearance can add an unusual decoration to sweet dishes. Okay, dudes. New fruit. Niiiice. I think I’ll stick with my standard go-to, the coffee bean. Do whatever you want, though.

Chew-bot is wintergreen-y and cancer-y. ftl.

Slashdot was bad, google is worse. Remember the whole Topeka changing its name to to Google thing… …see? It is like that, but only more asinine. Loads of laughter. (disclaimer…google sandboxed swantron during my domain name change, rendering my PR 0…assfaces also dropped me from AdSense twice…fuck Google)

I had a creeping suspicion that the best xkcd of all time might be integrated into unixkcd…turns out I was on to something This made my day. Especially, since /. is utter garbage with all of the “funny” stories…pretty retarded. ***Note: sudo rm -rf * does nothing…I tried.***