Dave Kellam

These wee little bitty things inside me are really kicking my ass. Turns out I actually do have mono, things were looking on the up n’up last week but then my throat decided to get all patch, sore as fuck and leave an opening about the size of dime. It’s a great way to start the summer.

Lets move on to something a little bit more interesting. Here’s an internal memo from Warner Music Group to their employees. The internal memo has a link to a bunch of legal sites or initiatives that they’ve started. The link seems to be down for me, maybe it’s getting a lot of traffic.

You also may want to take this opportunity to consider whether any peer-to-peer services are being used on computers in your home. Please keep in mind that use of peer-to-peer services to download copyrighted material without the consent of the copyright owner, whether in your office or your home, is illegal. It is also unfair to all of the talented individuals (including yourself) who contribute to the creation and marketing of creative works.

The part of that paragraph that made me laugh was the “(including youself)”, aww way to be a team player. That’s pretty much how the memo ends to, it’s great.

There’s seems to be an outbreak of monkeypox in the mid-eastern United States. We should probably issue a health warning and travel ban to prevent the spread of this disease. Apparently, it’s similar to smallpox but not as bad and it actually is named monkeypox. The say that the likely cause were ill prairie dogs that were taken in as family pets. You don’t want the monkeypox.

Update: They are searching for the source of the monkeypox outbreak. The best thing they can come up with right now is an exotic pet dealer in Villa Park, Ind. called Phil’s Pocket Pets. They also have several other best-selling diseased exotic pocket pets like hamster tied to mouse and ball of fuzz.

Here’s an applet for a 4D Rubik’s Cube. The creators also offer some explanation and description of the puzzle and how to solve it. Apparently, there are 1 756 772 880 709 135 843 168 526 079 081 025 059 614 484 630 149 557 651 477 156 021 733 236 798 970 168 550 600 274 887 650 082 354 207 129 600 000 000 000 000 possible states in the 4D cube.

June 4th is the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprising. Communism worked great in theory, but doesn’t seem to do all that well in practice (except maybe Cuba; Castro the benevolant dictator). Not that this idea of ‘democracy’ that we’ve had for the last couple hundred years works that much better, but at least we get the illusion of personal freedoms and freedom of speech. I’ll avoid a long rant, Canada’s great to live in, here’s to democracy in China. And here’s a panorama of the square.

I forgot that my school competed for the Stanley Cup in 1906 and 1899, it’s kind of funny really. They never won it, but it shows how things have changed. The ducks have at least made things somewhat interesting, it looked like it was going to be another boring final series. It’s still two teams the are suburban offshoots of major centers… new jersey and anaheim, I’m sorry if that doesnt scream hockey to me. It’s just that I find I watch the hockey playoffs every year until all the Canadian teams are gone and then stop. I guess the suburbanites probably like their teams and support them, they probably just don’t have that rabid Northern hockey thing (although we’ve lost some teams from lack of money).