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I don't remember who I was talking to about this, but they didn't believe me when I told them about "noodling", the "art" of catching catfish by sticking your arm in the mud and letting them bit onto you, and then pulling it up. As you can imagine, this is mostly done by... shall we say, "southern gentlemen" as this video shows. Just to prove that it exists. Oh, and also that rednecks are insane.

I don't normally post random LOLcat images here, and reserve that sort of thing for UFies.org, but this one seemed too good not to share everywhere. It's funny on so many levels :)

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To: anything@arcterex.net                                                                                           
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:01:44 +0000
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This is yoour penis: 8--o                                                                                           
This is yoour penis on drugs: 8=====O                                                                               
Anny questions?                                                                                                     
[spammy MS spaces link and standard spam random words]

ASCII art is awesome! Update: I love that Wil Wheaton also blogged about the same spam (though his was much funnier and more interesting of course).

Passed on from a conversation on IRC:

<TechTygr> arykwrkn: I was in a meeting with Dev one day... and the VP of

Dev asked me why I'm always sniffing a white-board marker during the meetings

<TechTygr> I told him, "It's so I can see things from your point of view"

Heard today over IM from a sysadmin buddy of mine:

Peejay: I think my vacation is going to be hunting down the makers of courier-mta for public executions.
[...]
Peejay: In defence of Courier, it may just be this old version I hate more than life itself.

"Its windows so you have to use the stupid clicky thing."
-- Jim regarding software maintenance

"You smell like blood, sweat, and mom's tears"
-- J of her Dad (kidding of course)

OMG I have so had this conversation more than a few times with other geeks... normally it goes something like this:

• [Random reference to some technology, such as a programming IDE]


• Yea, well back in my day we didn't have no steeking IDE, we used EMACS and were happy with it!


• Oh yea, well back in my day we had VIM


• Vim!? Luxury! We had VI and we loved it!


• VI? Why back in my day we had ed!


• Ed? Luxury! I used to use 'cat' and we were happy.
  [This is where my real life deviates from the comic]
  


• Cat?! My god man you lived such a pampered life, I used to write the binary code directly to disk with 'echo'.


• Echo! We used to use binary


• BINARY! You had both one's and zeros? Luxury! We only had zeros and we liked it!


• You had zeros! We used to have to use the magnetic pull of the moon to manipulate bits on the hard drive.


• You had a hard drive!?!?!


• [... and so on....]

Oh, and just for my coworker Len..... "PICO!" (in reference to 'nano' in the comic).

Seriously, their humorous little skits in between who-cares awards could really use some work.... I've never seen people like John Stewart be so completely un-funny. However, I did find a very funny picture of a mom bird feeding a baby bird to make me feel better.

Speaking of TV and movies.

• Shoot 'Em Up (trailer) - Saw this last night with Dana.... very funny, completely un-serious, full of shooting (go figure) and blood and gore and as much action as you can shake a stick at, luckily it only had a paper-thin plot to interrupt all the action.
  
• The Lost Room - This was the sci-fi series a couple of years ago I finally got around to watching. A bit long, but a really well written story with lots of twists and turns.
  

Passed on to me from my buddy Brian.

You might live in Abbotsford if...

1. You aren't sure whether marijuana is legal or not.
   
2. You can swear in Punjabi, English and Mennonite (Darnit!)
   
3. You've hunted mailboxes
   
4. You see a gas station on every corner.
   
5. You see a church on every corner.
   
6. You see a grow-op on every corner.
   
7. Five degrees is really cold and twenty is really hot.
   
8. Rain is a part of daily life.
   
9. You secretly have a firm stance on the great Blueberry Cannon Debate.
   
10. You don't get excited about Christmas lights anymore because people keep them up all year round.
    
11. Your town's automall is bigger than the actual mall.
    
12. You don't think seven hockey arenas is enough.
    
13. Your town has had 2 mayors ever.
    
14. Your current mayor is an octogenarian.
    
15. You know when the Diwali festival is.
    
16. You know when the Berry Festival is.
    
17. You've grown accustomed to the smell of cow manure in the morning.
    
18. Going to Vancouver is a long day trip.
    
19. You use the Trans-Canada highway to get around
    
20. You know you only have two dates with a girl to score before you have to start taking her to the same places again.
    
21. Someone asks you where you're from, and you answer, "Vancouver."
    
22. You tell someone you're from Abbotsford and they ask, "Where?"
    
23. Bowling is the highlight of your day.
    
24. Your yard is the drainage center for all of Washington and Vancouver's pollution.
    
25. You know what the "big orange bubble" is
    
26. You know how to spell and pronounce "Trethewey"
    
27. You celebrated your 25th birthday and 6th wedding anniversary in the same year.... at Sneakers.
    
28. You don't need Playland, because you got the Agrifair.
    
29. You've noticed your 'water tower' is really a cheese tower.
    
30. You know what the 'mechanical vacuum gorillas' are.
    
31. You know where to go for Karaoke 5 nights a week.
    
32. You sit on a bench which is actually a paint palette, farm machinery or a creepy guy.
    
33. You know that, despite what the sign says, the name of our club is Shitty Limits.
    
34. You consider a gravel pit a decent place to meet up and hang out.
    
35. You're SO much better than those kids in Mission [Editors note: hey!]
    
36. The flea-market is a must-go-to-event on Sunday... after everyone goes to church of course
    
37. You have been part of the glory days partying up on Sandy Hill before there were houses there
    
38. You think a pimped out 84 Honda Accord looks all right.
    
39. You see ten people that you know walking two blocks to a convenience store
    
40. You hate Chilliwack . I mean the Chillbillies.
    
41. You develop asthma.
    
42. Your city is both the murder capital and bible belt of Canada.
    

Note: It's ok to be confused, many of the above will make no sense to anyone who hasn't lived in/on/around Abby.

An instruction guide to the weather cat, a simpler version of the weather rock:

• A dry cat licking your nose first thing in the morning means fair weather.
  
• A soaking wet cat licking your nose first thing in the morning means it's pouring outside.
  

This taken from my personal experience this morning with a very wet Rex this morning.