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Did you ever think about why easter exists? Why are there eggs and chocolate?

Well, it actually has to do, as so much in life, with drinking. We drink on Saturday night, and we’re hungover on Sunday, so you have to come up with something to get rid of the kids on Sunday, so that you can get some extra sleep.

First of all, let them start looking for eggs with their baskets. That’s atleast of 2 extra hours of sleep. Once they start making noise again, you go down, and hide plastic eggs with money in them. That’ll keep them looking for the next 6 hours. That’s 8 hours of additional hangover sleep.

And that’s the grownup reason for easter.

I just came back from London with my brother, and had an interesting conversation on Jaiku on the way back.

flosoft: On the way back from London City after a day of showing the city to my brother
dwd: Oh, dear lord, there’s two of you?
sciasbat: rotfl
sparhawk: clones, indeed…
flosoft: It’s called redundancy
dwd: Load balancing, for those cases there’s too much beer?
flosoft: Nah, in Belgium that would work, but the drinking age here is 18, which complicates the loadbalancing process
dwd: No, the buying-drinks age and the drinking-drinks-in-a-bar age is 18. Drinking age is 4.
dwd: Specifically, a child of 4 can sit in a pub garden and drink alcohol, if he can find someone else to go to the bar and buy them.

You learn so much just by Jaiku’ing

This night, I catched up on some Hulu shows I’ve been watching, and saw the Daily Show. I think that this is probably the funniest episode ever!

He basically says what we’re all thinking.

Hey,

just got an IM from Alex about this video.

This is why I use a Mac and Linux on my desktop machines.

Still not a proud owner of your own SSD? Still using those old Hard Disks? I would highly recommend that you switch to SSDs if you’re a mildly tempered person.

Well anyway, here’s a tip for everyone who hasn’t made the jump to solid state: try to be nice to your disk drive. Brendan Gregg from Sun’s Fishworks team wanted to see the effects of vibrations on his disk array, so he proceeded to shout at it. On video. Yeah, we bet that’s pretty embarrassing for the drive in question, and what results is a sharp spike the number of I/O operations that take over 5ms to complete. Moral of the story? Yelling at your computer isn’t going to make it run any faster. How about next time we see how it reacts to Ozzy, Mozart and warm, gentle nuzzles?

[Via Slashdot]

This morning I received a small quote via Jaiku:

chewypow: so when i worked at Starbucks in little rock, there was this super hot 18 year old, miss teen usa right
chewypow: she came in one day and was talking to me and told me when she was brushing her hair that morning, a lot of it came out.. she then continues to explain that she thought she had ‘chemo’
chewypow: a week later she comes in and uses some mouthwash, and then swallows it. I point out to her that it says on the back if accidently swallowed to call poison control immediately
chewypow: she reads the label and looks at me and says “Oh.. it’s ok. I didn’t do it on accident”
muku: …
chewypow: exactly. brain synapses stop firing when you hear this story right?
Comment: Sadly a true story

It makes you wonder how we survive at all.

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As I am procrastinating quite a lo the last few days, here’s a few pictures that motivated me for doing so.

And last but not least, a small something from XKCD. The best excuse for legitimatley slacking off.

A few days ago, I found this picture of a dog. You have to admit, it’s a cool dog.

I was over at a friends place, and he had tons of these funny pictures with the black border and white text. So I quickly got a copy of them because some of them are just too funny.

If you are at work, I wouldn’t click Read More. Some people might be offended.

If you are sitting at home, go ahead and click!

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