Dossy's Blog

During last night’s Eureka episode, “A Night at Global Dynamics,” a priceless line was spoken by Jo’s character: “Boys, there’s plenty of backdoor access for everyone!” I couldn’t believe the script writers got away with it! I tip my hat to you guys, I’m still laughing and smiling at that scene. To preserve this gem of television magic, I ripped it off the TiVo and uploaded it:

Tags: Eureka, television, funny

Ahoy, me hearties! In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day today, I wanted to point out the great work of my friend David, who has gotten into puppeteering.

Here is his Rocky Horror Puppet Show, performing to the tune of Blymy the Pirate by A Halo Called Fred:

Tags: pirates, puppets, Rocky Horror Puppet Show, A Halo Called Fred, YouTube, video

Back in April 2007, when I decided to switch over from Bloglines to Google Reader for my RSS reading pleasure, I made a point to complain about the fact that Google Reader had no easy way to search for entries within your subscriptions. The good news is apparently that all changed, yesterday: Google Reader now has a search box!

This is good news, since that was pretty much the only feature I’d actually missed when I gave up Bloglines. It’s good timing on Google’s part, since the latest Bloglines beta UI improvements have really closed the gap–although I’m not happy enough with them to consider switching back, yet.

Tags: Google Reader, search, Bloglines

I was out earlier today picking up food from Chili’s and as I pulled up to the To-Go entrance, I saw the signs above the spaces and cracked up laughing. I just had to capture it, in case it’s something local to this particular Chili’s. Here it is:

To whoever decided to have these signs made up with this copy text, I salute you.

Tags: Chili’s, marketing, funny, sign

I’d hoped my name would make it into Wikipedia, somehow. I’ve joked around saying that it would be a great birthday present. Wouldn’t you know it, shortly after my birthday last year, it happened.

The article where my name first appears isn’t exactly something to brag about: it’s the one about the Year 2038 problem. Folks running AOLserver using an ACS-based configuration experienced a strange halting problem because of a configuration parameter that resulted in the server hanging on May 12, 2006. Still, my name was included in the article in its references on November 19, 2006! Thanks, Mipadi–who performed the edit.

I’m still hoping that someday, I do something noteworthy enough to warrant my own “Dossy Shiobara” Wikipedia article, but for now, I’m happy with a cursory mention, at least. It gives me a reasonable goal to strive for.

Tags: Wikipedia, Year 2038 problem, AOLserver, Dossy Shiobara