Everything-else category
This category contains general random entries that don't fall into any of my other categories. There still are quite a few entries in here that need to be sorted to the proper categories.
Over time I will ad more categories and many of the entries will find their way elsewhere.
Nov 17, 2006
Microsoft was very nice today.
I got a mail from connect saying that they were giving me ...
Jun 12, 2006
Jun 12, 2006
Jun 07, 2006
let see..
- fixed kitchen faucet
we have a shitty low-end moen faucet and th...
Jun 05, 2006
We all are. My grandfather taught me that. One afternoon when I was seven I complained to ...
Jun 02, 2006
target goal: $1,000,000
achie ement: $0
that is championship performance!
...
May 15, 2006
http://righttocreat .blogspot.com/2006/ 5/supreme-court-dem lishes-automatic.ht l
t...
May 12, 2006
we're in 2nd quarter right? if so, i think google's 3rd quarter profits are going to be in...
May 11, 2006
why is it illegal in the usa? it seems like perfectly reasonable capitalistic behavior. i ...
May 10, 2006
i'm going to use this space to log the credit card offers i get. it is getting ridiculous....
May 02, 2006
i did the most important thing for success on this project..
th helicopters and ro...
Apr 25, 2006
i never get around to having a single place to record when i request to be added to no cal...
Apr 17, 2006
my dental bill was a lot
the tax bill was more than expected
we have to pay for the ...
Apr 14, 2006
this post is mainly to get me back into the programming/posting about programming groove. ...
Apr 14, 2006
took me freak'n long enough, though it does not count because i used my finger instead of ...
Apr 14, 2006
janel entered our taxes about a month ago. we owed $700 bucks or something. yesterday i go...
Apr 02, 2006
first off.. my desk is getting out of control..
i've been making some good prog...
Mar 24, 2006
http://www.msnbc.ms .com/id/11997932/
i watched the webcast today.
my thoug...
Mar 16, 2006
http://www.winxponm c.com/
this dude raised $13,854 in donatations for his contest ...
Mar 08, 2006
so we know (cuz the inet tells us) that the universe is expanding and it is estimated to b...
Mar 08, 2006
i got a box of alphabits. they decided to change it from cereal to 'styrofoam with no flav...
Mar 07, 2006
A quote from a mail today..
"I am sorry you feel that we are being unreasonable in ...
Mar 04, 2006
Feb 21, 2006
which is something that microsoft is not aware of..
the new "menu" concept in 2.0 f...
Feb 19, 2006
for instance.. i learned that march 28 will be the day we bomb iran.
http:/ www.pri...
Feb 19, 2006
sometimes i'm in the situation where the following conversation comes up (like today)..
...
Feb 17, 2006
it's made by children labor out of pineapple leaves just like all the world's finest cloth...
Feb 17, 2006
tenure is such a great thing..
http //philip.greenspun. om/school/tuition-f ee-mit....
Feb 16, 2006
hopefully this'll be a bit more tolerable.
t st.
test.
tes .
Feb 15, 2006
you know what.. i am shocked, but mostly, very disappointed. i just found out that one of ...
Feb 12, 2006
http://www.sfgate.c m/cgi-bin/article.c i?file=/chronicle/a chive/2006/02/11/BU COH6P2B1.D...
Feb 11, 2006
speaking of idiocy..
htt ://video.google.com videoplay?docid=-72 4072672618051328
...
Feb 11, 2006
i found something an order of magnitude worse than the slashdot forums..
the 'disc...
Feb 09, 2006
that domain is taken, but it is the best to describe this idea..
a music player tha...
Feb 08, 2006
http://mrl.nyu.edu/ jhan/ftirtouch/
very impressive stuff.
Feb 08, 2006
AGAIN!
the embedded gmail chat just started working for me. pretty awesome stuff.
...
Feb 07, 2006
i've started checking out the popular videos on video.google lately. every couple of days ...
Feb 04, 2006
ok so some syrians and palestines are pissed about some stupid cartoon..
ht p://new...
Feb 04, 2006
http://www.boingboi g.net/2006/01/31/st rforce_threatens_.h ml
sending a legal thre...
Jan 24, 2006
http://money.cnn.co /2006/01/23/technol gy/rim/index.htm?cn =yes
come on.. soo clos...
Jan 23, 2006
man. so far i really don't like the communities associated with .net programming. searchin...
Jan 20, 2006
i found this in the aerial photography topic of rcgroups..
h tp://cgi.ebay.de/NE -I...
Jan 20, 2006
http://www.makezine com/blog/
di rocket up to 12km
http://jroc dale.com/O.htm
...
Jan 19, 2006
i have not had many hours to work the last few days, but i think i have come up with a pla...
Jan 16, 2006
which is a first. they usually don't last long, this one has been around for 3 whole days....
Jan 16, 2006
i have no idea what my schedule is anymore. it is all over the place. the plan was for me ...
Jan 16, 2006
erin sent me this link a couple weeks back.
http:/ www.qwantz.com/inde .pl?comic=68...
Jan 12, 2006
jay sent me the season 1 dvd's of veronica mars for xmas. i didn't get around to opening i...
Jan 10, 2006
apple on intel
http:/ www.apple.com/macbo kpro/
now if only intel would put ...
Jan 09, 2006
i think this is the one..
http:/ www.hovercraft.com/ nfo/12t4.html
i bought ...
Jan 08, 2006
usually when some drunk jackass is trying to pick a fight with me at club, the drunk jacka...
Jan 06, 2006
man.. i sure hope they tone done the permissions bullshit a bit. everytime you try and do ...
Jan 03, 2006
the entire reason why i need access to a 32bit os is because the x64 xp capatibility is cr...
Jan 01, 2006
hmm. i just looked and apparently i had no resolutions written down in my blog for 2005. i...
Jan 01, 2006
- kubuntu and ubuntu
ledsk f suggested kubuntu because.. "gnome is dumb as hell".. ...
Dec 31, 2005
my tooth hurt, so i went to the dentist. it was a year over due anyway.
hyge ist: s...
Dec 26, 2005
"billy zelsnack" OR "billyzelsnack" OR "billy_zelsnack" OR "billy.zelsnack"
9,200 h...
Dec 25, 2005
ah.. a metal furnace. it brings back such memories and stupidity.
Dec 24, 2005
i got my accelerometer eval (RD3112MMA7260Q) in the mail today . woo. i also got my tini e...
Dec 22, 2005
all i can say is wow and i want one
http://w w.howardelectronics com/jbc/DI3000-PA1...
Dec 22, 2005
http://www.netflixs ttlementsucks.com/o jection.htm
Dec 22, 2005
people from the community, making it to the big time, and still being part of the communit...
Dec 21, 2005
http://www.paperspl ase.org/davis/index .html
i had a lovely talk with the security...
Dec 19, 2005
i am only getting 67KB/sec from microsoft right now. it is pretty impressive that even mic...
Dec 19, 2005
i think i'll make a nintendo revolution mockup to test it out. ha!
http://w w.frees...
Dec 19, 2005
ok. i am just pulling this idea out of my ass, but i figured i'd write it down.
so ...
Dec 14, 2005
ok. this is a bunch of horseshit.
i you have an oem version of windows you can not...
Dec 10, 2005
so i'm out another $30 on my monitor rebate.
that s it. no more non-instant rebates...
Dec 09, 2005
so the dude that invented the ollie is sueing activision. ok. whatever. that's stupid. it ...
Dec 09, 2005
i really hate ebay. it could be good. it is not. i hope google destroys them.
i bou...
Dec 07, 2005
our camera ate the last of the AA supply. the old nicads that janel had last only about 4 ...
Dec 07, 2005
i can't wait to get this on a cereal box. my no captain crunch willpower will be defeated....
Dec 06, 2005
http://www.akihabar news.com/en/news-10 82-ROBOTIS+at+IREX+ 005.html
Dec 06, 2005
i saw this on koster's blog.
http:/ www.frappr.com/?a=m frappr
i've talked a...
Dec 06, 2005
they have those necklace mp3 players. this is just the next step.
you wear a net co...
Dec 04, 2005
jeremy sent me this..
http: /video.google.com/v deoplay?docid=37815 4572002969769&a...
Dec 04, 2005
shapemaniac has been free for about a year now if you send me a mail and ask for a key. i ...
Dec 04, 2005
i see stuff like this..
http: /shopping.discovery com/category-1_ELEC RONICSGADGETS...
Dec 04, 2005
A very nice article that is relevant to many things.
The Strange, Symbiotic Relatio...
Dec 01, 2005
i am an ebay failure.
tha spaceorb.. i got in on it at $3.00 or something and it w...
Nov 29, 2005
http://zelsnack.com billy/resume_nov_20 5.pdf
commen e the head-huntering!
Nov 29, 2005
there you go jasonr. i turned the avatars on. next thing i should do is to add css to the ...
Nov 29, 2005
one day my little sister mentioned that her cd player had broke. i filed that away until h...
Nov 25, 2005
http://www.joystiq. om/entry/1234000847 69621/
you might think you know how cool it...
Nov 24, 2005
how come the anti-virus companies didn't bother removing sony's rootkit virus?
http...
Nov 22, 2005
It is still here..
http: /projectjanel.org/b e_blogs/index.php?b og=2
..Unti...
Nov 20, 2005
man. what a shitty setup they have. to make things worse they have this hip mtv style auto...
Nov 20, 2005
the job paid for my previous phone, so my previous mobile number is no longer valid. the n...
Nov 18, 2005
some of you know that i have not been the happiest of campers at my
job and that i had ...
Nov 14, 2005
hey look.. google video has already become useful!
http //video.google.com/ ideopla...
Nov 13, 2005
i'm not exactly sure what laws, but..
http://www. vdshrink.org/where. tml
here's a lit...
Nov 13, 2005
Nov 13, 2005
I'm glad you asked. It is:
http://z 25.com/phpBB2tastic rss.php?f=9
f you a...
Nov 13, 2005
i went and grabbed a new style since the default phpbb is god aweful. i just did the minim...
Nov 13, 2005
I've installed phpBB several times now, but it never sticks because I keep changing my min...
Nov 09, 2005
it seems that no matter how much effort you put into making sure you set expectations corr...
Nov 08, 2005
Janel posted this in the comments, but it should be posted more visibly.
www.netf ixsett...
Nov 02, 2005
some jackass has a class action suit out against netflix..
The lawsuit alleges that Netf...
Nov 02, 2005
man. it sure is nice. it just saved me for the third time since it was turned on a couple ...
Nov 01, 2005
so why can't i set my intermediate path still? call me crazy, but forcing a /obj directory...
Oct 30, 2005
http://www.madison. om/wsj/mad/top/inde .php?ntid=59750
1 0k huh. man. that's pretty goo...
Oct 30, 2005
cuz i am way too lazy.
http://gmpg org/xfn/
i had the idea a year ago, but they not on...
Oct 29, 2005
i'm not going this year. if it was another week or two out i'd probably go, but not yet.
...
Oct 26, 2005
that's what i am looking for. my blade grinder just doesn't cut it anymore because i am wa...
Oct 24, 2005
turing sat with me and watched 'the never ending story' with me. finally there's someone i...
Oct 21, 2005
the pair server has 2GB a month transfer limit. after that it is 1 million dollars per byt...
Oct 20, 2005
Who woulda thunk it.. 165 times faster inet connection is noticeable?
Man.. It was so ni...
Oct 14, 2005
finally!!
i am now officially cool thank you very much. i went from being a lurker 2 pos...
Oct 14, 2005
Oct 11, 2005
i'm finally starting to understand our water softener a little bit. for the longest time t...
Oct 11, 2005
telnet towel.blinkenlights nl
(just copy that into your start->run box)
courtesy http:...
Oct 10, 2005
ok. i'm a convert. tonight i took the harddrive from my oldass computer that is just a bun...
Oct 06, 2005
what a fucking huge pain in the ass!! it was supposed to close 3 weeks ago. it was held up...
Oct 05, 2005
i hate it when big companies acquire small companies.
"Autod sk Signs Definitive Agreeme...
Oct 03, 2005
just so peoples know.. when the baby finally pops out.. his website is going to be..
www...
Sep 30, 2005
http://madisonskate ark.com/
it's going to be a couple blocks from my house too. awesome...
Sep 30, 2005
Sep 29, 2005
what.. this install lasted a whole 2 months. i know i use my computer more aggressively th...
Sep 28, 2005
http://video.google com
Now as soon as someone figures out adsense porn, everyone will b...
Sep 15, 2005
damn it. stupid airplane ride got me sick. i did was not even sitting in the back this tim...
Sep 15, 2005
A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He reduced altitude and
spotted a man be...
Sep 14, 2005
5:00am -> 6:30am : drive, MSN (Madison) -> MKE (Milwaukee)
7:30am -> 11:30am : flight...
Sep 09, 2005
why do people use excel for things where flat text will do just fine? does it make things ...
Sep 09, 2005
The latest (this week!!) MoveOn.org campaign has really removed a huge barrier to massive ...
Sep 09, 2005
Got this in the mail today from NWA..
Earn up to 100,000 Bonus Miles with Xtreme Miles
...
Sep 09, 2005
Sep 09, 2005
Kim is right.. Killer App indeed.
http://kp llist.blogspot.com/ 005/09/killer-app.h ml
...
Sep 07, 2005
off of kim's link to jay
http://double dgefilms.com/spin/p ayer.html
Sep 06, 2005
this is the google satellite map of my mom's house. it's the one on the left. as you can s...
Sep 06, 2005
the dudes kiddy corner from us are cutting down the big tree in their front yard. why the ...
Sep 06, 2005
Sep 03, 2005
these pics are pretty big and don't show the house very well, but you would not expect any...
Sep 02, 2005
well. their actual inet service is probably the best inet i have every had. almost 100% up...
Aug 27, 2005
Aug 26, 2005
i'd been thinking about getting bootstrapgames.com for a couple months now, but never deci...
Aug 22, 2005
http://www.infoplea e.com/ipa/A0922574. tml
1990 usa not religious : 7.5%
2001 usa not ...
Aug 21, 2005
joel took our couch. Underneath it was arlo's favorite toy. it's a furry mouse with a pouc...
Aug 20, 2005
i just got a mail from the guy i was working with in france about the tornados we had here...
Aug 18, 2005
wait a minute.. the word 'devoid' does not make any sense.
'void' means the same this as...
Aug 18, 2005
In my job emails I am getting really good at censoring myself.
What that involves is to...
Aug 18, 2005
whoa.. i'm finally back from freak'n traveling for job. in the last 3+ weeks i have been h...
Jul 29, 2005
i've heard the story many times.. bill gate's favorite resturaunt is the moghul palace and...
Jul 28, 2005
Jul 28, 2005
i hate the president of the condo association. his name is gib. he is slimy.
i hate resid...
Jul 20, 2005
In the referrer logs somebody did a google search for..
"Billy Zelsnack work hours"
No...
Jul 19, 2005
Here's some pics of that art project I (think I) was talking about. It was shown last mont...
Jul 19, 2005
i could not sleep, so i decided to take my camcorder apart. that probably was not a good i...
Jul 16, 2005
http://openacoffees op.blogspot.com/200 /07/all-that-calcul ting-just-to-say-no html
did...
Jul 14, 2005
for a long time now i've had this crazy idea of opening a coffee shop. i just like the who...
Jul 12, 2005
zeljeznjak is z422, not z425. crazy.
http://res urces.rootsweb.com/ gi-bin/soundexconve ...
Jul 11, 2005
Jul 11, 2005
8.5k/s geez.
i guess i'll need to host these video dealies on the pair site or something...
Jul 11, 2005
well, not everything. just video snippets.
i figure that if i don't have an way to organ...
Jul 11, 2005
http://news.yahoo.c m/s/ap/20050710/ap_ n_re_as/china_skate oarder_leap;_ylt=Ao DUdjQYwUYV...
Jul 09, 2005
they cost $1 at target. why do people always have horrible ones that are all melted and di...
Jul 07, 2005
i passed a huge milestone today. i purchased a toy for my kid. WOW. he'll have to wait awh...
Jun 27, 2005
Jun 21, 2005
i respect this guy. he really is hot shit. but come on. when the first half of your paper ...
Jun 18, 2005
so i am typically a bad computer person. i almost never defrag my drive. why not? because ...
Jun 02, 2005
The #1 google rank for glFrustum and glOrtho show the matrix missing some signs!!! I maile...
May 23, 2005
damn i wave my hands around a lot, and damn, i sure am a scruffy looking developer. geez!...
May 07, 2005
What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Your Linguistic Profile:
65% General Americ...
May 07, 2005
wow. it's been a whole year since i got my laptop.
april 29th, 2004.. a day that changed...
May 07, 2005
It sure has been awhile since I have made a proper blog post. Well.. Today is still not th...
Apr 30, 2005
Hey look, it sounds so fancy when you write it out. haha.
My job Description PDF
Apr 18, 2005
http://www.wondir.c m/wondir/jsp/index. sp
it just might be more brilliant than amihotor...
Apr 08, 2005
Mar 29, 2005
omg. this servo is awesome.
http://w w.e-clec-tech.com/h tiroh.html
417oz- n torque. a...
Mar 24, 2005
http://www.serverma rix.com/
1200GB, $99/mo including the server. crazy. a couple years ...
Mar 22, 2005
bah.
that's twice today that it's been broke.
i guess i'll just go to bed.
Mar 18, 2005
my schedule of late hasn't given me much time to hang out with the wife.
get up
answer ...
Mar 17, 2005
omg. i put the company sticker on my laptop. what's wrong with me?
it is shiny. that's n...
Mar 10, 2005
went to the sony party last night. it was awesome and just what i needed. woo.
Mar 10, 2005
i am so close to just walking out of gdc and quiting this fucking job right now.
it is ...
Mar 08, 2005
http://www.shacknew .com/ja.zz?id=96664 8
http://www.shack ews.com/ja.zz?comme ts=36039
...
Mar 07, 2005
woo. i think i'm at 100% for having colored hair at GDC. it's like a tradition or somethin...
Mar 07, 2005
-- Feb 14
Weight: 178 (with my gym outfit + shoes)
Chest: 41
Waist: 37
Hips: 38
Bicep...
Mar 07, 2005
for the first time in 4 months..
last night i drank alcohol.
today i had coffee.
craz...
Mar 06, 2005
each month i have an expense report to fill out. the company makes it more of a hassle tha...
Mar 05, 2005
damn it. i screwed up a few entries ago. i can't believe i did that. computer people alway...
Mar 05, 2005
what the hell.. justin is gone from aol for like 2 months and the bastards have already ad...
Mar 05, 2005
when i first install i had a problem with the manually going to windows update. it kept sa...
Mar 05, 2005
i was doing good for awhile.. the whole keep my bad attitude to my blog thing. i've regres...
Mar 05, 2005
Mar 04, 2005
last night i had to work on something that i absolutely did not want to and told people ov...
Mar 04, 2005
woo.
i got another 512 meg stick for my laptop. Now I have a gig. Very nice. I also got ...
Mar 04, 2005
i just deleted an email i was going to send that bashed this software patent non-sense. i ...
Mar 02, 2005
it is amazing how you can be in a good mood for the first time in a long time, and then yo...
Mar 02, 2005
so i get a call from our sales guy who's at the show floor.. hey billy, can you walk me th...
Mar 01, 2005
uhh.. so that demo was uncanceled. i just found out it'll be on the exhibition floor at th...
Mar 01, 2005
guess who has to do a portion of a sponsored talk at gdc next week? guess when i found out...
Feb 28, 2005
so the portable dvd plan worked awesome!! man, it is such a difference. time goes by much ...
Feb 28, 2005
the number is: 9090909,608,213,951 ,9090909
talk about a freak'n hard number. it has a ca...
Feb 26, 2005
haha
i just read a bunch of my latest entries. awesome. haha. i really like this vent my...
Feb 24, 2005
ah.. so i just found out that i don't need to get this demo done for friday. of course it ...
Feb 24, 2005
i love it when you change your own personal schedule so you can make it to a phone meeting...
Feb 24, 2005
so i have this big bag of tricks i've developed over the years. some things have come up a...
Feb 24, 2005
it's day 2 of 3 fun, fun, fun 16 hour work days for billy. stupid fucking job. guess what....
Feb 24, 2005
just because you work for a charity does not mean you have the right to get all huffy with...
Feb 22, 2005
and sarah is so awesome and so hot and awesome and hot.
Feb 22, 2005
I have been wanting this piece of software for quite some time, but have been way too lazy...
Feb 21, 2005
What is wrong with programmers these days? YOU ALL SUCK. EVERYONE OF YOU!!
Feb 21, 2005
i'm getting sick of hearing that as a justification for pretty much anything and everythin...
Feb 21, 2005
Well.. My phone is still not activated. After getting the run around and practically beggi...
Feb 21, 2005
Man. MoveableType is such a pile. If they wanted to fix the blog comment spam problem, the...
Feb 21, 2005
last thursday i found out that i "get" to do a demo for this friday. a few things..
1. i...
Feb 21, 2005
Hey. I have a mobile phone again. Damn it. I have been smart enough for 5 years now to not...
Feb 21, 2005
Aight. I've been quite the failure lately at keeping my job life away from my home life. T...
Feb 19, 2005
On one hand I can give props to Gearbox for finally completing a full game instead of just...
Feb 16, 2005