Archive for the 'Something Neat' Category

Comics – Business Casual

Today I wanted to share one of my favorite comics I discovered in the last year.  I think anyone who was worked in a corporate office environment will appreciate this, though it follows IT guys specifically. Introducing: Business Casual A few of my favorite strips from 2009: Day job I am the reporting guy.  Run [...]

Monday, December 21st, 2009

NaNoWriMo 2009 – 50%

Wow, only 14 days left of NaNoWriMo.  For those who have been following my Facebook status updates, I am actually on track to meet goal.  Personally, I think I am the one who is most shocked by it.  Last year was my first year making the attempt, and I barely made it 3 days and [...]

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Stop, Drop, and Blog – HP Contest

First, let me say, if you haven’t heard about the HP Magic Giveaway contest yet… go look at it!  HP is having 50 different bloggers around the world give away $6,000 worth of computer equipment.  It is a pretty cool (and fun) contest.  I have entered a few of the contests, though haven’t won yet.  [...]

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

In the dog house

Along the line of Ede’s doggy court, Sparky was busted, evidence collected, and sentenced. Today’s criminal, one Mr. Sparky Barnard, was caught red-handed. Exhibit A) Unfortunately this was discovered as merely a cover story for the larger crime.  Committed in secret upstairs.  Right next to the location of a previous infraction! Exhibit B) As we [...]

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all who visit this site!  I would like to thank all of my readers, new and old, for visiting this site. I am thankful this year to my fellow bloggers for their assistance, inspiration, and support.  I hope everyone has a safe and fun holiday today! Technorati Tags: Thanksgiving, Olorinpc, Jake Barnard

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Link roundup – November 12th

Here are some interesting articles/posts that I have found or been sent… most I found neat, but haven’t had time time or need to do a full post on them.  However, I thought others might find them interesting as well. So here you go: “Winter is coming to H.B.O” – GRRM’s A Game of Thrones [...]

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Twitter Writing Contest 2.0

Now of course, to actually win the contest, one needs a Twitter account.  However, since I decided to start using my Twitter account (http://twitter.com/olorinpc), I might as well try this contest out. Write a Killer Haiku for the Win As you might have gleened from the headline, this time we’re going to write Twitter haiku. [...]

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

What Sci-fi character are you?

Another one of those fun quiz things, and one of my favorite characters came up, so just had to do a post on it! Try it yourself!

Friday, July 21st, 2006

Internet Radio

Well either when at work, or sitting at home (as the case is at the moment) I like to listen to music. Sometimes helps me get projects done faster. Anyways – I have been slowly going through the offerings out there. There are quite a few internet radio stations out there these days. I have [...]

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

Stupidity – No shortage in the news

Ok, so the stupidest thing I have read all week, topped what I thought was going to be the stupidest thing I had read in the news. A 14 year old girl is filing a $30mil suit against myspace.com over being assaulted by a 19 year old guy. We have heard stories like this before… [...]

Friday, June 23rd, 2006