Hung Truong: The Blog!

Blogs of the Day

http://blogsoftheday.com/ seems to be down right now. If you don’t know what that is, it’s a sort of popularity contest in the field of blogging. You install a plugin, and whenever one of your blog pages is loaded, it pings the blogsoftheday service, and counts as a “vote” for your blog.

The pinging system needs a bit of work, as now every webpage that uses this service is extemely slow to load. I think it’s an issue with waiting for the ping time out so the page can finally finish loading. I’ve disabled the plugin on my blogs, because I’d rather not alienate my readers.

Email notifications!

So now my blog is equipped with email notification. Fill out the form on the right sidebar to be intantly gratified whenever I post something here. Or you could just read my mind… But email notification is much easier. Unless you’re that mind-reading pokemon, Alakazam…

T-Shirts I would buy, were I so inclined…

Monday is a really a mixed bag for me. On one hand, I have to go to school on Monday, after having a whole weekend to goof off do homework. On the other hand, Monday is the day that Threadless.com releases new T-Shirts! Yep. This week, there’s only one T-Shirt I would buy, were I so inclined. It’s the Nerds Unite Shirt! Being a nerd, I feel a special connection to the idea of nerds forming together to make a giant nerd-zord type thing to attack preppie jocks. Alas, I don’t think this shirt is awesome enough to warrant buying it. You, on the other hand, might. Check it out!

Mensa Intelligence Test

I dunno how official this is, but the Mensa Intelligence Test has a list of cryptic codes that you have to make out. For example, 24 H in a D = 24 hours in a day. They get harder than that. I got 10/33 14/33 so far. I say so far because my brain is sleepy and I’ll probably come back to it later. Try it out if you want to feel dumb.

Goetze’s!?

So the CS Department had some grab bags of stuff for us undergrads. It had a bunch of snacks and candy. One particular piece of candy caught my eye: a Goetze’s Caramel Cream Candy:

Initially, I made the mistake of associating this candy with goatse, an infamous gross out picture that I haven’t seen. I’ve seen enough “accidental goatse” to get the idea of what it is though. Here’s an explanation of goatse (work safe of course).

Now I’m not sure if I even wanna eat it…