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April Fools and other shenanigans

April 1st, 2008

Good day to all ye good people of the Internet. Did you remember what today entitles you to? In any case I completely forgot the date, until just this morning when I was doing some research about SAT preperation.

I mooch off of my neighbors Wi-Fi from time to time, when I’m doing sketchy things online. How funny would it be if my neighbors wised up so that when I was using their connection, they had an automated system that would modify the connection. Something like this:

Wi-Fi Tricks
courtesy xkcd.com

Maybe if you are in an office environment, changing the printer message might be the subtle prank that you are up for. Everyone agree that “Insert Coin” is a whole lot cooler that “System Ready”. The story courtesy lifehacker.

Yesterday I was modding some computers I had scrounged this past week. I was/am attempting to configure them so that I can use them for both Halo and clustering purposes (Condor setup/rap sheet of issues). While digging through the entrails of these machines, I heard “Drama Queen” by Switches on Ethel:

In any case, I thought it was a pretty cool song.

Amusing, Hardware, Modding ,