• http://serverfault.com/
• http://stackoverflow.com/
• http://snipplr.com/
• http://gdgt.com/

Finagle’s Law: Anything that can go wrong, will—at the worst possible moment.

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Just a clarification! You can think it later.

On an informational/data last note, ModelsHotel has given a nice list of Ivy
Leagues that their clientele must have at least a GPA of 32-22-34 with.

(My apologies for the plus size models. You guys are totally underrepresented. When you get hungry at this new hotel and they don’t serve any solids, think green and eat the skinny models to even out the score.)

I think it’s interesting that one of the “Quick fun facts” is

57.4% of test takers are gals,
40.3% are guys

I got this test from digg (fav tshirt btw).

    If you were a dog, what type of dog would you be?

You may blurt or mumble “a working dog” since, well most folks work, but you’re probably wrong because most working dogs LIKE to work. This group of dogs live to take commands and execute them, with no other compensation but food and shelter.  If you do do what you do for the shear pleasure of doing it (your employer must be thrilled!) and not the 20% profits on IPOs or buy outs in between work, some of the name brands you can chose from include the Rottweiler, Boxer, Siberian Husky, Saint Bernard, and the Great Dane.  They want nothing more than to carry your bags, pull your sleigh and retrieve people from near death environments.

Maybe you’re more of a sports fanatic. While you do work there’s nothing more pleasant to you than to throw the ol’ pig skin around or rock climb or bob-sledding. You take vacations in the wild! You go biking before work, during lunch, and after work. Training for triathlon is more like hitting the gym for you, and you have a permanent tan from hiking. Then you’re more likely to be one of those Sporting group pups; always active and ready for the next (fowl) retrieval, or swimming or romping around. Your can choose most of the spaniels, pointers, and retrievers. If you’ve got foreign flair there’s always the Irish Setter, Spinone Italiano, Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever.

If all this work and running around is just not your cup of tea and you’d rather be sitting in the sun, or in bed, or sitting in your bed under the sun trying to break the world record for number of times one can nod off in a day then you’re probably going to mirror some canine in the toy group.  Pint sized and cuteoverload recommended, this group contains the pekingese (think waddles instead of walking), chihuahuas, pugs, maltese, and the king charles spaniel (yeah, these guys were bred for sleeping on royalty)! Not all of these little guys are sleepaholics. Most of them are also very agile and active, just not for too long since, well smaller sentients have higher metabolisms and they will die if trying to keep up with the previous two groups.

If none of the above fit your personality, but you really like digging, running inside holes underground, or finding things in holes under the ground, look in the terrier group. I hear they’re known to be a bit hyper. Probably because few of them are actually utilized correctly. This little long bodied dogs are good for pest/rat catching, underground, inside holes. So, if you like playing in dirt, despise rats and are hyperactive then maybe you’re a terrier.

I personally don’t know anyone that would want to be represented by any dog from the hound group, due to their stereotypic ultra-drooling skills and ol’ droopy look, but I bet they also didn’t know that the graceful greyhound and accessory-like Borzoi were in this group either. I think the the AKC groupings are a bit fugged up because they claim that the hound group are totally about the nose power, but yet the greyhound is a sight-driven pup. Anyfoo, there’s always that black sheep. So, if you’re into smells or work in a perfume shop or your house constantly smells like something made by Glade maybe you’re in the right area here.

Oh, if you punch into work at shepherd.inc or you like crowd control, the the Herding group is your schtick. Anyone from NYPD that volunteer to work on December 31st in Times Square would probably chose one of these to represent. Infact, you can SEE some of them on the beat in the K-9 units! These pups are the German Shephards, Border Collies, Australian Cattle Dog, and Old English Sheepdog. Jesus probably would say, “Yeah I’m a Canaan plus a crown of thorns man.”.

There’s the anonymous other groups like the non-sporting and the misc group but I think those groups were made because the AKC are slow and stupid and don’t know what to do with the dogs that don’t have a (mis)categorization.

Anyfoo, fun question for thought.

And guys, on her rest days she WoWs. No I don’t have any pictures, but you can find them. Yes she’s all scooped up now.

Here are some fun ones I noticed:

• Art
• Search algorithms
• Videos
• Visualizations
• UI- ok not a contest per se, but still fun

Another plus about contests is that it (sometimes) gets people to research about their site, which eventually means free marketing. “What’d you do this weekend?”. “Oh I was looking at the Netflix data set and tweaking my DNA matching program to make it work with user-movie combinations instead of ATCG combos.”

Sounds like too simple of a theory right? That’s because it is just that. It allows a win-win situation for both the company and its users; site value and user vanity! At the end of the event the company will absorb the eagerly awaited winning product(s) and wrap it in a nice blog entry bow branding their online system as one that was created by a user, for a user.

Party on marketers!

… in between, I check the forums that is growing so much that responses are paginating every 10, then 5 then 2 then -1 minutes
12:07 Twitter breaks 

… figured that going to the last page of the forum and skimming through dt of posts will tell me when the download is actually available; either that, or someone will shout “ABOUT TIME BITçHéz!”.