Archive for January, 2006

Happy National Gorilla Suit Day!

January 31, 2006, 9:03 am

Yay, Gorilla Suit Day! All you Cornelius and Dr. Zaius fans should be happy!

It’s probably too late to buy a suit, though. Perhaps a better plan would be to watch some appropriate movies, like
Planet of the Apes, the 1976 version of King Kong, or Gorillas in the Mist.
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Define Your Background Color, Dammit!

January 26, 2006, 10:04 pm

Time for another edition of "Define Your Background Color, Dammit!" The game where I pick a few Web sites that haven’t done their testing. For illustrative purposes, I’m including screenshots this time. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts on this subject, the problem is that these sites are assuming that you haven’t changed the [...]

Fry Bread

January 6, 2006, 10:29 pm

Every once in a while, I get extremely hungry for odd things I remember from my youth. And while I never really liked mutton stew (a staple on the Navajo reservation, where I spent many years), I did always like Fry Bread.

Fry Bread originated when the US government gave wheat flour and lard to the [...]