Ryan Gardner on December 30th, 2005

Google is dumb. Here is what they said to me earlier today when I was doing a search:

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Google

 Error
 

We’re sorry…
… but we can’t process your request right now. A computer virus or spyware application is sending us automated requests, and it appears that your computer or network has been infected.
We’ll restore [...]

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Ryan Gardner on December 29th, 2005

Lego has once again proven that they have too much time on their hands. They have a fairly long (longer than my attention span) video on their website called “Star Wars: Revenge of the Brick.”
It’s pretty entertaining. Unfortunately, there is no epic battle scene near the volcano (or of there was I was bored [...]

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Ryan Gardner on December 29th, 2005

A Wal-Mart employee saved up money for a long time to buy her son a 5G iPod. On Christmas morning when he unwrapped it – he was extremely happy when he saw the box. Inside the box, however, was no iPod. It was a hunk of mystery meat.
Wal-Mart is going to replace the iPod [...]

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Ryan Gardner on December 29th, 2005

A German businessman whose camera was stolen was relieved to find the same model for sale on eBay. When it arrived after he bought it however, he discovered it was his OWN, stolen camera!
Given that this is eBay – he likely left positive feedback anyway.
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Ryan Gardner on December 24th, 2005

Today is Christmas eve. I am still with my inlaws and participating in their family traditions. One of them took place this morning – the family basketball game.
Basketball has never really been my game, and my 3% shooting while we were warming up helped me realize that it is still not my game. I mostly [...]

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Ryan Gardner on December 21st, 2005

due to limited internet access, I will only be able to post updates every once in a while. Fortunately for you, this was one of those times.
Elementary School Band concert: afterthoughts
As you may have already realized, last night I went to a concert public performance of an elementary school band. two of the performers in [...]

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Ryan Gardner on December 19th, 2005

You can file this under: “Useless Tricks”. Google has added yet another feature to integrate an existing third party web service. If you enter a UPC code, it automatically references a link to the UPC Database project to perform a lookup.
Of course – for 99% of the users out there – if you have an [...]

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Ryan Gardner on December 16th, 2005

If you read my earlier post you would know that there is a girl that virtually lives in front of her locker in the Eyring Science center. While most people use lockers as a temporary storage area – this girl uses it to define the nexus of her universe. This past semester, it was a [...]

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Ryan Gardner on December 12th, 2005

I found out Sunday night that Microsoft isn’t going to hire me. My recruiter was nice enough to at least slightly personalize my rejection letter – and use words such as “regret” and “unfortunately” incorrectly – but at least politely.
I knew all along that Microsoft’s hiring process was going to be more a gentle [...]

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