Daily Archives: February 11, 2005

Slinky Encryption

We’ve got a cheap yellow plastic slinky that a supply vendor tossed in with an order years ago… I wonder if toy freebies are less common now that the dot-com boom has gone? Sorry.. total digression from my original thing.

If you’ve every played with a Slinky style toy, you know the biggest hazard is the spring getting tangled up in itself. Well, this happened with the yellow plastic one. I had a few minutes while a poster printed out, so I tried untangling it. Surprisingly, when I was done, the little printed logo on on the side was completely illegible.
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Which Random Irish Gaelic Phrase Are You?

Swiped from Bubbles

Take the quiz: “Which Random Irish Gaelic Phrase Are You? “

Ta mo bhriste tri thine
Ta mo bhriste tri thine – ‘My trousers are on fire.’You’re a few bricks short of a load, aren’t you? You’re probably not allowed to use sharp objects and you should be locked in a rubber room. With Rubber rats. Rubber rats? I hate rubber rats. They drive me crazy. Crazy? I was crazy once. They put me in a rubber room. With rubber rats. Rubber rats? I hate rubber rats…