You didn’t think I wasn’t going to include one of my own now did you? Rest assured, I’ve only got 3 sites at the moment, and you’re on one of them, so don’t expect me to be plugging my own stuff too often.
I created mBlip as a YouTube aggregator site. It checks for interesting new videos every hour. Sometimes it gets a little buggy, but when it does I just give it a lobotomy and restart it. The posts are self-populating. Other than wiping its memory when it goes off the rails, mBlip automagically puts up new content as it finds it. It’s going on 7 years, and I visit it most every day. It does have a sister site called EVsoup that is basically mBlip, but mostly limited to the topic of electric vehicles.
I don’t run any ads on it, don’t make a dime off it, but the videos are embedded from YouTube, so it’s a safe bet that google is able to track you through it.
So that’s it for week 1 of “Better Things”.
So what did you think? Leave a comment below and let me know if you have any ideas for improvements.
Home of Z̼̚a̞̘ͪḷ͈͂gͯͪǒ (Zalgo) and Fancy Font Generator, qwerty.dev is a very simple site that allows visitors to input their own text to generate decorative unicode versions of their text. Sadly WordPress won’t let me demonstrate the fancy fonts here, but they do seem to work in various forums and chat rooms.
The site looks like it might have trackers, but not really any ads to speak of. Of course I always use uBlock (#not-an-ad-just-a-fan), so your mileage may vary.
As a Linux desktop user, I have not used MS Windows on my home computer in ages. Of course my work computer is still using Windows, but they took all the games off. Well here’s a little site where you can get that old time Minesweeper fix of yours. It includes many features that the original did not have including a “no guessing mode” and of course the ability to play against others.
Of course it’s ad supported and uses trackers, but that’s just how things work these days.
This is a fun site that allows you to “draw” notes into a sequencer and play them back. It features a page where you can see the latest saved sequences from users as well as forum and chat room.
Not trying to show off or anything, but I do have an account there. Here is one of my own personal creations.
Ad supported? Yes
Trackers? Of course.
But it seems to “play nice”, and it works well with uBlock Origin.
Flush Twice is 20 years old now. It’s about time I tried something new with it.
I’ve told all the jokes I’m going to tell, so let’s trying something a little different. I’m going to start posting links to various sites that I think might be more interesting than what you are doing right now. Think of it like a sort of grab bag for things to do online.
To be completely honest, I have almost no idea how this is actually going to work, but over the years I have amassed a huge collection of bookmarks. So many in fact that I have a bookmark toolbar with folders titled “A” through “Z” and I drop new bookmarks into them all the time.
Of course some of these are going to be sites you have probably already heard about, but some people might not know about them. I might also be featuring really obvious sites that pretty much everyone knows. I can assure you they are not monetized adverts, but rather merely cataloging these sites for the sake of completeness and posterity.
At some point I might add a visitor suggestion box. I’m a little apprehensive about doing so, because “spamvertisers” are still a thing, and I really do not feel like wading through that quagmire. If and when I find the right plug-in, we might give it a go.
Oh, and putting any sort of links in the comment section is still forbidden, so don’t even try it.
Of course if you do have comments or suggestions and don’t want to wait for a suggestion box, I may still be contacted by means of flush2xat that enormously popular email website ran by google.
And from time to time I will post a new comic, but other than releasing them only on Saturdays, I will not be keeping to any predictable schedule.
Well OK then. See you tomorrow with our first featured site in the “Better Things” category.
Flush Twice is going in a new direction! I think this is going to be fun, so tune in on Monday to read about the details, and on Tuesday, August 1st as our journey begins!
I took a manufacturing job back in August with a new company. Suffice to say I’d rather not say, but if I did happen to say, you’d recognize the name immediately. It’s a Fortune 500, but not the Walmart, Amazon, McDonald’s kind, so yeah, we’re playing in the majors.
My career trajectory has had a few interesting turns. Previous to ’95 I was a job butterfly. I flitted around from job to job, some good, some bad, but never stayed anywhere for any significant amount of time. One year I went through 10 different employers, and never once during those days did I ever go on unemployment or welfare. Jobs came easy for me, and I always paid my way.
Back in ’95 I landed a position as a Robotics Technician for a company controlled by General Motors… But I didn’t actually work for GM. I absolutely love robots. I had that job for about two years, but things started getting rather dicey around there, so I got out. Good thing too, because they went out of business less than 6 months later.
So in ’97 I took a job at a plastics company. At first I couldn’t believe I had found such an amazing place. The pay was nothing to write home about, but the work was easy, the environment was laid back, the coworkers were great, the benefits were decent, and the 3rd shift hours worked well for me. After a few years I was even able to buy a house, but 9-11 happened less than a month later and everything was different.
The aftermath left me feeling a bit gutted, and I wanted to do something. While still working at the plastics company I joined the Army Reserves back in the fall of 2005. It’s something I look back on fondly, but I really think it was a major mistake on my part both financially and physically. Other than being able to say I was there, I gained no benefit from that experience. After 6 years I got out. Two years later my honorable discharge arrived in the mail. That’s all I have to say about that.
Back to the plastics company where I was still employed: Over the years things changed. The benefits dwindled, the hours grew longer, the pace grew more frantic, a lot of coworkers retired and/or died, and while I eventually ended up in a leadership role, I felt something was very wrong. So I got a job working for Amazon delivery.
Yeah, but I never actually made it to Amazon. A head hunter caught my resume and saw robotics and plastics. I was a perfect fit for this tier 1 auto supplier, and the money was actually really good. I was on track to pay off all my old debts in under two years but 10 months later I bought a new car, and a few months after that things started going off the rails. They fired a bunch of people that shouldn’t have been fired and it started a chain reaction. People were already overworked, so the resignations started piling in. On top of that, they were increasing monthly insurance premiums by $250! Suddenly this wasn’t looking like a place I wanted to be anymore, so my resignation was about to be added to that pile.
But before I left, I started putting out job applications on Indeed, and wouldn’t you know it, I got a lot of responses. Some good, some bad, but then there was this one response from a long shot. I honestly didn’t believe it at first. They reached out again, but I thought it was just some automated form they send to everyone who clicked. After the 3rd Letter I called them. Like a dork, I naively asked if they were serious about wanting to hire me, and the person said, “Yes! We’ve tried to contact you three times already!”
Sometimes I can be such a dense headed putz! Fortunately for me, their impression was more professional, and the interview went great! I got the job, and kissed my robots goodbye for a second time. I really miss those guys.
So in a way it’s like when I started working at the plastics factory. I’m on the night shift, which is what I prefer, the work is easy, the environment is laid back, the coworkers are great, they benefits are nice, and frankly the pay ain’t too shabby. Like most companies, they have their strengths and weaknesses, but over all, I feel like this is a place I can hang around till I retire.
So that’s that. I’m still alive and kickin’. The house is a mess, but I’m grateful to have a home. I still owe an obscene amount of money to my creditors, but my bills are paid. I’ve even been dating someone who I have almost nothing in common with, but we like each other’s company, and she doesn’t seem to mind my warped sense of humor. She’s also trying to get me to lose weight and make better food choices. (Yes, I am way too fat again. Go figure.)
Kudos
So a special thanks to everyone who’s contributed to the content of this site over the years. I’m sorry I haven’t been maintaining it of late, and even sorrier still that I have decided to retire the submission page. It isn’t here now. The submission page went away. The submission page is gone.
I’m not sure where I’m going with this site just yet, but if you have any suggestions, you can leave me a comment here or contact me through email. My username is flush2x on gmail, and from there I’ll let you figure it out.
Pax,
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What is Flush Twice?
Flush Twice has been around since May of 2003. It started out as a JOTD (Joke of the Day) website. New jokes were published every weekday. Over the years, good jokes were increasingly hard to come by, and eventually they got so rare that I just stopped trying to publish them.
Since 2004 there has also been an eponymous comic. I still occasionally publish a new one on Saturdays. It’s also rare anymore, but sometimes it happens.
Here lately I’ve been posting a “Link of the Day”. For the time being, I will be featuring a new website from my enormous collection of bookmarked websites every weekday. None of it is solicited promotions, and no one is paying me to feature their site. These are just websites that at one time I thought were interesting enough to add to my bookmarks folder.
I highly encourage using some kind of ad blocking extension before clicking on any of these links. You’ll also hear me say this phrase a lot about these posts: “They can’t all be winners.” But it’s better than just leaving the site abandoned.
The jokes were generously provided by friends and visitors such as yourself. I want to express my eternal thanks to everyone over the years who helped contribute to the collection.
So what is it that makes a joke funny?
It all boils down to a sudden shift in perception. The story starts you thinking one way, then the punchline turns that thinking on its ear. The art of the joke is to craft a short story that isn’t overly contrived, then deliver a punchline that suddenly shifts your perception about the story you were being told.
Many of the jokes on this site are offensive, and I make no apologies for it. Offensive jokes work by making the reader uncomfortable through the use of a taboo subject thus enhancing the underlying humor. Without the offensive element, the joke would simply not be as funny.
