08.30.10

Stream Of Monday.

Posted in Penny Circular at 4:08 PM by Myles

A van advertising a local rug cleaner is stopped at a “vacuum your car” station. This does not inspire me to hire the company the van is for.

Apparently, Poland makes a 95% [190 Proof] vodka, and “if you drink it fast enough”, it “goes down smooth”. I’ve seen a picture of the bottle; yes, 95%. Note: “obj” means “alcohol by volume” in Polish. Shhh, don’t tell Customs.

At 3:30p, do you really need to ask if I’m taking an “executive lunch”? I’m either in Silicon Valley, or I have a sweet job and should be more thankful for it. Oh wait, it’s both. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you…

The Following Are Cool:

Gorilla Glue
Ubuntu
ZenCart
Having a parking space 5′ from your Monday hangout

“Today, I discovered I have SuperUser on 15-25 thousand computers.”. Followed by… “I use it for good.”. This, from the dude talking and showing about 95% Polish vodka. Did I just meet Crash’s brother or what?

My favorite pub has finished converted all of its televisions to flat screen [finally!]. I’m glad to have seen the entire progression of the pub’s upgrade — new paint, new television screens, new juke box, bathroom occupancy lights put outside, turning of the guard for some bar tenders, the 86 of selected customers, keeping the same olde feel and atmosphere, the whole lot of Local Life “as time goes by”. At long last, I am Part Of The Neighborhood.

Context to some Cadfael episodes makes more sense after some Pillars Of The Earth-induced historical research. Cool. Maude vs Steven… heheheheh, wars of succession are always interesting — though I may change my mind if you force me to live through one.

It smells like Cape Cod outside. Oh…. wow…

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08.28.10

Overselling.

Posted in Memo at 11:26 AM by Myles

There’s golf being televised. An ad for a golf ball is aired.

Question:

How do you make a sphere more aerodynamic?

It’s a sphere dude. You may have two of them, but if you try to tell me that yours are more aerodynamic than mine I’d be happy to accommodate a test of having yours fly across the room.

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08.24.10

Back To The Abyss!

Posted in Penny Circular at 6:12 PM by Myles

Putting the past where it belongs can be hard.

Glad to be doing it though.

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08.23.10

Full Of Zero.

Posted in Now Here This at 4:12 PM by Myles

Software should not be this hard. F* you. I follow the instructions to the letter and spirit, and you still don’t work.

Even the “help” is contradictory, some buried peon more correct — but still dis-functionally wrong — than the official idiots who made the damn thing in the first place.

Screw that. I’ll give you a few more years to figure yourselves out.

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08.21.10

Can’t Spell ‘Rays’ Without An ‘A’.

Posted in Penny Circular at 12:23 PM by Myles

Who happened to pull out a win at the end, as it happens.

My current employer, every year apparently, gives out free tickets to professional baseball games to its employees who are able to sign up for some. After getting two and having to cancel due to shift work [a typical move that I got used to from my last employer], I was able to trade them in for different tickets I was able to use.

The game was fun — popcorn, hot dogs, coffee for warmth. We drove part way, then took Bart the rest of the way in. The “Fan Photographer” even took our picture — apparently we were cute enough to make the cut XD

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