Tue, 24 Nov 2009

My poor cheesecake

The Cheesecake Factory product shown below was in the passenger side of my car this evening. You may notice a flat side in the whipped cream along the left. This was caused by my sudden deceleration to keep from hitting someone who had pulled into traffic and stopped (no collision). You may also notice that the entire topping has slid a bit to the upper right. This was caused by the sudden acceleration from someone else's vehicle trying to occupy my trunk space (he almost missed me). Sadly, the diagnosis for the cheesecake isn't good (dislocated topping). We'll have to its suffering and send it to where all good cheesecakes go (hint: yum!). Happy Birthday, Farah! joat: 20:28:07 24 Nov 2009

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Mon, 08 Dec 2008

Starbucks++

Amazing! Starbucks actually honored a gift card that I'd won in a drawing five years back, had subsequently misplaced, and discovered while moving my desk this past week. Let's see, after today, I still have 3 free Venti's coming to me... (heh) joat: 20:41:06 8 Dec 2008

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Fri, 21 Nov 2008

When worlds collide

My project list for the weekend: generate wiki pages to show off the conference room manager solder together a serial-to-IR interface for MythTV and document it My wife's project list: clean the entire house, top to bottom (company coming) I wonder how much this will conflict with... What's that? Yes, dear... joat: 05:45:03 21 Nov 2008

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Thu, 20 Nov 2008

Yawn!

Norfolk to Detroit to St. Louis to O'Fallon to St. Louis to O'Fallon to St. Louis to Chicago to Norfolk in 67 hours is exhausting. Fattening too, but that's a different story. joat: 19:36:57 20 Nov 2008

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Fri, 31 Oct 2008

Scary item for the holidays

I've added notes for counting matches in multiple columns in Excel to the wiki. There, that should scare the beans out of some of you (me, offering up a workable MS tip). Happy Halloween! joat: 07:13:40 31 Oct 2008

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Mon, 27 Oct 2008

Wut?!

On Friday, I realized that hearing "Sweet Patootie" sung in a thick Southern accent, by a Larry the Cable Guy clone, is actually quite scary. I'm not so sure that I'm going back to that store... joat: 06:15:17 27 Oct 2008

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Thu, 28 Aug 2008

Life expectancy?

Another thing that technology improves in our lives: the ability to pull new pranks. Tonight I ran across PhotoStamps from Stamps.com. Please note the statement that this is legitimate postage. My wife has various pictures of her and her sibling's childhoods. [insert evil laugh here] I imagine that my in-laws will be forming a lynch mob sometime around Christmas. joat: 21:19:51 28 Aug 2008

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Fri, 15 Aug 2008

Stop yer whinging!

Got to eat dinner with the team captain for Skewl of Root. When asked (at the conference) how they did it, he replied, "Cooperation, Dedication, and Overwhelming Technical Superiority!". Really want to know how they did it? Go back and take a look at their stats for the past 7 or 8 years. Notice how they almost always were in the top four finishers but most often had the suckiest "defense" stats? Care to guess what they fixed this year? As for the other teams, they didn't place first but they definitely didn't place last. Those that actually played had to beat out nearly 400 other entrant teams (we're talking thousands of people here!). They all busted their humps to get there. It is hilarious though, seeing team points graphed over time, with the Bossman narrating (similar to the effect of shifting into the next higher gear when the guy you're racing thinks you were at top end). Before you start buying torches and pitchforks, he was respectful of the other teams. Mebbe we can get him to digitize the commentary? (hint, hint!) joat: 06:07:36 15 Aug 2008

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