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Lunch and freedom
Wow. Apparently our customer was sufficiently impressed by the demo we had this week that they're taking the team out to lunch today(!) Yay for free foods ( Read more... ) -
Chutzpah
Heh. I love it. A bunch of guys in the D.C. tax department set up a scam to claim fake property tax refund checks. The part that I love? One of the fake companies they set up to receive the checks was "Bilkemor LLC". :D -
Post-beach randomness
Whee, slow day at the office. (Mainly because our test hardware has been taken over for a demo - makes it rather hard to test new features when I'm not allowed to run stuff.) Hopefully things will continue to not explode and I'll be able to leave for D&D on time, and maybe even take the weekend off ( Read more... ) -
Random money
So, I'm going through my mail, and there's an envelope that says "dividend information enclosed". With my car insurance company as the sender. I open it up, and there's a check for a few bucks from my insurance company. Completely out of the blue ( Read more... ) -
Stupid people
Bah. Sometimes people are really, really stupid.
Want an iPhone, but don't want to stand in line for three days? Why not hire someone to use wild animals to annoy those ahead of you in line?In completely unrelated news, one of the things that stinks the most about being "all growed up" is being sick. The world doesn't really stop while I'm sick ( Read more... ) -
Stupid, stupid software
So, someone please tell me....
Why, if you were writing a tool whose primary purpose was to create diagrams of a software design, would you then not include a method to export said diagrams to an image file? With this "tool", if I want to embed this diagram I've created into a Word document, I have two choices ( Read more... ) -
Spoiled
It's weird how accustomed you can get to something, and how jarring it then becomes when it's not there ( Read more... ) -
Dear Stardustshine,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear love,
Happy Birthday to you! -
Cookings
Man, it's been a while since I've updated this. Ah well.
I made dinner last night (yay for cooking!), and it was quite good. I was following a recipe I got from Cook's Illustrated magazine, which one of my aunts got me a subscription for for Christmas. It's a really neat magazine - with most of the recipes, they'll spend one page talking about ( Read more... ) -
Feeling Old
For some reason, this makes me feel old:
A group of 8 of my company's recent hires had no idea that the word speakeasy meant anything other than a telecom company.