On an evening like this… January 31, 2007
Posted by Aaron in : From the road , add a commentStupid walmart January 28, 2007
Posted by Aaron in : From the road , add a commentMy alarm clock is dead in an odd fashion. So I went to walmart to
replace it. Except this walmart doesn’t sell clock radios. They sell
clocks and they sell radios, but unless I also want to buy an ipod,
nothing that has a clock that will cause it to play music. now that’s
a quality shopping experience.
Magnetix, Guys and Dolls and Stories That Shouldn’t Be Told on Dates January 27, 2007
Posted by Aaron in : Play , add a commentSo last night right before bed, I saw Guys and Dolls was on PBS. Having seen it performed live at Central, I wondered if this version was any good. So I set the Tivo to record and went to bed. Flash forward about 12 hours, to me out shopping. I ran across a box of Magnetix on sale and as I’ve always thought they would make great desk toys for work, I tossed them in the cart along with a few other things. If I stopped here, it would be a story of almost inconceivable mundain-ness (mundainosity? meh ok, “boring”), but as Michael just more or less pointed out I rarely stop where I should (of course he then said he was proud of me). The story doesn’t end there and neither will my telling of it.
I spent the afternoon playing with Magnetix and watching Guys and Dolls. No this wasn’t a date, though actually when Michael asked that, it did occur to me in some circles it might be a decent one. But there was just me, the TV, my magnetix and a newly washed squeaker (he’s extra squeaky after washing). I’ve even got pictures. Ok so at times I was more playing toys than watching tv, still not a bad afternoon.
Some of you may be thinking “wow that certainly is a story that shouldn’t be told on a date”, others may not be so sure the story is done yet. Perhaps sometime I’ll fax a cookie to the latter, for they are tonights lucky winners. The “Story that shouldn’t be told on a date” is actually separate from the above story, and for the record I’m not telling this on a date but on a website. Despite that, there is probably one reader who shouldn’t read any further. You know who you are though I doubt you are at this moment, navigating to another site. Oh well, I shall press on.
Along with the other things I purchased at walmart, I got squeaker some new dog treats. He loves Beggin Strips (though I discovered that if I run out of those, half a slice of bread seems to get him just as excited, so maybe “loves” should be in quotes). Called Pup-peroni, when I opened them I realized, man these things smell like beef jerky. Upon examining one I said man these things even look like beef jerky. *waits for that look of horror* *waits some more, because its such a great look of horror* From the little nibble I took, I can report they do taste a lot like beef jerky. However I don’t recommend them, A) beef jerky is cheaper by the pound and B) they have an aftertaste no doubt due to their preservatives that made me gag. In terms of “dog treats that I’d eat first if stranded with a wide variety” so far I’ll have to put them far below that of the ordinary cracker treats (which with enough water are not “good” per say, but edible).
There we go, I think I managed to actually capture 2 stories that shouldn’t be told on a date. What do you think Sirs?
Where to even begin January 26, 2007
Posted by Aaron in : Play , add a commentWil Wheaton linked to this comic and a friend and I have been going through sending links back and forth to each other of funny ones. I can’t figure out which one to present first so here we go with a link salvo.
Canada, Snapple, Candy Button Paper
Dude that’s just wrong January 25, 2007
Posted by Aaron in : From the road , add a commentWhy is it that whenever squeaker has vile gas, he always picks that
night to sleep by my head (and right in front of my face no less)? I
finally just grabbed him and rotated him a little in hopes of being
avoiding the full blow next time.
Where I’ve been January 24, 2007
Posted by Aaron in : Play , add a commentOk so we’ve probably all seen these things, but I just ran across one on a friend’s site and thought I’d continue the trend. I think this is more or less accurate give or take a state
create your own personalized map of the USA
I will spare you a very large empty map of the world, outside of the US obviously, I’ve been to Canada, Mexico and Venezuela.
Upgrade day January 22, 2007
Posted by Aaron in : News , add a commentWell its high time I upgraded the blog, so let the upgrade games begin!
And the other shoe falls January 22, 2007
Posted by Aaron in : From the road , add a commentSo I’m not sure what time it is but its early. We’ve discovered that
the cable runs in the ceiling of the office we were trying all night
to get computers ready for. What does this mean in layman’s terms? It
is 4:30, I haven’t been to sleep yet (and was up till 3am last night)
and while the computers are almost set up correctly, it doesn’t matter
a bit. I’m so tired right now I can barely function arguable I can
only type.
Leaps and bounds in chocolate-based technology January 17, 2007
Posted by Aaron in : Play , 2commentsNo dan, you shouldn’t worry about chocolate golems lumbering your way. However I wanted to share news of another chocolate creation. I took one cup of strawberry yogurt (why one cup? because the measuring cup was there and I’d have had to walk an extra couple feet for a bowl). I mixed in one teaspoon of nestle quick…. Imagine a chocolate covered strawberry where the thickness of the chocolate was nearly perfect. So that you didn’t overpower the delicious strawberry, but added a distinct hint of chocolate. And the best part is? I can do this 3 more times before I’m out of yogurt.
Moments of monumental absurdity January 15, 2007
Posted by Aaron in : Work , 3commentsI have a career of monumental absurdity. Think about it, I sit around telling a little box to do things, and having it mock me in a simple way for instructing it poorly, or not anticipating that another little box may have a slightly different world view, and so may need to be instructed in a slightly different fashion. That is my job. One of the many questions I’ve always had though isn’t about my career, its about others. Do you other people outside of the IT industry also find your day to day life beset by monumental absurdity as well, of either tool, coworker or another source?
While I’ve wondered this for quite a while, Dan provided the inspiration to turn it into a post….
Dan: last night, I dreamed that I made the coolest JS thing ever
AC: lol, were you in a scripting contest with the devil?
AC: and today did you set out to make a tribute to the best JS thing ever?
Dan: no, sadly
Dan: to make it nerdier… I think it had to do with data abstraction