Category: fun
12/08/06 11:40 - 25ºF - ID#37398
fridaynightbash!
1. Will it blend? That is the question.
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2. Catfish/green bean wrestling: the bean loses. Everyone else wins.
3.
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4. Yeah, it costs $80 a bottle
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: work
11/30/06 10:01 - ID#37397
may you code in interesting times
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Naturally I was dying of curiosity as to what constitutes creative differences these days. Answer: Zack believes 'content is king'
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Of course, their timing couldn't be better - we've been focusing strongly on our website lately, and we have a number of huge changes planned. Thus far, my greatest concern is one of staffing. I am the web department, and thus far any requests for more staff have been met with suggestions to hire part-time unpaid interns. This is where it gets funny: while I don't think I'll ever get actual funding for the actual website, I will bet that we can get as much funding as we need to drive certain people
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We shall see. We code in interesting times.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: xmas
11/24/06 04:01 - ID#37396
somewhat out of control
OK, you think, sounds (fun|lame), whatever. But you need to understand that my family is both extremely creative and extremely competitive. Entries include a 2' diameter replica of an Oreo [with the correct number of serrations], a large toucan in a cage on a stand, a foam-core laptop computer with functional cd-eject mechanism, and a replica of a meat counter at the Broadway Market -- and none of these were winners. Eventually we felt it wasn't challenging enough, so we began restricting entries to a theme - in 2004 it was "Broadway" [most entries were related to various Broadway shows, but there was also a replica of an N-R subway car as well as aforementioned meat market], and last year it was "The Pantry" [somewhat disastrous, as many people leaned on the pan-tree pun]. Dammit, (e:dragonlady7) - I thought you had photos of this stuff online.
This is the competition's ninth consecutive year running, and it was decided once again to make it more difficult. Since our festivities are being held in San Diego this year and TSA does not take kindly to unusually-disguised secrets, we will be bringing our gifts unwrapped [or having them shipped] and assembling our wrapping, Iron Chef style, in two hours on Dec 28, with only certain provided elements. The theme is "Fun & Games," but the competition will be nothing short of Intense.
And, lest you think I'm joking around, I just got finished putting the finishing touches on this year's revision of the SQL-backed gift registry web application that we use. Yes, it is strictly necessary. [We had done it by hand before, but we had to wait until everyone's list was in before we could send them out, and we ended up having to make two separate gift lists, one for each exchange.]
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: fish
11/23/06 10:04 - ID#37395
sucker and the pescado non grata
On Monday, my coworker said hey, does anyone have a fish tank? I said yeah, and she said do you want a couple fish? Just a goldfish and a catfish, not too big. They need to get off the dining room table before Thanksgiving. Sure, why not? We dubbed them the Pescado Non Grata.
I got them home yesterday, and the goldfish is as pretty as a koi but has the manners and more importantly, the size and appetite of a carp. Truly, honestly ... I have eaten fish smaller than this goldfish.
The plecostamus catfish, however, is awesome. He's kind of cute, and totally antisocial. He can swim pretty good, but mostly he just schlorps around the tank with his lips. I'll get a picture of him up soon, but here's one I found on the Internet of a similar pleco totally chowing on a vacation food brick. I guess they really like zucchini as well.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: work
11/22/06 03:52 - ID#37394
marketing
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Very succinct, and it sure beats all these pretentious 'The Art Of Thinking' and 'Welcome to the 21st Century' bumper stickers we've got slapped on every available surface around here.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: geeky
11/20/06 04:37 - 32ºF - ID#37393
nobody asked
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If anybody can think of any real use for it, I'll fix it up real nice and officially put it on the site; otherwise, I'll just leave it around as a curiosity.
Also, you can get notified of our events by RSS now; there are feeds for each calendar, category, and venue in the database.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: drugs
11/17/06 08:00 - 40ºF - ID#37392
foiled again
And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling legislators.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: potpourri
11/10/06 04:57 - 49ºF - ID#37391
he gets results
He gets results.
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Category: booze
11/08/06 11:23 - 54ºF - ID#37390
why i am proud to be latvian
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Category: geeky
11/02/06 08:04 - 33ºF - ID#37389
great minds, right?
I've been playing around with Django
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Today I started poking around at the Yahoo Flash Maps API. I like it. I know this is going to offend certain people, but let's face it- AJAX+DHTML is an egregious hack based on a misbegotten API [XMLHttpRequest
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