I took this picture of Riley this weekend … I was going for the depth of field with Riley in the background, slightly out of focus, and his cat toys in the foreground.
Came out pretty well, I think. I’m need to play around with that stuff a bit more … but I’m getting better at getting the picture I’ve got in my head.
[tags]Cat, toys, depth of field[/tags]
A rather unique group of developers out in Baltimore have decided to go with a different route to collect money for a birthday card & gift for their boss.
They are running an auction … the winner of this auction will get their name and website signed on the inside of the birthday card in big letters. The card will also be prominently displayed in their office lunch room.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:US:31&item=9532516908.
Update: Apparently eBay pulled the auction because they thought it was for a charity … which it was not. The auction has been reposted.
[tags]ebay, birthday, boss, auction[/tags]
Yes, it’s true. I’m officially an IPODder.
For reasons I won’t go into, my good friend Steve gave Ginny and I a $500 gift card to ABT Electronics (he’s a VERY good friend).
Today we decided to go over to ABT to see what we could get.
Talk about a madhouse … I thought Frys was crazy, but ABT was insane.
Steve showed us some of his the kitchen appliances he’s getting for the house he’s building … and then left us to make our purchases.
After looking at various items, we decided to get the following …
I chose the IPOD because my current MP3 player only has 256mb of memory … and I find it quite frustrating that it runs out of space when I try to put more than a few songs on it.
I wasn’t too thrilled with the size of the nano … but with the skin it’s got enough bulk (and protection) to satisfy me.
Oh yeah … even if you’re not shopping for electronics, I do recommend at least one visit to ABT to see some of their art installations. They have a huge fish tank, a granite globe that floats on water, and this really cool piece that has marbles rolling around tracks. Ginny and I stared at it for about 10 minutes.
You can always tell what language a programmer works with by the way they names their kids.
If you’re not a programmer, you probably won’t get it.
A co-worker (Jon) sent out a email notification indicating that one of our internal server applications would have to be restarted in order to implement a modification … or “Patch”.
Being the smart-ass that I am … I replied …
Me: Man, you have got to get those servers to kick the nicotine habit … they are just not handling the patch that well
Jon: Ya, well the Nicorette kept gooping up the CPU fan, so we had to try something different
Jon’s response almost made me fall out of my chair laughing.
(Yes, I am easily amused)
I have some Dell discount codes that I’m not going to use.
One is $20 off electronics and accessories purchases of $200 or more.
The other is 20% off select desktop and notebook purchases of $999 or more.
If you would like one of the codes, leave feedback explaining why you deserve the code. I’ll give the code to the person with the best explaination.
They Expire 1/31/06.
Dell, Coupon, Discount
I found a new favorite sweet treat.
I learned about them a few week ago from Scott in support at work. They were really good.
I like ginger, and I like altoids, and the combination is yummy.
The church of the flying spaghetti monster is publishing a book …
Oh boy … it’s been a while since I did a serious post here. Time to do some catch up.
Well, that’s all the news that’s fit to print right now. I’ll try to keep more current in the future.