Archive for July, 2005
Monday, July 25th, 2005
Top five events in my life that most influence who I am today
Birth of my first child. This one is a gimme, but I couldn’t leave it out. Sometimes I wonder if I should be jealous of our life before we had kids, but every time I try to reflect on what it was I can barely remember what things were like day in and day out. [...]
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Monday, July 25th, 2005
Top 4 retirement dreams
This one was pretty tough, because I don’t ever think about retirement. I come (much to my wife’s dismay, in the context of this question :)) from the very small group of people who not only enjoy their job but love it. I also, as a general rule, think very little about the future, whether [...]
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Monday, July 25th, 2005
Top five albums NOT by Prince or any other name he’s used
Graceland, Paul Simon My first favorite album, still a classic. Live on the Floor of the Boutique, mixed by Fatboy Slim Fantastic collection of techno or pop or dance music or whatever. Delirious, Eddie Murphy When this first came out, my friends and I used to listen to this without parental consent, which I’m sure [...]
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Monday, July 25th, 2005
Top 5 places to experience roadside Americana
Mall of America Wall Drug, SD Pick any US highway and take it for a while instead of the Interstate. Truck stops, new or grungy, doesn’t matter. 4th of July fireworks show, Idaho Falls, ID
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Thursday, July 21st, 2005
Hmmm…
Lifted from lifehacks and Fred on Something. Definately something to think about. Fred Giasson over Fred on Something has a good quotation from the book How to Win Friends and Influence people by Dale Carnegie which talks about reviewing output of tasks and projects and able to analysis what went wrong and what went well: [...]
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Thursday, July 21st, 2005
I’m in
I’ll take some of that top 5 meme action.
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Monday, July 18th, 2005
Idiots
I hate front line technical support. Here’s how every conversation I have with Cox goes: “Our connection seems to be down. Is there an outage in our area?” “We have been getting a lot of calls from your area lately, so I guess so.”
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Monday, July 11th, 2005
Potty Time
All the lights in the men’s room at work almost never work at the same time. I’m starting to suspect someone thinks the bathroom is too bright and is somehow breaking the lights. A lumen saboteur!
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Monday, July 11th, 2005
Go Live
On Friday afternoon we had a go-live for our new homepage. I’ve been part of a dozen or more of these, either big design changes or big code changes or both. It’s a unique feeling, the adrenaline rush of something new while a dozen old things break. Friday was a solid two hours of post [...]
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Monday, July 11th, 2005
Generating more random content for Granny
bold the states you’ve been to, underline the states you’ve lived in and italicize the state you’re in now… Alabama / Alaska / Arizona / Arkansas / California / Colorado / Connecticut / Delaware / Florida / Georgia / Hawaii / Idaho / Illinois / Indiana / Iowa / Kansas / Kentucky / Louisiana / [...]