Monthly Archives: June 2006 - Page 2

Disc condoms

Posted by on June 15, 2006 Comments Off

Gizmodo has an item about Elecom K-Scott CD Pouch Dispensers, which they call kind of useless, and I call a godsend to my constant frustration with not having sleeves or cases for the dozens of discs that I hand out to people every month at work!

I have a decent DVD burner in my machine as well as a registered copy of Nero, so I’m the go-to guy for a lot of people when we’re archiving or transporting things. Not even to mention the 2 or 3 times a year that I have to burn a full set of discs for my big installer project.

Gotta get a box of these ordered…

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Juicy and delicious

Posted by on June 15, 2006 2 comments

I just had a real lychee fruit for the first time. I have had lychee flavored things, and various packaged lychee objects, but have never had the actual fruit. What an amazing little bundle of textures. The exterior of sharp bumps, the inner leathery skin, the meat of the fruit itself, the inner skin before the stone, and then the stone itself. A co-worker just offered one to me out of the blue and I’m really happy she did.

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Clovers where you least expect them

Posted by on June 14, 2006 Comments Off

In the last two weeks I’ve run into something a little different at two places that I’ve been for dinner. It appears that both the new Chatterbox Pub location in Highland Park and Signature Cafe in Prospect Park are serving sodas from The Shamrock Group. So far, the cola and the root beer flavors that I have tried are pretty decent, though nothing stellar. It will be interesting to see if I seem them showing up elsewhere around town, I know the original Chatterbox Pub near my home still has Weinhart’s for their root beer.

And while I’m thinking about it, do give the Signature Cafe a try if you have the chance. It’s got a very interesting and varied menu and a staff that is… well, friendly doesn’t begin to describe it.

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It has come to my attention

Posted by on June 14, 2006 Comments Off

A friend pointed out to me that a link was dead in one of my posts. Turns out, it’s a whole lot more than one of them and comments and pings got turned off for some of the resent posts too. In any case, I’m going back through them and at this point I can, for the most part, blame the current version of WordPress for the issue. It appears that it is adding extra \ characters to all occurances of ” and ‘ characters, which when combined with hyperlinks makes for all sorts of broken crap.

My apologies, I’m going through past posts right now to fix all the ones I can find.

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Share and share alike

Posted by on June 14, 2006 Comments Off

I ran across a reference to Share Your OPML yesterday, and thought I would link to it since I think it’s an interesting site. I found quite a few new blogs to read as a result.

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Little changes

Posted by on June 14, 2006 Comments Off

WordPress 2.0.3 has some kind of wacky issues, so I’m giving the WordPress 2.0.3 Tuneup plugin a try. Hopefully it will fix a couple of those weird issues.

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A primer for the rest of us

Posted by on June 14, 2006 Comments Off

Lor Sj�berg gives some great advice for LiveJournal users, and really for all of us with personal blogs.

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No more old and moldy?

Posted by on June 13, 2006 Comments Off

Gizmodo has a neat entry about “smart labels” that allow simple dating of items in the fridge. Cool idea, though I have suspicions about how well it will be picked up.

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Of stadiums and suckers…

Posted by on June 13, 2006 2 comments

I saw a lovely item in the Star Tribune this morning: Minneapolis to cover Target Center losses

What makes this headline so particularly ironic is that not even a month ago the local Major League Baseball team successfully lobbied the state legislature to build them a new stadium. How is it that in the clamor to give some millionaires a new toy things like the status of the old toys somehow gets shuffled under the rug? So we’re going to pay money to keep the Timberwolves venue running for them. We’re going to pay a LOT of money to build the Twins a new stadium. We’re going to pay another huge chunk of money to build a new stadium for the University of Minnesota. And we’re going to have the albatross of the metrodome that will sink further and further into disrepair as the city can’t afford to maintain it because we have all of these other money hungry projects.

GOD DAMN FUCKING IDIOTS!

My favorite quote from the article?

“It is very difficult for a market of our size to support these two venues,”

And adding two more even larger venues to this already oversaturated entertainment market will do what exactly? Oh yeah, cost us more to maintain and strain budgets for programs that actually have measurable public benefit.

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No matter how much you AIM…

Posted by on June 12, 2006 Comments Off

I have a great idea!

Let’s take a hugely popular service on the net, produce an SDK for it that finally lets external developers do things they have had to hack together for years, and then put restrictions in place that entirely cancel the most useful purpose for creating an “open” service in the first place!

Great job AOL! You’ve successfully proved, once again, that you still just don’t get the net.

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