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Okay, embarrassing story time.

So I have this Bacon Double Cheeseburger from Wendy’s that a co-worker picked up on their trek over lunch-time. By the time it gets back to me, it’s a little cold. I decide, brightly, that a few seconds in the microwave is exactly what it needs.

I go back to the breakroom, toss it in the microwave, set it for 20 seconds and press start. A few seconds later I see what appears to be lightning in the microwave, and the wrapper around the burger lights on fire.

Yes. On fire.

Oh, yes, the wrapper is made of aluminum foil lined with tissue paper.

So, in other words, don’t ever do this.

For those who are concerned, the Bacon Double Cheeseburger is safe; it was rescued in time and is currently enjoying the last few moments of its existence, as we know it.

Continue reading ‘Oops’

No, not the TV show (British or American); this is my den at home.

Above is my desk.

This is Amy’s desk.

Continue reading ‘The Office’

So, it was my birthday yesterday. I went out to eat at Claddagh’s Irish Pub with my wife for lunch to celebrate it, and had some of the best Fish and Chips that I’ve had, here in the states. Never having been to the UK, I can’t say how they do it “over there,” but there’s no lack of good Fish and Chips in Canada. Minnesota is another story; sure, it might be on the menu, but it’s just not the same. My friend Luke recommended the place, and I have to tip my hat to him; they were some good Fish and Chips.

When you get the full order, they give you a pound of fish. I took my second filet home, and I think I’ll have it for lunch today. Nobody needs to eat a pound of fish in one sitting.

My wife Amy bought me a cool, thoughful present; a stack of Moleskine’s.

The large one is a notebook, the smaller is a sketchbook, and the three little ones are their pack of little notebooks, or cahiers, (which is just French for… notebook). Very cool, and they’ll all be well used.

I took some pictures of my office (at home), too. Maybe I should post those, later. It’s a bit of a mess, though, so don’t tell my wife. If I post them, it would be the equivalent of inviting everybody on the internet over for a cup of coffee and not cleaning up the place first.

Played Halo 2 on a couple of linked X-Boxen last night; a good time was had by all. My Halo 2 skills are to be pitied, but that’s alright.

I slept until noon. I’m not proud. Or tired.

Later, internet.

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Someone at ps260 has retooled Stephen King’s The Shining into… well, I simply can’t describe it. Extremely funny. The “trailer” is here. (Link to PS260 Blog post)

If you haven’t seen the original, just keep in mind that it’s pretty much a tale of descent into murderous insanity. That just makes this reimagining of it all the more amusing.

I want to say something pithy about creativity and the uncomfortable juxtaposition of conflicting ideas, but I’ll leave that to your imagination.

EDIT: Hmm. Trying to view this again, and it looks like the server must be getting hammered; I have it downloaded at home, I suppose I should have mirrored it to help them out. If it’s still not working tonight, I’ll put up a mirror of it. If this server starts getting hammered (not likely) I’ll have to take it down again, but we’ll see.

Continue reading ‘Feel-good Movie of the Season’

• When I say I “installed” it, that is giving me too much credit. I downloaded it and extracted it; the full app was gzipped up in the tar file. I presume it’s the full app, I suppose it could be searching for pre-installed mozilla/firefox components, but I doubt it, since they’d have no way to know which directory these would be located.
• Making “favorites” has a cool feature; you can automatically add tags and post the link to del.icio.us at the same time you bookmark it. Maybe that could (should!) be done in a Firefox extension, but either way, it’s darn cool.
• Uh, that’s all. And a screenshot.

UPDATE: Even more;

• When you download the adblock extension for Flock, its filter already contains this regular expression: /[\W_]ad[^=&](banner|click|flow|frame|ima?ge?|log| serv(er|e)?|stream|type|view|vert(ising|isement)?|v|js|trix| xchange|wrapper)?s?[\W\d_]/ … so, you start out by seeing, well, hardly any ads. Not even Google ads. Wow.

Continue reading ‘A few further notes on Flock’