Category: random thoughts
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Handyman! Who knew?
The other day, just in time for our month Iron Chef dinner parties, our oven decided to die on us. The burners worked fine but after several hours of baking a ham, it still hadn’t finished pre-heating. So it wasn’t totally dead, but in the words of Princess Bride, it was “mostly dead”. So after…
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Financial Stupidity or Intention
This is a very interesting article about the current economic situation and how the people who should know better could be so silly: http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/9454
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Why I Didn’t Like the Dark Knight
Yes, I finally got around to seeing the Dark Knight last night. They joys of having a 2 year old! Before I get around to explaining my disagreements, I should start out by saying that as far as acting and accomplishing an emotional reaction, I thought the movie was very good. And I can definitely…
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Gas Prices
I think it’s funny (though not really) that we now view gas prices around $3.25 as low. What a joke! It’s definitely lower that the $4 we were approaching/hit, but it’s still ridiculously high. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that gas is quick to follow the increase in the price of barrels of oil,…
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Canceled Flights
I’m once again off to DC for work, but on the way this morning I got a call from the person that booked my ticket for me that the airline had changed my itinerary and I was going to spend the whole day and night in airports and airplanes and not get there until tomorrow…
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Extreme Programming
For those of you that don’t know “extreme programming” is actually a real term that has to with a certain method of programming that follows certain rules and tries to make projects as successful as possible. But I don’t mean that. Those of you who know me technically know that I can get a very…
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Personal Yardstick
I was talking to a friend today about a job offer and he decided he would try to sum me up. He said he figured I was (and I’m paraphrasing) very competent, but that others probably thought more of my skills than I did and that self-promotion wasn’t my strongest area. Basically that I’m really…