Archive for December, 2003
Monday, December 29th, 2003
High roller
As part of the xmas festivities this weekend, Ryan’s family and I went down to Atlantic City Friday night to try out luck. We went to Harrah’s, which wasn’t all that impressive. We got dinner in the casino, and the food was pretty bad. Then time to hit the gaming floor. [...]
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2003
Holiday Fun
The holiday is in full swing here at work. Pat showed up this morning with a bunch of Santa hats, donuts, and various other fun things. So, pictures were taken and posted, which prompted me to tell you about some new photo galleries I’ve put up.
3 Foolish Men
The boys at the office, decked [...]
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Monday, December 22nd, 2003
The tipping point
Well, that did it. With k’s comment about my ultra-white bread spelling of “freakin”, I reached 393 posts (not counting this one) and 394 comments. Considering I started this weblog back in June of last year, it feels like somewhat of an accomplishment that enough of my 5 friends feel compelled to comment [...]
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Monday, December 22nd, 2003
Dance Dance Revolution
No, this post is not about DDR, but instead about how I helped the SLF chaperone a dance at the school she teaches at on Friday. The school is a “faith-based charter school”, which has students primarily from Garfield, Wilkinsburg, and the Hill District. In English, that means that there’s about 30-odd inner-city [...]
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Thursday, December 18th, 2003
ROTK
Went and saw ROTK last night. The movie was wonderful, of course, as all the critics and fans are saying. Saw three interesting things before the movie, however:
Went to Panera for soup and a sandwich before the movie. After I order my sandwich, the girl tells me they’re out of rosemary & [...]
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2003
A cause for no celebration
NFL fines Horn $30,000
Between displays like this and the skipping routine of Warren Sapp, professional football has become a bunch of 12 year olds, competing to see who can make a bigger ass of themselves, even after a meaningless score, as in the case of the Falcon’s Duckett, who had the gall to celebrate after [...]
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2003
EMC buys VMWare
(Press release)
I don’t get this move… EMC does storage services, and VMWare makes software that lets you run Windows on a Linux machine, or Linux on a Windows machine, in a window. My guess is that they’re trying to become the next Computer Associates branching out into a larger vendor of both hardware [...]
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Thursday, December 11th, 2003
Feralboy bought by Microsoft with $1B package
“That’s one heckuva package,” says site founder Matt Comroe
For Immediate Release
Pittsburgh, PA—December 11, 2003—Feralboy.com, announced today that it has been acquired in a takeover bid from Microsoft valued at nearly a billion dollars in old newspapers and pets.com stock.
Feralboy.com founder, CEO, CTO, CFO, EVP, and all-around swell guy Matt Comroe expressed great satisfaction with the [...]
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2003
More job-hunting tips.
Part 3 in our continuing series on “How to Not Get A Job”, I got this gem of a cover letter from Ryan this morning:
<tt>DEAR SIR/MADDAM
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THE PURPOSE OF THIS LETTER IS TO INFORM YOU ABOUT ME. AND HOW I FEEL I AM
THE BEST PERSON FOR THE JOB.
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I FEEL I AM THE [...]
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2003
Phase Two
My cats have begun the second step in their multipart plan to make me spend more time with them. Phase One was waking me up at ungodly hours so I’d be forced to pay attention to them. Phase Two apparently involves resetting the time on my alarm clock, thereby forcing me to get [...]
