If you haven't read any of Christopher Paolini's books, you really should. Eragon is a little tough to get into, but I assure you (let me repeat, I assure you) that the book is a million (yes, a million!) times better than the ridiculous movie. Give it a try. But schedule yourself some time over the next two months. Once you start Eragon, you'll most certainly have to finish Eldest by the time Brisingr actually hits shelves. Trust me...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Brisingr Indeed...
Just when you thought that the "countdown timers" were no longer annoying... I too am excited for Brisingr to come out; much more excited for Brisingr than for the new Stephanie Meyer book. I think that Eldest was better than Eragon and I'm hoping that Brisingr is the best of the three. Now, speaking of those annoying countdown timers:
If you haven't read any of Christopher Paolini's books, you really should. Eragon is a little tough to get into, but I assure you (let me repeat, I assure you) that the book is a million (yes, a million!) times better than the ridiculous movie. Give it a try. But schedule yourself some time over the next two months. Once you start Eragon, you'll most certainly have to finish Eldest by the time Brisingr actually hits shelves. Trust me...
If you haven't read any of Christopher Paolini's books, you really should. Eragon is a little tough to get into, but I assure you (let me repeat, I assure you) that the book is a million (yes, a million!) times better than the ridiculous movie. Give it a try. But schedule yourself some time over the next two months. Once you start Eragon, you'll most certainly have to finish Eldest by the time Brisingr actually hits shelves. Trust me...
Brisingr!
For anyone interested, I think I'm more excited about Brisingr coming out September 20 (third book of the Eragon series).
If you absolutely must know, however, I am rooting for Edward (way cooler than the wolf) in the new Stephanie Meyers book ... and contrary to what my co-worker says, I'm pretty sure Edward doesn't die ... and if he does, I'll stomp on my co-worker's toes for ruining the book.
Now I just need to convince Tyson to read this series so he doesn't think I'm so strange when I ramble on for hours about the romantic lives of a girl, her vampire boyfriend and her werewolf BFF...
If you absolutely must know, however, I am rooting for Edward (way cooler than the wolf) in the new Stephanie Meyers book ... and contrary to what my co-worker says, I'm pretty sure Edward doesn't die ... and if he does, I'll stomp on my co-worker's toes for ruining the book.
Now I just need to convince Tyson to read this series so he doesn't think I'm so strange when I ramble on for hours about the romantic lives of a girl, her vampire boyfriend and her werewolf BFF...
Breaking Dawn...
For all of you Stephanie Meyer fans, particularly Sara (who spent the morning finishing off the latest installment in the Artemis Fowl series so that she would be ready for the August 2nd release of the fourth book in the Twilight series):
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Greatest Law Firm Ad Ever...
You thought "One Call, That's All" was catch (or, more correctly, incredibly annoying)? Well beat Quinn Emanuel's latest poster at the Bob Hope Airport:
That's right, the text on the right says: "Justice may be blind but she still sees it our way 92.3% of the time." Admittedly, this is probably a lot more funny to lawyers; but I'm still laughing after reading it... Several times... Good ol' Quinn Emanuel and their notorious marketing... Take that Keith Barton... All the Utah Quinns should be very very proud (and all of you who work for any of the Utah Quinns -- you know who you are) should be equally proud.
Hat Tip: AboveTheLaw.com (as usual)
That's right, the text on the right says: "Justice may be blind but she still sees it our way 92.3% of the time." Admittedly, this is probably a lot more funny to lawyers; but I'm still laughing after reading it... Several times... Good ol' Quinn Emanuel and their notorious marketing... Take that Keith Barton... All the Utah Quinns should be very very proud (and all of you who work for any of the Utah Quinns -- you know who you are) should be equally proud.
Hat Tip: AboveTheLaw.com (as usual)
Determine Gender Based on Browser History
This is just awesome (except for the fact that the browser history on my home computer estimates:
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 36%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 64%
Looks like I need to spend more time on espn.com and askmen.com and such... I wonder what my work computer will yield; I'll let you know tomorrow (once I finish compiling several hundred invoices and bills for an economic damages report). Check out the write-up and your own gender trends:
Here is the link: http://www.mikeonads.com/2008/07/13/using-your-browser-url-history-estimate-gender/
Be sure to post your results in the comments!
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 36%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 64%
Looks like I need to spend more time on espn.com and askmen.com and such... I wonder what my work computer will yield; I'll let you know tomorrow (once I finish compiling several hundred invoices and bills for an economic damages report). Check out the write-up and your own gender trends:
Thanks to Paul Cook for the initial link to this fascinating little javascript script Social History. Thes cript analyzes the css color of various links to determine whether or not the user has been to that site. If the link has the “visited” style, then he marks the user as having been to that site. Now the Social History implementation of this is rather innocuous — it’s a clever way of only displaying only the sharing buttons of sites that the user is an active participant of. Of course there are far more interesting applications for advertising.
One of the things that I always wanted to do but never got around to was to analyze a user’s browsing history to estimate age and gender. Of course the idea is definitely not new, in fact Xerox (of all companies??) has a patent on the whole process and I’m certain plenty of networks already do something of the sort… but what the heck, let’s have some fun!
So what I did is I modified the SocialHistory JS so that it polled the browser to find out which of the Quantcast top 10k sites were visited. I then apply the ratio of male to female users for each site and with some basic math determine a guestimate of your gender. The math is really quite simple, I just take:
1 / (1 + r_1 * r_2 * … * r_n)
where p_i is the ratio of men-to-women for the specific site. For example, if you had been to two sites that had a 2-1 ratio of men to women, the probability of you being female would be:
1 / (1 + 2 * 2) = 1/5 = 20%
Here is the link: http://www.mikeonads.com/2008/07/13/using-your-browser-url-history-estimate-gender/
Be sure to post your results in the comments!
Friday, July 25, 2008
The Official Soundtrack of the Snows
As part of Sara's renewed interest in the blog (and her need to find distractions while at work), she has started compiling our "official soundtrack" (well, according to me it is our "official soundtrack"; I'm not sure she feels the same way). Anyway, scroll down to the bottom of the page and see (and listen to) the playlist. If you wonder why certain songs are on it, feel free to ask (but Sara will probably provide better answers than I will).
After all, you can tell a lot about a person by the music they listen to... Or so I've heard. (Is it telling that I listen to "What's My Age Again" and "I'm Just a Kid" a lot?)...
After all, you can tell a lot about a person by the music they listen to... Or so I've heard. (Is it telling that I listen to "What's My Age Again" and "I'm Just a Kid" a lot?)...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
I've never seen this in all my time working here ...
So, this afternoon, I went with 3 co-workers to the Cheesecake Factory. I had a decent time there for lunch the first time or two I went, but I did have one time with poor service (food coming out in a haphazard manner, getting the wrong order, or food not coming out at all ... and to top it all off, a manager that was willing to apologize to those people in the party who made it the whole hour without seeing any of their order).
Well, this time was different, and I seriously will think hard before going there EVER again. Or ever eating salad. Or vegetables. Ever. Really. Or maybe never eating. Except I'm hungry because I didn't get lunch.
First off, we had a waiter who was really into the word "certainly" ... it was basically his only response unless he was trying to explain away a mistake. "Certainly," in case you aren't fluent with the Cheesecake Factory lingo, means "fat chance" or "maybe if I've got nothing better to do." Bread, for instance, required a personal request ... which only came 10-15 minutes after placing our orders ... and after trying to hunt the guy down for a while after that. Certainly.
So, I have (at least in the past) been a big fan of the pizza and salad lunch combo. Salad is huge. BBQ pizza is great. And so that's what I ordered, as did 2 of the other guys (with different pizzas). After a decent wait, the non-combo lunch came out as did the salad for the guys on the other side of the table. A few minutes later, and out came pizzas for me and the guy next to me. I had had 1/8 of my pizza, and out came the pizza for the guy across the table. Then, there was another wait. I was seriously having moments of imagining the Hell's Kitchen guy (from the all of 1.5 episodes I've seen) just flipping out, throwing food, and making all of the cooks cry for the poorly timed preparation and delivery of the food). I'm just guessing that 15-20 minutes after the last pizza was brought out, my salad arrived (as did the one for the guy next to me). I found it strange that the salad was significantly smaller than I am typically used to, but decided that I can't eat it all anyway, so no harm done.
I have now slowly consumed 1/4 of the pizza (seriously, I'm not SOOO hungry as to kid myself into thinking that I could eat the whole meal and salads are not as great after a day in a box in my work fridge as is the pizza - so I was "saving myself" so to speak). I take a couple bites and then the co-worker across the table gets a horrified look on his face and extends his hand to bat down the hand and fork of the co-worker next to me. Fortunately, this action caused him to lower the fork prior to taking a big bite from which a large (1" from antlers to tail, I'd guess) WASP drenched in ranch was crawling out from a piece of lettuce.
Well, I was sooooo grossed out, but managed to make a minimal scene by pushing away from the table, and the guys stuck another plate over the salad plate (encasing the fork and wasp). Still, whilst sitting clearly in the aisle, and all tables around us starting to look as grossed out as I was, and prodding their food for any live "extras," it took a good 5 minutes before anyone came over to see what was going on - and that's only because I flagged the waiter down.
We were then subjected to "well, gee, I've never seen that happen in all my time here." Heck! I should hope not! Did they think that I expected that at least 5 dishes per lunch came out with something crawling in it? Eeeewww eeewwww and eeewwww. The manager came over and mumbled, after of course mentioning again that he had never seen that before, that he would take care of it, and smartly offered to get my co-worker another replacement salad. My co-worker declined. We sat there for a long time again (not eating anything of course), discussing the live bug in the food, until we flagged down the waiter again so that my co-worker could order his wife some cheesecake to go (as the manager had mentioned to save room for dessert). After the waiter had time to make the cheesecake, he brought it out on a nice plate and we had to send him away to box it up.
The check came with the salad and cheesecake deducted. We were ready to pay just to get out of there and with the final notion of 'heck, we're never going to come here again.' When my co-worker asked why the whole check wasn't taken care of. Subsequently, the manager came over and my co-worker asked again. The manager grabbed the check in a bit of a huff, and came back with a reduced bill. It took me a minute to figure out that he had entered the employee discount. Seriously. The manager said "here, is this good enough?" to which my co-worker said that we'd all be happy to pay, but that he thought it was a poorly handled situation and he didn't understand why the whole table wasn't paid for (particularly in light of how little we all ate as a result of the live bug in the food). The manager then said fine, grabbed the check, crumpled it up, and stomped off.
So, I don't know if you are expecting large live insects capable of biting you back in your Cheesecake Factory food (assuming you are crazy enough to go there), at least it will minorly suprize the manager, or that's what they'll try to convince you.
Happy eating!
Well, this time was different, and I seriously will think hard before going there EVER again. Or ever eating salad. Or vegetables. Ever. Really. Or maybe never eating. Except I'm hungry because I didn't get lunch.
First off, we had a waiter who was really into the word "certainly" ... it was basically his only response unless he was trying to explain away a mistake. "Certainly," in case you aren't fluent with the Cheesecake Factory lingo, means "fat chance" or "maybe if I've got nothing better to do." Bread, for instance, required a personal request ... which only came 10-15 minutes after placing our orders ... and after trying to hunt the guy down for a while after that. Certainly.
So, I have (at least in the past) been a big fan of the pizza and salad lunch combo. Salad is huge. BBQ pizza is great. And so that's what I ordered, as did 2 of the other guys (with different pizzas). After a decent wait, the non-combo lunch came out as did the salad for the guys on the other side of the table. A few minutes later, and out came pizzas for me and the guy next to me. I had had 1/8 of my pizza, and out came the pizza for the guy across the table. Then, there was another wait. I was seriously having moments of imagining the Hell's Kitchen guy (from the all of 1.5 episodes I've seen) just flipping out, throwing food, and making all of the cooks cry for the poorly timed preparation and delivery of the food). I'm just guessing that 15-20 minutes after the last pizza was brought out, my salad arrived (as did the one for the guy next to me). I found it strange that the salad was significantly smaller than I am typically used to, but decided that I can't eat it all anyway, so no harm done.
I have now slowly consumed 1/4 of the pizza (seriously, I'm not SOOO hungry as to kid myself into thinking that I could eat the whole meal and salads are not as great after a day in a box in my work fridge as is the pizza - so I was "saving myself" so to speak). I take a couple bites and then the co-worker across the table gets a horrified look on his face and extends his hand to bat down the hand and fork of the co-worker next to me. Fortunately, this action caused him to lower the fork prior to taking a big bite from which a large (1" from antlers to tail, I'd guess) WASP drenched in ranch was crawling out from a piece of lettuce.
Well, I was sooooo grossed out, but managed to make a minimal scene by pushing away from the table, and the guys stuck another plate over the salad plate (encasing the fork and wasp). Still, whilst sitting clearly in the aisle, and all tables around us starting to look as grossed out as I was, and prodding their food for any live "extras," it took a good 5 minutes before anyone came over to see what was going on - and that's only because I flagged the waiter down.
We were then subjected to "well, gee, I've never seen that happen in all my time here." Heck! I should hope not! Did they think that I expected that at least 5 dishes per lunch came out with something crawling in it? Eeeewww eeewwww and eeewwww. The manager came over and mumbled, after of course mentioning again that he had never seen that before, that he would take care of it, and smartly offered to get my co-worker another replacement salad. My co-worker declined. We sat there for a long time again (not eating anything of course), discussing the live bug in the food, until we flagged down the waiter again so that my co-worker could order his wife some cheesecake to go (as the manager had mentioned to save room for dessert). After the waiter had time to make the cheesecake, he brought it out on a nice plate and we had to send him away to box it up.
The check came with the salad and cheesecake deducted. We were ready to pay just to get out of there and with the final notion of 'heck, we're never going to come here again.' When my co-worker asked why the whole check wasn't taken care of. Subsequently, the manager came over and my co-worker asked again. The manager grabbed the check in a bit of a huff, and came back with a reduced bill. It took me a minute to figure out that he had entered the employee discount. Seriously. The manager said "here, is this good enough?" to which my co-worker said that we'd all be happy to pay, but that he thought it was a poorly handled situation and he didn't understand why the whole table wasn't paid for (particularly in light of how little we all ate as a result of the live bug in the food). The manager then said fine, grabbed the check, crumpled it up, and stomped off.
So, I don't know if you are expecting large live insects capable of biting you back in your Cheesecake Factory food (assuming you are crazy enough to go there), at least it will minorly suprize the manager, or that's what they'll try to convince you.
Happy eating!
Monday, July 21, 2008
The Chronicles of Narnia
I just finished reading C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia for the first time in a long time (but not the first time ever). As I was updating my review on GoodReads.com, I noticed that I can simply cut/paste some html to include my review on this site. So here's to trying:
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
rating: 4 of 5 stars
I've read them all before. Now I'm reading them all again...
In case you're wondering, Voyage of the Dawn Treader is the best (after the obligatory The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe). I think The Silver Chair is my least favorite. And The Magician's Nephew is far and away the most interesting (again, after The Lion...) from a religious or Christian apologist perspective. All of the Chronicles were entertaining to read again as an "adult" (and I use the quotation marks very loosely)...
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The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisMy review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
I've read them all before. Now I'm reading them all again...
In case you're wondering, Voyage of the Dawn Treader is the best (after the obligatory The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe). I think The Silver Chair is my least favorite. And The Magician's Nephew is far and away the most interesting (again, after The Lion...) from a religious or Christian apologist perspective. All of the Chronicles were entertaining to read again as an "adult" (and I use the quotation marks very loosely)...
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Friday, July 18, 2008
Tagging Part II
I figure since I was tagged, it's only proper to respond...
A-Attached or Single? Attached...
B-Best Friend? Alicia .... no, Tyson ... no, Alicia ... no, Tyson ....no, Alicia .... no, Tyson ...
C-Cake or Pie? Pie or 3.14 .... either one is preferable to most cake
D-Day of choice? Friday
E-Essential item? sunglasses ... big ones to help shield my face should any of those crazy paparazzi decide to harass me ... oh, and wedding ring
F-Favorite color? Red ... no, purple .... no, red
G-Gummy Bears or Worms? Bears ... like to bite off their heads first ... does that say something about me???
H-Hometown? Pleasant View (I bet my hometown sounds lovelier than yours!!)
I-Favorite Indulgence? Dancing with the Stars (seriously, I don't know what's wrong with me there)
J-January or July? July ... sun, swimming, fireworks, baseball, painted toenails ... all in theory, of course, but I imagine all that is happening from my nifty chair in my cozy office .... oh to have sand between my toes (sand, not dirt or sock fuzzies or anything else that shouldn't be there)
K-Kids? I'm married to one
L-Life isn't complete without? my big, soft bed
M-Marriage date? August 11, 2007...
N-Number of brothers and sisters? 1 brother
O-Oranges or apples? probably oranges
P-Phobias and fears? heights
Q-Quote? "The rules of hair care are simple and finite. Any Cosmo girl would have known" ... and "Hi. My name is Marshall J. Flinkman, and I'm here to rescue you!" ... and "30 is the new black"
[Why is there no "R"?]
S-Season of choice? Fall
T-Tag 3 people - Next 3 readers (you know who you are)...
U-Unknown fact about me? I can probably still do the splits...
V-Vegetable? corn
W-Worst habit? biting nails ... procrastinating ....
X-X-ray or Ultrasound? donno
Y-Your favorite food? Smoothies ... does that count?
Z-Zodiac Sign? Sagittarius
A-Attached or Single? Attached...
B-Best Friend? Alicia .... no, Tyson ... no, Alicia ... no, Tyson ....no, Alicia .... no, Tyson ...
C-Cake or Pie? Pie or 3.14 .... either one is preferable to most cake
D-Day of choice? Friday
E-Essential item? sunglasses ... big ones to help shield my face should any of those crazy paparazzi decide to harass me ... oh, and wedding ring
F-Favorite color? Red ... no, purple .... no, red
G-Gummy Bears or Worms? Bears ... like to bite off their heads first ... does that say something about me???
H-Hometown? Pleasant View (I bet my hometown sounds lovelier than yours!!)
I-Favorite Indulgence? Dancing with the Stars (seriously, I don't know what's wrong with me there)
J-January or July? July ... sun, swimming, fireworks, baseball, painted toenails ... all in theory, of course, but I imagine all that is happening from my nifty chair in my cozy office .... oh to have sand between my toes (sand, not dirt or sock fuzzies or anything else that shouldn't be there)
K-Kids? I'm married to one
L-Life isn't complete without? my big, soft bed
M-Marriage date? August 11, 2007...
N-Number of brothers and sisters? 1 brother
O-Oranges or apples? probably oranges
P-Phobias and fears? heights
Q-Quote? "The rules of hair care are simple and finite. Any Cosmo girl would have known" ... and "Hi. My name is Marshall J. Flinkman, and I'm here to rescue you!" ... and "30 is the new black"
[Why is there no "R"?]
S-Season of choice? Fall
T-Tag 3 people - Next 3 readers (you know who you are)...
U-Unknown fact about me? I can probably still do the splits...
V-Vegetable? corn
W-Worst habit? biting nails ... procrastinating ....
X-X-ray or Ultrasound? donno
Y-Your favorite food? Smoothies ... does that count?
Z-Zodiac Sign? Sagittarius
Saggy Pants Suspects Beware:
Looks like there will be no saggy pants in Flint, Michigan. From the Detroit Free Press:
Hat tip: SupremeDicta.com
Hat tip: SupremeDicta.com
Tagged ABC Style...
My little sister, Jet, tagged me; I guess I should respond:
A-Attached or Single? Attached...
B-Best Friend? My Lucky Kitty... J/K... Sara of course...
C-Cake or Pie? Cake (especially when Jet gives me her frosting)...
D-Day of choice? Thursday or Saturday...
E-Essential item? My Smartphone (Treo 750)...
F-Favorite color? Purple...
G-Gummy Bears or Worms? Chocolate Covered Gummy Bears...
H-Hometown? Provo...
I-Favorite Indulgence? Pizza Buffet...
J-January or July? January...
K-Kids? I am one...
L-Life isn't complete without? Pepsi...
M-Marriage date? August 11, 2007...
N-Number of brothers and sisters? 2 sisters, 1 brother...
O-Oranges or apples? Apples (but only if covered in caramel)...
P-Phobias and fears? Failure...
Q-Quote? "I'm just a kid and my life is a nightmare..."
[Why is there no "R"?]
S-Season of choice? Winter...
T-Tag 3 people - Sara and any two others who actually read this...
U-Unknown fact about me? I'm actually cool...
V-Vegetable? Asparagus...
W-Worst habit? I plead the 5th on this for sure...
X-X-ray or Ultrasound? I generally get MRIs...
Y-Your favorite food? Alaskan King Crab...
Z-Zodiac Sign? Scorpio...
A-Attached or Single? Attached...
B-Best Friend? My Lucky Kitty... J/K... Sara of course...
C-Cake or Pie? Cake (especially when Jet gives me her frosting)...
D-Day of choice? Thursday or Saturday...
E-Essential item? My Smartphone (Treo 750)...
F-Favorite color? Purple...
G-Gummy Bears or Worms? Chocolate Covered Gummy Bears...
H-Hometown? Provo...
I-Favorite Indulgence? Pizza Buffet...
J-January or July? January...
K-Kids? I am one...
L-Life isn't complete without? Pepsi...
M-Marriage date? August 11, 2007...
N-Number of brothers and sisters? 2 sisters, 1 brother...
O-Oranges or apples? Apples (but only if covered in caramel)...
P-Phobias and fears? Failure...
Q-Quote? "I'm just a kid and my life is a nightmare..."
[Why is there no "R"?]
S-Season of choice? Winter...
T-Tag 3 people - Sara and any two others who actually read this...
U-Unknown fact about me? I'm actually cool...
V-Vegetable? Asparagus...
W-Worst habit? I plead the 5th on this for sure...
X-X-ray or Ultrasound? I generally get MRIs...
Y-Your favorite food? Alaskan King Crab...
Z-Zodiac Sign? Scorpio...
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Search Engine Wars - Money for the Masses?
I stumbled upon a new search engine recently. It is called Scour.com and it claims that it pays back to the user some of the "billions" of dollars made by search engines annually. I uses combined results from Google, MSN, and Yahoo, as well as user votes and rankings. Since I use Google for almost everything, I figured I'd give it a whirl. The best feature, in my mind, is that, at a glance, you can see where in the results the site ranks on Google, Yahoo, and MSN; it is pretty handy for figuring out which sites you want to visit. Anyway, here is their official mumbo-jumbo:
The top search engines make billions of dollars a year in advertising revenue, wouldn't it be cool if the users got a piece of that too? Enter Scour Points! Every member is awarded one point for every search, two for a vote and three for a comment with a maximum of 4 points a search. Once you aggregate at least 6,500 points you can cash them out for a $25 Visa gift card... it's more than you currently make from searching, right? On top of that, we offer referral points for the friends you introduce to Scour where you can earn 25% of the points they make. So if you invited 25 friends that used scour regularly in addition to yourself, that's an easy $125 in your pocket for a year of what you already do! Check out how much you could earn with the Scour Points Calculator. This isn't a pyramid scheme and we're not trying to get you rich quick, we just think it's a good idea to share our success with those who help make it possible.Great eh? Well, if you're interested, check it out here: http://scour.com/invite/tysonsnow
Friday, July 11, 2008
Random Musings for a Friday
Hey everyone, just a couple of random thoughts to keep me distracted from the gigantic stack of papers on my desk (and the four bankers boxes stacked in the corner that are full of documents for me to review).
First, I love Firefox 3. I've never been a big fan of the Firefox browsers. I used Maxthon for a long time. But I've been using Firefox 3 for several weeks now and I think it is going to replace Maxthon permanently as my browser of choice. The add-ons are fantastic. I suggest FaviconizeTab and ColorfulTabs. Make sure you get those two.
Second, while I was riding TRAX into work today (as of today, I can drive again, but Sara and I are going to a Bees game tonight so I took TRAX), I noticed a huge line of people outside of the at&t wireless store. I think the new iPhone 3G gets released today and I'm guessing that all the people were lined up so they could be the first people to have the latest and greatest toy from Apple. But seriously, it was 7:45 in the morning. If you don't have to be to work early, do you really want to spend that extra time waiting in line to get a phone (so that work can get ahold of you at anytime and anyplace?). Surely they could have waited until tomorrow. As for me, I'll stick with my Treo 750 for a while longer (my contract is up in August and then I'll see what kind of deal I can swing on a new plan).
And finally, Lagoon is awesome. You should go. And while you're there, be sure to eat a big, chewy pretzel in honor of me.
Have a great Friday everyone. Peace.
First, I love Firefox 3. I've never been a big fan of the Firefox browsers. I used Maxthon for a long time. But I've been using Firefox 3 for several weeks now and I think it is going to replace Maxthon permanently as my browser of choice. The add-ons are fantastic. I suggest FaviconizeTab and ColorfulTabs. Make sure you get those two.
Second, while I was riding TRAX into work today (as of today, I can drive again, but Sara and I are going to a Bees game tonight so I took TRAX), I noticed a huge line of people outside of the at&t wireless store. I think the new iPhone 3G gets released today and I'm guessing that all the people were lined up so they could be the first people to have the latest and greatest toy from Apple. But seriously, it was 7:45 in the morning. If you don't have to be to work early, do you really want to spend that extra time waiting in line to get a phone (so that work can get ahold of you at anytime and anyplace?). Surely they could have waited until tomorrow. As for me, I'll stick with my Treo 750 for a while longer (my contract is up in August and then I'll see what kind of deal I can swing on a new plan).
And finally, Lagoon is awesome. You should go. And while you're there, be sure to eat a big, chewy pretzel in honor of me.
Have a great Friday everyone. Peace.
Monday, July 07, 2008
Why I Love Soccer...
The following story concerns a match played between Barbados and Grenada in cup competition:
Source: Snopes.com
Barbados needed to win the game by two clear goals in order to progress to the next round. Now the trouble was caused by a daft rule in the competition which stated that in the event of a game going to penalty kicks, the winner of the penalty kicks would be awarded a 2-0 victory.Awesome! Who doesn't love a sport that sometimes requires you to "lose" in order to "win"?
With 5 minutes to go, Barbados were leading 2-1, and going out of the tournament (because they needed to win by 2 clear goals). Then, when they realized they were probably not going to score against Grenada's massed defense, they turned round, and deliberately scored on their own goal to level the scores and take the game into penalties. Grenada, themselves not being stupid, realized what was going on, and then attempted to score an own goal themselves. However, the Barbados players started defending their opponents goal to prevent this.
In the last five minutes, spectators were treated to the incredible sight of both team's defending their opponents goal against attackers desperately trying to score an own goal and goalkeepers trying to throw the ball into their own net. The game went to penalties, which Barbados won and so were awarded a 2-0 victory and progressed to the next round.
Source: Snopes.com
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