IM IN UR FONTZ

So, since Vista came out, I've kinda sorta given up on keeping up with current games and things any more, if that's the direction they're going to take. The adoption of Vista takes us into a world where I don't want to be. So with that in mind, I have installed

My List: Part 2

If you'll recall, I had a list in progress. So without further ado, let's wrap this up!

#5 Come Back Inn - Madison, WI

One weekend early in 1996, my brother and I, along with my cousins Vince and Casey, piled into the gigantic pink conversion van and drove up to …

My List: Part 1

Inspired by a local blogger and his impressive top 20 list of his favorite bars, I thought I'd go one further(in my mind), and run down my favorite beer bars. Beeradvocate has their own list, which I believe is based on a system that determines points though ratings …

Ecomm Window Tonight

When I started planning my big trip, the group that was planning to go(that then numbered four), agreed that the best time to do the trip would be for the week of the 4th of July, to take advantage of the holiday time off. I put in a vacation request, which was filed …

I Paid Them to Screw Up

I got my computer back today. I am not happy with what happened. nothing was damaged, mind you. If that had been the case, I would probably be writing this from jail, for throwing a chair through the window of the place where they worked on it. I picked it up on my way …

A Trip, eh!

First, an administrative notice. I haven't posted the pictures from Sarah's weddding or from the big party this past weekend, because my computer's in the shop. All I have at home is my Linux server, and my work laptop, should I choose to plug it in and change its …

5-Day IPA

In the St. Louis exurb of O'Fallon there is a brewery that bears the town's name. As of late, this small brewery has been building a reputation for producing truly exceptional beers. For a party that we recently held, we acquired a keg of their delectable India Pale …

The End of an Oncall

I'm on call this week, though I'm handing the pager off today. It's been a relatively slow week, especially compared to last time. But on Wednesday night I received lots and lots of pages- one about every 45 minutes, thus never allowing me to enter REM sleep. The last …

Some of This and That

First, a blogger/geek/programmer named Adam Lindsay, inspired by the runaway success and face-melting hilarity of Caturday sites like ichcb and roflcats comes the first inklings of a new programming language, called lolcode. Observe a typical "hello world" program:

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Inadvertently Fixed

Um... weird.

I just did a minor code update to the backend of the site. The flat files that store the witty, well-timed captions to all my pictures were previously in a colon-delimited format. That means that on each line in each file, the text would read, …

The System is Down

You may have noticed that things are weird. I have too. I brought up this webpage a couple days ago, and saw that there are some missing entries. So I logged into the server and found that it's all running on the backup server. I sent an email asking what's up, and got …

Cinco de Long Day

I had a lively weekend. On Friday morning, I handed off the oncall phone to Eddie and ran- nay skipped, out of the office for the afternoon. The really bad news came though as I was approaching my car at Sunfresh in Midtown. Someone had quite expertly removed the brand …

The System is Up

Everything's back up! That was an annoying, yet thankfully not too long outage. I have restored the comment functionality, and I will now resume my work on the features I wanted to add. Enjoy.

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At Large

In what was supposed to be the sixth week of the kickball season, we played our third game last night, and lost by two runs. We celebrated with various runs around town. Before the game, I found that I would have to drive myself there, despite having secured a fantastic …

Paying the Principal

It was recently brought to my attention that in the case of controlled debt payments, like for a car or a mortgage, anything that is paid over the required periodic amount goes directly toward paying off the principal loan amount. Being largely oblivious of things that …

Attention Paintfumes

Check your email. The one that has your ZIP code in the address. I sent you a full explanation.

Everyone else: Sorry.

Tchaikovsky

Eric came over last night to help Jeff and me make a dent in the keg we still have not finished. We need to empty it by the upcoming party, for which we have reserved and paid for a new keg. A while into the proceedings, Becca sent a round of text messages, instructing …

The Waitress at Tarantino's

John, Brad and I went to Tarantino's for lunch today. Tarantino's makes, without question, the best Chicago-style pizza I've ever had outside Chicago. That said, it seems to be a major gathering place for KC's relatively small but high conspicuous Italian community. …

Pubcrawl Pictures from 2007

I have finished transferring, renaming, resizing, rotating, uploading, extracting, linking, and captioning the latest set of pictures. The following link feature, when clicked, will change your web-browser's view to that of a display page for the aforementioned set of …

Like a Dirty Hippie

In an effort to humor Jeff, save some money, avoid parking unpleasantness, and get some natural exercise, I'm taking the bus all this week. Driving takes 12-15 minutes, but fills me with hate. Riding the bus takes about an hour and 20 minutes each way, including …