03/01/2007

The weather this winter has been both a blessing and a curse for skiing. Three times now I’ve had to cancel ski trips because it was bitter cold. I was all set to head up to Copper Mountain tomorrow, but NOAA says this about conditions:

Snow showers likely with areas of blowing snow. Mostly cloudy and cold, with a high near 10. Wind chill values as low as -35. Windy, with a northwest wind between 31 and 36 mph, with gusts as high as 55 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible.

Fresh powder is always a bonus, but a wind chill of 35 below zero? Brrr.

02/28/2007

This has to be one of the most awesome spam messages I’ve received in a long time.

That’s right, ladies– you can win a dinner date with Steve-O! And just looking at ol’ Steve-O, we can all see what a strapping young hunk he is. Hopefully he puts on a shirt and hikes up his underwear a bit more prior to the date, but hey… maybe girls like that kind of thing.

02/23/2007

Craig and I were discussing how yet another one of our clients has a critical end-of-the-world problem whose deadline is completely unreasonable, and boy, if we don’t get right on it, it’s likely civilization itself will come to a crashing halt and perhaps endanger the very fabric of space.

His response cracked me the heck up:

We get that a lot.  We must be at the center of the vortex or something.  Maybe we’re like the Ghostbusters.

02/22/2007

One advantage of having a domain registered to a company called Thought Monkeys is you get funny envelopes in the mail:

Now I just need to get some business cards and I’ll be set!

02/22/2007

Mmm… credit card offers.

Normally I trash them, but when I saw that I could get a free iPod by having a new business card, I took the offer, purchased a few things for the company, and waited.

Today my iPod came!

Now I just have to cancel the card (heh) and wait for the next offer…

02/21/2007

Apparently Flickr went down on Monday for a little while, as the guys behind the scenes sorted out some problems causing the wrong photos to be displayed. During the “we’re really sorry about that” phase of the process, one of the Flickr developers revealed:

Flickr serves hundreds of millions of photos each day. On the highest traffic days, just over a billion photos are served.

Holy smokes, that’s a lot of pictures.

02/18/2007

Today is my birthday, of course, so I made some cupcakes for myself.

Everything seemed fine, and the first pan I pulled out of the oven looked normal.

But then I grabbed the second pan, which appeared to be a bunch of nuclear fallout mutant cupcakes.

I have no idea how that could have happened. In the end, everything turned out okay because it meant the frosting didn’t have to be spread across quite as many cupcakes, so each of the “good” ones had a nice quarter-inch-thick layer.