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The guy who invented hot showers should win a really big award.

I’m having ramen noodles for breakfast just because I wanted a change. It’s great that I’ve reached a point in my life where ramen noodles is a change and not the usual.

Wow! this is fabulous! It’s the Homestar Runner Wiki, with transcripts of all the cartoons and easter eggs and fun stuff! Jesse. This is your home away from home. Strong Bad viewer’s guide. So great.
Oh and check this out!

I wish I could determine pi
Eureka cried the great inventor
Christmas pudding
Christmas pie
Is the problem’s very center.

Look it look it! It’s pi! It’s the 20 digits after the decimal! That’s just fabulous. If you want something simpler that doesn’t rhyme, Isaac Asimov penned this one:

How I need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters involving quantum mechanics.

I’m a software engineer. So why do I have a multimeter, a SwissTool, and all this cable on my desk?
It’s all good though, because tomorrow is Biz Cas Fri.

so i’ve been making some changes to the site, but you can’t really see them.
one of the major changes has been making this site valid html. now i can proudly display the
Also I now have an RSS feed for my blog. Don’t really know what that is, but you can get it here:

You may consult his Frequently Asked Questions on the issue.

The investigation into the a recent capsizing of a Baltimore water taxi has produced some intersting results. Turns out the boat was carrying some 700 pounds of excess weight. But according to the report, “it was not the number of passengers that caused the extra weight, but their girth. The Coast Guard uses a 1960’s estimate of average passenger weight: 140 pounds a person. The 25 passengers on the Lady D averaged 168.4 pounds.”
-From the Washington Post

That’s craaazy!
Thanks Heather.

I never used to be a big fan of ketchup. I always saw it as the — well, the catsup — of the condiment world. It’s a little boring, really generic, and too salty. It seemed like catchup was used as the remedy for whatever uninteresting or undigestible product might end up on your plate. Fries that you would otherwise not eat are bearable when smothered in the thick, red sauce. Of course, then they end up tasting not so much like french fries, but really like salted tomato sauce. Then something amazing happened. It was the presidential election of 2004. Living just outside of DC, ground zero for all things political, and expecting a battle that would last long into the night, I planned a little democratic get together. I gathered some junk food for my guests, including hot dogs and french fries, so of course I had to get ketchup. You’ll recall that John Kerry’s wife, Theresa Heinz Kerry is the queen of Ketchup, earning millions each year off one of the most popular condiments in the United States. Not wanting to show favoritism, (to the Kerry camp, anyway) I sidestepped the Heinz shelf at my local grocer and grabbed a bottle of Hunt’s. (Only the best tomatoes grow up to be Hunt’s.)
This single event changed my life. That’s real catchup! Hunt’s has a flavor that’s really enjoyable. One that enhances the flavor of food, not masks it. With Hunt’s, hamburgers and fries have new life. Yes, even hot-dogs. Look guys. it’s just a better ketchup. If you’ve been using that stuff they give you in the little plastic packets at McDonalds, you don’t know what you’ve been missing. Here’s a sauce that actually tastes like tomatoes. So that’s my plug. Hunt’s Ketchup is amazing.
I have to go now. CSI:NY is on.

So we got our snow last night. It was a pretty good storm actually. A mix of rain and snow and serious wind mixed with a touch of thunder and lightning. It was really only enough to cover the ground and most of it was gone by this morning. When I left for work it was still only 11 degrees, though. A balmy 11 degrees and a wind chill that made it feel like -7.
Work was fabulous today. I got to build a computer, and if that’s not exciting enough, I got to build a computer using a paperclip, duct tape, a cardboard box as integral parts. Feeling very computer geek and very McGyver.