Well to sum it up I graduated college, found my first job, and traveled for my first job. That seems like a win to me. I also watched waaay too many TV shows, acquired a crackberry, saw MC Frontalot live, and ate some really great food. Some really great times were had. I know it’s cliche but I miss living at school and classes. Even with my job, my studies supplied some really great programming problems. At least I’m not missing how much I used to eat out.
It’s late and I ran out of stuff to say, this is just a small list of what I want to attempt in 09, nothing too spectacular.
I’m a big fan of twitter. I think the website and people are great. It allows the community to share links and pictures. There are so many great websites like this and so many websites to bring everything together. I actually just sat here and by accident pulled up over 3 different video community sites in association with Kevin Rose’s seesmic. I think I have an account on almost every site possible. I just set up that friend feed and damn all these insance “web 2.0” companies making me sign up for their services.
Friday night I went to go see MC Frontalot in Philadelphia and he was very funny. Also ate at this amazing sushi restaurant Zento (website has sound). It has square sushi and I just had to get it with a spicy tuna roll and some miso soup. I must admit it was the best sushi I’ve ever tasted. The problem with the city though is that the place was SUPER tiny and we had to wait to get a table. Parking is also a problem but not because I couldn’t find a place but because it’s just so damn expensive. You could feasibly spend more money on parking then just around the city, what kind of madness is that!
Google is a funny thing
“how to love” 7,930,000
“how to love god” 390,000
“how to love yourself” 201,000
“how to love women” 7,800
“how to love your mom” 3,290
“how to love men” 1,760
“how to love your dad” 5
“how to love star wars” 1
“how to love the internet” 2
“how to love your monkey” 0
“how to love google” 0
This just goes to prove that loving a man, your dad, and Star Wars is easier than loving any women so the internet has a limited knowledge base on these things. Who doesn’t love Star Wars right? Monkeys on the other hand are just lovable no matter how you look at it and if you own one you obviously love it. There was some crazy stuff that people wanted to know how to love on google but no one needs to learn to love google.
I’m a machine. There, I just wanted to get that off my chest right now. Normal sandwich making practices were getting boring so it was time to mix it up. As you can see there are now five liverwurst and extra sharp cheddar (yellow) cheese sandwiches ready to be devoured for lunch this week. It takes almost the same amount of time to bring to life five sandwiches as it does one. Mass production is definitely the way to go here, it makes me rejoice knowing it will now take me less time in the following days to prepare these delectables. Damn there sure are a lot of kinds of sandwiches.
I went to the Verizon store last night to acquire a phone upgrade. I talked to Ed Bang and he did not have the LG Dare in stock which was annoying but I gave him my information so I could come in today and get the phone. I realized it wasn’t that late though and I went to the other (real) Verizon store and purchased my Dare instead. Mission Accomplished!
There was a slight problem though, Ed thought it was in his best interests to call me today to let me know that he now had the Dare in his possession to sell to me. His first call was at 12:43pm and he left a voicemail saying I can come in tonight and purchase this awesome phone. No problem I thought, I can just ignore him, that was nice of him to call me and let me know. However again at 2:42pm he called but now instead of leaving a voice mail he texted me “hi mike it’s ed at verizon in berlin…i have ur dare so u can come and pic it up…will u come in today?” OK, this is getting little intrusive, how did he know what my texting plan was, I could be paying for this! Also that was such a professional sounding text, was he even trying?
I figured at this point he would have other work to do then call me a third time but I was wrong, so very wrong. At 4:50pm he again called and no voicemail but texted me after, “Mike call me when you get a chance…ed” (at least this time he capitalized my name). Since he didn’t call again around 6:50 I hope this barrage of harassment is over, at least he was very timely about it.
In the words of John Stewart “Here it is, your moment of Zen”
On a side note please stop uploading phishing sites to my ftp, it’s rather annoying.
I finally ditched that broken chair I’ve been using but in all fairness I was waiting for a deal like this one. Initially I thought the chair was going to be $45 with a floor mat and a protection plan, two things I definitely did not need, but when the employee totaled the sale it came to $26! I was so surprised that this originally priced chair of $80 was marked down this much. It is very orange which is a color that most people would not be thrilled with but I could care less. It was mentioned that if the chair was used on carpet it would void the warranty but as Joe correctly stated the carpet is not the chair’s kryptonite. I believe only an idiot would have problems with a chair on carpet.
I enjoy the game of poker and I have purchased a sample of real poker chips. The people I have lived probably have something to say about this but I enjoy playing with them, it’s loud. I can do a few “tricks” but shuffling them is by far the loudest. I don’t have a video of me shuffling but here is a little bit of what I do, these are really easy and I didn’t buy them to impress anyone with my amazing skillz. It’s cool to use clay chips and now it’s just something I do anytime they are in front of me
I do have a poker tournament tonight, should be interesting!
Tonight I took my first adventures into pickling. I would just prefer to buy extremely spicy pickles but I did not find them at shoprite. I’m beginning to wonder if I should find a different foodstore that can supply my eating needs better. I didn’t follow the recipe exactly but I’m excited to see how they are going to turn out. From what I can tell right now is that they are going to be the hottest carrots ever
I added an events portion to the site at the top there, keep looking up… yeah there it is. I’m going to add events there that I want to attend so I don’t forget and I actually get around to doing them.
After the cut there is a very funny picture I forgot to post before from salt lake city.
I can’t believe they didn’t ask for ID at the polls. The one guy there thought I was Chris and if I knew “Chris” I could have voted as him. It doesn’t really help me to vote as other people considering Jersey continues to be Democratic since the 1992 election. It means I could have gone to other polling places and voted as random people that I knew wasn’t voting.
I personally wasn’t too concerned with the outcome of the vote but it seems to me that it wasn’t handled well. In Philadelphia some people apparently waited six hours to vote! It took me five minutes and that’s only because I actually had to make a decision. After this many elections and voting machines how can we still have problems?
The ENTIRE road system is based around the Mormon temple. If you go south of the temple then it’s 300 S. or 400 S. depending on how far away you get. In some places they renamed the streets from that to actual street names but people still call it by the coordinates. Needless to say it’s easy to get lost but impossible to lose the temple.
It seemed that SLC had an abundance of women with black hair. I’m wondering if this is a style thing over in Utah or are these woman just born with dark hair.
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