Monthly Archives: May 2011

Truth in advertising?

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Steve

I couldn’t resist getting pictures of these real bottles of hand sanitizer. They must be reflecting what goes through peoples’ minds on why they have this stuff readily available. You can always count on Waterloo Records, Book People and other … Continue reading →

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Hipster Owl

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Steve

This species of annoying bird can be found in many inner cities: namely Austin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver and now Minneapolis. It survives primarily on a diet of Pabst Blue Ribbon, used vinyl and vegetarian … Continue reading →

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Thor

Posted on May 14, 2011 by Steve

Summer officially kicked off with the latest Marvel adaptation, making this at least the seventh time in 10 years if you start with Spider-man around 2002. Since they’re holding off on Captain America until Independence Day and the Hulk and … Continue reading →

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Check out Molly’s pretty, new nails

Posted on May 14, 2011 by Steve

To answer your immediate thought/question, no, we didn’t paint Molly’s nails (or claws, somedays talons). Our arms would be covered in blood and scratches. Sadly, she is also the most cooperative cat of the quartet when it comes to clipping. … Continue reading →

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Got an F on the SciFi Quiz

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Steve

Yet I remain a fan of the genre. I will readily admit to not reading the heavy hitters (Asimov, boring egoist; Heinlein, yawn; Clarke, cranky about FTL) but I thought I’d get by with a passing grade. Instead I only … Continue reading →

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This is a real place

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Steve

It’s somewhere in Pennsylvania. Most people may know of it from the Simpsons episode of when Bart loses the Olympics for Springfield through his stand-up routine. The joke involving this name happens during Bart’s interview of Superintendent Chalmers, namely, where … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Julia

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Steve

Sonia’s daughter now returns to the Prime Number Club today! Maybe she gets the day off  from school, one can hope, especially when she’s a kid.

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Happy Birthday Jeremy

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Steve

Good gravy! I wish he mentioned this earlier because we all went to Thor last night (review later) and it never came up. Then “boom!” there’s this blurb in iCal from Somara I had to verify. Now I feel like … Continue reading →

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The latest weapon in the War on (Cat) Urine

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Steve

Looks like an ordinary diffuser or a Glade plug-in thing. Yes and no. The ‘yes’ part would refer how the device distributes its solution but in the ‘no’ department, here’s where this differs; instead of some goop to cover up … Continue reading →

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Despicable Me

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Steve

A rare demonstration of “the competition closing the gap on Pixar.” I think the last one I saw that deserved this title was Over the Hedge which also had Steve Carel. The latter’s success owes more to its source material, … Continue reading →

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Dusting off my d20 and an editorial regarding the Undead

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Steve

The technical term is icosahedron and it’s one of the perfect solids in the Ancient Greek mindset. I’m not sure if it was used for their model of the universe which hindered astronomers until Kepler figured out the solar system’s elliptical … Continue reading →

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And so hockey is over for me this year

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Steve

Throughout round two of the 2011 Stanley Cup Playoffs, the “7:30 PM Flyers” showed up at all four games; it’s a term I picked up from Flyers’ correspondent Tim Panaccio. Face-off is at 7 PM but the Flyers don’t really … Continue reading →

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Slate‘s Cats of War piece

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Steve

A rather fun take on how our feline friends have helped out in America’s numerous wars. Knowing our four cats, they’re probably jealous and tired of hearing about that dog who assisted in the bin Laden hit. I wish I … Continue reading →

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2001: Cool work trip to Phoenix

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Steve

This was my last flying, out-of-state trip on Apple’s dime for three days. Within a year of joining Servers & Apps, I had become an expert on Macintosh Manager (discontinued after the release of 10.5) so the bosses picked me … Continue reading →

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50,000,000 Chucks Fans Can’t be Wrong!

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Steve

A 20-plus quest was resolved this evening at the Converse outlet store tonight! How I have wanted a pair of Chucks in gold lamé (fake or not) because these resemble the greatest suit worn by the King. I plan to … Continue reading →

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