Bottle openers are fun gifts

Man, Cozumel is amazing.  Diving is fantastic, the food is wonderful, and the people are nice.  If only I could work from anywhere in the world... go buy a small condo down there, dive multiple times a week, work, eat, mmhmmm... I'd definitely need to buy a moped and a commuter road bike though.  I could do laps around the island to work out. Nonetheless, back to work I go! 

Might be going to Big Bear this weekend... that'd be fun. Sadly, I hope my kickball team doesn't make the playoffs so I can go.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

P.S. - Blickety blam! braggarts be beatin' bloodless businessmen by bonking bonkable bludgeons.

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Tantalizingly tall trampy topless teenagers tend to titillate tyrannous transvestite trios through trite thoughts.

All Alliterations Are Awesomely Amazing

As much fun as simple alliterations are, it's actually pretty hard to make an alliteration of 6+ words. Here are some on the spot examples:

Crazy captains courageously capturing cautious crabs.
Purple precocious penguins prancing proudly, probably preventing paranoia!
furry foxes frantically frolicking from fire.
Tiny Tonka trucks tiptoeing through the tulips to the track.

Only one catch, no dictionaries, thesauri or word helpers. Sometimes you'll come up with a random one that doesn't make any sense at all but it really should.

angry alligators attract amorous armadillos (boo for not being 6 words)

Oregon Trail

Coding is like the Oregon Trail. You've got your wagon, your horses, your supplies, a driver, passengers, and a whole lot of obstacles to overcome before you get to Oregon.

The covered wagon represents the program you're developing. Starting from the outside and working our way inward, the cover is the glossy buttons and the airtight security. It protects the program from the hazardous environment, but it also is a symbol of . Holding up the canvas cover we have some struts; the structure of the program holding everything together. It is connected to the bottom platform of the wagon that carries the goods from place to place. The wheels enable the program to glide through the rugged terrain, transporting & translating from point A to B.

Any program must run on some sort of computing device, whether it's a powerful supercomputer or a cheapo digital watch from Walmart. Both devices have some sort of processor or the workhorse of the unit. It seems fitting that the horses pulling the carriage represent this processor.

The processor can't process without a specific set of instructions. These instructions are given by the driver. Always encouraging the horses to perform better, to become stronger, to run faster, to be more efficient. The driver is the programmer. They have the vision of going from point A to point B.

There are many other representations I will expound upon later: Buffalo, fording a river, the supplies within the wagon, the rifle, the passengers, a broken axle, influenza and trading posts.

Facebook Apps

Man, there are so many ridiculous apps in facebook now. There was a time when this was not so, and everything was so much more clean, elegant and respectable. Now that they've opened up their API to allow any joe schmoe to develop an App, it has become not only a popularity contest to see how many "friends" you have, but also to see how many apps you have and what your "rank" is on them. See the Skiier vs Snowboarder app, the vampire app, the super poke app, the gift app, the Oregon trail app, what is the point of these other than to waste more time on the internet getting nothing accomplished.

Now this may seem a little hypocritcal as playing an MMO or a flash game would essentially produce the same end result: nothing. However, I disagree, these apps only cultivate a culture of "get more apps or fail at facebook", whereas an MMO or flash game can give the user the feeling of success upon conquering a new objective or receiving a beneficial reward to make future objective easier. So, I have decided to not install any of these apps and keep my page boring looking. Simple. Boring. Right.

What was before suction cups?

So lizards, insects, spiders, and many other critters have the ability to climb walls without manmade handholds. Some people attribute this as having little suction cups attached to the end of their toes. What did people attribute it to before suction cups were invented? Did they actually have the right theory about how the hairs/skin interact on a molecular level with the molecules in the wall and then threw that idea out the window when suction cups were invented? Maybe they said that these creepy crawly creatures had tar or glue or syrup on their feet. Could you imagine syrup on your feet? nice and slimy.

Google Calendar

So I put on my calendar that I was supposed to create a blog. My fingers are cold and I'm eating ice cream. Also on my google calendar is a number of Padres games. I bought a pack of season tickets (like a 25 game pack). I can't wait!

Also on my calendar are national holidays; did you know that May 29th is John F. Kennedy's Birthday?

Oh also, I got a fun piece of mail the other day with big red block text reading "SUMMONS FOR JURY SERVICE". The date? April 1st, 2008. What kind of sick joke is that? What do I tell my boss that day when I go in to the courthouse... April fools! I have jury duty! No work for me!