Beautiful little story. Think an MLB player would do something like that? I’m guessing not.
Update: ESPN has a video.
When I got a new MacBook Pro I also ordered VMWare Fusion at the same time so I could run Windows and play around with a linux installation or two. It works great, but I ran into a problem trying to install Solaris 10.
Windows XP, Vista, and Ubuntu all installed without issue, but the installation of Solaris, both graphical and text-based would hang at various points. When I finally got it installed, it would hang on running, never even making it to the login screen. The problem was that even though I was specifying a 32-bit VM in VMWare, the Solaris installation was still identifying the Penryn chip as supporting 64-bit, so Solaris would install the 64-bit version. I wasn’t sure that was the whole problem, but I knew that was the first troubleshooting step. After a doing a little exploration around the interwebs, I found a very simple solution to that problem.
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Not unexpected, but still ridiculous.
It’s no secret that I think everything is better with bacon, and here’s a whole bunch of ways to use it. I already use the bacon bandages and tried the bacon mints, but I’ll have to give the bacon popcorn a try.
Guaranteed not to impress women.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that it’ll just be keeping time up there. I could probably do that…then again, maybe I couldn’t.
One of these days I’ll get around to trying it. (via)
Oh come on! Don’t you think this might be taking this sponsorship thing a bit too far?
By the way, if a beer producer wants to sponsor me, I’m open to discussion.
A few co-workers and I were discussing cookies at lunch one day. As the conversation went on, the question of which cookie is the best selling cookie in America was asked, and the answer didn’t surprise us: Oreo. We all agreed that chocolate chip cookies are probably the best selling as a type, but there are so many brands and varieties that one just can’t compete with Oreo for the crown.
During that lunch, we decided to conduct a little test with our fellow co-workers. We would set out an equal number of Oreos and Chips Ahoy! on plates in the central area of our department and see which one disappeared first. I predicted that Oreos would win, but the others figured the Chips Ahoy! would win.
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Every since I saw it prior to the start of the newest Deadliest Catch season, I haven’t been able to get it out of my head. I dare you to watch it twice and not hum it for the rest of the day.
Below is a list of fortune cookie fortunes that I’ve received in alphabetical order. A number in parenthesis after the fortune indicates that I’ve received it multiple times, and how many times I’ve received it. This list is continuously updated.
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Forget the fact that they changed my ZIP code and made life a little more inconvenient for me, or the time they put a Playboy postcard haphazardly in my mailbox, but now they are rearranging the very fabric of New York to mess with me.
In the photo below, you can see that there is a green mailbox right near my building’s entrance (it’s under the snow, behind the little tree). This was a very convenient placement for me, but now the U.S. Postal Service has taken it away and I can only assume it was out of spite.
December 2000
May 2008
The block that I live on has a total of seven very similar buildings, with four of them almost identical. The buildings next door to mine, in both directions, are of the identical variety, and that fact can cause issues when I’m coming home late at night, especially after I’ve had a few drinks that contain alcohol. That mailbox was a landmark that made it possible for me to enter the correct building no matter what state my vision was. Finding the right apartment was a problem a few times, but that’s for another time.
About two weeks ago I was walking home after work, completely sober, and noticed that the green mailbox was gone. There was nothing in its place, except for the bolt holes where it used to be. I wondered if it was removed to be painted or maintained in some way, but a few days later, my worst fears were confirmed. It had been moved up the block. Luckily, the USPS did not place it near one of the other identical buildings on my block.
I fully expect them to do that in the future, just to annoy me.
Look at the photo below. The peanut butter on the right weighs 16.3 oz. and sold for $3.59 about two months ago. That’s about $0.22 per ounce. The peanut butter on the left weighs 15 oz. and sold for $3.79, today. That’s about $0.25 per ounce.
I love how not only does the price goes up, but the weight goes down at the same time. I especially love how they made the weight go down by sucking in the sides.
I won’t even bring up the fact that they’re skimping on the glue for the label.
It’s still good peanut butter, though.
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