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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Just spent the past few hours playing Fantastic Contraption. It's a pretty neat Flash game where you use rods and wheels to try and get a red ball into the finish zone. The first few levels are pretty easy, but the difficulty quickly ramps up. I got stuck at level ...
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
My Mom texted me that my grandma's sister's grand-daughter won $1.8 MILLION DOLLARS in Las Vegas on the $1 slot machines yesterday. Oh boy - some people are just born lucky, aren't they?
First thing I thought when I saw the message: My Mom knows how to text???
Update: it was written ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Today, our team headed to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk for an offsite. I've been to the boardwalk a few times, but never on a weekday or in a large group. Lines were pretty short and my coworkers were quite enthusiastic about playing arcade games and going on the rides. ...
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Wysz already wrote about going to Great America, so I thought I would bring the rides to you. Here are some pictures and a video of the wooden rollercoaster, The Grizzly:
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
I just checked my Gmail Spam folder to see if I had any false positives (nope, go Google!) and had a good laugh at some of the subject lines. I think the spammers are using the most absurd headlines so I'll be interested in clicking through to the actual email. ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
The 5th and Mission parking garage in SF does not subsidize parking, even if you see a movie at the nearby Metreon. Expect to pay around $9 to park if you see a movie. Do not arrive 5 minutes before the start of a sold-out showing of the Dark Knight ...
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
A nickel for a donation?
Wysz already mentioned the marketing letter he received from the ADA, but it seems they have another template letter to send out. Check out the set of address labels I got the other day:
Yes, they send me a nickel -- to remind me that every nickel ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Yokoyama literally translates into "side mountain", so I guess that explains my love for the outdoors. Anyway, I was bored tonight so I thought I'd snoop around YouTube to see if any other Yokoyama's existed out there in the world who had some notoriety.
Note - besides my immediate family, I ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Do you know it costs $1 to change your mailing address online through the USPS? This is apparently to prevent fradulent address changes, but I also think it's a way for the USPS to get some money for offerring the service. After all, they're in the business of snail mail, ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
A friend had posted this a few years ago on Facebook. I had a good laugh thinking about how some of my coworkers solve problems. Where do you think you should be placed?
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