Archive for the ‘Check this out’ Category

I ain’t no physicist

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 12 [big ball] and when [...]

Jackpot

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 up in the [...]

Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

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. Here are my photos from [...]

Great America

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:

Funny E-mail Spam

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.  I’m tempted…not.  Some highlights: “Japan [...]