Category Archives: News

Things, Goings On, and Stuff I write

Pulling Out the Big Guns

No, I’m not talking about Iraq, I’m not even talking about gangsta rap. I’m even ignoring issues like cartoon violence [which is surely the reason that I chased my brother with a hatchet as a 10 year old, it wasn’t my fault]. I’m talking about Allergy Relief. My allergies have been almost completely missing since I wen to Adam Tomasetti, an applied kenesiologist. However, Singulair does something that goes directly against the Prime Directive. It blocks Leukotrienes.

What the heck? Do you sit around cursing Latrines? I don’t. And when John and Jane Doe are at home dealing with their generic allergies are they cursing Lukeskywalker? I think not.

Merk needs a new marketing strategy.

How Not to Design a Flash Site

If you go to the following link Product promotion selector you’ll see that you need to select a country. This is good, internationalization is an issue. Then, after selecting Americas and North American English you’ll see the most confusing navigation. Mystery Meat navigation.

I was looking for the specs and found that I had to click on the phone model to get to the specs site. That’s intuitive!

Peaner Apple Abby

The above title is mostly silly, but it is the words that came out of Abby’s mouth as she asked for us to give her an applie with peanut butter on it. That is what I will be having as part of my lunch but when she heard us mention it she wanted to be part of the ‘apple action.’ And we figured out why she kept singing a song, “crazy, crazy, crazy.” It was the song Daisy (as in “Daisy, daisy give me your answer true”)! That song was on one of the VeggieTales CD’s.

Lotsa laughs with this little girl!

Five Iron vs. Banana phone

Nick Bradbury wrote about Banana phone and now I’m responding by saying: get the new and last Five Iron Frenzy album. There’s two CD’s (a live last concert album and their last official studio album). I’ve listened through the two and am actually finishing up their last song. Good stuff. But I won’t make any promises you won’t be walking around singing ‘cannonball.’

Hope others enjoy them as much as I do. I saw Five Iron (FIF or 5Fe) several times in concert in the last 8 years and loved every bit of it. I was actually in Denver the night of their last concert and couldn’t go (I was visiting family for a short weekend, no time to go). Bye Five Iron, we’ll miss you, but all is good – new bands have sprouted from this dead one.

Note: if you haven’t seen it, you should check out: “You have bad taste in music” [not responsible for content on this site]

Yeah Taxes!

I’m sure you’re thinking, “Randy, Taxes are behind us, April 15th was last month.” Which is true. In fact I remember because I was on the road to Colorado that day – we’ve been here for over a month now. However, we worked out a budget and some tax stuff today and all looks good. Now we’ll just need someone to go over it an make sure we’re not way off.

If there’s one thing that’s certain it is that there is more than one thing that is certain. And if the only constant is change, then how reliable is the statement that the only constant is change? When ET phoned home, was the phone bill as high as I’d expect – that’s some serious long distance. Enough of my tired non-sense.

We saw Van Helsing last night… and it was as dumb as the critics said as well as being as fun as the $54 million dollars it made the weekend before. Just because there was cheese involved doesn’t mean that it can’t be fun. You should go expecting a crazy fanciful movie. And when you leave the theater you’ll say, “I just watched a fun fanciful movie.” Hugh Jackman as Van Helsing surely looks like Wolverine in a few parts, and I’m sure that when the next X-Men movie comes out we’ll see a little Van Helsing in Wolverine. The special effects are fun more than anything else, and there’s something special about a real batman and a real set of bat women.

Influences

Eric Meyer’s writes about his influences: Under The Influences. He thinks he’s not an influence. If it wasn’t for him and Jeffrey Zeldman my passion for web standards would not exist. On top of that Alt-N‘s site would in no way be standards compliant (OK, it took more than those two without Dave and Trint working so hard) because I would have never been interested in standards. I put a bug in Dave’s ear about standards and he screamed through DWWS and then anxiously awaited the new site design.

Eric, you’re an influence, be proud, but keep going: with your help some day Internet Explorer may see the light of web standards [or, it doesn’t hurt to think optimistically].

Biking Foiled

Today my dad and I were supposed to go mountain biking… and then the clouds rolled in with rain. Oh, well. Say, in case you didn’t go see them I put up pictures of the views from our apartment. Soon I’ll put up pictures of views inside our apartment. And then, maybe some day I’ll put up views from inside out of our apartment. Or not.