Greek Week II

We had greek last night and it was good to get back into it… I need to devote lots of time every day to studying and thinking in Greek. Maybe I should start writing these blog posts in Greek. No, probably not.

Dance Class

Abby had her first dance class today. While she looked cute, she was incredibly cranky mid-way through the class. However, she straightened up when the hand stamps came out. She will be in a ‘holiday recital’ which I will attempt to get on camera and video.

Prepare for excessive cuteness.

Advert Eyes Mint

So I got a CD-ROM in the mail today, it was a beauty, on the outside it had printed in largish letters: “Here’s the ComuServe software you ordered.” However, I did not order any software from CompuServe. In fact, to further disprove their own first statement the address lable says (and this is brilliant), “Current Resident
Or Current Resident”

Yeah! I’m feeling like using this for another coaster. Old or junky CD‘s make great coasters for your home office or a special gift at Christmas, like the teal uni-sex sweater.

Jessica Chopped Her Hand Off

Jessica didn’t really chop her hand off, but she did scream in such a fashion that I thought she had severely injured herself. Or, maybe Abby damaged a part of her body. Nope, that wasn’t it either. Instead a spider was on the couch. Such emergencies call for heroic action like nothing else. I swept in, found said spider (smaller than a quarter) and with a piece of paper-towel (‘The quicker spider upper’) ended the poor creatures life. However, the couch is now safer for the change that was also inhabiting the elongated seat.

Spread Firefox

If you don’t already use FireFox as your browser, may I suggest you try it out? Version 1.o is here and it’s faster, cooler and more secure than Internet Explorer. What I find so neat about FireFox is that it’s free but better quality than most paid browsers (which I include Internet Explorer – Windows is not free). I know I push this browser periodically, but it is so excellent that I like for people to give it a chance, you won’t go back.

Environmentalists Excited About New SUV Developments

Environmentalists are excited about the new International CXT. This truck like beast is larger and more expensive than most Hummers, and even some houses. However, and this is whey the environmentalists are happy: it can haul 20,000 tons. Shanaia Buttercup was quoted as saying,
“We hope to use these to be able to haul more demonstrators out to nuclear power plants and dairy farms where much of the worlds polution really comes from.”

The new CXT shads for Crazy Texans (XT is TX Backwards), which is the primary market for the new truck. An International spokesperson said, “Texas buys more trucks than any other country in the union. We expect to see these trucks lifted, with even larger tires and with custom mud flaps reading, ‘Mine’s bigger than yours.’ within no time.”

Detroit big-wigs have not released any statements on how they think this will affect sales of the Ford Excursion, GM Suburban or GM’s other trucks the H1 and H2.

I just think they’re retarded 🙂

[link via kottke.org]

Why Did the Jobs Disappear?

So I was reading a bit of an article on lots of Information Technology jobs disappearing. I would like to point out that after the ‘Dot Com’ bust the jobs died because American (and foreign) venture capitalists were morons. We employed people in this country to sit behind desks and play video games as receptionists. You say, “How do you know?” Because I’m married to one of those ex-receptionists. She quit the job because she was so bored with the job. The pay was excellent, like most start-up jobs, but the work being done was horrible. Beer was in the fridge, Pizza was ordered out all of the time and work was not done very well. That is why there are not as many tech jobs. The tech industry had a bowel movement to get rid of the crap and get down to work. Speaking of which, I better get to work to make sure people get quality software in a timely manner.

Photography Interests

I’ve been somewhat fond of photography for some time. My friend Sean has been doing it well for some time professionally, but I’d like to just use it with RandyPeterman.com and the sites that I build. I’ve been looking at this Nikon camera at the recommendation of a friend at church. Any thoughts or ideas?

And because I can, a quote from Paul Simon:

Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day, Oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don’t take my Kodachrome away