The occasional musings of Andy Scheffler
I can’t remember where I found it — it was buried in an off-topic post in a forum somewhere — but this animation was very entertaining. The site and the music (I assume) are in Korean, but the animation is universal.
I hope I deep-linked that correctly, it was a pain, because the site is non-IE browser unfriendly and uses framesets all over the place.
Just once I want the folks over in the guestbook for my High School reunion to mention their son/daughter/baby without using the word “beautiful”.
This goes on top of the fact that most of them are married with kids, married or about to be married. Either the single people aren’t speaking up because they’re ashamed (which I’m not, by the way. I’m going to go by myself and be happy about it), or I’m going to be in the heavy minority.
This can’t be an uncommon lament.
Things that have come up in conversation or found on webpages within the last 24 hours:
Zombies, Wal-Mart, corn dogs and iPods.
On Monday, while driving out of the parking garage at work, I noticed a sign off to the side, unused. It said “Parking Lot Full”, and was obviously designed to be used in the late mornings so that people didn’t have to drive all the way up to the roof, turn around and come all the way back down. I laughed out loud, because this was a literal sign that the company acknowledged the parking problem, yet refuses to create new parking spots because of the city regulations. (Part of the deal that allowed Yahoo! to build the campus in Moffet Park involved promising that a certain percentage of their employees would use “alternative means of transportation.”)
On Tuesday morning, I drove all the way up to the roof, then found the parking lot full, and had to come back down. On my way out of the garage, I looked for the sign. It was nowhere to be found.
You know I suddenly just realized I know who
Okay, I’m slow. 😛
I need to upload some photos… I’ve got quite a few just sitting in my camera waiting to be organized. It’s been a while since I updated my photos page, or anything on my homepage, for that matter.
Tickets to the Final Fantasy concert have been purchased by Dom. I was going to make a post today that said “Oh, woe is me, I want to go down to the concert, but I don’t want to go by myself, whine whine whine,” but then Dom called me on the phone telling me he could go after all, and that’s that.
So at this point, I’m pretty sure I’m not going to stick around for E3, unless I can pull connections to get in, and even then I don’t know if I should take a whole week off work anyway. But it shall be a pleasant four-day weekend at least.
Tomorrow is Anime Overdose (keep wanting to type/say “Overdrive“) — once again helping
I seem to be on the “finally recovering” stages of a week long cold, back down to the “occasionally runny nose”, where at one point I was at the “Please oh please let me get these bowling balls out of my upper sinuses… what was that? I can’t hear you, my inner ears have cotton stuffed in them” stage. I’ve gone through a frightening amount of Kleenex this week.
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Last week, I worked 40 hours for the first time since I’ve been contracting. Of course, this meant I was at the office much more than 40 hours, as there is always web browsing time and lunch that I’m not charging for. As the week went on, I started getting a runny nose. Over the weekend, it turned into a stuffy nose… and now I wake up with a cough. I’ve got no fever, but I’m definitely not going in to work today.
I work 40 hours… I get sick. Could it be, I’m allergic to work?
From glue.
1. Copy the following list into your livejournal.
2. Bold the movies you’ve seen.
3. Add five more movies that you’ve seen to the bottom of the list.
4. Pass it on.
I learned something important this morning. A lesson in life. That lesson (to which many of you will say “Yes, Andy, of course, why didn’t you know that, I told you that but you didn’t listen.”) is this: “Never bother getting out of warranty repair on any appliance worth less than $200.” The microwave has a broken door switch, it doesn’t know when the door is closed, so it won’t start cooking. The replacement switch is $15. The labor to replace the switch would have been $150. (Not to mention the cost for the actual service call and estimate… which I won’t mention because I’m ashamed.) So there are two direct outcomes from this: first, it looks like we may be borrowing Hank’s extra microwave and not using the one built in to the oven/stove. And secondly, well, I’ll point that one out when it happens. Eventually, I should replace that whole unit, or even get two separate units to prevent this sort of replacement scenario in the future, after all, the thing is 16 years old.
Secondly, it appears that, as a part of the whole construction going on around the SR-85/US-101 interchange in Mountain View, the NB-101 -> Old Middlefield offramp is going to be closed starting today… for a year and a half. That’s not fair! I use that ramp twice a week when I go to play Magic! *sigh*
Also, today was a very weird day at work. It turns out that, even though I was physically moved, it was so last minute that I wasn’t added to the official move list, so many of the other things that are associated with a move didn’t happen. My phone didn’t work in the new location, my information in the corporate directory wasn’t updated, and my mailbox didn’t move. Now, I’m used to my phone not working, it hasn’t worked for at least a day, at times up to two weeks after I move, but this was sort of frustrating that the phone guy couldn’t actually change me until he confirmed with the move coordinator that I was, in fact, in a different place.