24 oz Shiner Bock! Must be in Texas.
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Got flickr working on the TiVo. Thanks, insomnia. I wonder if this will actually go through since i'm talking about flickr. Would be interesting if it worked that way.
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 The Darth Side: Darth Vader Blog 4/28/2005 01:38:00 PM (See what I'm talking about)
The Darth Side: Memoirs of a Monster: "You might be thinking some fruit would come of our ensnaring the Millennium Falcon as it fled Hoth. You would be a damned fool optimist. My elite squadron of StarDestroyers proved itself utterly incapable of a securing a single unescorted freighter travelling less than the speed of light.

I mean, come on."

What more is there to say? The interview with Darth at this blog is quite good as well..
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 Go Cubs Go! 4/26/2005 08:50:00 AM
An elementary teacher starts a new job at a school in Milwaukee and, trying to make a good impression on her first day, explains to her class that she's a Brewers fan. She asks the class to raise their hands if they too are Brewers fans.

Everyone in the class raises their hand except one little girl. The teacher looks at the girl with surprise and says: "Mary, why didn't you raise your hand?"

Because I'm not a Brewers fan," she replied.

The teacher asked: "Well, if you're not a Brewers fan, then who do you support?"

"I'm a Cubs fan, and proud of it," Mary replied.

The teacher was surprised. "Well Mary, might you explain why are you a Cubs fan?"

"Because my Mom and Dad are from Chicago and my Mom is a Cubs fan and my dad is a Cubs fan, so I'm a Cubs fan too!"

"Well," said the teacher, annoyed, "that's no reason for you to be a Cubs fan. You don't have to be just like your parents all of the time. What if your Mom was a prostitute and your dad was a drug addict and a car thief, what would you be then?"

Mary said, "I'd be a White Sox fan."

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thanks, Fas
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 sigh 4/25/2005 09:47:00 AM

Flickr sucks. I've been sending mucho posts from my phone lately as I just haven't had any time at work to blog, but I find out now that none have gotten through. Grr.
 
Anyway, work sucks and I'm very tired. A week from now I will have an apartment in Houston (god willing) and no more roommate. Shortly thereafter my sister Lauren will be moving in with me and then, well, I get married.
 
Last week was totally nutso. Hopefully this week will be a little more calm.
 
The shirt I'm wearing now smells. Oh well.
 
-M

(and to top it off, the first time I tried to submit this to Blogger via email, IT bounced. WTF? Time to host my own blog?



update: Actually, the email bounced back AND posted. I didn't check because, well, why the heck would I if it said the email was undeliverable. WTF is going on? Oh well. Hopefully this afternoon will provide more time. Been working on issues all morning..
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 Lots going on... 4/19/2005 12:17:00 PM
  • new pope
  • wedding invitations
  • wedding budget
  • more and more wedding stuff
  • lots of work before a BIG implementation Friday night
  • broke
  • trying to find a place in Houston to live
  • trying to keep my job while in Houston
  • Pre-Cana Saturday
  • party Saturday
  • lots of bike riding to do
  • roommate moving out
  • new roommate moving in
  • promised services to friends (mechanic)
  • more wedding stuff
  • laundry (wow, lots and lots of laundry)
  • must clean apartment
  • must assemble three printouts from here
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 Jesus chicken vs. zombie chicken 4/15/2005 01:02:00 PM (See what I'm talking about)
Colorado man resuscitates chicken: "You're too young to die!"

The fact that someone would give a chicken mouth-to-mouth (mouth-to-beak) isn't the most surprising thing about this news release. For that reason alone, you should read it.

Also, I posted twice yesterday from my phone, and MFing flickr didn't get it. MFers!
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 Update. 4/13/2005 09:53:00 AM
Update, update, update...

So, as I said yesterday, I've been really busy lately. Last night I was supposed to alphabetize our invitation list for the wedding, go over the budget, and get some images (well, pictures to be specific) up on the website. Oh, and laundry.

All I managed to do was locate, crop, and upload photos to the website. But I haven't even linked to them yet. Luckily, at work the deadlines aren't really looming this week like they will next, so I can probably sneak some wedding website dev in during the day. At lunch I'll examine the budget and cry into my sandwich, and since the invite list is in Excel all I really have to do is keep a couple work-related pages open so it looks like I'm working on something, you know, real.

We're still struggling with the list - we want to invite more people but literally don't have the room for them - we're already separating people into another room (the bar, you lucky bastards!), and at a per-plate charge of $LOTS.00 it just begins to get unreasonable.

There is some good news, though. Since I get married on June 25th and have to be in Houston by June 30th, the issue of my Evilpartment lease not expiring until August 31st was a problem. Well, a problem no more. Mikey convinced them to let us out early (which is in his interest too, as he just bought a place). So, there is a silver lining. I'll update more later as this post is getting pretty long already. Later!
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 Craziness 4/12/2005 03:51:00 PM (See what I'm talking about)
OK, so I've been going totally nuts with work and wedding stuff lately (see last week's entry about our ballooning budget), and the one thing I told myself I would allow myself to buy was a new pair of shorts for the bike - my old ones are getting pretty worn down, and the only thing worse than me in spandex is, well, me in ripped spandex.

So, I saw this today and couldn't resist. I've been really good with my money lately, so I deserve it. boo-ya to my first full kit. I also got the sprinting jersey, because, well, how can you pass up on a $39 jersey?

UPDATE! It figures, the way my day is going today. I got an email saying they're out of, and discontinuing, the shorts. Sigh.
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 Computer tutorial 4/08/2005 07:58:00 AM (See what I'm talking about)
EVERY technology company needs to start explaining things this way. Then my mom will stop asking all those damn questions.

NOTE: Flash animation. Work-safe, but embarrassingly silly. Watch this one at home unless you've got headphones.
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 Oh boy. 4/06/2005 04:33:00 PM
Well, the good news is, I got a pretty good wedding budget worked out this afternoon at work. (Dana and I are having a budget meeting tonight, among other things).

The BAD news is, the budget we've been working off of until now was based on bad math. And when I say bad math, I mean BAD. Not my bad math, mind you, but the bad math of like the premier "wedding planning site" online, theknot.com. (fuckers).

Yeah, they had us spending about 140% of our budget. Thank god I found it when I did. We can try to limit the damage now.. (and it's a VERY good thing we were under-spending and over-saving. That's not exactly the case anymore). Sigh.
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 Cubs powerhouse romps Opening Day 4/05/2005 09:08:00 AM
Chicago Cubs : News : Chicago Cubs News: "'Those guys had 20-something hits,' Arizona's Luis Gonzalez said. 'They had pitchers, catchers, bat boys, everybody was getting hits today for them. Twenty-something hits on Opening Day. I'm sure their hitting coach and Dusty are pretty happy over there.'"

I had to post that quote because I love the bat boys part. Go Cubbies!
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First real ride of the season yesterday ('real' meaning not a commute or errand-run). Chilly, but v. nice overall.

Picture taken at the northern end of the (blech) lakefront path, as Nash adjusts his saddle. Nash in foreground, Fas in background.

Oh, and my bike rode like a freaking dream. Better than the day I bought it. And i guess it had better, considering the money i've spent on upgrades. :)
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 Dr. Marathon, Crazy Papist. 4/04/2005 08:47:00 AM (See what I'm talking about)
Yes, it's a blatant way to drive traffic from here to Dana's blog, but this is a funny story.

At least, it was funny to me. Personally, I also think this is a funny picture. If I was going to make a Pope action figure, I think I would definitely choose this pose. As long as there was a switch or lever in the back that got him to raise the cross up and down. That would be cool too.

Kind of reminds me of a Kids in the Hall sketch, where the Pope would fly around (literally)... no, wait.. He used his hat as a corkscrew and would drill through the ground to get places quickly, all in the name of fighting evil.

Maybe a line of action figures wouldn't be such a bad idea after all..

PATENT PENDING!
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 To-Do list 4/04/2005 08:39:00 AM (See what I'm talking about)
Get this "view flickr images from TiVo" hack working.

Thanks, scott.
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 April Fools Jokes 4/01/2005 12:22:00 PM
So I haven't played (or heard tell of) a really decent April Fools joke in a long, long time, which is kind of sad. I guess maybe I'm just growing up.

Today Dave and I met Steve for lunch down the street - something we try to do once every week or three, and Steve made the grave mistake of going to the bathroom after we had asked for the check, but before we had paid. Needless to say, he came back to a table that contained nothing more than his waiting jacket and the check resting neatly where he had been sitting.

I'm still trying to decide if it fits in the "mean" or "funny" categories, but I can see him in my mind's eye laughing when he saw that we weren't there, then getting progressively more mad as he realized we weren't coming back. We waited down the block for him as he left but he didn't see us, despite his looking around. Oh well.

Steve - next year you can get me back. Promise.
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 Chicago is your trashcan 4/01/2005 08:53:00 AM


Originally uploaded by MarkFitz.
Engage bitter, self-righteous Mark.

I should have guessed the fat fuck who used the seat next to him as a coffee table would use the El as his trashcan also, but I could never have guessed it would make me so pissed off.

Mostly, i think it's the coffee on the floor that got me. And the fact that he meticulosly ripped the pages out of the paper that he still wanted to read.

Well, at least i can rest assured that the massive coronary he's destined for will keep him from doing this for too long.

Maybe I just need a coffee.
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