The problem with tracking user history…

January 17, 2009 Blake Swopes Leave a comment

I was downloading album covers for itunes with a widget and trying to find an album called Groove or something… next thing I know, I’ve misclicked and ended up on amazon, browsing “How Stella got her groove back”. And now, when I go there, amazon pops up to show me that its one of the recent things I looked at and hey, other people who looked at “How Stella…” also were interested in “Waiting to Exhale” but like, I just fucking misclicked, damnit. Stella can keep her groove, I don’t want it (Nothing against Angela Bassett, she was fairly hot in Strange Days).

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Penny Arcade

January 16, 2009 Blake Swopes Leave a comment

The guys at penny arcade kick so much ass. They took a webcomic, turned it into one of the most popular on the interwebs which has lasted 10 years… and from that they spawned an annual convention, a scholarship, and a charity that brought in 1.4 million bucks last year.

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Home ownership.

January 16, 2009 Blake Swopes Leave a comment

Owning a house is an odd thing. You find yourself interested in things you never would have expected… Like, I just spent the last hour or two reading about attic ventilation and consulting the inspection report from when I bought the house… Or finding myself involved in conversations about trees and bushes.

I’m not sure, but I think I have a dutch gable roof, which I like the look of but may be a bad idea given that this is a windy area. My current point of irritation is, I think, a barrel dormer vent, which is noisy as all fuck in windy conditions. I’m not sure if the vent needs to be closed off or modified, or if maybe there’s a fan inside that vent which is getting blown the wrong way and complaining… I’ve asked my folks to send their roofer over to take a look. I hope he can find an answer.

I should find a way to measure the wind that is hitting my house.

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John Balcerzak

January 2, 2009 Blake Swopes Leave a comment

This detail had always jumped out at me from when I’d heard about Jeffrey Dahmer… So, when I came across his story again today, I looked up the two cops of the year… (sadly not joking)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balcerzak

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Paper Street Biodiesel factory?

December 22, 2008 Blake Swopes Leave a comment

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December 19, 2008

December 19, 2008 Blake Swopes Leave a comment

Got in this morning and found someone had taped up Matt’s chair. I grabbed the tape and penned the chair in so it wouldn’t get away… went off to the company meeting and asked around about the chair.

Seems Kenny had found the tape and just needed to do something with it.

So we found ourselves back over there, and I commented that I wanted to tape the 3 mice on his desk together. So I held them while Jason taped them… and then Jason went to fucking town… While Kenny got our security guy to print up quarantine signs… End result is this…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/golden_eternity/archives/date-posted/2008/12/19/

Normally someone has to do something to deserve this treatment… like take a vacation. Our old Executive Director asked what Matt had done and I answered “he wasn’t here early enough”. He seemed impressed.

So now we’ve put the fear of god in people who show up after 9am. Damn slackers.

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