SuburbanAdventure

I pulled the following off of my deskchair:
“Do not operate on or near an open flame”.  Good advice.

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The below video is the result of a ludicrous amount of time.  Had I the chance to go back in time and change my response to Bill’s question “can you make a promo slide show for camp?” I would have said “no, I need to catch up on flossing” or something equally dumb as an [...]

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Google Adsense has served up some odd things through Gmail before including bed-wetting clothing and feminine care products.  Today I was served up an ad for Topamax, an anti-convulsant.  Is there something in my mailing pattern or search trends to indicate I’m epileptic?

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In an attempt to save material cost, a coworker was tasked with determining the actual surface area used of a material on one of our products.  Watching him measure a curved surface with a ruler was almost painful so I proposed he cut the film of interest away from the product, mass it, and compare [...]

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For one of the few times in my professional career I received a thank you gift in the form of 16 oz handled, non-microwavable, recessed lid, slider cup.    I was thrilled that I got recognition for my years of dodging work and long hours of fabricating data.
NOTE: For the purposes of complying with 49 CPR [...]

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A large clump of cubes have recently been populated with marketing folk and they simply haven’t learned the proper rules of scavenging and post-meeting food theft etiquette.  Once you’ve finished a meeting, it is not proper form to come back with a f#$%ing shopping bag to take extra sodas and bags of chips, it is [...]

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During my newly discovered free time, I started baking again.  I needed to work my way back in slowly so I started with a chocolate chip cake mix and entered a paroxysmal rage upon seeing the stupidly specific ingredients recommended.
Organic Eggs:  Normal eggs will cause you to become pregnant if you consume them when mixed [...]

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While I’m somewhat certain of whom I back in national elections I’m much less certain for local ones.  Candidates blow at giving information about both their platform and government epistomology so have been searching for a voting algorithm for a few years, I think I’ve found one.
In a two candidate race, vote for the guy [...]

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I just bought Adobe Lightroom 2 as I really like it for simple post processing and with my now waning student discount I can get it for just shy of a benjamin.  I buy from a student software site that just changed their UI and it has the intuitive qualities of the Quantum Holographic Principle.  [...]

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I hate needy technology.  My microwave beeps every 60 seconds until you take its contents out. I checked to see how long this would go by setting the microwave for a few seconds and then going to bed and checking it in the morning.  Still going.
Some Wordpress plugins are equally insistent being updated every few [...]

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