Last month, I went with my friend Lisa to a an Orlando cafe which has the distinction of being the only cafe in central Florida (and one of two in the entire state) with a Clover coffee machine. For the non coffee cognoscenti out there, it’s basically the brewing method that has made everything else [...]
Filed under: business, humor on June 7th, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s the proof in the form of a headline from The New York Times today: “Broadcom Co-Founder Faces Conspiracy and Drug Charges”. Apparently, the guy had a nasty habit of slipping ecstasy into executives’ drinks when he was meeting up with them.
Enjoy the read.
On a semi-related note: Now, the next time I’m trying to get [...]
Filed under: business, technology on June 5th, 2008 | No Comments »
My first inclination upon seeing a process whose description is ##Id_String2.6844F930_1628_4223_B5CC_5BB94B879762## in my list of currently running processes is to think it’s some kind of virus, spyware, or some other malevolent piece of garbage. My first inclination would be wrong.
A quick Google search found that it’s part of Apple’s Bonjour service, which gets arbitrarily installed [...]
Filed under: rants, technology on June 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The other day, I was at a bar watching the Marlins game with a friend of mine; the television next to the one we were watching had a NASCAR race on, and the people sitting next to our booth were watching that.
One of them commented something to the tune of “how can people sit for [...]
Filed under: humor on June 4th, 2008 | No Comments »
Yesterday, I came across a site that does what one might think impossible: it simplifies Google’s interface even further. Someone—well, Stefan Grothkopp, according to the site—created a web-based command line interface (CLI) for Google. If you used computers before the GUI, or use a shell interface to FTP, this has got to bring a smile [...]
Filed under: technology on June 3rd, 2008 | No Comments »
The other day, I posted an unofficial video for Radiohead’s Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, and that got me thinking of one of my favorite videos, the de facto official music video for Radiohead’s Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors + Like Spinning Plates songs.
Filed under: music, technology on June 2nd, 2008 | No Comments »
I was thinking about the name of the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia the other day. Surely, most people don’t puzzle over corporate nomenclature, but I hardly think it’s uncommon for a consummate Volkswagen enthusiast to do. The name Karmann Ghia rolls of the tip of one’s tongue in the same way as the term fahrvergnügen, but [...]
Filed under: business, thoughts on June 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a thought: Pizza Hut serving pasta dinners is akin to McDonald’s serving a t-bone steak dinner. Come on, we defeated Hitler for this?
Filed under: business, thoughts on June 1st, 2008 | No Comments »