the better it gets, the better it gets
Posted in General on Sep 11th, 2004
Spiffy Virginia Symphony Orchestra (VSO) concert tonight!
Tonight, the balcony (where Jason and I sit with our cheap tickets [he is Jewish] was jam packed, which is unusual — the VSO apparently gave free tickets to students from several local youth orchestras.
Overall they were very well behaved (minus the one kid who kept waving [...]
Posted in Links on Sep 9th, 2004
Yeah, I know — where?
But they have a very awesome hurricane tracker. Click here to check it out. Once the page loads, pick a hurricane!
Posted in General on Sep 9th, 2004
Had a “project celebration” dinner for the wrapping up of the Telecheck project tonight — at the Grate Steak. I was thinking “WTF picked this place”, but when I got there and saw one of the project members at the dinner table with a shit-eating-grin, I knew. That person is totally awesome to [...]
Posted in General on Sep 8th, 2004
Run — don’t walk — over to http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=182 and enable that feature.
Then, whenever you update your journal, it will show as updated for all of the folks that track it, like moi! (Update journals show up on this site (on the right column, under BLOGS I READ) with >> and
Posted in General on Sep 8th, 2004
Being a facts and figures(tm) kind of guy, I was surprised to have had three songs stuck in my head during work yesterday — two from Avenue Q (Everyone’s A Bit Racist and The Internet Is For Porn), and one that Jason had written. Coming home and immediately copying (I mean making an archival [...]
Posted in Links on Sep 4th, 2004
The bunnies are now appearing in Jaws, as only they can! Check ‘em out here!
Posted in General on Sep 3rd, 2004
… is finally open, as reported by Sean, who had dinner there Thursday night. “The place is huge, but the bathroom is really small”. Nice, eh?
They even have crazy late hours on the weekends. Yowza!
Two snaps up for their BUFFALO BLASTS® appetizer:
Chicken Breast, Cheese and Our Spicy Buffalo Sauce [...]
Posted in General on Sep 3rd, 2004
Thought it was interesting to hear that in this time of “our economy going to hell in a breadtruck because all good US jobs are being outsourced overseas” , ~9 million US jobs are the result from insourcing (overseas companies outsourcing jobs from their countries to the US).
On the slightly fishy side, this information comes [...]
Posted in General on Sep 2nd, 2004
(Yay for spaghetti hurricane models!)
I’m not sure what happened to the training budget at work, but apparently there’s a lot more money than thought, so I get to take a week-long Microsoft SQL database class (in town) this month and a week-long Oracle database class (in Reston, VA) at the end of October. w00t [...]