A Day in Paradise

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So the official word is that a pipe burst and they are working on patching it and will be done soon.

Quake party is not happening.

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Still no word. News van arrived. Camera is set up. Seems like a couple more firetrucks arrived. Big crowd now as people come back from dinner.

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The police are telling people to “go to cityplace and get a few drinks”

People inside are still not being told anything is happening. If you step out of your unit you will be escorted out.

No further news.

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People inside are not being informed of anything but as soon as they come out they are being informed that they can’t go back in.

witnesses say that people reported having “scrathy throats” and that there were a “lot of cops” on the 4th floor. The words “Meth lab” came up a couple times.

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Firemen who are coming out of the building.

Witness report a “weird odor”.

AC showed up for our quake tournament.

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Get home from dinner to find 8 fire engines surrounding the condo building.

The word is that the “pool chemicals went ballistic”. Whatever happened, they are not letting anyone in or out.

Will update as the situation progresses.

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This guy just drove by, one hand was holding his cell phone to his ear while the other was lighting up his cigarette.

I’ll make that reason number 325 why not to smoke: so ypou can safely text message while driving.

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I was doing some christmas shopping when I noticed that google rolled out a mobile product update.

Being the software junkie that I am, I immediately started the update. One of the updates that caught my eye was a mobile version of google docs.

Any of my regular readers knopw what a big fan I am of google docs and how many times I have mentioned that my life would be complete if I could work on my documents from my blackberry.

Unfortunaty after the 10-minute update was complete I discovered that the.mobile google docs experience was not nearly as orgasmic as I had worked myself up to imagine.

First of all, spreadsheets are read only. I guess that is forgiveable since writing a spreadsheet control for the blackberry OS would actually take time and (god forbid) cost money. Having said that, making a half-assed version of google docs is unforgivable. I think that they probably somehow intend to make the documents editable, since there are a few edit this page links (nobe of which work) but as far as I could see this is just a silly web-based hack. Something that I could do in 5 minutes with a couplew lines of PHP and the writely APIs.

I could rant forever but I need some coffee.

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Last night we had our office holiday party at Roxys. Pictures are up on flickr.

It was a great time the only downside was the fact that I was still recovering from the previous nights party and due to certain bowel conditions felt it prudent not to overdo it.

I know that was a crazy long multiple run on paragraph. Blackberry should come up with a way to insert commas with one hand.

Beautiful winters day today and thanks to my constraint I am feeling pretty good. Two days of work left then a four day weekend followed by three days to prepare for our second of jan product launch.

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Its christmas party week.

Monday: bowling league party
Tuesday: condo party
Wednesday: office party
Thursday: clematis party
Friday: mias preschool party.

My social schedule is full.

I have been thinking of starting on a few secret writing projects.

I miss the days when I had the time to sit down and write all day. Chanelling my creative energy into wordsmithing rather than just allocating the five minute walk to work.
Maybe when I retire.
I am discovering that I can write more in the walk to work than I did when I got started. Yay for onr finger typing. And for not being run over by the traffic.

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I was pretty happy with both tinman and I am Legend. I’ve been getting into hulu.com these days, and despite all the naysayers its a great way for the networks to reach their non cable subscribers.

The ads are well targeted and short and the quality is better than the streaminmg video on the other network sites.

Talking about ads I was put off by the Ford and Apple product placement in I am legend. Its one thing when you get it for free its another thing when you pay 12 bucks. For it.

Had a good weekend now time to get back to work

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Somehow I decided it would be cool to watch the midnight IMAX show.

Hope its worth me staying up late for.

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The last few days I’ve found myself watching crime dramas on tv. Tuesday it was NCIS and last night I had the unfortunate experience of watching CSI NY.

The shows are terrible, the mysteries are stupid, dialog is forced, plots are shallow, and the gross body factor is off the charts.

Now I have never been someone to complain about gore. When there are redeeming qualities a healthy amout of gore can be very entertaining. Having said that pointless gore is boring and stupid.

Arrived at work… End rant.

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The thing that stood out to me the most about superbad is the lengthy dialogs. It would be interesting to see the difference in dialog length between the different genres of movies and if/how dialog length correlates to ratings. It wasn\’t shakespeare, but what I think made the movie interesting is that I remember having many of the same discussions not so many years ago. Acting was good, drunk scenes were the best. Very enjoyable.

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After I upgraded the firmware on my blackberry 8700 the interweb was gone.

I called tmobile and they said “we’d be happy to fix that for you, mr wormus … Check your device now and see if you have the internet icon in your application menu”.

Sure enough they dropped it right in. If only computer tech support was this simple.