Erik's Weblog

Happy 4th!

Sat, 4 Jul 2009 20:37:30 GMT

Twits du Jour (July 3)

Sat, 4 Jul 2009 07:00:03 GMT

Palin is going to focus on national security. I feel safer already. #
I am now using Task.fm for reminders. You can too, at www.task.fm #
Forget about it. That laptop has my name written all over it. #moonfruit #
Nothing like waking up to a small puddle of drool. Good morning. #

At the Park...

Fri, 3 Jul 2009 22:53:32 GMT

with the boys...

Family Barbecue

Fri, 3 Jul 2009 21:26:46 GMT

The Love Story of Ralph and Edna

Fri, 3 Jul 2009 10:38:36 GMT

Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

Ralph and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital. One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Ralph suddenly jumped into the deep end. He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there.

Edna promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled him out. When the Head Nurse Director became aware of Edna's heroic act she immediately ordered her to be discharged from the hospital, as she now considered her to be mentally stable.

When she went to tell Edna the news she said, "Edna, I have good news and bad news. The good news is you're being discharged, since you were able to rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of the person you love. I have concluded that your act displays sound mindedness. The bad news is, Ralph hung himself in the bathroom with his bathrobe belt right after you saved him. I am so sorry, but he's dead."

Edna replied, "He didn't hang himself, I put him there to dry. How soon can I go home?"

A Well-Planned Retirement

Fri, 3 Jul 2009 10:30:02 GMT

From The London Times:

Outside the Bristol Zoo, in England, there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 coaches, or buses. It was manned by a very pleasant attendant with a ticket machine charging cars £1 (about $1.40) and coaches £5 (about $7). This parking attendant worked there solid for all of 25 years. Then, one day, he just didn't turn up for work.

"Oh well", said Bristol Zoo Management - "We'd better phone up the City Council and get them to send a new parking attendant..."

"Err ... no", said the Council, "that parking lot is your responsibility."

"Err ... no", said Bristol Zoo Management, "the attendant was employed by the City Council, wasn't he?"

"Err ... NO!" insisted the Council.

Sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain, is a bloke who had been taking the parking lot fees, estimated at £400 (about $620) per day at Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years.

Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over £3.6 million ($7.6 million)!

And no one even knows his name.

Twits du Jour (July 2)

Fri, 3 Jul 2009 07:00:02 GMT

The 'USDA Organic' label does not really mean 100% organic. news.fluentmobile.com/s/16935899 #
Just added myself to the wefollow.com twitter directory under: #technologist #java #mobile #
Are we supposed to die on a specific date/time? Is that what makes it an 'untimely' death? Or are we just trying to say it was 'unexpected'? #
Erik's Tumbles - Twisted Sister: 30 bit.ly/UuB72 #
Erik's Tumbles - Steve Vai & Andy Timmons: Beat it bit.ly/5kXqv #
RT @jimh: woot, Jaiku's S60 mobile client now available as OSS - bit.ly/ocxXw #

Twits du Jour (July 1)

Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:00:02 GMT

A friend of mine just realized that his ex installed a key logger on his computer. Damn, that's pretty hard-core. #
I'm fat, and apparently, so are you! bit.ly/Tn6wZ #
Erik's Tumbles - Outloud “We Run” bit.ly/zap38 #
Getting dinner. Yum. - Photo: bkite.com/098vl #
No contingencies for Bubbles (bit.ly/3TS4bY) in Michael Jackson's last will. So sad. bit.ly/RfvQf #
Just got done washing the car. Simple green car wash rules. #
Getting a late dinner around here is close to impossible. 24hrs McDonald's is closed for cleaning. Denny's grill is shutting down in 20mins. #

Twits du Jour (June 30)

Wed, 1 Jul 2009 07:00:02 GMT

On our way to see Transformers - Photo: bkite.com/096kG #
Waiting for The Maids. It's been a year since we had sone serious cleaning done. www.maids.com/ #
Michael Jackson claimed net worth of $236 million. I want to be broke like that. ping.fm/Smbrp #

The Maids

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:19:57 GMT

Our cleaning crew is hard at work...

Twits du Jour (June 29)

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:00:03 GMT

The MSNBC/Zumobi iPhone app news feed auto-scrolls. That's kinda cool. #
Roof closes at Wimbledon for first time ever bit.ly/Pr32G #
RT @RussB: Navteq announced today it has released a new version of its free Navteq Traffic mobile website. bit.ly/cvDln #
Sunset on Silver Lake. I wish I had a better camera with me. - Photo: bkite.com/094gB #
Rule of 3. Carradine, Farrah and MJ. Ed McMahon, Billy Mays... Who will be the next pitchman to die? #
Ping.fm & brightkite dups. Sorry about that. #
Spring cleaning is no fun. - bkite.com/093qd #
Spring cleaning is no fun. #
Goodwill Drop-off - Photo: bkite.com/093d6 #
Bernard Madoff gets maximum 150 years in prison bit.ly/4Fo3Q9 #
@jimh At this point anybody using torrents as a distribution option is good. Talk about something that just simply hasn't caught on. #
RT @cbeust: The program that Microsoft uses to let you download Windows 7 is written in... Java. Oh the irony. #