The Badger hoopsters put on an exhibition of ball control last night in stomping the Michigan State Spartans 57-42. Unbelievably, they turned the ball over only 1 time for the entire game, setting a team record in the process. Amazingly enough MSU only turned it over 6 times making for a very clean game. The difference was Michael Flowers suffocating defense on Drew Neitzel and Joe Krabenhoft on Raymar Morgan. Those guys could do little and Neitzel basically stopped shooting after he was 1-10. They moved to 14-2 in the big 10 and 24-4 overall. Only 2 games left and a half game lead over Indiana and Purdue who each have 3 games left. Who'd of thought they would have a chance to win the conference when the season started after losing Alando Tucker and Chris Rock. ;)
Hey, another bowling team member has joined the joke tellers at ComicWonder. Soup has told a bunch of jokes, specializing in his ridiculously funny puns that he loves so much. Here's a good example...
Also, he turned me on to a new site which is pretty cool. It's called BeFunky. It's how I made my new avatar. Check it out, good fun.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
Monday's suck
I have that grumpy Monday mood today. Can't explain it, just feel blah. Maybe it's the freakin' ice and crap outside. I'm like 2 minutes from moving to Florida or something. Even asked a realtor friend how much our house is worth.
Yesterday was so nice out, actually above freezing which felt like 60. Unfortunately all the snow/ice melt ended up forming a lake in the road in front of my house. Being the good neighbor I went out and carved a channel to the storm drain and watched as it lowered by a good 2/3rds. Unfortunately overnight it froze over and once again a big lake formed today. So, tonight I go out and redig the channel and use my shovel to force the water to it.
I'm doing this for my neighbors, right? You'd think that they would appreciate it and go slowly by as I'm standing on the side of the road with a shovel, right? Well, most of them did but 4 or 5 cars blew by at 30mph spraying me with a tidal wave of water! What the fuck people!?!?!?! I wanted to pitch my shovel through their back window as they drove by oblivious to me standing there soaked.
Ah people, they're so awesome. I'm definitely better off working at home where I don't have to put up with the general idiotic population on a daily basis.
Ok, enough venting for one day. On a brighter note, the Grinder has become my first friend to actually go to ComicWonder.com and tell a joke. He told 2 actually! Now, take that as a challenge readers. Go get funny!
Here's his first joke:
Yesterday was so nice out, actually above freezing which felt like 60. Unfortunately all the snow/ice melt ended up forming a lake in the road in front of my house. Being the good neighbor I went out and carved a channel to the storm drain and watched as it lowered by a good 2/3rds. Unfortunately overnight it froze over and once again a big lake formed today. So, tonight I go out and redig the channel and use my shovel to force the water to it.
I'm doing this for my neighbors, right? You'd think that they would appreciate it and go slowly by as I'm standing on the side of the road with a shovel, right? Well, most of them did but 4 or 5 cars blew by at 30mph spraying me with a tidal wave of water! What the fuck people!?!?!?! I wanted to pitch my shovel through their back window as they drove by oblivious to me standing there soaked.
Ah people, they're so awesome. I'm definitely better off working at home where I don't have to put up with the general idiotic population on a daily basis.
Ok, enough venting for one day. On a brighter note, the Grinder has become my first friend to actually go to ComicWonder.com and tell a joke. He told 2 actually! Now, take that as a challenge readers. Go get funny!
Here's his first joke:
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Busy busy busy
Sorry, haven't had much time for anything these days. Thought I would at least write something during my 3 minute lunch break.
So, ice... ice is bad, unless you're playing hockey that is.
Ice on the road... that's really bad. I've never seen the roads so completely covered with ice like this in my life. Main highways are good but anything else you might be better off just putting on the skates and leaving the car behind.
Since Cdubya is not from around here (California) she really didn't want to drive on ice (neither did I) so I've been driving her to work all week.
Yesterday morning I decided I should stick to the main roads and avoid the normal county highways I usually take. I head down Cottage Grove road to get on 51 North. Well, it's pretty freakin' icy as you would expect. We near the 51 entrance and I'm in the right lane, slowly easing up to a light that had turned red a few seconds ago. There's one car in front of me and he kind of skidded to a stop. So, being smart, I ease slowly up and stop behind him... reach for my coffee and BAM!
Stupid bitch behind me slammed right into me with her Trail Blazer. What the fuck you stupid whore, can you not see what is going on in front of you? Man, I was pissed. I jumped out of the car and damn near fell on my ass. After regaining my composure I went to check on the damage. Luckily her front bumper went under mine and just left me with a few scratches on the Murano. Her bumper was cracked and broken. I quickly got her insurance info since it was 3 below zero.
Fast forward 15 minutes and I'm driving down Main street in Sun Prairie. Asswipe in front of me is in a Mustang pretending that the roads are just fine and dandy. He attempts to take off from the stop light and just spins for a bit before swerving and starting out like his ass was on fire. He speeds up on one car in the right lane and quickly swerves to the left lane and continues his mission of destruction. I watch muttering how stupid people can be and as I catch up at the next light I notice that his bumper is under the rear bumper of the Expedition in front of me. What a total knob. I laughed at him as I slowly went by. Still in a hurry buddy? Jackass...
Rest of my day went great amazingly. I need to take it in for an estimate before I get hit again.
And if the snow and ice wasn't enough, we're going for 2 more records today. The record coldest high temp on this day is +4. We should be close. The record low for tonight is -14. We should also be close to that. Gotta love Wisconsin!
So, ice... ice is bad, unless you're playing hockey that is.
Ice on the road... that's really bad. I've never seen the roads so completely covered with ice like this in my life. Main highways are good but anything else you might be better off just putting on the skates and leaving the car behind.
Since Cdubya is not from around here (California) she really didn't want to drive on ice (neither did I) so I've been driving her to work all week.
Yesterday morning I decided I should stick to the main roads and avoid the normal county highways I usually take. I head down Cottage Grove road to get on 51 North. Well, it's pretty freakin' icy as you would expect. We near the 51 entrance and I'm in the right lane, slowly easing up to a light that had turned red a few seconds ago. There's one car in front of me and he kind of skidded to a stop. So, being smart, I ease slowly up and stop behind him... reach for my coffee and BAM!
Stupid bitch behind me slammed right into me with her Trail Blazer. What the fuck you stupid whore, can you not see what is going on in front of you? Man, I was pissed. I jumped out of the car and damn near fell on my ass. After regaining my composure I went to check on the damage. Luckily her front bumper went under mine and just left me with a few scratches on the Murano. Her bumper was cracked and broken. I quickly got her insurance info since it was 3 below zero.
Fast forward 15 minutes and I'm driving down Main street in Sun Prairie. Asswipe in front of me is in a Mustang pretending that the roads are just fine and dandy. He attempts to take off from the stop light and just spins for a bit before swerving and starting out like his ass was on fire. He speeds up on one car in the right lane and quickly swerves to the left lane and continues his mission of destruction. I watch muttering how stupid people can be and as I catch up at the next light I notice that his bumper is under the rear bumper of the Expedition in front of me. What a total knob. I laughed at him as I slowly went by. Still in a hurry buddy? Jackass...
Rest of my day went great amazingly. I need to take it in for an estimate before I get hit again.
And if the snow and ice wasn't enough, we're going for 2 more records today. The record coldest high temp on this day is +4. We should be close. The record low for tonight is -14. We should also be close to that. Gotta love Wisconsin!
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Working from home makes one sick?
Ok, somehow I got sick over the weekend and I have no idea how. I'm working at home, the only people I've seen are my wife and my family (last Tuesday they were over). None of them are or have been sick, so what gives?
I hope it goes away soon, I have to go to Milwaukee for a meeting on Friday.
On the ComicWonder effort, there's a Mashable article about the funding we've raised. Check it here.
We successfully survived our time on Bob and Tom last Tuesday. Chris Cashman and Mark Metcalf were on for about 2 hours and plugged the site many times. We held up just fine, no performance issues as we had a pretty big spike in traffic.
Our new goal is to be ready for 100 radio stations to have custom group operations in place by April 1st. It's a pretty aggressive time frame but I think we can pull it off.
I hope it goes away soon, I have to go to Milwaukee for a meeting on Friday.
On the ComicWonder effort, there's a Mashable article about the funding we've raised. Check it here.
We successfully survived our time on Bob and Tom last Tuesday. Chris Cashman and Mark Metcalf were on for about 2 hours and plugged the site many times. We held up just fine, no performance issues as we had a pretty big spike in traffic.
Our new goal is to be ready for 100 radio stations to have custom group operations in place by April 1st. It's a pretty aggressive time frame but I think we can pull it off.
Thursday, February 07, 2008
I Loathe Snow
I've had enough. Just stop already.
We got 13.3" more snow yesterday. What a joke. We're now within 2.5" of our all time record for one winter and 42 more days till spring. We have over 76" so far and now they're saying it's possible we could hit 100". Nice... I need to move to Arizona or something.
Yesterday was a big day for ComicWonder.com. The Comic Wonder of the Year, Chris Cashman, and Mark Metcalf (Neidermeyer) were on the Bob and Tom show yesterday morning. It was great, they were on for 2 hours and did a lot to pump up the site. We had quite a bit of traffic and lots of new members and jokes.
I ended up putting in some database caching and performance improvements Tuesday night and we ran flawlessly.
We're working now towards getting some additional hardware and some load balancing then we'll be adding some group stuff for radio stations to have their own joke sections. Should be fun building that.
Back to the snow.. did I mention I hate it? 500 cars stranded on the interstate yesterday and they were still telling everyone to stay off I-90 between Madison and Janesville as there were still 100 cars left to remove. Glad I wasn't on the highway yesterday, it was bad enough just getting around town.
Bowling, of course was canceled. They even shut down the UW, which is unheard of. Somehow the Badger basketball team managed to make it to Iowa where they struggled but ended up beating Iowa to run their record to 19-3 (9-1 in the Big 10). That was the first game I was able to watch on the Big 10 network in HD. Pretty cool.
Speaking of HD. I got a new dish installed on Saturday and bought the new Directv HD DVR so I could get their full compliment of some 75 HD channels.
Unfortunately I couldn't get a signal on one of the satellites. I called and complained and nothing. Finally during the snow storm another installer came yesterday. Turns out that the multiswitch (takes 4 incoming satellite lines and runs them to 8 output lines) couldn't handle the frequency that the new satellite comes in on. He replaced the multiswitch and everything is great. They should let people know that, I could have replaced it myself.
That's all for now, gotta catch up on work after spending a couple hours clearing the snow.
We got 13.3" more snow yesterday. What a joke. We're now within 2.5" of our all time record for one winter and 42 more days till spring. We have over 76" so far and now they're saying it's possible we could hit 100". Nice... I need to move to Arizona or something.
Yesterday was a big day for ComicWonder.com. The Comic Wonder of the Year, Chris Cashman, and Mark Metcalf (Neidermeyer) were on the Bob and Tom show yesterday morning. It was great, they were on for 2 hours and did a lot to pump up the site. We had quite a bit of traffic and lots of new members and jokes.
I ended up putting in some database caching and performance improvements Tuesday night and we ran flawlessly.
We're working now towards getting some additional hardware and some load balancing then we'll be adding some group stuff for radio stations to have their own joke sections. Should be fun building that.
Back to the snow.. did I mention I hate it? 500 cars stranded on the interstate yesterday and they were still telling everyone to stay off I-90 between Madison and Janesville as there were still 100 cars left to remove. Glad I wasn't on the highway yesterday, it was bad enough just getting around town.
Bowling, of course was canceled. They even shut down the UW, which is unheard of. Somehow the Badger basketball team managed to make it to Iowa where they struggled but ended up beating Iowa to run their record to 19-3 (9-1 in the Big 10). That was the first game I was able to watch on the Big 10 network in HD. Pretty cool.
Speaking of HD. I got a new dish installed on Saturday and bought the new Directv HD DVR so I could get their full compliment of some 75 HD channels.
Unfortunately I couldn't get a signal on one of the satellites. I called and complained and nothing. Finally during the snow storm another installer came yesterday. Turns out that the multiswitch (takes 4 incoming satellite lines and runs them to 8 output lines) couldn't handle the frequency that the new satellite comes in on. He replaced the multiswitch and everything is great. They should let people know that, I could have replaced it myself.
That's all for now, gotta catch up on work after spending a couple hours clearing the snow.
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