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I like to eat. I am also lazy. This often creates a problem where I am hungry, but can’t be bothered to cook. I wind up going out to eat, even if I am by myself. I spent about $600 last month on dining out, and then another $250 - 300 on groceries. Granted, sometimes [...]
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Part of working in the dot-com industry are layoffs. My buddy BushPutin’s employer Pandora suffered some cutbacks about a month ago. Fellow Richmond-based company Circuit City filed for bankruptcy protection, which explains the sheer number of CC applicants that have come our way in the last three months.
Based on the rumblings around the campfire at [...]
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work
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The Commonwealth of Virginia allows you to create a customized license plate for an annual fee. The fee is small, so lots of Virginians have vanity plates. Most of them are really dumb, like “08 VETTE” on a
2008 Chevrolet Corvette, or “1HOTQT” on a Saturn sedan with a she-beast inside.
There is an automated [...]
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license plate
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I loved taking my expensive LEGO theme sets I was given as a kid and jumbling all of the blocks into a giant wooden box. I had the most fun building whatever I thought was cool instead of what the directions said. Sure, I’d build the set once, but after that it was into the [...]
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gibberish
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lego
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link and run
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zombies
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I don’t really talk about my career here, but I am a user experience advocate. My job is to evaluate something (typically a Web presence) and determine how to make it easier for people to use that thing.
So when I see stuff like this, it drives me fucking nuts:
This is in a stairwell to [...]
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doors
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Uh, is it okay to sit here? (Gibberish is my native language (DrFaulken)) by drfaulken
Saw this in my usual stall in the men’s room at work:
Yeah, that’s a roach motel. Not your usual roach motel, but a BIG fucking roach motel. It’s like the damn Blattaria Four Seasons.
Worse yet, it’s about five inches away from my favorite throne. Why? Is it because I use the one in the corner, [...]
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gibberish
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mutant insects
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Every once in awhile some big mutant bug decides to colonize my property. Hardwood stump boring beetles, Japanese beetles, drunken hornets, you name it. Now I seem to have some sort of alien parasite near the base of my steps.
There are three mounds roughly a yard apart from each other. This is the largest one.
Here [...]
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gibberish
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mutant insects
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You can create a gamer profile on the Xbox 360. This profile allows you to keep track of your friends, game achievements, etc. Since I have two Xbox 360s in the house, I had to come up with an easy way to move my gaming profile from one console to the other. Microsoft sells memory [...]
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360
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customer service
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ebay
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gibberish
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xbox
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HE’S OFF HIS MEDS!! (Gibberish is my native language (DrFaulken)) by drfaulken
That’s about the last thing you want to hear on an airplane, right after “ALLAHU AKBAR” and the sound of a dead man’s switch being activated.
My co-worker Jumbotron and I were in Charlotte, our connecting point to our flight to San Francisco. Tropical storm Fay was dumping a shit-ton of rain in the area, so [...]
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flying
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gibberish
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mutant insects
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travel
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work
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Silly Friday fun: six questions that ask for four answers apiece.
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quiz
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drfaulken.com upgrades (Gibberish is my native language (DrFaulken)) by drfaulken
I’ve moved drfaulken.com, and by extension Gibberish and the gallery, over to a more dedicated server on DreamHost. The site has been slow lately. I’d like to think it’s partly from my traffic, but I think there are just too many other sites on my old server. I did have a 10,000 unique visitor spike [...]
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dreamhost
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gibberish
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site news
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virtual private server
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99 red balloons …. (Gibberish is my native language (DrFaulken)) by drfaulken
More like almost 150 ones of varying color and shape. My co-worker and good friend jammed my entire cube full of them while I was out for my birthday yesterday:
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balloons
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birthday
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gibberish
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I survived another year (Gibberish is my native language (DrFaulken)) by drfaulken
I’m 33 today — thanks to everyone for sticking with me this year. It wasn’t always easy, but then again, neither was your mother.
Special thanks to Starbuck for this DrFaulken’s ego-sized tiramisu. It is magically delicious.
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Here are the rules:
You may only answer “yes” or “no” to the following questions. Exposition is optional; I’ve gone for the straight Y/N.
Taken a picture naked? Yes.
Made money illegally? Yes.
Had a one night stand? Yes.
Been in a fist fight? Yes.
Slept with your best friend? No.
Had sex in a public place? Yes.
Ditched work to have sex? [...]
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I was on instant messenger with Stilts this weekend, joking about how I wanted a “MOVE OVER” sticker with reverse type for my MazdaSpeed3 wagon. Drivers in my side of Richmond aren’t terrible, but they do have a tendency to float in the left hand lane and let faster traffic stack up behind them. I [...]
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I have pretended for awhile that working for a big corporate entity hadn’t changed my lifestyle much. Sure, I went to be three to five hours earlier than normal. Yes, I gotten up earlier consistently than I have for the last fourteen years. But it wasn’t until yesterday that I realized I have become “older” [...]
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In what gender do you write? (Gibberish is my native language (DrFaulken)) by drfaulken
DrFaulken writes like a man. Or something. The Gender Genie attempts to discern if text was authored by a male or a female using an algorithm that measures the use of pronouns and certain nouns.
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gibberish
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link and run
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I looked through my bank check card statement this morning and noticed three odd charges from “Yahoo Voice” this month. Two were within a day of each other, and one was about ten days ago. I called up my bank and they are going to have to cancel my existing card and send me a [...]
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One of the more popular Firefox themes is now available for Firefox 3.0, albeit in an unofficial beta version.
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My worst flying nightmare (Gibberish is my native language (DrFaulken)) by drfaulken
Well maybe not my WORST flying nightmare - that would be a repeat of six infants with inner ear infections screaming for almost seven straight hours - but this is close.
This little guy and his brother screamed all the way from San Francisco to my connection in New Jersey. The parents tried “shushing” them until [...]
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Cal-ah-for-nyuh, here I come (Gibberish is my native language (DrFaulken)) by drfaulken
Headed to San Francisco for five days to see my family and some of my friends from a previous job. I’ll probably be on at some point during the day thanks to my Windows Mobile phone and my Asus Eee, but I am not sure if I’ll be posting all that much.
Be good while I’m [...]
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gibberish
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site news
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I made a bunch of predictions at the start of 2007, and then forgot about them. How many of them came true?
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gibberish
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I put my employer's unsecured wireless access point up against Verizon's EVDO wireless data network.
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fios
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gibberish
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hardware
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DrFaulken posts another random motivational poster from his workplace.
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Working like a dog (Gibberish is my native language (DrFaulken)) by drfaulken
I thought you might like to see what my dogs do while I am slaving away to make enough money to buy them cookies.
Sorry for the quality, they came from a cameraphone but were just so cute I had to post them.
Pearl busy making sure the toys don’t violate their parole conditions. She also sleeps [...]
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About those TPS reports … (Gibberish is my native language (DrFaulken)) by drfaulken
These are the “motivational” posters that I mentioned in my previous post. There is one in every level in every main stairwell.
I don’t know what’s more scary: that someone came up with this, or someone approved it.
What the fuck does this even mean??
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Quick update (Gibberish is my native language (DrFaulken)) by drfaulken
The new job is going really well. I had my first wireframe review with my boss yesterday. I came armed with Visio wireframes and a sheet detailing what I changed and why. I comped three different approaches and gave her a quick run-down on the pros and cons of each. I probably talked a little [...]
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diary of a young rider
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