In the Journal News this Sunday, I was displayed in a picture on the front page of the business section.
Woohoo!
I had no idea that I was going to have a picture taken of me that day. I may have worn something else like my favorite Hawaiian shirt. Luckily I happened to get a haircut at lunch that day because my hair had gotten quite long.
They also took pictures of us playing Guitar Hero in the fun room but they decided not to print those. Too bad because Cindy and I totally rocked out.
If you’d like to read the full article, I’ve archived the online copy in case the Journal News doesn’t keep a copy up forever. And being the geek I am, I also have a digital scan of the first page and follow-up page to protect against aging
And if you haven’t heard about Zwinky.com yet, I recommend you check it out. I’m very proud of what we’ve built and there’s so much more we can do it’s exciting.
While looking through my vast collection of pictures the other day and I stumbled upon one that I had to share.
In April of 2006, 14 friends got together to throw a surprise birthday dinner for our friend Todd. We went to this great (and expensive) restaurant in NYC called Alta. Their menu is certainly unique and they offer dishes you won’t find anywhere else.
What did we order? Everything on the menu. Twice.
Yup, we got the whole shebang, 2 of them.
Waiters began bringing out food as soon as we had poured wine into our glasses. Dish after dish continued to arrive.
We developed a border system where one end of the table was the northern territory and one was the southern tip. Trade agreements began forming. Popular dishes went fast only to be replaced by the next dish coming out of the kitchen.
The waiters would drop one of each dish off at each end, tell one person what it was and venture back into the kitchen to fetch some more. It was that person’s job to communicate what the food was. No one could remember the name, only parts of it, but it didn’t matter. What mattered was how much the person before you liked it.
Some dishes were too scary looking and were simply passed around until a brave soul tried a sample. Then of course others would have to indulge themselves.
I had a great time and I got to sample some very interesting foods. If you ever get a chance to order everything on the menu, I highly recommend it.
Of course, this isn’t the first time I’ve ordered mass quantities of food. There was that time at Taco Bell that I asked for the entire yellow menu. But that’s a story for another time
I’m an idiot. A moron. I’m so mad at myself. Considering my previous backup problems, I’m surprised at myself for making the same mistake twice. Kaylee, earmuffs.
In transferring over to my newly formed LLC, I accidentally lost 16 months worth of data from RoadPetition.com. My last backup was from June of 2006. This means everyone’s comments, ratings, petitions and added locations are gone.
You see, when transferring ownership of the domain to my LLC, GoDaddy.com removes any hosting accounts tied to that domain. All files added and modified are gone. Most importantly, my database tables are gone. It wasn’t THAT much data and I should be able to get 10 times that amount, but it’s still disappointing.
Now, GoDaddy allows a backup tape to be recovered for $150. I’m considering letting it die out.
There’s a lot of hype going on about Halo 3 for the Xbox 360, and I, for one, will not be be a sucker. I don’t own an Xbox 360 and I certainly don’t plan on buying the console because of this game. I own a “regular” Xbox and I was unimpressed with Halo 1 and Halo 2. Especially with the annoying Halo 2 texture bug.
I found Halo 1 to be average with noticeable, lazy developer, “copy and paste” moments for the level design. Ho hum…
I never bought Halo 2 because of the bug and it just didn’t wow me. Zzzzz…
And people are actually buying the legendary version of Halo 3. There’s no way I’m spending $129 on a single game that includes a helmet!
Microsoft has even re-skinned their console into the Xbox 360 Halo 3 Special Edition. I have to admit, that green console looks cool
I was considering getting the console until I learned one strikingly surprising fact… Get ready, it’s a shocker…
It DOES NOT include the game Halo 3! Do you believe that? Isn’t that confusing? I can imagine many people missing that one little line that says “Halo 3 game is NOT included”. Considering the green version is $50 more expensive than the regular white version, you’d expect it to include the game. Boo Microsoft!
Back in May I offered up ideas for some previously available vanity license plates. Since then, these 9 have been stolen reserved by license plate thieves.
CDAWG
C DAWG
NULL
END
PURP
TONIC
NOOB
ZOOMZ
INMYWAY
So if you see any of these driving on the road, give them a quick honk. Especially if you see the one with the “NOOB” license plate. Just point and laugh, he’s such a n00b.
I don’t blame these thieves. They were good ideas for license plates. I know, because I thought of them
Here’s another one of my favorite and also available license plates:
Happy Labor Day to you all, but mostly to my wife Anna. Having gone through 12 hours of labor recently, I think she deserves this day to celebrate herself.
Here’s an interesting story that recently happened to me. I call this story: It’s Not a Tumor Cyst.
I went to my physician for a regular checkup and I pointed out a small bump on my forehead near my hairline. The bump is underneath a mole and just recently I noticed it had gotten slightly larger. The doctor recommended that I go see a plastic surgeon to have it examined. Since I was covered for medical insurance, I went.
The plastic surgeon figured that my mole was covering up a small cyst filled with liquid that had built up. It’s like a zit or pimple but you certainly don’t just pop it. She wanted to remove it and because her next appointment canceled, she could do it right away and it would be super quick. Sounded good to me.
After the surgeon “opened me up”, she noticed that 3 blood vessels were all intersecting in the same spot and had all dilated. There was a lot of blood and the procedure went on longer than she or I had wanted. It didn’t help that I was drinking coffee before the visit and I had to go to the bathroom badly. During the procedure, I felt my classic cluster headache symptoms. I felt pain directly behind my left eye, my nose began to water and I started to sweat in the face. When I mentioned this to her, she applied pressure on the blood vessels and asked if I felt that same pain. Sure enough, I did.
This is potentially great news. This means that we might have found the cause for my headaches!!!
The surgeon is having a small piece tested in the lab, and I have to wear this lovely head gear for a few days. It hurts a little and I can’t bend over, raise my blood pressure, or have blood rush to that spot in my head otherwise it will hurt. Originally this was supposed to be a simple procedure so we weren’t in the operating room. She was only able to suture two of the blood vessels in the very small incision that she had made. She gave me 8 stitches and closed me up.
The plan right now is to let this heal and see if I receive any more headaches. I’m starting another “cluster headache season” right now so hopefully I don’t get any. Otherwise we can schedule a visit to the operating room where she can remove more of the unnecessary blood vessels. Luckily our bodies have more than we need.
By popular demand, I’ve posted some pictures of our beautiful Kaylee Ann Canoni. Enjoy!
I recently got a new High Definition video camera that takes some amazing quality video. Once I figure out how to post those, I’ll be sure to share. More pictures to come, so check back soon.
And unfortunately, “Kaylee” is not available as a vanity license plate
My license plate of 0X800080 was denied by the New York DMV. The reason they gave was:
The plate configuration may be confusing or objectionable to Law Enforcement. No substitution of the number “0″ the letter “O” is permitted on any style plate. On the blue banner “picture” plate, the number “1″ cannot be substituted for the letter “I”.
Boo! My current license plate is more confusing! How is this confusing???
So now I must continue my quest to find the perfect license plate. Any suggestions?
In the Journal News this Sunday, I was displayed in a picture on the front page of the business section.
Happy Labor Day to you all, but mostly to my wife Anna. Having gone through 12 hours of labor recently, I think she deserves this day to celebrate herself.
