Toaster [twitter]: “Hope you enjoy standing outside in the rain while the Bellevue fire department shakes its head disapprovingly of your charred mess!” #EpicToastFail [3 seconds ago] “Dude, it’s looking medium well.” [2 minutes ago] NotMyJob: @Toaster is looking very dark now. [4 minutes ago] “Your toast is ready!” [5 minutes ago] Espresso machine [Facebook]: […]
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There are a variety of milk-based products available in the store. Just sticking to cow’s milk for the moment, here’s the periodic table of viscous milk products, ordered by decreasing fat content: Butter – 81% milk fat. A stick of butter (8 tablespoons) has 97.2 grams of fat (880 calories!), which breaks down into 62%
Late last fall, when I was first contemplating replacements for my four year-old Dell Inspiron laptop, Netbooks piqued my interest. I gave them serious consideration as a replacement machine, but there were three major problems: 1. Screen sizes suck, especially the vertical. The most common (at the time) were 1024×576, which was a huge step
A webinar is essentially conference call combined with a PowerPoint presentation. Of the dozens I receive a month, few meet my rigid criteria: educational content, straightforward delivery. It’s usually easy to tell from the email if it’s likely going to be some kind of lame marketing presentation. Speaking of which, here’s an invitation I received
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Singing Cowboy, downtown Wichita I had some customer visits scheduled in Wichita last week. On the first appointment, I’d budgeted a lot more time than I actually used. Since I’ve never been to Kansas before, I set out to do some late-afternoon exploring. The most intriguing thing I could come up with was to visit
Judging from the number of email solicitations from complete strangers to “schedule an appointment” I’ve been receiving, my business email address is ensconced in some marketing database. Below is an example that struck me as How Not To Do This Sort Of Thing. Snarky comments are inline in [red]. Subject: Would like to connect with
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I’ve been using my Garmin Vista HCx as a combination cyclecomputer and geocaching GPS. The maps and battery life (24h on a pair of AAs) are great for cycling, especially compared to the Garmin Edge 305 it replaced. The Edge used to last about 12 hours with its sealed battery… now it’s down to five
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When I last signed up for a new cell phone service, I opted for the “family plan” that provided two lines with a shared pool of up to 400 minutes per month. At $600/year, this was cheaper than having two separate plans with the theoretical estimated use of the second line. While reviewing my cell