On occasion, I like to post these. Of course I’ve already mentioned the reasons why.
But when I do post them, I don’t just post the link from the site. I try to take an extra 30 seconds to provide some extra information or a back story or something. I figure if I am going to make you read boring, geeky crap, the least I can do is kinda jazz it up a bit.
It turns out, I’m not the only person that blogs these. On Digg, when you view a story it tells you who has ‘blogged’ it. I click mine. Nicely formatted, bonus info, something clever. I click the others and guess what? just the link and the story snip. That’s it!
Worse, the others are ‘blogs that are full of nothing but Digg posts. zzzzzzzzzzz.
If you are a digger, then please take note. When sharing digg stories with YOUR audience, take the extra minute to put in some of your own words. At best it will give your readers a little something extra to read. At worst, it might garner you a spot at badblogs (c’mon now…I’ve seen your writing). Either way, it’s still better than running a static version of digg.
The lad did up something pretty cool at school a few months back. It wasn’t the original plan, but the results were pretty awesome!
(I’ll post a better picture soon)
Pretty cool eh? I’m going to have it framed when I get back from Vegas next week.
Oh yea. Third place even!
W00T
St. Patricks Day, 1992. It’s the last time it landed on a Friday AND I was working in restaurants. My first as a kitchen manager to boot! I remember it like it was….
Oh, who the hell am I kidding. I don’t remember a damned thing about it!
Ok, I do rememeber some things. It was busy. I made up about the best batch of corned beef ever. I think the restaurant I was at (Carlos Murphy’s, mostly mexican with the Irish last name) did about $40K that day. Probably because we were across the street from HP and around the block from Apple. It was rockin’.
Did you know that St. Patrick’s Day and Cinco de Mayo both land on the same day of the week? Go ahead, check it. When you spend over 15 years in the restaurant business, that is one of the odd things you notice. Especially when your restaurant IS a Mexican restaurant WITH an Irish last name.
Yes, it was busy on Cinco de Mayo too. It was rockin’.
hmmmmm
Music sales in Canada dropped 4% in 2005 to $536 million, the Canadian Recording Industry Assn. reported Thursday. The dip is part of a 10-year decline that the CRIA blames on illegal music downloading. Canada hasn’t updated copyright legislation to cover digital music. Consequently, it has the highest online piracy rate per capita in the world, according to the Intl. Federation of the Phonographic Industry; the CRIA says 1.6 billion music files are swapped annually.
Must be nice to not have to worry about the RIAA beating your door down because of that bootlegged Fifty Cent eh? 
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I have a cat. Becky the clawless wonder that can catch birds or trap bunnies, all without the benefit of front claws. She’s a good cat.
Within my neighborhood there are other cats. We shall call them bad cats. They come into the house and eat Becky’s food, drink her water and piss everywhere. Final straw was one of the bad cats pissed on my jacket (no, it’s not a coat, I know the difference) so I couldn’t wear it today.
So, I’m looking to you, the faithful w(t)f reader to help with a solution.
I need to keep the bad cats out of my house! They come in through the dog door that I can not block because then Becky would not be able to go in or out. So just keep that in mind. Other suggestions that you don’t have to submit:
- Get a dog
- Shoot the bad cats
- Get a larger food dish
- Rig a cat trap. Put captured kitties in the dryer
- Anything that requires poison or some other substance that I can’t dispose of without a permit
- Re-Claw Becky
- Shoot the bad cats
Yes, I know I put that in there twice. Just in case you cat haters among us forgot about it after reading it the first time.
I’m wide open to just about any suggestion, so give it some thought!
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