It’s Super Bowl Sunday

Super Bowl Sunday is a great day.

Millions of people are huddled around their televisions watching some Giants and Patriots in an epic battle for Championship glory.

This means that I can get out of the house and do some grocery shopping in peace, since a lot of people will be home watching the football.

Score!

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Happiness Is Coming

Man, life has been mega hectic lately. Billions of flakes of awesomeness are descending upon Denver and this is the only way I know of to shout it out to the world how awesome it is.

w00t!

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Things That Go Together

I saw this on an end display at my local neighborhood Target store. A McDonalds play set that contains miniature fries and burgers. Below it is a Doctor’s Play Set, which is sure to come in handy for the kids so they can diagnose the pretend diabetes and heart disease they’ll get from the McDonald’s play set.

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Whoosh

Hmmm, December already, eh? The last few months have been a blur. The work Marcus has been busy spearheading new system implementations and performing upgrades on nearly every server and application on the network. Not to mention, my iPad experiment project has been a total success. So much so, that a good chunk of my days are now spent writing web apps for it that provide a real-time peek into the runnings of the company. And converting normal boring office reports into graphically, visually pleasing ones worthy of being on a gorgeous iPad screen. Along the way I’ve gotten to play with the new Mac OS X Lion Server and the included Profile Manager that allows me to remotely manage iOS devices, such as iPads. Thanks Airprint, for letting me introduce someone new to the iPad. An iPad that can barely be put down and who’s use has quickly expanded past just Photos.

The me Marcus has been busy with learning how to cut vinyl decals and brew exploding root beer. Then there’s the whole Phase One thing, plus my endeavors over at Team Housewares, the world’s awesomest private Wii golf league. It’s a great outlet for creative ideas and it lets me somewhat decompress from the daily happenings with work Marcus.

Time does fly when you’re having fun, I guess. Although, I am looking forward to having some downtime soon, where I can just relax, do nothing, except maybe read my Steve Jobs book.

OK, I did carve out some time to go cut our Christmas tree.



Of course, finding time to decorate it is another story.

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Kudos to McDonald’s and Target

While shopping for some Thanksgiving items at Target this weekend, the ’geek noticed that their egg racks were empty except for a sign explaining they no longer carry eggs from Sparboe Farms.

Curious as to what that was about, we looked it up online and found this:

McDonald’s, Target Dump Egg Supplier After Investigation

To which I responded, “ Well,...duh”!

Sparboe Farms is a factory farm. And there’s nothing right about that. Of course the animals are treated poorly. While it is great that McDonald’s and Target have dropped Sparboe, it would be even better if everyone quit doing business with factory farms, period. But unfortunately, both McDonald’s and Target are most likely just going to turn around and buy from another factory farm. Although, Target does carry Organic Valley. I’m sure they would like to get more of Target’s business.