Oilers grease skid
To the people who still don't believe me when I try to explain how much Edmontonians and Calgarians hate each other, check this out:
Calgary Sun: Oilers grease skid
A mere 17 minutes into last night's contest at the Skyreach Centre, perhaps establishing some kind of record, the mischievous northern Albertans serenaded the visitors with a hearty chorus of the Na-na, hey-hey, goodbye song.
Then, just to twist the knife a little, the Oilers in the second period ran a vignette on the scoreboard with a snaggle-toothed dolt in a Flames jersey proclaiming: "I'm from Calgary and I'm stupid."'
Ahhhh... (deep breath, exhale) nothing like a good Calgary joke to start the week off right!
Backup Brain
Backup Brain has the quote of the day:
(The CBDTPA is the new name of the evil SSSCA bill)
The Anti-Mac Corporate Conspiracy
Thanks to Andrew Jung for this link:
BusinessWeek Online: An Anti-Mac Corporate Conspiracy?
I know people in IT departments who have admitted to me personally that they'd rather keep Windows machines at their place of employment because it keeps them busier and protects their job. Very sad.
Sunday is the best day of the week
Two weeks ago on Sunday I did nothing. I just sat in my room, surfed in my pyjamas, ate, and went to bed.
Last week Sunday was a real treat! Donald W. Larson, who I worked with at Macrobyte (a fully distributed company) drove up to Irvine from San Diego and we spent the day together. I showed him WebObjects, we created an application with it, went out for lunch, BS'd, etc. It was a great day.
Today I went to a computer show/fair in Pomona (I hope I'm spelling that right). It was huge. I was good, I didn't buy anything, but there were a couple things there I was really eyeballing, like a 48GB laptop hard drive for about $150. After that we went to Baker's Square for a late lunch (mmm, Cinnamon Roll French Toast).
I've been working 6 days a week since I got here, so Sunday's the only day I've had to relax and do my own thing. It hasn't been too bad. Certainly less sucky than when I was in San Francisco by myself... but maybe that's because I only have one day off instead of two. Weekends were really lonely, depressing times for me. I hated Friday in San Francisco because it meant I had to spend the next two days alone rather than with people (at work).
I can't wait to get back to Canada so I can spend quality time with people every day.
Mozilla updates
Reading Mozillazine today I found the following new or updated Mozilla-related projects...
LiveSidebar.com - Sidebar Tabs resources central (it's new to me, looks cool)
MozBlog (BloggerAPI client in Moz, now with WYSIWYG editing support)
Roepcke Computing Solutions
Archive Calendar
Blogroll
Saved Searches
- WebObjects on Twitter Tweets about WebObjects (without all the iTunes store tweet spam)
Willing to Fail
WebObjects book
Badges
Recent tweets
- @kazempour http://bit.ly/9KOnBp enjoy :) 2 hrs ago
- i just swapped the name and description around on my blog, it's now "Jim Roepcke's weblog" instead of "have browser, will travel". 1 day ago
- @elliottkember come to Canada, the US is a hop skip and jump away and you have no HC worries. in reply to elliottkember 2 days ago
- More updates...