Well, it looks like I can stop wasting money on Lagavulin. Introducing the AWOL Machine
AWOL, which is an acronym for Alcohol With Out Liquid™, is the brainchild of 30 year old Dominic Simler, who discovered that by mixing spirits with pure oxygen, a cloudy alcohol vapour can be created which can be either snorted or inhaled.
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bq.. By any traditional business metric, Google has succeeded wildly.
Yet the reason for Google’s success is anything but traditional.
Google’s approach to business is simple, a single rule that - if applied consistently across all channels, interfaces, and products - will yield tremendous results:
<code>Create a good customer experience.</code>
I just had my eyebrows waxed. Honest. Could I be any more metro?
Picked up Zim today after a month of boarder training - essentially doggy boot camp. We spent two hours with the trainer, who trained us how to continue training him. Pretty amazing what she’s done with him. She walked him through a room full of other dogs and he barely took his eyes off her. She yelled for him to “come!” from across the room and he ran up and sat 1 foot from her - waiting. During a full “heel” he walked next to her, his face never wandering more than six inches from her right hip. He seems excited to do it, too.
We’re only to work with him on sit, down, and walking nice on the leash for now. I took him for a walk when we got home and instead of the usual tug-o-war, he walked calmly and pleasantly beside me. Stopping when I stopped, turning where I turned. Now if I can just manage to keep up with all this.
Oh, and any teeny worries I may have had about whether or not he’d even remember me were quickly silenced by him going absolutely apeshit the moment he saw me.
He seems happy to be home, and we’re very glad to have him back.
It occurred to me just now that there’s something not quite right about keeping one’s poetry in a database.
Spent the first part of the evening watching School of Rock with Jess and it was even better the second time.
I immediately had a fit of rock-n-roll nostalgia and ran out straight away to the nearest shop to replace a few of the vinyl records I’d worn out back in the early eighties. AC/DC’s Back in Black and Highway to Hell along with an old collection of tunes by The Clash. I could’ve bought every classic rock CD in the place so I got out as quickly as I could.
Got back home, turned the stereo up to an uncharacteristic volume and spent the next hour or so jumping spastically around the house playing a screamingly-wicked air guitar while Jessica drummed on everything in sight with a pair of chopsticks.
Made a mess, soaked myself with sweat, irritated the neighbors and likely left my daughter with numerous psychological scars caused by seeing me dance around like an aging punk rocker playing his last gig at some out of the way casino.
It was quite honestly the most fun I’ve had in a very long time.
It seems that T.M. and I regularly have very funny conversations. He’s just much better at recognizing them, picking them up, polishing and posting them
Never thought I’d end up as someone’s straight man!
During my morning ritual, the folks who work below the men’s room in our office building can be heard downstairs - clearly. Today’s snippet…
Voice One: “Think I’ll shave my head.”
Voice Two: “Why?”
Voice One: “I don’t know.”
As a huge fan of the Coen brothers, I expect a lot from each new movie. Intolerable Cruelty wasn’t the best Coen film, but a mediocre Coen movie beats the crap out of most “good” movies.
A few reasons to enjoy the movie…
Catherine Zeta-Jones
George Clooney’s Teeth
Asthma Inhaler Scene
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Quick, fairly sharp dialog between beautiful people is always fun. Toss in a few (restrained) bits of the typical oddball Coen sensibilities and you’ve got something pretty, fun, offbeat and well worth watching.
According to the Polaroid FAQ and contrary to what the OutKast song suggests, you really shouldn’t shake your polaroids.
The best way to ensure a perfectly developed image is to simply lay the picture on a flat surface immediately after it exits the camera. Shield it from the wind and avoid bending, twisting, or otherwise disturbing it during development.
Okay fine, but it’s not nearly as much fun that way.
Edwin Land, founder of Polaroid, and introduced the first commercially-available instant camera, the Polaroid Land Camera Model 95 in 1948.
The first instant color film was introduced by Polaroid in 1963
The OneStep Land Camera, introduced in 1977, was one of the biggest selling cameras in the world for a few years