Beachballin' » Outdoorsing http://cdslash.net A sysadmin/programmer/Mac geek blog Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:34:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1-alpha My accomplishments for the weekhttp://cdslash.net/2009/03/my-accomplishments-for-the-week/ http://cdslash.net/2009/03/my-accomplishments-for-the-week/#comments Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:55:43 +0000 dan http://cdslash.net/?p=269
  • Helped implement a new call centre management system at work
  • Made shake ‘n’ bake for the first time
  • Had a long chat with the mother of a friend I don’t really know that well
  • Got through two days without saying a word to anyone, one of them at work
  • Got over my perfectly reasonable disgust towards cough syrup
  • Annoyed my cat
  • Ordered a laptop backpack
  • Ran out of socks
  • Made butternut squash soup (admittedly from a package)
  • Went outside despite it being cold and scary
  • Convinced Wil Shipley to upgrade his version of desktop Twitterrific to 3.2

    • So what about you? What did you accomplish this week?

    ]]>     http://cdslash.net/2009/03/my-accomplishments-for-the-week/feed/ 0     Expensive Restaurants vs. Cheap Restaurantshttp://cdslash.net/2009/01/expensive-vs-cheap-restaurants/ http://cdslash.net/2009/01/expensive-vs-cheap-restaurants/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:43:19 +0000 dan http://cdslash.net/?p=159 The difference between an expensive restaurant and a cheap restaurant, illustrated.

    Expensive restaurant

    Customer: I’d like the ham and swiss, but I don’t like it when the lettuce hangs off the edge of the roll, can you trim that? Also, no pepper unless it’s freshly ground, and I’d like a dash of sea salt on it, instead of regular salt, and could you make sure that there’s no green on the tomato before you put it on? I like them soft, but not mushy, nice and firm and ripe. And is the swiss cheese from France? Good, and if you could lightly toast the bun, but not as long as you normally would, I like just a hint of crispiness.

    Server: Certainly sir, would you care for a glass of wine with that? I might suggest a Sicilian frappato, we have a lovely Cerrasuolo di Vittoria.

    Customer: Yes, that sounds excellent, thank you.

    Cheap restaurant

    Server: Here’s your chili sir.

    Customer: I ordered a ham sandwich.

    Server: Are you sure?

    ]]>     http://cdslash.net/2009/01/expensive-vs-cheap-restaurants/feed/ 4     Gastown Snowball Fighthttp://cdslash.net/2008/12/gastown-snowball-fight/ http://cdslash.net/2008/12/gastown-snowball-fight/#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:26:31 +0000 dan http://cdslash.net/?p=90 What happens when it snows in Vancouver, and the tech sector gets bored? Here’s M2O’s contribution, via Tris Hussey:

    Some photos I took from the front lines:

    Add some Facebook pics and a Qik video to boot, and you’ve got a Vancouver social media meetup for the ages.

    Links via Tris Hussey and Gus (and Twitter).

    ]]>     http://cdslash.net/2008/12/gastown-snowball-fight/feed/ 1