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22May/092

Happy Aloha Friday!

I have been trying to start "Aloha Fridays" in my office for quite some time. Every Friday (at least during the summer) I wear a Hawaiian shirt to work. Check out all of the people who are participating today!
Aloha Friday participants
So exciting. Maybe some day we'll be as big as "Red Shirt Thursday".

Filed under: geek, work 2 Comments
7Mar/094

Gluttonfest IV: The Thin-tum Mint-ace

Filed under: food, videos, work 4 Comments
18Jan/093

Work Calendar

Work has been busy lately, but that's probably a good thing given the consequences of an idle workforce in this tight economy.

I just wanted to share a snapshot of a very full day of meetings - do other people's "busy" days look like this, or am I a statistical outlier?!
A busy day for Mike

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13Dec/080

Big Winner

We had some of my coworkers over for our semi-regular poker game, and guess who was the big winner:
Me as the big poker winner
It was a great last hand - the other guy (Vincent) had a full house and I had four-of-a-kind with an ace high. Very exciting when we both went all in!

Filed under: games, work No Comments
4Dec/082

Another BSOD

For the second time in 4 weeks my Windows laptop treated me to a beautiful Blue Screen of Death:

This brand new laptop crashed so hard that I couldn't even access, let alone repair, it's hard disk (mostly due to the very shitty Sanctuary device control software). A deadly one-two punch by an incompetent operating system and an overly protective device manager.

Want icing on this cake? Tech support says the whole problem is due to a Windows update that they distributed themselves. Argh!

Filed under: doh, geek, work 2 Comments