LAN Party Time

Yeap, it’s that time again (or rather, finally). If you’re around, and in the group, you’ll have recieved an email with details, unless I forgot you. If I forgot you, sorry, just email me and I’ll throw you the details.

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Fob Confusion

Work just put in a new secuurity system, which uses keyfobs to unlock doors. I’d think these people would understand it better, but apparently not. I’ve heard about 3 conversations on the origin of the word “fob” in the past couple of days, including the idea of “I’ll just look it up on google” (which

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Ducks as Pets

My mother-in-law aquired a duck from a neighbor/friend/someone that wanted it to go to a good home, as it’s mom wasn’t the best mom around. So she took it and basically adopted it as a pet. Apparently this little critter, “Duckly”, is not scared of people or hands and is quite content to snuggle and

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TGIF Updates

My buddy Muckhead is now on the SEP. Congrats dude! Had an awsome dinner last night with Silverstr and family, very tasty, followed by The Recruit, a pretty cool spy/espionage thriller with Al Pachino and Colin Farrel (of Phone Booth). Though there were a couple of things that Firefly pointed out that were a bit

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The Power of Marketting

Met some random upper management type in the break room just now while getting a hot chocolate. Him: “So what do you do?” Me: “I’m working on the [workstuff] and [project1] and [project2]” Him: “Oh cool, that’s an amazing program, did you write it?” (referring to [project1]) Me: “Erhmm….” Luckily at this point someone poked

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