Bag of Randomness

“So Vic, we have an urgent issue, one that I need addressed right away. I’ve already assigned someone from my team to help you, and I hope you can fix this tomorrow” said Steve.

“I’ve been looking at the Google logo on the iPhone and I’m not happy with the icon. The second O in Google doesn’t have the right yellow gradient. It’s just wrong and I’m going to have Greg fix it tomorrow. Is that okay with you?”

Of course this was okay with me. A few minutes later on that Sunday I received an email from Steve with the subject “Icon Ambulance”. The email directed me to work with Greg Christie to fix the icon.

  • I was told that celebrity Kevin Smith mentioned this website on his podcast yesterday (strong language, mature content warning for your sensitive folks).  I haven’t listened to it as of yet to confirm, but that would be pretty cool.  I am interested in watching his latest film Red State.
  • I wasn’t aware that Jesus not only visited Japan but is actually buried there.
  • Astronomers think they may have discovered a planet that is one large diamond.
  • Rednecks for Obama
  • Mark and Donnie Wahlberg Opening Restaurant Called Wahlburgers – I have to admit, I like the name.
  • I bet a lot of parents are happy the school year has started.  As a kid, I never felt the school year was in full gear until the playoffs in baseball started.
  • It’s kind of hard to believe that high school football starts tomorrow.  For the past five or so years I’ve said I was going to watch a game, only never making the time to do so.
  • The Rangers sure are trying to keep things dramatic with this pennant race.
  • I’m lucky to have good health insurance.  I visited the doctor yesterday because my stomach is still ill from the Chicago trip, and my two prescriptions cost only $0.61.  I had horrible health insurance at my last place of employment, but at least I still had insurance.
  • I got in an email conversation with one of my readers about the culture of Japan.  I thought of him when I watching this old video of a Japanese airline CEO cut his pay to be lower than his pilots and got rid of almost all his perks.
  • Illinois college becomes first to ask undergrads if they’re gay
  • For every dollar spent on a China-made item, 55 cents go to U.S. businesses for services such as marketing and sales.  USA Today
  • The best way to capture Gadhafi is for the rebel forces to have a bunch of folks in Condi Rice costumes.
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Bag of Randomness

  • Remember that picture I posted the other day of the dog laying in front of the flag draped casket?  Here are the details behind the picture.
  • I wonder how Apple’s stock price will be affected today with the news that Steve Jobs is no longer CEO.  I wonder if Steve Jobs will still be living by the end of the year, but that’s just speculation on my part.
  • This is my favorite Steve Jobs story that comes from a NY Times article in Jan 2006:

In 1997, shortly after Mr. Jobs returned to Apple, the company he helped start in 1976, Dell’s founder and chairman, Michael S. Dell, was asked at a technology conference what might be done to fix Apple, then deeply troubled financially.

“What would I do?” Mr. Dell said to an audience of several thousand information technology managers. “I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.”

On Friday, apparently savoring the moment, Mr. Jobs sent a brief e-mail message to Apple employees, which read: “Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn’t perfect at predicting the future. Based on today’s stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down, and things may be different tomorrow, but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today. Steve.”

  • If there’s one thing I don’t maintenance wise around the house, it’s keeping track of changing the air filters.
  • GeedingManor had a new roof put on yesterday.  It didn’t bother ToddlerGeeding one bit and slept through all her naps.
  • I bet if I was forced to work on roofs during summers while in college, my fall semester GPA would be a 4.0.
  • Not that I wasn’t that far off from a 4.0 anyways.
  • Well, for the most part.
  • But then again, it was a Hardin-Simmons education.
  • I remember walking though certain buildings in college and seeing fliers that advertised making over $10,000 a summer fishing in Alaska.  If my father wasn’t so ill, I bet I would have tried that out one summer, but now with all the reality shows I see about Alaska fishing, I know there’s no way I could have survived such a feat.
  • The most annoying thing about Storage Wars on A&E (other than Dave and his “yuuuup”) is that they often appraise their own stuff which inflates the value of their purchase.  On the most interesting items, yes, they take them and get them appraised, but sometimes it seems they are just making up a price for things they find.
  • In a preseason game, Chad Ochocinco got hit by a rookie, and the rookie was fined for the hit.  Ochocinco is going to reimburse the rookie for the fine.
  • Mark Cuban has a new idea to fix college football.
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