David S. Atkinson's Blog, page 67

And Now The Shelves

We now have shelves in the study. As such, it’s time to update ya’ll on the status of the shelves.

Bedroom:

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Bedroom Closet:

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Study:

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Office:

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My End Of Year List

Everyone in the lit scene seems to be starting in with their end of year lists. As such, here is an end of year list of junk food that is good to eat while reading my books:

 

Time For Me To Mention Sport Billy Again

Time for me to mention Sport Billy again.

I loved this cartoon when I was little. No one else seems to remember it.

Built In Bookshelves!

I’m excited. After I leave for work today, someone is arriving to install built in bookshelves in my study.

Well, today for me. I’ll have them already by the time you read this. This won’t go live for several days. Regardless…BUILT IN BOOKSHELVES!

I had them in my old place, but then we moved. My books are still in boxes until this gets done. It won’t be ten floor to ceiling built in bookshelves like the last place, but it’ll be a study with built in bookshelves.

I’ll have to post pictures at some point.

Hot Dog Smoothie!

Hot dog smoothie! I wondered what I’d come up with if I searched on an animated gif for that. Here it is:

The Internet never disappoints. Or always. I forget which.

Either Clip The Tails Or Put Out Cocktail Sauce

My wife and I were at an event recently that had a salad station put out. We noticed that they had a nice big bowl of shrimp. However, the tails were still on and there was no cocktail sauce. Or lemons.

We think these were supposed to be salad shrimp. You know, something to toss on the salad. However, that doesn’t really work if the tails are still on. You need to be able to eat the whole thing as part of a salad bite for salad shrimp to really work. Otherwise, you’re clearly supposed to pick them up by the tails, dip them in something like cocktail sauce, and bite above the tail that you toss later.

But, they had no cocktail sauce.

I think this was simply poorly planned. They thought “shrimp”, intended them to be put on salad, and didn’t put out shrimp prepared suitably for that purpose. It’s like the intestine line. You can get away with leaving that if you deep fry them, but not when serving cold for cocktail or salad.

People need to decide what they’re doing and think things all the way through. Otherwise things like an otherwise nicely planned salad station ends up looking crappy and cheap.

We Didn’t Even Think About It

The other night, my wife and I went out to my office Christmas party. We had a good time and went home, deciding to watch one of the free on demand movies we had available when we got there. It was only the next morning that I thought about how funny what we chose was.

The connection never occurred to us. It just looked funny and we picked it.

The Best Part Of The Christmas Party

Let’s say your office decides to rent out a hipper version of Dave & Buster’s for the Christmas party instead of the usual fancy sit down dinner. Everything is free. All you can eat taco bar, bottomless drinks, a full bowling alley, virtual reality booths, skee-ball, pool, ping pong, foosball, pinball, a decent-sized arcade, and so on. What do you do? You revisit 1991 and take the opportunity to beat The Simpsons arcade game again without having to spend $20-40 for continuations.

Since this is basically a bar and a machine that’s around 27 years old, there will be some issues with the buttons.

Internet Programming

I admit it. There have been times that someone on some national news thing I was watching mentioned Kenya only to have me respond: where the giraffes are…and the zebra.

Internet programming can include you being programmed by the Internet.

Now This Spam Comment Is Probably Successful

I delete a lot of spam comments off of here. Most are so poorly done as to be not even worth having tried in the first place. Obvious pornographic/financial/drug links, incoherent copy, generic statements that appear a million times, all that crap. It’s so quickly deleted and fools no one so much that it baffles the mind as to why someone even bothered sending it. One showed up today with the following message and what appeared to be a link to a YouTube video:

Today, while I was at work, my sister stole my iPad and tested to see if it can survive a 40 foot drop, just so she can be a youtube sensation. My apple ipad is now broken and she has 83 views. I know this is totally off topic but I had to share it with someone!

I still deleted it and could still immediately tell it was spam, particularly on a joke post about Gordon Ramsay, but I bet people click that link a lot. I bet that spam comment works.