I have been a very dedicated Americano fan for a number of years. I recently tried a new drink at my favorite coffee shop, Dunn Brothers here in Addison. The drink is a iced coffee nirvana. It consists of a cold-pressed coffee (more on this in a bit), milk, and vanilla syrup. The drink does not pack the big caffeine punch like the Americano, but it has a great flavor. I think cutting my caffeine consumption would be a good thing. I decided that I could save quite a bit of money if I made it home instead of going to Starbucks during the the week. It is a pain to brew espresso at home especially in the morning before work. Dunn Brothers is not on the way to work so my visits were contained to the weekends.I did some research on cold-pressed coffee. I found that the main producer of cold presses was a company named Toddy. I ordered this, and I got it the next day. It shipped from Houston. I got a pound of Anniversary Blend beans from Dunn Brothers and brewed it. After playing with the proportions a bit, I really enjoyed it so much so that I have been having several a day. My savings is being more than offset by my increased consumption, but I should be drinking less of them once the newness wears off.My Dad is a big coffee drinker, and he also suffers from over production of stomach acid. The cold-pressed coffee contains a lot less acid than traditional brewed coffee. I figured it would make a good gift for him. When I was talking to him on the phone, I asked him if he had ever had cold-pressed coffee. He said no, but a fellow board of directors member of his old company had a company that made them. He thought for a while and said the name of the guy was Todd Simpson and the company name was called Toddy. What a coincidence! His old company had started in Houston. It is a small world. I think I am going to get him a cold press for Christmas. I hope he enjoys it.
Have you ever seen Mad Money on CNBC? The host of the show is named Jim Cramer. His show consists of a very fast paced call ins from viewers and him giving stock tips. I have always thought he was nutty and not much an analyst. Watch this video and draw your own conclusions about his sanity:
Don’t you feel sad about the Bear Stern employees that are losing their jobs? There is no telling what they were making, but I can safely say it was a lot more than you or me. The Wall Street firms have been doing very well over the past few years with all of the merger and acquisition activity.He has missed on quite a few areas. He stated about six months ago that the housing market was fine. This turned out to be so so wrong which is ironic since the sub-prime meltdown is the subject of the video.
We got this news today; Adobe is pulling the plug on the Send To FedEx Kinkos. I worked a bunch of hours on it over late winter and early spring. It is a bummer, but life does goes on. It is funny since we just added two new app servers to the cluster for it. On a lighter note, I am taking next week off. It has been quite a while since I have had this much time off. I do not typically take a lot of vacation. It is always nice to get it paid out when you leave a job. Even with the bad news, I do not have happy feet yet.
Check this article out. The NFL has ordered Michael Vick away from training camp. Nike has suspended his endorsement deal with them. Reebok has stopped selling his jersy. Kudos to all those who have contacted the NFL, Nike, and Reebok.
Can you oops, after reading this article? How does a drunk employee manage to 40 racks of servers? There has to be at least ten servers in each rack. Wow is all I can say. I did notice that netflix was down today. This is the second or outage during the day that I have noticed. They had one a few months ago.
I have definitely changed since I am was a teenager on a variety of fronts. Some of the areas of change were my political views and my work ethic. My political views have become more centric or maybe I have stayed the same and the definitions have changed. I think it is some of both. I have definitely became more centric and less aligned with one party. I used to be a member of the College Republicans and Young Conservatives of Texas. I used to have a very derogatory view of environmentalism. Wow, how I have changed. I do not align with any one party and do consider myself somewhat of a libertarian, but I would not describe myself as one. I also have a much better view of environmentalism. I recycle and use wind-powered electrical generation. I try to consume less materials. I do drive a Toyota Highlander so I could use some improvements. I tend to dress pretty conservatively. Most of my clothes come from Brooks-Brothers. I decided a few years ago to break out of my hairstyle which was very straitlaced. It was the standard part across the forehead. I decided that was way overdue for a change so I asked my hair stylist to make a change. I was hesitant at first, but I soon decided that I liked it. He gave me a spiky on top style. Last week I decided that I had had enough of my topsiders which I have been wearing a variety of styles for many years. I decided that I would embrace the people that I used to make fun of. I got a pair of of Birkenstocks. It is kind of cliché, but I like them and think they make a good statement. It is taking a little while to get used to wearing a sandal, but I do like them and think they are very comfortable.
After reading this article it made me absolutely disgusted. If any part of the indictment are true, then Vick and his cohorts deserve a lot more jail time than 6 six years. The whole animal fighting “sport” is deplorable. The laws in the US need to definitely be revised to make animal cruelty a lot harsher. People who engage in this sort of behavior have definitely something wrong with them. What would make you do this sort of thing. It is so wrong and disgusting!I want to definitely point out that my favorite NFL columnist, Gary Myers is whole hardly for suspending Vick over this. Check his column out here. While Peter King who is the past has been for strong NFL player personal conduct is willing to look the way. You can read his hypocrisy here. I would encourage anyone who feels the same way to contact the NFL here: National Football League280 Park AvenueNew York, NY 10017
Thanks to Mark Jaquith for providing the changed files for the wordpress upgrade. It was some feature enhancements and security patches. If you any of my readers are running an earlier version make sure to upgrade. Mark’s files make it very easy. It is very easy if you doing to from the command line. wget the file and then unzip it to the where your blog installed.
Sorry I have not been in the mood to post of late. This is going to be a quick post. To bring you speed. Alicia and I went to our flurry of concerts. I skipped the VNV Nation and Skinny Puppy show. I am definitely regretting not going to at least one of them. Work has definitely slowed down which is a very nice change. We got the big project out that was very high profile which felt really good. Here’s the link to the press release. It boils down to you are able to upload a PDF directly from Adobe Reader & Acrobat to my application, Print Online. Let me know how you like it if you try it out. It is in Adobe Reader 8.1
I got tired of the 3 column design I used from glish.com when I originally did my main site. It was my first experience with tableless layouts. The 3 column design looked very compelling. After a while I decided that it 3 column layout was a lot busier visually than it needed to be. Take a look at my new design. Please let me give me your feedback. This new layout is probably an interim layout. I have been reading The Zen CSS Design. I want to merge the looks of my blog theme and my main site together, but this might be awhile. I also fixed the invalid html on the subscription sign up in the blog sidebar. I should have checked it last night. I also added a link back to the main page on the sidebar of the blog. Enjoy the new look of my main site!