http://www.coldforged.org enjoying life so you don't have to Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:50:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I got most of my drinking done before I ever left college. Now I might have a drink occasionally when I’m gaming and otherwise do designated driver and chuckle with wry amusement at the antics of the drunkards. I recently played in an ironman hockey tournament about 45 minutes from home. ... http://www.coldforged.org/archives/2008/06/03/a-tale-of-profound-drunkenness/ Recently I interviewed someone for a QA position. This is rarely if ever fun — what do you ask potential QA people? — and I was likely even more predisposed to a negative opinion right off the bat due to the resume. This was a person with 5 years of ... http://www.coldforged.org/archives/2008/06/02/overkill-perhaps/ During a recent conversation, as I was applying neosporin to what seemed like Julia’s entire body: “Boy, Julia, you’re covered in bug bites.” “What kind of bug made the bites, Daddy?” “Probably mosquitoes. They looooove sweet little girls. They can’t get enough of sweet little girls to chew on.” Pregnant pause. “Boy, I’m in big ... http://www.coldforged.org/archives/2008/05/29/mosquitos-with-good-taste/ Tonight is the Hurricanes’ regular season ending versus the Panthers. The division title is theirs for the taking tonight and the Panthers haven’t won in the RBC Center since 2002. Signs are good, but hockey is hockey. You never know. We’ll be there, desperately hoping for inclusion in the “shirt ... http://www.coldforged.org/archives/2008/04/04/hurricanes-regular-season-closer/ Wanted to save this off for posterity as Yahoo serves up the timely and relevant advertising. Hallelujah for content-sensitivity and utter context-insensitivity. http://www.coldforged.org/archives/2008/03/28/yahoo-publisher-with-the-inadvertant-humor/ I’m curious about something. Why is it that I, as an American taxpayer, should be responsible for bailing out people and companies that, in essence, screwed themselves over with stupid decisions? Make no mistake, that’s what the Bear Stearns collapse and subsequent bailout is. They banked on — no pun ... http://www.coldforged.org/archives/2008/03/27/sweet-mother-bail-me-out/ I recently talked about how I had won cash money with Blingo. One of my buddies took me up on the offer to become a Blingo friend at that point and he wrote me today telling me how he had won a movie ticket meaning that I also won one. ... http://www.coldforged.org/archives/2008/03/27/blingo-wins-and-fails-in-the-same-breath/ I don’t have a ton of time — work pile up, etc — but this thought struck me and I had to go take a look. Since 1990 there have been somewhere around 40 documented instances of a sex scandal involving politicians. Perhaps unsurprisingly they are split almost smack dab ... http://www.coldforged.org/archives/2008/03/13/demographics-of-sex-scandals/ At some point you have to start looking at spam messages as opportunities for amusement. I’ve long since passed my threshold whereby spam messages traverse through annoyance to hilarity. This probably mostly has to do with Gmail since I only typically see spam messages of my own volition given that ... http://www.coldforged.org/archives/2008/02/01/inadvertant-humor/ I mentioned previously that I won with Blingo and since then I’ve won twice more. Last night’s was a doosy: $50 cash money! If you’re not using Blingo for your searches you’re basically throwing money away. I’m here to tell you these prizes actually get awarded and there’s no catch. ... http://www.coldforged.org/archives/2008/01/25/blingo-won-again/