Pizza - bacon - cats

I found my wallet yesterday. It was in my backpack, apparently i had it the whole time.

Last night was pizza night, pizza with bacon! it was spectacular.

I really like bacon.

There is a bus with 8 children inside
Each child has 8 bags
Inside each bag there are 8 big cats
Each big cat has 8 small cats
All cats have 4 Legs each
How many legs are inside the bus?

(note: there is no bus driver)

Leave you answer in the comments. I'll give the first person to answer correctly a prize the next time i see them.

Bacon wallet

I forgot my wallet. It's not an overly huge predicament, just a generic hassle.

During my commute this morning, i was daydreaming (morning-dreaming?) about hash browns and bacon. Nice crispy bacon.

Did you know that more than 2 billion pounds of bacon is produced in the US each year?

Bacon Trivia quiz. (no registration required)

~~note~~~
As i was finishing this up, some one walked into the room and said there are leftover hash browns in our lunch room. YAY!!!

... Geek ...

One of our server rooms where we keep computer equipment had a climate control failure. The temperature was dropping fast. It was down to 26 degrees Fahrenheit. Time was short, the servers were about ready to crash. Monitoring alarms were buzzing everywhere. Maintenance was rushing to fix the climate control mechanism, but time wasn't on our side. Thinking fast, i wrote a script that adds random numbers to each other, pushing the processors of the servers up to 25% utilization per processor thread. I instantiated multiple instances of the script thereby creating a 75% increase in electrical consumption in each machine. The temperature probes start to slowly climb out of the red "critical" zone. Another disaster was adverted by the highly resourceful technical group at Michael Foods, Inc.

The life of a computer systems administrator.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Gobble Gobble

Rice

Most charity organizations want one of two things, Money or Labor. (some times both). But there are a few out there that take a fun and creative activity, and use the revenue for donations. I found a cool one this morning and did the research to make sure it's "legitimate" and started playing (the game). It's relatively simple word definition matching. They give you a word and you select the definition. For every correct answer they will donate 10 grains of rice. For each one that you get wrong, you learned a new word! It's win-win :-)

I know 10 grains of rice doesn't sound like much, but if you think about the number of people on the internet that could potentially play, it would do some serious good!

FreeRice.net

And for the skeptics like me, here's the Snopes article

Happy Thanksgiving!

Ground Breaking Research

Using my lunch time wisely, i decided to do an analysis of the word "bacon" searched from Minnesota, using trending and reporting features offered by Google. here are the results:


1. Duluth, MN, USA
2. Mankato, MN, USA
3. St Cloud, MN, USA
4. Minneapolis, MN, USA
5. St Peter, MN, USA
6. Eden Prairie, MN, USA
7. St Paul, MN, USA
8. Rochester, MN, USA
9. Prior Lake, MN, USA
10. Hopkins, MN, USA

CEO

I've been officially named CEO of my company. I'd like to say this position will bring more money, but I can't. It isn't the CEO you are probably thinking of.

CEO = Chief Entertainment Officer.

When I say "officially named" I really meant it was bestowed on me by my immediate coworkers.

Apparently my random thoughts that I expatiate out loud are a good source of comedy. They started a quote file on me. Most of them are one line quotes out of context from the conversation, which only makes them that much funnier.

For example:

"I just left something 2/3rd's evil in the elevator, the other 1/3 is still in my shorts"

For some reason, they felt it necessary to record that comment. At first, I thought it was going to be used in a hearing with HR. No, not yet.

~~~update~~~
expatiate: to move or wander about intellectually, imaginatively, etc., without restraint.

My kind of research!

Apparently bacon can be good for you. The Nitrate in bacon is converted to Nitrite, which helps with recovery after a heart attack.

I wonder how a person can get selected to help the "human" study cases...

On another note, it's snowing! yay!

Ham flavored soda?

Ham flavored soda. cool!

I recently returned from another trip to Colorado. It was relatively uneventful. Adam (coworker) and I drive into the mountains for a few hours on Wednesday morning before we left for the airport in Denver. The drive was scenic, we took a few pictures and talked about how next time we are going to give ourselves more then a few hours so we actually can hike some of the trails.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention; my pants fell down while going through airport security. Thats what they get when they make me take off my belt, they get to see my red polka dot boxers.