Programmer humor at Blue Shield

Oh those web programmers try to be funny. While looking at the Blue Shield site I went to do a search. When the results page came back:


look at the example names for people searches:


hehee!

Around the block in $4

Literally around the block was a $4 cab ride. Ugh.

Masala and I emerged from BART about 11:30p and most things were closed, surprise surprise. But I remembered there was a 24-hour Naan 'n Curry around there somewhere. We checked our phones, we checked 411. No matches. We got in a cab and asked if he knew of a late-night Indian place. "Oh, Naan 'n Curry? They just opened up about 2 months ago..."

And away we went in the cab down one length of the block and up the other...it turned out that we had literally walked the wrong way from the BART exit. Doh. But at least we found good food without freezing our collective asses off!

g33k pr0n

From a recent conversation I had with a friend (FireMouse):

FireMouse: Do you use any irc servers?
wisecow: nope
wisecow: too distracting
FireMouse: naw.. I want to get a bunch of my friends back on irc...
FireMouse: I miss it.. it was nice having a place where a bunch of us could chat together
wisecow: yeah
FireMouse: blah blah... everyone uses different ones and etc etc
FireMouse: hard to have a big multi way chat like that
wisecow: yeah
wisecow: a massive chat orgy
FireMouse: haha
wisecow: I'm taking off my firewall.
wisecow: Does that make you feel hot?
wisecow: My ports are naked....
FireMouse: oh baby... show me your ports
wisecow: i've already got two clients in my ports
wisecow: but ... there's always room for you
wisecow: i want to feel your packets ins...
wisecow: nevermind.
wisecow:
FireMouse: hahahaha, yowser
wisecow: Yeah, that was crossing a line.
FireMouse: hehe
FireMouse: May as well just cyber at that point

Hehe.

Fun with fridge magnets and sponge animals!

Recently my roomies and I found some more fridge word magnets. And a one of them and his girlfriend found some sponge dinosaurs that expand after you put them in water. So what do you get when you put the two together? Hilarity ensues.

May we now present to you: Sponge Dinosaur Microwave Diorama.

A couple seasons of difference?

I'm watching the first season of Sex and the City and Miranda is totally calm. What a difference from the raging mommy she becomes in the later episodes. I hope we get Netflix soon so we can go through all of the episodes!

More than an addiction

I guess the Internet is a vital thing these days. I don't know about you but I spend most of my day doing something Internet-ish. E-mail, blogging, messaging, looking up trip info, and more. My housemates and I decided that paying $50/month was totally outrageous and so we're chaging DSL providers. Unfortunately they said that we had to discontinue our current service first. Bogus. So at 12:00a this morning we lost all Internet. It's one thing to know that there's just a simple outage and that it'll come back. But we're going to be without connectivity for like a week and a half at minimum! Ugh. So this is pretty much forcing me to get out of the house to work and get e-mail.

On the upside, it's forcing me to do a lot of walking. Thank goodness things are close by in San Francisco.

"Wetness"

I went to a coffee shop today and logged onto their WiFi. While looking at the other wireless list I saw:

Interesting.

What a day ... so far

5 4 7 3

That is about the last I saw of the bus as it hopped away, leaving 4 of us still standing on the same patch of sidewalk we all collectively had inhabited for the past 15 minutes. It's one thing for a bus to be late. But for a bus to stop, accidentally lurch forward and almost knock over the cyclist who was unracking his bike from the front of the bus, have the driver complain that she did nothing wrong, and then drive off in a huff without letting any of us onto the bus? Holy cow! What gives!

This was only sort of the start of things this morning.

I woke up feeling a bit icky from the 3 glasses of red I had taken down the night before---my limit is usually 2. I love red wine but I know too much makes me feel all weird.

After an energizing shower, I actually bothered to do my hair. Not that I'm the greatest stylist or anything (ha! I'm so wash-and-wear...) but you know I did a little effort of flipping my hair around, spraying it, and brushing it neatly. So not more than a minute out of the door a nice gust of wind cruising up the San Francisco streets flips my hair in reverse. Crikey. Fortunately most of the hairspray was dry but even still it kinda mussed things up.

So not having been able to take the #5473 bus meant I had to hoof it for another 3/4 of a mile---not a long distance mind you, but in the warm sun and hilly terrain you can work up a decent sweat. Of course, my eau de toilette doesn't mix well with eau de bum off of da street, who happened to cut in ahead of me at Safeway while I was waiting in line at Customer Service. Yay. Somehow that kind of stank lingers, you know?

Waiting for the train/trolley this morning was generally uneventful, but because it is so darned warm and the waiting island is in direct sunlight you do tend to get toasty. I didn't really notice how warm it was until I took off the backpack and the moist ridge of my tank turned icy cold in the breeze. Ew.

And finally I get to the cafe I wanted to work at and the open table I found was this tiny midget table. (No offense intended to the vertically challenged.) But the idea of crooning over my food (and laptop) seems like a bad idea for my back. So I sat there for like 20 minutes picking at my food and browsing until a higher table opened up next to me.

And that was my morning.