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Oh hell noThat grand canyon glass-floor skywalk thingy is open now.
Every time I look at it I just think “hell no, oh hell no.” I wonder when and how the first death will be. Jump? Heart attack? Glass cracking? Structural failure?
Americone DreamIt’s always sold out!
Why don’t they order more? Why do they hate America?
Don’t tell me what kind of day to have!It’s time to renew my Disney World annual pass. It’s expensive but I get my money’s worth. So I call, I wait on hold listening to the Mickey Mouse march song for a couple of minutes and I get disconnected. I call back and I spend three minutes listening to the zippididoodah song and someone finally answers the phone. I give her all my information and then she says “and there is a $3 shipping charge.” What? I’m giving you a few hundred dollars and you want to milk $3 out of me? I didn’t put it in exactly those words but I let her know my point of view. She says “well, you can do it in person at any of the parks or Downtown Disney.” I ask “if I pay you $3, do you mail me my pass or some kind of voucher?” And she explains that they send me a “certificate” and then I have to go to the parks and exchange it for the actual pass. So let me get this straight. I can pay $3, wait in line, and get my pass. Or I can just wait in exact same line and get my pass. Hmmm. Which one did I choose? Of course, the call ended with the usual “have a magical day!”
Lowe’s rocksWhenever I’ve needed something for home-related projects, I’ve always gone to Home Depot. No reason why. It’s just as convenient for me to get there than to get to Lowe’s. I guess I just think “project” and “Home Depot” comes to mind. But last night I thought I’d try Lowe’s. Again, no reason, just to see what they had since I needed some shelves and a shovel. What a difference! You actually see employees at Lowe’s. They are there, available to you! Not just that, but they actually smile, greet you and ask you if they can help you find anything or if you have any questions. Holy customer service, Batman! At the end of my visit, I decided that I wanted to buy this set of 3 palm trees to plant on my front yard. The problem? The whole thing was so heavy! A few minutes later two wonderful people from Customer Service came and in between jokes and laughs, the palm trees were in the back of my Jeep. I ended up spending a couple of hundred dollars and yet I left with a smile on my face.
One wheel at a timeSince I’m now a home owner, that also means that I get to mow my own grass. In Florida this is a year around activity. So after much research, I settled on one mower that I really like but could only find online. The best deal was at Target.com when I included a $40 off coupon I found online. Today I got the shipping confirmation and this is what it said:
They’ve shipped part of my order? Huh? Am I getting the mower one piece at a time?
Free foodI had heard of this before but I had not witnessed it myself until tonight at Universal’s Islands of Adventure. Some of the theme park restaurants have one of those condiment bars where you can put as many condiments as you wish in your sandwiches. Apparently some people see this as a free food opportunity. Some girls walked up to the condiments bar, each grabbed a slice of tomato, then walked to the mayo dispenser, covered the tomato with mayo, ate it. Repeat multiple times. Go ride some more rides. I mean, if you can afford a ticket for $60-$70 to enter the park, can’t you afford $7 for a big cheeseburger with fries for dinner?
Happy 2008Apparently we are skipping 2007 in Florida. It caught me by surprise so I paused the news broadcast and snapped a picture.
Pink!What are people thinking when they decorate their houses? Since I started house shopping on the Internet, I have seen the pinnacle of bad taste. From deep blue carpet, to pastel pink hallways, to, er… hot pink kitchens.
5 second reviewDiet Pepsi Strawberries & Cream: Not so good. At least for breakfast.
SynergyI have a couple computers at my desk at work, a Windows XP system and a OS X system. This results in 2 CPUs on the floor, 2 screens, 2 keyboards and 2 mice. This means that if I wanted to use the Mac, I had to move my Windows keyboard and mouse out of the way to use the other devices, or move to get to an area where I had set up the Mac. It sounds like a small annoyance but this caused me to use the Mac less and less each day. And today I came across a free program called Synergy. It allows you to designate one computer with the mouse and keyboard as the “server” and any others as “clients”. You then tell the program that, for example, the Mac is to the right of the Dell (and so on should you have multiple clients.) So now, when I move my mouse to past the right edge of my Windows XP desktop, I’m suddently on the left edge of my OS X desktop. Using the keyboard and mouse that are hooked up to my Windows machine, I can now control my Mac. Does this make any sense? Move the mouse past the left edge of the OS X desktop, and I find myself using the Windows desktop. It’s seamless and it’s great. Now I have both screens side by side and I am using 2 desktops without even thinking that they are separate computers. It’s so natural.
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