Monthly Archives: May 2003

Icon Theft

You know, if you’re going to rip off a major design element from another company, you should probably pick one that doesn’t have ten thousand lawyers on speed-dial.
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Red sky at night…

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Or something like it.
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Another Title Animation!

This time it’s Stupidest Looking Monster…

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Bone tired

No entry yesterday. I was just too darn tired by the time I was done with the weekend projects. On the other hand, if I can keep up the level of activity that I had on Sunday, I won’t feel as if I’ve fallen too far off my workout schedule.
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News from the home front

My fiancee and I are doing dual sofa blogging right now… Pretty much the only way we could be geekier would be if we had an instant messanger program running and used that instead of talking to each other.
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The Book Signing

There was a nice little gathering last night at Little Professor Bookstore over in Westgate.
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The Non-Conformist

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Hospital Food

The U of M Hospital cafeteria has improved drastically since I first began working here as a lowly tech support temp employee. Gone are the days of the “Starch Bar,” where (depending on the day) you could have either a baked potato or nachos covered with pretty much the same set of toppings. Also gone is “Obvious Leftover Casserole” which would usually follow a “Starch Bar” day, and which blatantly consisted of whatever toppings or ingredients weren’t finished off the day before.

As a really scary aside, according to the New York Times, in his civilian life the warrant officer in charge of food service for the prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp “looks after the food needs of a dormitory at the University of Michigan.”

I think there may be a Geneva Convention violation or two going on… I lived in the dorms.
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