Archive for the 'Bad Idea' Category

I finally figured out why this bothers me!

Friday, December 11th, 2009

The app I’m working on at work is in it’s -very- early stages. The screen mockups were created by a group of consultants who are no longer with us.
I’m glad, since that means we -might- be able to change this. The prototype skin on the app has bothered me for a lot of reasons, the [...]

Bad, Bad, JooJoo…

Monday, December 7th, 2009

I have to do this. I just have to. Re: The JooJoo.
Ten years ago, “Internet Appliances” were all the hype rage. They were going to save us from PC’s. They were going to be small, connected devices we could use to check email, surf, etc. Your -fridge- was going to be a docking station for [...]

Bad Idea: I think I’ll take my baby with me…

Monday, August 13th, 2007

on a roller-coaster.
to a movie theater.
to a fancy restaurant.
on a red-eye flight from California.
swing dancing.
on any airplane, anytime. Hey doofus. Make the grandparents get on the freakin’ plane. Elderly people don’t bawl when their ears pop.

I’m sure this is only a partial list. Feel free to add suggestions to the comments.

Three hours in the sun + no shirt = Ow Ow Ow Ow OW!!!

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

Sunday afternoon, we got home and decided to finish transplanting a forsythia bush in the back yard. I thought I’d be all macho, and start working on tanning my vitamin-D deficient torso, so I worked without a shirt.
Apparently, I learned nothing from sitting on the floor as a child peeling my fathers sun-baked bright red [...]