Yes.
This is workman putting up CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS outside my office TODAY. 9/19/2014.
The desk says that the huge wreath goes up Oct 3.
No wonder people are burned out on Christmas by Black Friday.
Is this happening to any of you guys or is ATL just reallly into Christmas?
Today is “National Talk Like A Pirate Day”.
Yes, it’s a real thing.
A local company, Krispy Kreme, is making the most of it. If you walk into a KK and say “Arrgghh” or similar you get a free doughnut. For those of you that have never had a KK doughnut… imagine a lump of hot, sweet sugar that literally melts down your throat. Sounds gross- tastes GLORIOUS.
IF they are hot. Cold… it’s a doughnut.
On my afternoon walk I came across this pirate wench standing in my local park passing them out to the public.
Gotta love the big city.
I was sitting at my desk the other day and happen to glance over at the label on my over-priced bottle of flavored water.
Sometimes a printing error says sooo much:
Yet another list of “Must Have” apps, but since I just got a new phone it could prove useful. Have a look…
This is actually kind of cool. One usage I can see is giving it to my daughter to help motivate her to walk a bit more on the treadmill. It’s simple enough that she wouldn’t necessarily feel like she’s wearing a pedometer to school.
On Tuesday, Misfit announced Flash, its second wearable product. It’s a disk-shaped activity tracker that is covered in soft plastic. It will retail for under $50 when it goes on sale in October.
The Flash is a sequel to Misfit’s first wearable activity tracker, Shine. The primary difference is that the Shine is $99.99 and is made out of machined aluminum, while the less expensive Flash is made of plastic. Like the Shine, the Flash will be able to track steps, sleep and other forms of activity and sync it with the Misfit app.
Flash won’t require nightly charging, because it lacks a screen, so it can draw power for months from a watch battery. Instead of a screen, Flash will work like one big button: Tap the front and embedded LEDs will light up, allowing you to check progress toward your daily activity goal.
As Google and Apple continue to expand…
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Hello everybody,
I’m trying to get back into the swing of things around here and decided to start with a small post about an everyday item that has been driving me nuts.
Have a look at the picture below. See a picture of a kitchen sink with the water going? This is the sink in my office’s break room. Notice how TINY that neck is? It is literally IMPOSSIBLE to use this sink without having to mop up the resulting mess behind it on the backsplash. You can’t rinse a cup, fill a bottle and God help you if you want to wash a dish.
I have no clue why the building (one of the biggest and nicest in Atlanta, by the way) would install such an obviously poor choice for a faucet. If you look, it is not a question of lack of space height-wise as there is a good 2-3 feet above the sink. My only thoughts are either A- it was cheaper or B- the person just didn’t care about functionality.
OK, I’ve complained about a faucet for way too long now. It’s just the little things that makes life harder than it needs to be that really get under my skin.
Something more substantial next time, promise.
– Jay
Soooo…. Windows 8.1 = Windows 7.
Gotcha.
It actually surprised me that Twitter hasn’t already had an IPO. If FB got BIGMONEY then Twitter should get HUUGGEMONEY. There are people that live on Twitter but only drop into FB once a day.
Now that it’s been a year since Facebook went public, the next big IPO circus is likely to involve Twitter. CEO Dick Costolo — as expected — didn’t announce concrete plans for such an IPO Wednesday during his appearance at D11, but held forth on a number of interesting topics during his session.
Advertising seems to be booming at Twitter (although Costolo wouldn’t share any numbers) but while Twitter is working more and more with traditional media companies, it doesn’t see the need as of yet to start creating its own news content, Costolo said.
“I see us partnering more with news organizations,” he said. He thinks of Twitter as a tool for news organizations and individuals to distribute content and while it’s messy at times, Costolo doesn’t seem to think that Twitter has a responsibility to verify the content itself; it does, however, want to help news…
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Shocking. The most anti-open platform entity in the universe may open their platform.
This post has NOTHING to do with what this blog is all about, but it gives me the excuse to ask “WHY are they removing one of the original Olympic sports?” Original as in ANCIENT Olympics. If you say the word “Olympics” you mentally picture either a 100 Meter sprint or a wrestling mat. This is just insane, especially since it seems it’s being replaced by Field Hockey.
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