A coworker sent me this today: Superdickery.com
Look in the galleries, specifically 'Seduction of the Innocent', old comic covers or panels with captions full of innuendo. Some hilarious stuff here. Some gems here, here, here, and here. Hilarious, and often, very wrong. Enjoy!
What a week! I've been swamped with work, social engagements, and a fascination with a new toy in the house.
On monday Kelly and I met our friend Miranda at Moon & Sixpence for some dinner, drinks, and some Irish folk music. Had a blast!
On tuesday, after some deliberation, Kelly picked up her new baby, a black MacBook (which she named Mozart). I rushed home to get to see / play with it for a bit before meeting Snooks at Kennedy School for a couple beers (and to hand off copies of the last few episodes of Battlestar Galactica that I burned to DVD… we both needed to see the massive cliffhanger season finale).
On wednesday, plans to meet some friends fell through, so I was able to get some yard work done, and have a relaxing night at home. After mowing the forest that was my lawn, and doing some other yard work, Kelly and I watched Battlestar. Man, what a cliffhanger, and to think we have to wait until 2008 to see the conclusion. It's just cruel.
Last night I met several friends at my old haunt, the Goose Hollow Inn, for some dinner and beers after work. Both my brothers met me there, and after we went to another old haunt, the ultimate 'dive bar', the Commodore, to shoot some pool. Fun night, and thanks to all who came out!
Today I worked from home so I could focus on all the code I need to clean up / rewrite from the first release of SuperSweetCo's new product. A lot of the CSS / HTML has been driving me crazy since I originally wrote it. Also, trying to write in a lot of the new design. After work, I spent some more time with Kelly's MacBook, getting a few applications installed, and moving some music into iTunes for her. Found a great app called Senuti that allowed me to move tracks from my iPod onto her Mac. The more I play with Kelly's Mac, the more I want one for myself. Later, Snooks and I went back to Kennedy School to talk about Battlestar, drink beer, and eat pizza, while the girls were out eating fancy cheese and sipping wine.
Tomorrow I'm going to spend most of the day migrating data from Kelly's old work laptop to her Mac. To make sure she doesn't lose anything when she hands her work laptop in on monday, her last day at StinkyCorp. While doing such work is usually a big pain, I doubt I'll mind much, since I'll get to play with Kelly's MacBook.
Since Guinness now flows at my office, I thought it would be nice to make up a nice 'how to' sheet for folks who have never poured it and are only used to domestic microbrews. What you see to the left is my enhanced illustration of an old metal sign image I found online (here's the original). The photo was too small and blurry for printing, so I made a new one in Illustrator. I even illustrated thousands of tiny bubbles to make the settling look right! Finding a vector version of the Guinness Draft logo online made the whole thing pretty easy.
I finished the sheet up by adding a right panel with an Esquire.com interview with Guinness brewmaster Fergal Murray, where he describes the six steps in more detail.
Here is my 'how to' sheet (PDF)
Enjoy!
As of today, my office has Guinness on tap! The keg arrived on Monday, but due to the multitude of bits that the company needed to track down to go from the common CO2 keg to the Nitro-driven, European-fitted Guinness keg, the assembly was delayed. However, today it was all assembled and shortly after 5pm I was pouring myself a pint of Guinness at the office. Sweet!
I did a bit of pouring training for a few coworkers (pour 3/4's the way full, let settle for a minute, then press the tap handle back to top off slowly). Though I realized later that the training wasn't quite right… I'm used to seeing the 'sloppy' method which is to set the glass down on the tray and pour straight down to the 3/4 point… where you're supposed to hold the glass at a 45 degree angle… only the 'top off' of the last 1/4 is poured straight down. Damn!
Fearing I may have lost some beer nerd cred, I'm going to (time-permitting) assemble a nice, easy to read 'how-to' sheet to put next to the tap tomorrow. We're throwing a company happy hour on Friday, and I thought it'd be a nice touch for those who are used to just pouring the glass full in one go.
So, today Kelly learned she lost her job at… well, a major competitor to AMD. While this major microprocessor company has been undergoing a lot of "headcount reductions" recently, this particular turn of events shocked us both, and the circumstances around it are (to me) a bit suspect. I know from past experience that a layoff can result in a very positive change. But since this company was paying for Kelly's graduate school (which we will now have to cover ourselves), the layoff has a more significant financial impact. Grrr. If anybody knows of a fantastic job opening at a great company in the greater Portland area, let me know. In the meantime, buy AMD.
And yeah, I've got friends and family still employed at said AMD competitor, I'm still feeling a bit spiteful.
