The week has flown by. How’s your week been?
Enjoy!
Got snacked
I wasn’t looking and all of a sudden I got snacked on. It was a small snacking, so I’m ok, and you don’t need to worry. However, I must admit I’m hungry for more.
In fact, in case you haven’t noticed, I actually added a little banner button over on the side, I’m so proud.
Display resolution
We had a little discussion about dual-monitors and stuff last week (and some dual-monitor heaven), and most of the time I’m content with 1600 x 1200 on my 2nd external 21″ CRT. However, I also tried a setting known in some circles as “super high resolution eye-test squinttastic mode” in windows that I was surprised my video card and monitor supported:
And for the most part, I was happy. Although some things were blurry, I liked it enough to keep it for a few hours. But frankly my biggest problem was the mouse. I already have my mouse hopping on my desk during the day as I move it over from left to right and back. Hop, Hop, Hop. The mouse moves as much as my wrist can move it, then it hops up in the air, moves over, then goes back down and tries to move the cursor another few hundred pixels. Repeat.
I’m sure there are those of you who would recommend I go trackball or something. I just can’t get into those.
News bloopers
The challenge is to watch either of these (or both) and NOT crack a smile. There’s a part in the first one, about 4 minutes through where the foreign guy is laughing at the audience member that just had me rolling. It took me a while to figure out why he was laughing, but I got it eventually.
Some cool Outlook tips
I’ve been a reader of Slipstick.com for a while – I met the lady who founded it, Sue Mosher, at the Microsoft MVP Summit in 2004. She was an Outlook MVP and I was a Sharepoint MVP and met through Bill English, the author of the Microsoft Sharepoint Resource Kit (see sample chapters).
Slipstick sends out a newsletter and the most recent one had some tips about using words to describe a date – for example you could say “45 days ago” in a date field and it figures it out for you, or “90d” and it’ll go 90 days in the future.
To me, that’s evidence of ingenuity. I can just picture some developer coding and decided – hey, it would be cool if we could just put in some short code for date calculation here – and just did it.
The newsletter also points out that this can be used for search folders, like showing all the messages from more than a week ago. You can say “received on or before 7 days ago” and it’ll weed out the last week’s worth of messages.
I tried putting in “lottery numbers in 1d” but it gave me an error.
Best o’ LOLcats
(and yes, I’m a little sorry and feel a little guilty about the following one, but it’s just slightly more irresistable than I can handle)
And I feel so sorry for people who don’t get this next one. You poor, uncultured, uncivil masses. My heart bleeds for your poverty.
You are completely right on flying by. I went to sleep on Friday and think I lost a complete day. I woke up today and heard on the radio it’s Sunday. What da’ heck? I checked my phone and it showed Sunday on calendar and my email showed Sunday. This is very very cruel. Where’d Saturday go? *Twilight Zone theme playing in background*
Now, the bird one, THAT’S funny. Not that fricken’ cat crap.
You musta had a really tiny snack bite, because I couldn’t find it to save my life.
Hope you are doing well. Bitch at work pulled a work order on me and I lost $1200 bucks after putting in 48 hours on the stupid thing.
Jen, I drove to OK and back since Sat morning. Driving is a great way to make a day disappear. Stick in the tunes, and head on down the highway. While there, I found a casino just 30 minutes away from the house I was staying! Woohoo!
Absurdist, I don’t like cat crap either. Or dog poop, or bat guano. The snack was a link to my google maps.
And how does someone “pull a work order” on you? Isn’t a work order how you get work? Edumuhcate me here.
The bird one is funny because it appears authenticate, including the caption. Few of the cat ones have that feel and the ones that do are likely lost in the chaff.
Ren, what do you mean by authentic? Like do you mean you can imagine that bird saying the words in the caption, sometime in the future, holding a photo album, talking with his grandkids, bleeding out his long-held self-esteem issues, lightly touching on the scar near his eye?
And when you see that *you* don’t enjoy LOLcats as much as me, and you see how much pleasure I get from viewing them, do you feel bad? Do you feel like something might be defective with *you* instead of LOLcats or those who like it?
I mean that the picture is funny to begin with and the caption fits the situation. The cat pictures seem to mainly fall into two categories — posed shots like the first one here, or “frozen” shots where they just look slightly funny or odd because of the way the camera has captured the moment — not because of the moment itself. Even the ones that don’t fit this category and are more “cute” still have the problem that the caption has no real connection with what was happening when the picture was taken, but instead is just an attempt to “paint” the image in a different humorous light.
As far as your enjoyment of LOLcats versus my — hmm — disdain(?) for it, I find no need to categorized differences between individuals (or even differences between an individual and the majority) as defective on either side. People are simply different.
Ren, and how would you classify the impact your defect has had on your life so far?
PS I see your point about the caption fitting the picture. And it’s a good one.
I’m with Ren. The cat ones suck. Balls.
Wayne, did I say that people are simply different? I’m sorry, I meant most people are simply different. You are certainly defective.
Ren, I’m different, just not simply different. I’m different in many complex ways.
Cheldear, but Trogdor comes in the niiiiiiiiiight! Clearly your lack of humor is strong, and that is bad, hence it is StrongBad.
And I quote, from today’s blog: “Wayne, you are so gay.”