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Archive for October, 2004
Halloween Snow
October 31st, 2004 by The Knighthawk | Comments Off | Filed in baseHaving our first snow in the Denver area this evening. Luckily it’s been snowing pretty good in the mountains for the last two weeks. Ski season is upn us!
Virtually Perfect:
October 29th, 2004 by The Knighthawk | Comments Off | Filed in taskUniversities are finding new ways to capture, store, and retrieve content for their online courses.
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Mexican Restaurant
October 29th, 2004 by The Knighthawk | Comments Off | Filed in foodThought of an idea for a mexican joint. Call it Desburrito, make everyone who works there dress up like Antonio Banderas and play only Eagles songs.
Smartphone Radio
October 28th, 2004 by The Knighthawk | Comments Off | Filed in baseMy brother threw this site together for people using Windows Smartphones who hate searching for capable media streams for their device. He’s got it set so you can vote on them to rank the stations. You can also add stations to the page as well. The site is clean usable and basic so that this can be done with a smartphone as well. If you add a link to the page make sure it is a link to the stream, not the stations site. Still trying to get Launch to stream on the Smartphone with out restreaming it from my desktop… Based on the Java and other items used in launch I don’t think it can work with the current browser.
Lowest of the Low (almost)
October 27th, 2004 by The Knighthawk | Comments Off | Filed in baseFInally no more softball! At 1 and 7 we didnt expect to be part ofthe playoffs, but in this weird league (they took the bat away I used cause it was too short) We got to play the last place team 0 and 8 in the first round of the playoffs. To explain how bad this other team was. Almost every game we lost was by the 10 run rule and we beat this other team 27 – 2 so for the playoffs they didnt even bother to show.. .could you blame them… we didnt even want to be there. At least they called and let the league know. Anyway that gave us a good hour to warmup and prepare to get destroyed by the other team. It certainly could have been worse but I think the final score ended up being 19 – 5. Oh well, it was fun.
The Chair
October 26th, 2004 by The Knighthawk | Comments Off | Filed in baseOn wednesday of last week, I was at a convention for work. It is one of the bigger Higher ed Tech Conferences and just happened to be in Denver this year. Well they have a big part of the convention center set up for product vendors etc etc. I was out there looking for stuff were trying to impliment etc etc. At one of the vendors (office furniture) I was talking to one of their reps about some Video Conferencing stuff we’re looking for etc etc. He then randomly asked me to sit on a chair. It was one of their office chairs, that they sold. ANyway, I wasnt there looking at chairs or anything we were talking about meeting tables, but none the less he asked how the chair felt. I told him it was pretty comfortable. He replied “good it’s yours” I kind of brushed the comment aside but he kept saying I could have the chair. He Told me I could pick it up Thursday afternoon. He said they had an extra chair shipped by mistake and had no room to bring it back. SInce I was “local” he said If I had the means to take it I could. It was a nice chair too. At least 200.00. Unfortunatly for me I was to leave for Ohio thursday morning. SO I left a message with a coworker to go pick it up etc etc. And trust me to get a message saying hey A guy at the conference gave me a chair can you pick it up for me? Is kind of wierd. Anyway I left last Thursday to visit home for a few days and while at one of the layovers I called the coworker and being the somewhat jokester I am, he didnt beleive that note I left him at all. I had to convince him it was valid and hopefully he’d get the chair. If you see the chair I have at home right now youd want a new one too, so I was hoping hed go get it. Though i’d understand if he didnt cause it would be quite weird to roll a chair 4-5 blocks in downtown denver. This morning I rolled into work after A few Days in Ohio to find the Blue chair in My office. Looking at It something didnt look quite right. despite the color and the arm rests it seemed nothing like the chair the gentleman had me sit in several days earlier. In fact there was a small stain on it and it squeeked like hell. The tags were on the chair and I opened them up. Sure enough there were two chairs in the booklet. One that looked like the one in my office and one like the one that I sat in at the Convention. I wasn’t about to complain, Hell the chair I have at home was ready to die so, anything is a thousand times better. Later this morning the coworker that claimed the chair for me, wondered why I wanted such a crappy chair. I began to tell him that I swore I sat in a different chair. But i showed him the pamphlet with the two chairs and I pretty much assumed they took the good one home and since they said I could have a chair they gave me the crappy one. Roughly 30 min later that cowqorker came back to my office and with another coworker asked me to see something in another room. There sat the Good chair and they begin busting out laughing. I have been getting them pretty bad all month and they finally got their revenge. I must admit i was convinced They gave me the crappy Chair. Anyway A dumb story for a boring tuesday. 
Back in Ohio
October 22nd, 2004 by The Knighthawk | Comments Off | Filed in baseOne thing I now realized that Denver doesn’t have that Ohio does is the Fall colors. It is much more drastic if you arrive in the middle of it. I’m used to living here and the gradual change. In Colorado its pretty much Evergreens and Yellow, All the trees go straight to yellow and then fall off. Its pretty and all but nothing like The leaves here in Ohio. I finally got the Moblog working and have the most recent image post to the right on this page. There is a pic of my parents backyeard with all the colors but its hard to see with the pic from my camera phone.
76 Today
October 21st, 2004 by The Knighthawk | Comments Off | Filed in baseIt’s gonna reach a high of 76 degrees today and what am I doing? yep heading on a plane for Ohio. I’ve had to deal with much worse in my life, I think I may get over this one. Its 5:30 am and I will be there by 3pm, It just wipes the day, plus the whole time zone change ehhhhh!
StarWars Steroids?
October 20th, 2004 by The Knighthawk | Comments Off | Filed in baseBuddy at work sent this to me… I think steroids were involved in the last 15 or so years
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