Monday Morning Beach Report: chasing sand crabs
Category: Asides
Brief personal notes, quick links, and passing thoughts too short for a full post.
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The Daylight computer is fantastic in bright sunshine…
The Daylight computer is fantastic in bright sunshine at the beach
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????️???? Happy Pride Month! ????️????
May this month bring greater acceptance for all our LGBTQIA+ friends and where public acceptance is lacking may allies step in to show their support.
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Hire Jorbin, a totally standard and normal internet person
If you’ve got a digital org looking for someone to help scale while truly caring about how his team grows and performs, then go check out my friend the purveyor of bowties.
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W-O-R-K Virus & Its Eliminators (W-I-N-E & B-E-E-R)
I received the following via email from my mother, rather funny given my horrible workload recently as well as the upcoming long, holiday weekend.
Health Alert!
There is a dangerous virus being passed around electronically, orally, and by hand.
The virus is called Weary-Overload-Recreational-Killer (WORK). If you receive WORK from any of your colleagues, your boss, or anyone else via any means DO NOT TOUCH IT. This virus will wipe out your private life completely.
If you should come into contact with WORK, put your jacket on and take two good friends to the nearest grocery store. Purchase the antidote known as Work-Isolating-Neutralizer-Extract (WINE) or Bothersome-Employer-Elimination-Rebooter (BEER). Take the antidote repeatedly until WORK has been completely eliminated from your system.
You should forward this warning to 5 friends. If you do not have 5 friends, you have already been infected and WORK is controlling your life.
Enjoy the Labor Day Weekend… cheers!
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Free Coffee, Great Rates!
I feel like I’m commenting on a horrible rendition of the famous Tastes Great, Less Filling commercials from Miller Lite…
Well, its free coffee if you happen to live in NYC, LA, Philly or (oddly enough) the burgeoning metropolis of Wilmington, Delaware. And even if you live in one of those cities/hamlets, you still need to trek to the one ING Direct cafe in that area.
Either way, their Peets Coffee is quite amazing and at worst a change of pace when compare to Starbucks.
BTW, according to Wikipedia the population of NYC is 8.1 million, LA is 3.7 million, Philly is 1.4 million, and Wilmington is 0.7 million. And according to the 2000 Census data of cities ranked by population NYC is #1, LA is #2, Philly is #5 and Wilmington didn’t even make the list (which is odd, but kinda funny).
So, how does ING Direct chose Wilmington to house one of its only four cafes in the US? Well, it’s where their US headquarters are and I’m guessing that’s due to the tax breaks in Delaware. You want my guess though? It’s gotta be because of the Delaware Smash, their famous World TeamTennis team. Right, World TeamTennis, that’s what brings me to Delaware.
