Virtual Sacrifice Log

agent179 is a regular at Drip, a local coffee establishment in downtown Madison. He's friendly with all of the employees there, and has even gotten windexcowboy to make it part of his morning ritual as well.

He's even Facebook friends with the employees there, which leads to a modern web 2.0 version of the daily specials from the local restaurant being faxed to your office (I'm amazed a lot of places still do that). They just wrote the daily specials on his wall a few minutes ago.

Seb Jones wrote at 11:13am
todays soup is mediterranean chicken the sandwhiches are a roast pork with cabbage slaw on foccacia, we alsohave an olive cream cheese cucumber red pepper fennel and sunflower seeds on whole grain

Now that's service. If only local Hoboken eateries offered the same. Now that Rue de Jardin is no more, petemagyar and I are reduced to coffee from Empire, which doesn't even offer the best crepes in town, let alone fantastic goat cheese sandwiches which make you believe in a supreme being.

I approve of this sustainable "green" lunch menu dissemination. Twitter, Facebook wall write, Dodgeball shout-out, whatever.

Thank you so much, towelboy, for posting these. petemagyar and I have been cracking up at them tonight.


Fabulous Confabulations - S1E02 - APATHY AT DREW from on Vimeo.


Fabulous Confabulations - S1E04 - SGA from on Vimeo.

Yeah. It comes in determined or happy.

Yeah. Don't forget the coffee, the heroin, and the racist cookie.

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MANU!

The CNN live feed with Facebook is pretty awesome, I have to say.

Sure, I've experienced similar major events on a MOO, using IRC, or in an IM chat room. But this is pretty awesome. Particularly the explosion as he was sworn in. My Facebook and Twitter Firefox plugins caused a flurry of toaster style notifications, all at the same time. That was pretty cool.

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EDIT: Hey runstaverun, there's a perfect LJ community for you that might just save your life: can_i_eat_this.

My 31^st trip around the sun. Thanks for the IMs, emails, calls, Facebook wall writings, etc. I feel the love.

Now all I want for my birthday is:

• To have Malaysian yet again today.
• To get some more T7.5, finish off exalted with Sons of Hodir, and get the last 1.8k gold I need for the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth
• To get an engineering teleporter to K3, and where are my wormholes?
• To get a replacement for Dodgeball. WTF, Google? Now I'll have to actually call mingtm when I'm in the city, and email runstaverun to harass him when we're out drinking together.
• A perfect margarita

Time to get started on some of those.

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Last night jedimentat called me shortly after midnight, staying up late to wish me a happy birthday despite having to get up before the sun for work. As I was on the phone with her, graye mentioned to my guild that it was my birthday. They joked about singing, people gave me cupcakes and the like, and so forth. After getting off the phone a call or two after jedimentat (who was first, if you don't count people on Facebook who didn't wait for midnight and bizarre companies who emailed me before midnight as if based out of Europe or Newfoundland), they asked that I answer future calls with my mic open, so they could laugh at 'em. But no more came, so they lived without it.

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Plans for this year's annual party (a joint affair for petemagyar and I) are made. If you're not on Facebook and didn't get contacted by me, harass me, and notice my face burning with shame. I'll hook you up with the details. jedimentat's throwing me a smaller romp through the city this Saturday night, and there will be events for her birthday (a week from today) as well.

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Insert usual excuse about not updating more often here.

And I leave you with a picture of my nephew. My nephew's cuter than your nephew/niece/little cousin/child/young friend/whatever.

It's not surprising, as the former was eighty and the later was eighty-eight, but Patrick McGoohan and Ricardo Montalban both passed away today. Many hours spent watching the television work of both. Damn.

2007 in photographs can be found back here.

In chronological order, 2008 in pictures, under the cut. When no one is left using dial-up, what will be the snotty comment about large pages hurting the bandwidth challenged? Anyway, here was 2008:

( Lots and lots and lots of pictures: )

Seeing Iron Maiden a few times, Maine, graduating college, my surprise graduation party, both of our birthday parties, both of our cars hitting 100k, the election, it was a busy year! Lots of good times were had.

Have a happy new year, folks!

Like last year, the year before, and the year before that, first line from the first post of each month.

• January: Wednesday I returned to work, but yesterday was my first work lunch with a number of people who took the first day back off.
• February: Last night was the first time I'd seen LOST "live", the first time I'd had to deal with commercials, and obviously the first time I didn't have to avoid LJ or the like.
• March: "I tried to piss all the gross stuff of the seat for you."
• April: BSG, Scrubs, The Office, and LOST spoilers - beware!
• May: As you know if you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, I'm graduating from Drew in eight days.
• June: I am wearing a Batman Band-Aid® on my hand.
• July: jedimentat is so dorky, she used play Greyhawk.
• August: Most amazing thing I've ever seen.
• September: What do you do when your name matches someone in the news?
• October: For a while now, I've done LJ polls soliciting anonymous comments before taking a flight.
• November: Last minute costume after getting the Survival Edition of Fallout 3 - Vault-Tec jumpsuit!
• December: Last night, while the technology employee post office was being migrated from Netware to Linux, I was joking about RMS with agent179.

I suck at updating. As usual for the past year or so, just read jedimentat's LJ (post one and post two) or view my recent uploads on Flickr. Lately I've just been really out of it. Two illnesses, spending lots of time with the girlfriend's family, raiding new content, games I've been waiting years for, transitioning into a new position at work, family in town, and Felicia Day to drool over all suck up a lot of time. So view the photos, and make up your own story to connect them all together.

( Or if your imagination sucks, here's a few photographic highlights... )

And that's that!

Last night, while the technology employee post office was being migrated from Netware to Linux, I was joking about RMS with agent179. While trying to find pictures of him playing the recorder, I came across a classic shot of him... and his shirt looked a bit too familiar.




Compare that shirt to this one.

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