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The Fail Garden
First, I should blame my parents for indirectly instilling the urge to undertake this: my dad for having me help with gardening growing up and my mom for making me more aware of the stuff I put in my body.
This weekend, I started what will be dubbed “The Fail Garden” (cf. the Victory Gardens of the World Wars). Primarily, this is due to my lack of expertise and I fully expect most of the plants to produce little to nothing.
I live in an apartment without a yard, but have the great advantage of having windows with a southern exposure. This makes an indoor vegetable garden a more plausible endeavor.
Empty milk jugs make for perfect plant containers if you don’t mind looking cheap.
As far as what to plant? I needed to plant stuff that could conceivably grow–and at the same time stuff I actually use. Some good candidates, like beets and radishes, I simply don’t eat enough to really want to grow.
I decided to go with 3 herbs (basil, cilantro, and spearmint) and 4 veggies (lettuce, spinach, carrots, green onions). Should have thought of tomatoes, too.
Mushrooms I cook with a lot, but as I try to go light on the A/C, the place is too warm for their optimal growth. Maybe this winter.
The tall one’s for the carrots
OK, so I’m already bored of writing this. To make a long story short, I had to go to three places before finding seeds filled up the pots and got everything sowed.
With the cilantro, I bought one of those “Herbs for Noobs” type packages where they pretty much have everything in one package; you just add water and you’re good to go.
Expectations are low: I expect the cilantro, one of the other 4 pots of herbs, and maybe one of the 7 pots of vegetables to make it.
The seeds I used, plus the herbs for noobs package
Water, feed, and hope
Guess who’s getting married?
Congratulations to Manuel Uribe, who we enjoy making fun of on this website greatly admire for his persistence on his weight loss quest. He’s dropped from 1,238 lbs to 700 lbs and is getting married October 26:
And as for the music being played at the wedding? To be provided by a band named “Pesado” (means “heavy” in Spanish).
More Tower Defense
In addition to the addicting Desktop Tower Defense*, found a couple of interesting tower defense games. Which of course you won’t play during work because you’re bored or lazy.
Bloons Tower Defense 3 is a sweet upgrade over the second one. Dart-throwing monkeys, Spike-o-pults, and Pineapples are all part of your arsenal to pop “bloons” (balloons) before they get to the other side.
Gemcraft’s tone is more serious; you create gems to put in towers which zap the monsters created by some evil wizard. It looks to be a LONG game to actually finish and I probably won’t bother. You might though.
I like the monkey game better.
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*One of these days, I’ll be determined enough to get back the top score.
A proper and justified coronation
Finally, and only three weeks late. The celebration video honoring Ivan’s victory in the Second Tournament of Lepers! I had promised a “proper and justified coronation” for Ivan a few weeks back, and decided to let the Mascot handle the details. (In retrospect, this was a mistake.)
Ivan won a $25 USCF e-certificate for his efforts. Polly got $10 for second place.
Info on the third tournament coming soon.
Talk Like A Pirate Day 2008
It’s Talk Like A Pirate Day! Unfortunately, I’m still on business in Miami and the Mascot and Mr. E are volunteering their time with cleaning up after hurricane Ike.
So today will be a bit of nostalgia.
This is the series of posts from last year’s Talk Like A Pirate Day, which was also the Mascot’s first day posting on this site. The very first actual Mascot appearance was this interview a couple days earlier. (Sorry we couldn’t celebrate your first anniversary in style, buddy!)
(Warning: These posts were mostly pretty bad. Aye, matey?)
TLAPD 2007 #1
TLAPD 2007 #2
TLAPD 2007 #3
TLAPD 2007 #4
TLAPD 2007 #5
Monday Fighter!
Again, being on the road, the usual Monday Fighter! is unavailable. In the past, I’ve shown resumes for our always-open computer programming position, which, for whatever reason, doesn’t quite fit what we’re looking for…
I am writing in response to your Entry Level — Computer Programmer position. I have just completed a Bachelors degree in Graphic Imaging from XXX University….Some of my experiences include:
Design editing
Creating PR poster designs for the University
Mass T-shirt production with specific logos
Creating photo designs: Html/Dreamweaver/Java
Sorry, I’m looking over this post and it’s not that funny. Best I can do with current time constraints.
The Miami Dolphins are still failures
When a football team figures its billboard campaign should show off:
- Some clueless-looking goateed guy
- Bill Parcells praying to God for help
- An Italian mobster with sunglasses
instead of publicizing the actual athletes, this is a problem.
The Dolphins are currently playing the Arizona Cardinals. After the first quarter, Kurt Warner already has 187 yards passing, leading the Cards to a 14-0 lead.
This almost made me wish I stuck with maths
You know what I discovered?
e πi = -1 (that’s e ^ (pi * i) = -1 if it didn’t display properly for you)
How freaky is that? (Explanation here.)
For those of you who read The Daily WTF: obvious troll is obvious. (Yes, aware that annoying meme is annoying, deal with it.) I can’t believe how many people have taken commenter Top Cod3r seriously.
: I didn’t really have anything to say, except that we have a little Mr. E icon now for when I have an aside. And, uh, stay in school and don’t do drugs.
