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Thursday, November 11

Cryptoquip

posted by Brad at 11/11/2004 07:48:00 PM | permalink | 4 comments

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• D equals E
  
  Peeker!

  By  Brad, at 11/11/2004 7:53 PM 

• Muchas gracias for giving me something to do at work as I wait for lunch time. I spent 15 minutes googling for an online substitution cypher breaker, then gave up and did it the old-fashioned way.
  I cannot claim l33tness as I peeked at the hint. However, after setting up a supa queeny spreadsheet to hold the possible combinations, I was able to do it relatively quickly.
  
  w00t
  DK

  By  Anonymous, at 11/12/2004 11:16 AM 

• I'm dumb. I got it all to work except one word and I can't figure out what I missed up... That makes me crabby.

  By  Laura, at 11/12/2004 5:07 PM 

• I figured it out without looking at any clues, but there was a mistake in the cryptoquip. In the first four-letter word, the "Q" should be an "O".
  
  These things are usually puns, and you'd be amazed at how many start out the same way. They also tend to use a lot of the same words in puzzle after puzzle. If you do them a lot, you can figure them out pretty quickly.
  
  CC

  By  Anonymous, at 11/25/2004 8:15 PM 

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MSN Unveils New Search Site

It's just a beta, but the folks in Redmond are all pumped up about their new search engine, painstakingly designed over the past 18 months to take on Google's supremacy.

I took it for a little spin, and was disappointed in MSN's results when searching for "Lucky Charms" - check out what Google offered up.

I admit that I'm biased, but there's a reason that Google pwnz0rs nearly half the market...

posted by Brad at 11/11/2004 07:13:00 PM | permalink | 0 comments

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Wednesday, November 10

Oh Gardy...

Or is it Gardie? Only Daniel would know.

Sadly, the man known as kingpin after 9 PM did not prevail in today's "Best Damn Manager in the A to the izz L" contest. But if you're reading this tomorrow like I think you are, that very same link should announce Johan Santana as the 2004 AL Cy Young champion of the world...

You heard it herre first!

PS: Beringer Founders' Estate 2000 Pinot Noir is GOOD!

posted by Brad at 11/10/2004 10:53:00 PM | permalink | 1 comments

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• So were you drunk when you blogged last night...and are you drinking alone?

  By  Anonymous, at 11/11/2004 3:57 PM 

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Tuesday, November 9

Dude!

I fixed the Goldy thing, go vote for him.

Oh, and get Firefox:

posted by Brad at 11/09/2004 11:06:00 PM | permalink | 0 comments

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26,000

On the way home from work today, my car turned over the big two six thousand. I started to wonder how much all those wonderful miles have cost me, and decided to share with the class...

508 days (51 miles/day)
$4807 in car payments
23 MPG (roughly)
1130 gallons of gas
$2260 in gas (roughly $2/gallon)

Throw in a few hundo for miscellaneous oil changes, smog checks, and Mr. Clean AutoDry carwash kits - that's like $7500! 15 bucks a day! Holy poop!


(not my car - this is from some French dude's website)

posted by Brad at 11/09/2004 07:54:00 PM | permalink | 1 comments

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• just think...you could have saved all that money and stll be driving the little blue number! ......not a chance! Mom

  By  Anonymous, at 11/10/2004 5:30 AM 

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Monday, November 8

BlogThis! - Henle Management

Mike Henle was an instrumental part of my (and Susan's) college years, and he recently started his own company.

posted by Brad at 11/08/2004 05:12:00 PM | permalink | 1 comments

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• And check out Dana...
  
  http://www.henlemanagement.com/assessments.html

  By  Laura, at 11/09/2004 3:23 PM 

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BlogThis! - Chipotle "Nutrition" Facts

This is depressing if you're a Chipotle fan like me...

posted by Brad at 11/08/2004 12:39:00 PM | permalink | 0 comments

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Sunday, November 7

BlogThis! - BugMeNot

Tired of having to sign up for an account on every random website when you just want to look at something?

BugMeNot.com

posted by Brad at 11/07/2004 02:03:00 AM | permalink | 0 comments

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Saturday, November 6

For Lack of a Better Option

The Gophers aren't going to beat Wisconsin and my hard drive is currently being formatted, so what else is there to do besides blog?

My birthday might be long gone, but it's never too early to start Christmas shopping:



I dragged Susan to the Michael David 20th Anniversary Open house today - nothing like some wine before work to take the edge off. She found a couple red wines to her liking, so we took advantage of the 30% discount before riding off into the sunset...

Just Finished Reading: David Allen - Getting Things Done

posted by Brad at 11/06/2004 05:26:00 PM | permalink | 1 comments

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• blog this! I just took a shower in the rain...our new shower arm has come in and is alreay installed....we now have a shower for tall people....kind of like directing the rain to remove the soap! I told dad to keep the soap level down for obvious reasons.

  By  Anonymous, at 11/07/2004 8:36 AM 

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Friday, November 5

Incredible

We just saw The Incredibles.
It was highly entertaining.
You should check it out, yo.

posted by Brad at 11/05/2004 10:59:00 PM | permalink | 0 comments

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Unusual Day

I donated blood for the first time in a long time… hurts so good.
I have already been to Starbucks twice - before noon.
There are 3 persimmons on my desk. 
That is all.

http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/persimmon.html

posted by Brad at 11/05/2004 12:07:00 PM | permalink | 1 comments

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• Persimmons are delicious (and fun to say). I scarfed them down by the dozen when I lived in LA but the good ones are rather hard to find in MN (even in Eden Prairie!). They are ripe when they're a darker orange color - that is when they are at their sweetest and juciest best. The light yellow ones are not ripe. They are dry, and hurty, and have an odd/unpleasant aftertaste. One local place that occasionaly carries persimmons is the Eisenberg Fruit Co d/t St Paul.
  
  DKOKS persimmons

  By  Anonymous, at 11/05/2004 1:55 PM 

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Tuesday, November 2

BlogThis! - Goldy Needs You

Goldy Gopher has advanced to the Tremendous 12 (mmm, Perkins) in the Capital One All-America Mascot Team. He is currently up against "Cocky" from the University of South Carolina, and is trailing by a 4 point margin. You can vote once per day, and the current round of voting ends on 11/8...

posted by Brad at 11/02/2004 05:24:00 PM | permalink | 2 comments

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• ok! so where do we vote?

  By  Anonymous, at 11/03/2004 4:14 PM 

• Hint for your blog this time -- you need to change the link that you go to when you click on Goldy because right now it sends us to the site where it shows today's voting totals - but then we can't vote. You have to link it to a page that hasn't been voted on yet so we can vote for the day... Fix it b*tch

  By  Laura, at 11/06/2004 6:08 PM 

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Monday, November 1

DKOKS: Urgent Election Message

I realize that it's been painfully long since I've managed a post of my own, but DK thinks you should check out Bush uncensored and a new Eminem song on this Election Day Eve...

posted by Brad at 11/01/2004 11:31:00 PM | permalink | 0 comments

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