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Why go to an amusement park when you can setup your own ride in the back yard? :)

For several years, the following image has been passed around the Internet:

The image is so prevalent, I even saw it at the counter of the Pancake Pantry in Nashville.

Today, Sam found the webpage of the pancake bunny's owner (which includes a picture of the bunny with a pancake on its head). The bunny's name was Oolong (he passed away on January 7, 2003) but he lives on as an Internet meme for all eternity :)

Dell Dimension 2350's don't have the slots typically used by video cards. So this genius decided to cut the card so it fit in the slots his computer does have :)

Keith Olbermann's commentary from last night is something everyone should watch or read.  It's an excellent contrast to the political tripe spewed by the President last night.  With less than 60 days left until the next election, I hope enough people are riled up to make a difference rather than continuing to allow the status quo to continue.

Krissy and I just got back from the second annual Gallery Core Team meetup. It was held in Las Vegas last weekend and we had an amazing time. It was great seeing everyone we met in New York last year as well as several new faces.

We got to Vegas about 11AM on Friday, about the same time as Donald and Mary Ann and Chris. We met up with them in baggage claim then headed over to Disneyland, err the taxi corral, and shared a cab to the Luxor, the official meetup hotel. The Luxor is the big black pyramid at the south end of the Vegas strip. Most of the core team stayed in the pyramid rather than the towers (which are shaped like Mayan pyramids rather than Egyptian pyramids) and thus got to experience slanted walls and inclinators (which move up and down the pyramid at a 38 degree angle) rather than elevators. After getting checked in, we had lunch at the buffet with Donald, Mary Ann, and Chris. After lunch, we called Jesse, who got in early Friday morning and met up with him in the Luxor casino. After gambling for a bit, we went up to Jesse, Jacquie, Jay and Melody's room to hang out. At check-in, a bunch of us got some coupon books that included 2-for-1 drinks at happy hour so the next stop was Happy Hour. We met up with some more of the Gallery team then picked up our new Gallery T-shirts. We headed up the strip to New York, New York for dinner at Nine Fine Irishmen. After dinner, we caught Zumanity, an excellent Cirque du Soleil cabaret show.

On Saturday, we met up with the Gallery team for breakfast. The cafe didn't have a table for all 20+ of us so we ate with Jesse, Jacquie, Jay, and Melody. After breakfast (more of a brunch since we had a late night at NY NY), we went over to the Mandalay Bay for shopping and more gambling. At 2PM, we went to Bharat and Jen's suite for the first in-person team meeting. We have weekly team meetings on IRC but this was the first time almost the entire team was available for an in-person meeting. After several hours of productive discussions, we broke up to get ready for dinner. Dinner was further up the strip at Wolfgang Puck's Postrio at the Venetian. We had a private room, a 4 hour open bar, and an excellent 5 course dinner. After dinner, we gathered for the obligatory group picture, then wandered through several floors of the Venetian parking garage till we found the taxi stand. We headed back to the Mandalay Bay to see the burlesque show at Forty Deuce then hit the casino one last time. Finally, we got an early morning snack with Jay and Melody at the Luxor's Pyramid Cafe.

Krissy and I had a relatively early flight on Sunday so we had to miss the group lunch at the cafe but we did get to say bye to Jesse, Jacquie, Jay, and Melody while checking out. It was another amazing, fun-filled Gallery meetup. Pics are (of course) available in our Gallery.

I was at the Libertarian After Hours Meetup yesterday at Bearno's Pizza and Larry Pence, a guy I worked with at Lilly 6 years ago saw me sitting out on the patio and stopped by to say hi.  I guess he's still working on the same project we worked on from 1998-2000.  It was pretty neat that he just happened to walk by.

Yay! Looks like I can keep going to the Libertarian meetups :)

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This blog originally ran b2, whose development ceased a few years ago. The b2 developer named WordPress as the official successor. At that time, I tried WordPress out and found it lacking features I liked from b2. Fortunately, b2 had another (albeit unofficial) successor, b2evolution which did include the features I liked from b2.  This blog ran b2evolution for a couple years (until this week).  I finally decided to give WordPress another try since b2evolution's anti-spam features were no longer able to keep up.  I could implement my own anti-spam feature, but I disliked having to reimplement it each time a new b2evo release happened.  WordPress has come a long way since I last tried it - its interface has vastly improved and it's anti-spam features are top knotch.  Cheers to WordPress - you've finally won me over from b2evo :)

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