Paco Hope My Random Musings and Rants

10Sep/110

Yummy Coffee from my Aeropress

Thanks to Dave Coppit showing it to me, I am now the proud owner of an AeroPress coffee maker. It's like a super sophisticated french press (cafetière). You use espresso grind coffee, which gets a much nicer brew. It takes about as long to make a cup of this coffee as to make a cup of instant coffee, but it's infinitely better. It's a conversation starter in the office, too. Very geeky.

30Apr/11Off

Funny Pricing on Kids Furniture

I was looking for childrens beds recently, and I stumbled across Children's Bed World. They have a nice, database-driven site where they can automatically calculate your savings against recommended retail price (RRP). Unfortunately, their database records all the prices, including the ones they're marking up.

10Apr/11Off

Online comics

I discovered stripgenerator.com. Pretty cool. Interestingly, I think their limited number of diagrams means that you have to have actual funny material. If you do, then they save you a bunch of drawing. But if stuff isn't funny, it's not going to become funny by having cool art applied to it.

I've done a couple. They're fun.


Communications in Marriage


First Day At the Office

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20Dec/09Off

Shoveling walks on a snowy day

Whose roads these are I think I know.
His house is in the gated community, though.
He will not see me shoveling here,
my driveway buried in the snow.

My little boys must think it queer,
to shovel without a snow plow near.
Between the curb and sidewalk gray,
the coldest evening of the year.

They give their kid snow shovels a shake,
to ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the scrape,
of vigilante plows and rakes.

The deficit's scary, dark and deep,
but I have tax payments to keep.
And tons to shovel before I sleep.
And tons to shovel before i sleep.

Credit to one of my favorite poets for inspiring this.

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14Jun/09Off

50 Ways to Inject Your SQL

I did a Parody of Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover." It's very geeky, though. It's "50 Ways to Inject Your SQL." Yes, that's me singing.