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Stephen Colbert Said My Name On The Colbert Report

3 Feb

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Not sure how long the link will stay live but you can see it at the 5:30 mark over at Hulu:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/125504/the-colbert-report-tue-feb-2-2010

I signed up for the beta of Blippy.com which he was making fun of.  It is a site that allows you to share your credit card purchases.

You can view my boring purchases here.

colbert-show

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How To Cheat at Mafia Wars

11 Aug

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More truthfully, this is  “How to Take Maximum advantage of the rules in Mafia Wars”.

If you play correctly, you can get to a point where you will never run out of energy.  You can just level up over and over and over.

Today I played for just a little while and completed over 4,800 jobs:

Mafia Wars Profile Page

This is what you need to do:

  1. If you haven’t started yet, choose the Maniac mafia type.  This isn’t required, but just makes the game go faster.

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Blackberry Tour 9630 Scroll Wheel Broken

27 Jul

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I received my Blackberry Tour 9630 about 5 days ago, and almost immediately noticed that the horizontal scrolling was either laggy or didn’t work.

After five days, I couldn’t scroll horizontally at all at normal sensitivity.  At 100 horizontal sensitivity, it will jump around a lot but will eventually scroll.

Here is a blurry video that shows the problem:

Additionally, I tested out my father-in-law’s Verizon Tour, and his horizontal scroll is how mine initially was.

I received my new Tour today in the mail – hopefully doesn’t happen again.

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How To Properly Setup and Configure Godaddy DNS Settings

22 Jul

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If you buy domains through Godaddy, but host the website and mail somewhere else, chances are you had to edit your DNS settings.

Up until a few weeks ago I had been doing it wrong.  It was working, for the most part, but some things like reverse dns lookups would fail, and strange errors would sometimes crop up.

When you buy your domain through Godaddy, find your way into Total DNS Control.  You will see a page similar to this:

Scary, that’s for sure.

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Sprint Blackberry Tour NOT Available

15 Jul

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June 30, 2009: Verizon announced the Blackberry Tour would be released on July 12,2009.

July 1, 2009: Sprint also announced the Tour would be available on their network the same day.

July 11,2009: I called Sprint’s Telesales and asked when the Tour is coming out and when they would be in the stores and was told, again, July 12, 2009.

July 12, 2009: Walked into a Sprint retail store and was told that they will not be getting any Tour’s until August 2nd.  The employee there said that no stores were getting them.

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Starbucks Venti Iced Coffee Cup

30 May

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I walked into a Starbucks in an old Albertson’s and saw this baby sitting there for $15. Apparently they had only been there for 1 hour and they were almost sold out.

Starbucks-cup

I was looking for this many years ago, and the Grande sized ones were selling for almost $80 on ebay. They were discontinued many years ago.

Specs:

  • Venti Sized – slightly bigger to accomodate the double walls
  • Double Walled Insulated to keep moisture off the outside, and keeping it cold longer on the inside
  • $.10 off all iced drinks

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The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie

14 Apr

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This recipe is taken from the article, Perfection? Hint: It’s Warm and Has a Secret :

Chocolate Chip Cookies Adapted from Jacques Torres

Time: 45 minutes (for 1 6-cookie batch), plus at least 24 hours’ chilling

Ingredients

2 cups minus 2 tablespoons
(8 1/2 ounces) cake flour
1 2/3 cups (8 1/2 ounces) bread flour
1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons coarse salt
2 1/2 sticks (1 1/4 cups) unsalted butter
1 1/4 cups (10 ounces) light brown sugar
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons (8 ounces) granulated sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons natural vanilla extract
1 1/4 pounds bittersweet chocolate disks or fèves, at least 60 percent cacao content
Sea salt.

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Disneyland Annual Pass Chooser

26 Mar

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I have had to run through this question and answer list with several friends recently.  Answering these questions will determine which pass you should buy.

2009 Disneyland Annual Pass Options

  • Premium (365 days) – $389
  • Deluxe (315 days) – $269
  • So Cal (215 days) -$174
  • So Cal Select (170 days) – $134

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Refer to the Combined Disneyland Blockout Calendar I wrote about prior for the large version.

Questionnaire

1. Do you want/need to go on the weekends?

If yes, So Cal Select is out since that is only for weekdays.

2. Do you want/need to go on Saturdays?

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Disneyland Blockout Dates Calendar

26 Mar

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Here are all the blackout dates for all Annual Passes on one calendar.

The blockout dates are additive – meaning, the Southern California blockouts are all the blue days PLUS all the yellow Deluxe days.  Therefore, the Southern California Select Annual Pass blockouts are all the orange, blue and yellow days.

(The Southern California Annual Passes are only available for people living in Southern California, hence the name.)

Disneyland Blockout Dates Calendar

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Save Money With Your AT&T Home Phone Line

19 Feb

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Att-logoI called AT&T yesterday to add our old phone number to our account so that I can port it over to a new VOIP account I am about to setup.

They charged me $40 for the phone activation, and $7.50 a month as the bare-bones rate to have the phone line.  No matter what I said, they wouldn’t get rid of the activation.

Today I called to cancel it when I realized that the VOIP system I am going to try out, Magic Jack, doesn’t allow number portability yet.

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