My daughter and I decided to order pizza in tonight. For the first time ever, I ordered online at dominos.com. After being able to browse the coupons and easily make my order online, up popped this really cool “Pizza Tracker.” It is so cool. It tells you what stage of the process your pizza is in. How cool is that?

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Tracy and I aren’t looking for cake-cutting services for our wedding. Our plan is to get married in Italy. As I sit here, though, looking for catering prices for a business project I am working on, I found that cake-cutting costs are an average of 75-cents per person through most companies. That’s not the price of a slice of cake - that’s how much per person they charge you to actually slice the fucking thing.

That’s pretty fucking ridiculous if you ask me. I know you didn’t - but it is.

Back to the paper now….

Somebody doesn’t like the idea of wind turbines… that’s for sure.

Jimmy Fallon is going to take over for Conan O’Brien when Conan takes over for Leno next year. I don’t think it will be all that bad. I would have rather seen Will Forte get the job - but I’m biased (read: he’s a Lambda Chi).

(Here’s Will in “I Drink Your Milkshake” - He’s the old man that says, “Please tell your wife to stop bothering me.”)

Damn. We lost again last night, 3-2. We’re starting to look like a bunch of real mashuganas.

Here’s to better luck (and weather) next week.

I called Fuzz this morning to talk about ridiculous gas prices, only to learn that Milwaukee’s prices are much higher than they are in the Twin Cities (where I work). Here is a quick suggestion to all of you who are complaining about high gas prices (I am complaining, too).

CAR POOL.

Remember when our mothers/fathers would car pool with people to work in the 80’s? Try it. My wife and I are fortunate enough to be able to commute to work together. Car pooling saves a LOT of money. But most won’t participate because most of us like the sanctity of our own private ride to work…or it’s just too much of a hassle to find someone to car pool with…or we might have to make sacrifices, like leaving 30 minutes earlier for work. But the next time someone starts in about the price of gas, ask what they are doing to curb that gouge, other than complaining about it.

Fuzz can’t stand having the top post on the site be from anyone other than him.

[UPDATE]: Post moved to the top by Fuzz… so that Claude feels better. He just posts faster than I do, so technically, he’s a winner. Haha!

It seems like it’s been so long since my little girl was this little. I stumbled upon this while I was looking through some old posts.

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Now she’s wearing size 12 (girls) shoes and telling me that the Jonas Brothers are cute. Eek.

I love how Fisher Price called they’re exercise bike/video game machine the “Smart Cycle.” I just think the name is ironic considering the design is not very “smart” at all.

1. The Smart Cycle has no internal memory, so no matter how well your child does at one of the games, she or he will always have to start over from the beginning.
2. My biggest gripe - the thing only takes D-cell batteries. There is no place to plug in an AC adapter. You just have to keep feeding the hungry beast batteries. It’s obnoxious.

It’s a really cool concept - but it’s not as “smart” as they’d have you believe. It’s really time for a redesign.

My daughter and I stopped at Culver’s for lunch. They were out of hamburger buns! The manager went up to an elderly couple and told them, “unfortunately, we ran out of hamburger buns. But, we’d be more than willing to put your burger on sourdough.” The old woman snapped at the boy, “NO! We can’t have that!” The manager replied, “we have somebody running to Sentry now to pick up some more. We should have them back in about 10 minutes if you are wiling to wait.” She didn’t want to wait, so the manager gave them their money back.

I just want to know two things: 1) HOW do you run out of buns at 12:30, on a Friday, at a hamburger joint? 2) Is that a fire-able offense?

At 4:37 this morning, there was a 5.4-magnitude earthquake in southern Illinois. People have said they felt it all the way up to Menomonee Falls. I was in the car at the time and didn’t feel a thing. The epicenter was about 41 miles northwest of Evansville, IN.

Cool (provided nobody got hurt).

Every time that I see P!nk’s name spelled with the exclamation point, I think that I should change up how I spell mine. I’m leaning towards umlauts to celebrate the German in me: Füzz - but I’m not opposed to using the paragraph symbol in place of the F: ¶uzz. Or, perhaps, I’ll emphasize the U better: fUzz… Fùzz… or Fûzz. Of course, if I went with FUzz, it would make a nice statement… F-U! Hmmm….

Too much coffee… sorry.

Oh, btw… this is my 3,000th post. Hooray.

We went to Body World at the Milwaukee Public Museum on Saturday. It was pretty cool, though I don’t think it was worth the $24 per ticket. The most interesting part of the whole experience, to me, was the employee who told me that over 250,000 people had come through the museum since Body World arrived in January. They expect 500,000 before the exhibit moves on in June. $12,000,000 in six months isn’t a bad deal, but I’m not sure how much they had to pay to get Body World to come to the museum.

In October, the Titanic is coming. Sweet.

1) Mountain Dew
It doesn’t matter if it is original, Live Wire, AMP or my most favorite (now discontinued) Game Fuel.
The only Mt. Dew product I don’t care for is Code Red, but I will drink it if there is nothing else left in the fridge at work.

2) The Internet
I may get a little bit of a “pass” on this one, because it is the crux of my job…but I find myself unconsciously checking my (7 different) email accounts throughout the day…as well as a several blogs and sites. Like an obsessive-compulsive who needs to shut the front door 42 times before leaving the house, I will roll through the sites I have logged into my memory throughout the day, almost as a compulsive catharsis.

3) “Completion”
Whether it be completing a collection of “widgets” or knowing everything there is to know about a specific topic…my mind constantly races until I feel like I have every last detail in my head or worked out on a specific project. (This is especially dangerous for me as a Web Developer…since no website is ever “complete”)

…and leave me the forge alone.

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

~Isabelle Eberhardt

This may be a healthier link for you to visit on the daily.

KThnxBye.

The article on CNN.com says that the FBI’s wiretapping of Martin Luther King Jr. shows his selflessness. The article goes on to quote scholar David Garrow who says “…in terms of the political history that ironically the FBI has created for us, it’s a wonderful resource”.

This is a very slippery slope to enter down. A quote like this actually seems to encourage wiretapping as a way to document history…and not show it for what it is, an invasion of people’s rights in the pursuit of a conviction of a false accusation (MLK’s being a communist in this case).

As news outlet, CNN should be more responsible than this.

The complete story here.

I’m in Oklahoma City on a business trip and had the honor of being able to visit the Oklahoma City Memorial this evening. It is beautiful.

Every detail fits with the next and is worthy of its noble cause.

The things I cannot get over are how the symbolic empty chairs remind me of Arlington National Cemetary in Washington DC…

…and how some sick (F***s) humans could do such terrible things to other human, and even worse to children.

I don’t know what I want to say about this…I wish there was something I could do to help make sure this never happens again, but I know that just writing about it or donating some money won’t slow down monsters like this.

I wish I were at home to hug my daughter.

Happy Easter, Easter bunny.

OMG! I was SO sick of the warmth. Thank goodness it snowed like 15 inches today. I was beginning to think that it was never going to snow - and I was getting stir crazy being able to go outside and enjoy despise the comfortable weather. I own a snowblower. I should be able to use it all months of the year! Hooray for snow!!!1!!11!!1!1!11!!

You can buy a whole lotta peace for $3,800. Yikes.

(of course, Elliot Spitzer got a whole lotta piece for $4,300 )