New member of the family

We're getting a dog tomorrow (I think). His name is Max.



And no, that's not my foot.

So much for the underdog

Even CBS SportsLine is jumping on my bandwagon, saying that Lousiville has a slight edge over Washington. It was more fun when they were underdogs.

You heard it here first.

Louisville will win the NCAA basketball tournament (March Madness, or whatever you feel like calling it).

Of course, if I'm wrong, no one will care. Heck, I can even edit this post. But if I'm right, then I get to spread the news far and wide. That's the beauty of a not-read blog.

McDonalds? Overweight?

Surely someone else finds this funny. Right?



And surely the person who wrote the headline thought it was funny too. Um, right?

At least the Super Size Me (cube warning: link has sound) guy must.

Future Expansion

Call the main number listed on Dell's web site (1-800-WWW-DELL) . Go ahead, I'll wait. Choose option 1 to dial an extension.

You are greeted with a message about how Dell is in the process of upgrading their extensions from 5 digits to 7 digits.

Now, Dell has more than 55,000 employees, so it makes sense that they would need more than 5 digits. Nearly all of those employees have phone extensions, and with turnover it's easy to see how you could use up the 100,000 extensions that 5 digits give you. In fact, since you probably don't want to use 00000-09999 as extensions, your down to 89,999.

And, when you're doing a major upgrade like this, you probably don't want to just move from 5 digits to 6 digits. Hardly seems worth it. So you go for 7 digits.

But 7 digits gives you 9 million extensions. That's some serious growth planning.

An embarrassment to miniature golf course builders everywhere

On The Apprentice last night, the task was to build a miniature golf course, something I have some expertise in. And while I recognize that they only had one day to build everything, I thought the courses themselves were incredibly poor. Here's one:



And here's the other:



Did someone else build a golf course for them? Did the same company do both? Did the teams have a choice of companies? Why are they both just made of plywood and cheap indoor/outdoor turf?

It's an embarrassment to miniature golf course architects everywhere. Or at least the subset who watch the Apprentice.

The view from my front door ...

... is kind of pretty