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February 6th, 2010
| Filed Under: Asides
So the girl and I were going to order from Buca’s today, but were unable to since their paper menu only has the phone number 651-SPA-GETT. If you look at your BlackBerry, THERE ARE NO LETTERS ON THE NUMBERS!!! (Well there are, but they don’t correspond to the correct numbers) So since I (or work rather) didn’t want to pay 411 for the call, Buca lost out of the sale, and we just ordered from the Green Mill, who dose allow modern phones to call them.
Maybe Buca should move to the modern age and update their menu’s.
Posted by Matt Rude on January 30th, 2010
Here are a few video’s of my parents dog Odin.
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Posted by
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January 10th, 2010
| Filed Under: General | Tagged as: Rant
Alone with most of the upper Midwest, Christmas this year in Saint Paul, Minnesota was very snowy. It was a nice white Christmas, assuming you got to where you needed to go. Thankfully everyone I know and care about made it through the day without any major problems even with the 10″ to 12″ of snow.
I live on a sort of larger road named Ford Parkway. The road gets its name from the Ford Plant down the road. This is all fine and good since I live in a nice, quite neighbourhood, but they do drive a far number of semi trucks directly past my place.
Well on Christmas day, the plows were out, but were not out in the number the amount of snow and the rate of snow fall required. Christmas day was also just warm enough that the salt they dumped on the road melted the snow, but it was still cold enough that slush re-froze once the cars, and semi trucks drove over it. This ice then stayed on the road for about a week before the City of Saint Paul decided to finely plowed them off. The problem was the ice was patchy in its placement on the road.
So now my road has hundreds of dents in it, not pot-holes, but dents! It’s like driving down a really bad dirt road.
What just pisses me off about the whole thing isn’t the harm it’s doing to my car every time I go home, but that now they will need to redo the entire road just to make it drivable again. As time goes on, the road will only get worse, until it is un-drivable.
Posted by Matt Rude on December 25th, 2009
This was a very snowy Christmas as you all know. When I got to my parents house on Christmas morning, we didn’t know if we would be going to my aunt and uncle’s house for dinner. As the day went on and it warmed up outside, we all made it there for dinner and had a great Christmas.
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Posted by
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November 28th, 2009
| Filed Under: General | Tagged as: Cabin, Odin
Posted by Matt Rude on November 27th, 2009
Thanksgiving at the family cabin. It’s always fun to have the whole family up at the cabin, all squeezed in to a single room.
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Posted by
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September 24th, 2009
| Filed Under: General | Tagged as: Apple, iPhone, Rant
Last night I installed the update to iTunes (9.0.1). Everything seemed to go fine. After the install iTunes asked me to reboot my computer. I was way to lazy to actually do that, so I just told it would reboot it later, and opened iTunes. Ya that was a mistake.
When I opened iTunes, it informed me there was a problem with the database and it would rebuild it for me. After about 2 hours of working on it, iTunes finished. But it had lost all my music history, all my music was there, but it lost all my play lists and what not. Not that big a deal I can always recreate those.
So I spent the next few minuets recreating a few play lists from what my iPhone had on it, when it dawned on me. “I should just sync my phone and it would copy everything back” right? But that is not what happened.
I synced my phone, and it took nearly no time at all (maybe a full minute). When I looked at my phone after the sync, ya everything was gone.
So today I start the lovely task of rebuilding my phone.
Thank you Apple!!!
Posted by
Matt Rude
on
September 17th, 2009
| Filed Under: Asides | Tagged as: Ideas, Politics
OK so maybe not the FDA but they should be run by someone like them. Just think about it, the FDA owns labs to test drugs before they are sold to us the customers. The drug industry would love to sell us everything they think up of, but they can’t. Since we have a check to make sure the drug will not kill us or make our skin turn blue. Currently there are no tests be made before a financial product is being sold to us. So here we are as a country relaying on our banks to sell us products that are good for us, but clearly they are only selling us products that are good for them. With an outside entity running check on our banks and what they do, by testing a product with models to see how it performs over a year or 5 years or even 25 years would give confidence to all of us who are use these products. If we have confidence in the banks again, we will all do better.
Posted by Matt Rude on September 7th, 2009
Over the weekend my old friend Kelsey and I went to the Great Minnesota Get Together. While we were there, we met up with Kelsey’s friend Mike to see the Brother Ali show at the MPR booth. We didn’t get to see much of the show, but we meet up with Mark Wheat after, to chat.
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Posted by
Matt Rude
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August 18th, 2009
| Filed Under: Asides | Tagged as: Microsoft
Thing’s looked promising, but that may have been a bit misleading. Check out Mitchell’s post on Microsoft’s dealings with the EC, also see Dotzler’s taken for deep look at the topic.
What are your takes?
