Three degrees of separation
From this guy:
Yolo County officials were stunned at the arrest and indictment of Woodland resident Harrison Jack as part of a plot to commit a violent overthrow of Laos’ communist government.
That’s the kind of crazy stuff you’d expect to happen in the backwoods of Montana or Idaho, not in Woodland.
Dream Job
Other than being a full-time dad, this is pretty much the closest thing to a dream job in my line of work that I have seen in my 8-ish years as a working adult:
We are now looking to hire a talented web Development Engineer to join our growing team at dpreview.
You will be passionate about digital photography and possess a strong understanding of dpreview, our principles and our community. Being a self starter with good design and user interface skills, you have at least two years demonstrable experience of web development; we will expect you to be able to have extensive experience in ASP.NET 2.0 as well as fully integrated client-side Javascript and hand-coded HTML (reliance on WSIWYG editors will be seen as a negative). We will also expect you to have experience of SQL databases, specifically Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005.
Thanks, Eoffs!
Thanks, Danny and Greta, for hosting yet another excellent CHES Club dinner.
Woodland has made the Urban Dictionary
I am alternately elated at the notoriety and horrified at the definition of “Woodland”.
New Car
After being a one-car family for nearly 3 months, we finally took the plunge last Friday and bought a new car.
It actually started out Thursday evening with a visit to AutoWest Honda in Roseville. The car salesman, Jason, was pleasant enough. I realize that’s his job (to be the good guy, while letting his higher ups do the dirty work of trying to rip us off (yes, seriously (that’s what they do))), and he played the part well enough. However, the guy from the finance office, Seamus, was a total prick: high pressure, aggressive, and predatory. We had Troy with us, and when he needed to be changed, I promptly headed for the bathroom. On the way, I passed Seamus, who was just standing around chatting idly with a coworker. He had left us sitting at the table for a good 5 minutes, and while I thought he was wheeling and dealing with his manager, apparently he was just making us wait. I have since learned that this is a trick that these guys use; it helps to establish their dominance, and reinforces the notion that they are in control of negotiations. But I digress…
Super Troopers
What happens when a cop and his wife bake up some pot brownies and eat the whole batch?
I think we’re dead. Time is going by really really really really slow.
Ladies and gentlemen, your tax dollars at work.
[h/t to my buddy Nealio for the link]
GoDaddy.com to take over management of stranded RegisterlyFly domains
This has been a long time coming. I’m very happy that ICANN has chosen GoDaddy.com, seeing as they were my registrar prior to RegisterFly. I only moved away from GD because RF offered the same services for about $10 less. Sadly, for the consumer, this episode proves once again that you get what you pay for.
Generations
On Sunday, we visited Kelly’s grandma in Healdsburg and got our last (semi-)generational photo:
Missing from the picture is Kelly’s father, who was unable to make it.
Also on Sunday, we hung out with Kelly’s brother Chuck, his girlfriend Becky, and her family in Petaluma. They fixed us a feast and entertained us on the back porch on a beautiful, temperate afternoon. They live on 1.5 acres, and some deer live behind their house. Several times while we were sitting back there, the deer wandered by the fence on the back of the property. Very cool.