After hearing all of the hype about Father’s Office and how they might have the best hamburger in the world, I had to try it. We showed up at Noon on a Saturday and beat the rush by at least an hour. There was a man out front on a stool greeting people as they entered and letting everyone know that this is a bar, not a restaurant. I guess what he was trying to say was “don’t expect any sort of customer service.”
I was pleased by the beer selection… it seemed like they had about 30 craft beers on tap without an American Pilsner in sight. The menu was crammed with items like oysters on the half shell and grilled octopus salad… not your typical “bar” food. I refuse to believe they are a bar.
The hamburger was $12.50 and add fries for $2.50. The fries come with garlic mayonaise, and DON’T you dare ask for any ketchup (another proof positive that they are a restaurant, not a bar). The burger was decent, in fact, it was excellent. Big, juicy and cooked to your specifications… as long as your specifications are “Exactly how it is listed on the menu.” That was no problem for me… but I just can’t get over the no ketchup for the fries. That’s a little too snooty for me.
All in all, it was worth the hassle and the food was delicious. A bit prentious and full of themselves, but what else could you expect? I’ve made a better burger myself, so by no phalacy of reasoning, my burger is the best in the world!
Nick Uncategorized Food, Personal, Review
One of my biggest pet peaves is how youtube starts to play a video as soon as you load the page. This script puts an end to this “feature”.
Youtube Buffer Video
Nick Uncategorized greasemonkey
Here is a great script that will update the Gmail favicon to display the unread message count right in your web browser.
Gmail unread message count in favicon
Nick Uncategorized greasemonkey
Traveling at Christmas time should be against the law. Think about it for a second. We have every opportunity throughout the year to visit anyone on that special list. If they took the option off of the board and mandated a holiday sans-travel, it would take the pressure and obligation some of us feel to travel from whence we came.
Maybe not… maybe I’m just antsy since I’ve been sitting in an overly crowded airport that is 10 degrees hotter than it should be. Everyone around me is antsy. All of the parents with their small children pissing and moaning because they were late for their flight.
Nah, I guess this is what Christmas is. All they need here is a McDonalds and a Best Buy. Nevermind, the 2 Starbucks make up for that.
Nick Uncategorized Personal
I’ve stumbled across a few wonderful pieces of software over the last few days and just wanted to jot them down so I don’t forget about them.
First on my list is definitely QuickMediaConverter from CocoonSoftware. QMC is the only software I’ve found that will properly convert FLV files ripped from the web (Youtube, Hulu, other crummy things like LA Times videos…). This is the “golden fleece” of “arc de triumphs”… or something.
The software is kinda cluttered but it works well.
Nick Uncategorized Review, Software, Video
Pretty stoked about this one. I have an access application at work that runs on a timer and updates a table every 15 minutes. Since I work in an environment where most people are logged into different computers on different days it’s impossible to find where they are sitting at any given moment.
My application queries our Aspect ACD and locates the extension and then relates it to a preconfigured list of cubicles and their assigned instrument numbers. All of this is worthless unless you’ve worked with an Aspect… and in that case, it’s golden.
Anyhow, since our whole office runs on Access and we have no budget for glorious items like printers and SQL servers, I make do. IT says MS Office Professional has additional licensing costs so it’s not an option to put Access on everyone’s PCs. In comes “export to html then ftp it to a server”.
- Create the query or table you want exported. Not covered in this post.
- Export the query to an HTML file.
DoCmd.TransferText acExportHTML, , “qry_Timed_Locator”, “c:\winnt\temp\locator.html”
- Modify the HTML file to include a meta tag that autorefreshes the page when being viewed in a browser. This function creates a META tag on the third line of the output HTML file. Your needs may vary.
Function MetaRfrsh(intSeconds As Integer, strURL As String, strOpenFileName)
Dim strMeta As String
Dim lngCount As Long
Dim strOutputFileName As String
Dim strLine As String
’strURL = “http://www.example.com” ‘Direct URL of page you want refreshed
‘intSeconds = 60 ‘Number of seconds between each refresh
’strOpenFileName = “c:\temp\index.html” ‘Full path to local file
lngCount = 0 ‘Used for counting which line to put the Meta tag on
strMeta = strMeta & “<" strMeta = strMeta & "Meta " strMeta = strMeta & "HTTP-EQUIV=""Refresh"" content=""" & intSeconds & ";url=" & strURL & """>”
strOutputFileName = Replace(strOpenFileName, “.html”, “.temp.html”)
‘ Open the file for input
Open strOpenFileName For Input As #1
Open strOutputFileName For Output As #2
‘ Loop on all the records until end of file
Do While Not EOF(1)
lngCount = lngCount + 1
‘ Read the entire line
Line Input #1, strLine
If lngCount = 4 Then
‘Code to write strMeta to #2
Print #2, strMeta
End If
‘code to write strLine to #2
Print #2, strLine
Loop
Close #1
Close #2
End Function
- Upload the HTML file to an ftp server.
Credit for this part goes to 1DMF at Tek-Tips. That person saved me about 8 hours of dll tinkering. Thank you!
Nick Uncategorized Code
I made it to the playoffs in my fantasy football work league. There’s a lot of money riding on this with the winner pocketing over $600. At this moment, I’m winning 73 to 72. The only player left on the opponents team is TO and there is 100 seconds left in that game. I still have my defense, the Ravens, left to play. In this years league, defenses have had a tendency to score negative points at times… seems ridiculous but it happens. If I make it through this game, even with a 1 point lead, I’m benching my defense with hopes of backing in to week 2 of the playoffs. The only thing that could bite me in the ass is if ESPN adjusts the scores on any of our players. Seems like a risk worth taking.
On another note, the Bears had a big win against a futile Jaguars team. The game was incredibly boring and is another tally on my “Ron Turner Is A Dickfer” tally sheet. The man can call a good game, I’ve seen him do it. I have no idea why he takes his foot off of the gas at half time.
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I just read an article on gHacks about creative 404 error pages. While I’m not creative enough to come up with something to roffle yer arse, I did take some pictures of things I fully plan to use in the near future… or not.
Nick Uncategorized Funny, Pictures
This script fixes one of my least favorite things about Google Reader. If you’re like me and just don’t have enough time to keep up on your all important RSS feeds, Google Reader makes you feel like a slacker and shows your unread posts as “1000+”. Now, with this script, you get to feel like a loser instead and see that you actually have 2,342 unread posts.
Google Reader Unread Count
Nick Uncategorized greasemonkey
This lovely user script removes results from google searches that refer to experts-exchange.
Remove Experts Exchange
Nick Uncategorized greasemonkey
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