http://www.pleonast.com/user/two recent pleonast.com entries by user two en-us http://www.pleonast.com/user/two?l=5&entryID=599326 "Wheel of Fortune" was in Hawaii this week. Look, there's Pat Sajak with a Hawaiian shirt and very dark spray-on tan! I don't watch the show closely, but it's usually on because I turn on the news so that I can see the weather forecast, which I usually miss anyway, and "Wheel" comes on afterward. Sometimes they have what they call "prize puzzles", and whoever wins the round gets a trip. You need to understand that, when they're in Hawaii, the contestants are usually locals. In this case, it was "best friends week", and one pair of best friends won a trip -- to Costa Rica! Please pardon me for not understanding why people who live in what may be the ultimate tropical paradise would be excited about a trip to a second-class tropical paradise. The First Mate And his Skipper, too, Will do their very best. 2008-11-14 http://www.pleonast.com/user/two?l=5&entryID=593011 (When I logged in to post this, I didn't think about the fact that my last post was about cookies. I'm posting it anyway.) Well, the other night my wife got out the package of break-and-bake cookies, and because she didn't have her reading glasses handy, asked me what the instructions were. My reply, of course, was "break and eat". Oh, you wanted the temperature specified on the package? (She did chuckle. :-) 2008-10-29 http://www.pleonast.com/user/two?l=5&entryID=586005 Someone is baking cookies. Having an oven at the office is a wonderful thing. 2008-10-10 http://www.pleonast.com/user/two?l=5&entryID=559289 I think Websense is a guy. Normally, Websense blocks our access to YouTube and to all webmail sites that it knows about (Yahoo!, Gmail, etc.) Today, those sites are available. (I know this because I can see the image for the YouTube embed a couple of posts back.) The logical conclusion is that there's a guy looking at every website typed in, and his job is to select either "allow" or "disallow". Today, that guy stayed home because of the tropical storm. 2008-08-05 http://www.pleonast.com/user/two?l=5&entryID=546747 I was about to delete my old blogs, and I deleted the current entry instead. 2008-07-04 http://www.pleonast.com/user/two?l=5&entryID=544355 I was in a meeting today and someone had a software problem report they needed to sign. He hadn't ever done one of these before, and said he was reluctant to sign. Naturally, the words that popped into my head (but which remained unspoken because of the near certainty that nobody would have understood) were "I'm reluctant to sign anything that has to do with my music." 2008-06-27 http://www.pleonast.com/user/two?l=5&entryID=542494 That's the subject line of a bit of spam in my inbox today. I presumed it to be German for "your PayPal account is locked", but babelfish.altavista.com didn't understand the last word. (Perhaps that's because there should be an ümlaut somewhere.) And look! Babelfish.altavista.com is now babelfish.yahoo.com! It's just as well, because I never used Alta Vista for anything besides the translator. I think I used to have an Alta Vista free email account, but if I still had it, it would now be Yahoo! (I'm not excited about that last sentence — it's just that the Yahoo! company has an exclamation point as part of their name. I think it's a conspiracy.) 2008-06-23 http://www.pleonast.com/user/two?l=5&entryID=538997 I just went downstairs to get a soft drink. The machine is in the basement. There was an unusual amount of traffic in the stairwell, because the elevator isn't working. (I guess a lot of people are taking breaks around 10:00.) Some of these people were struggling! Some just seemed to be inconvenienced. That's why I don't use the elevator. I do not -- do not -- ever want to reach the point where climbing from the ground floor to the fourth floor -- that's only three floors -- is a struggle. Of course, for people with heart problems or knee problems, I'm sure it really is a struggle. For some people who don't even appear to be very overweight, though, this shouldn't be that hard. Of course, I used to use the elevator all of the time. It was when I discovered how hard climbing stairs was that I decided I should start using the stairs exclusively. Seeing these people have such a tough time with it just reaffirms my decision. 2008-06-13 http://www.pleonast.com/user/two?l=5&entryID=537886 I just saw an ad on the television in the break room for some sunglasses called HD Vision Wraparounds. Of course, the "HD" in the logo looks exactly like the "HD Television" logo. (Oddly, they don't use that font on the website.) The website actually says "just like high definition television". Really? Just like it? Well, let's do a comparison. Your high-def TV displays an image 1920 pixels wide and 1080 high, for just over 2.3 million dots of color. Multiply this by 3 (for pixels of each color), and you get 6.9 million. According to this webpage, your eyes have between 6 and 7 million cones (the color receptors). Well, maybe that's close! But I don't need any sunglasses to see with all of those cones. Also, there are about 120 million rods (the monochrome receptors) -- way beyond HDTV, which has exactly zero monochrome pixels. Of course, what they're telling you is that the sunglasses cut the glare and make the image you're seeing sharper, but that's ... 2008-06-10 http://www.pleonast.com/user/two?l=5&entryID=536568 Friday. I'm sure I won't remember this, because I've looked it up before and just had to look it up again, but "Friday" is essentially a day to honor the planet Venus. (I would have thought it was for the goddess, but maybe that's the same thing.) But since I'm not a polytheist or an astronomer, I'll just use Friday to honor the coming weekend. That may not be fair, though, because I'm robbing Venus to pay Saturn. Well, I got a bit done today at work, and this rollercoaster of a week is over, having had some downs but ended on some ups (speaking of work). And since I've gotten some done today, I suppose Venus has its honor rather than Saturn. Maybe the new day begins at 5:00 p.m. This is one of the more bizarre lines of thought I've ever produced. 2008-06-06