Declan's Blog

Jenny, Holly, Elaine and I took a trip to the Anza Borrego desert to take pictures of the wild flowers.

I stole Jenny’s “looking up” technique and got some pretty pictures:

Here’s a panorama of one of the flower fields with a mountain in the background. Click the image to see the full original image. Warning, it is very large! 🙂

Here are all of the pictures:

To: adam@oldtownpizza.com

Hi – last night, four friends and I had pizza at your restaurant. The
food was great, but when we went to pay our bill, we were all shocked
by the behavior of the gentleman working the cash register.

We are here for a conference, so we requested serparate checks for
expense reports. We were told that we can only split 2 ways. Hmm,
well… Inconvenient, but ok we are imposing a bit. We all went up to
the counter and paid with 5 credit cards, which worked out to about
$12 each.

We each started putting $14 on our cards, and I asked the guy if he
can take a tip out of that. He said, “I hope you make it worth it
because I’m not even supposed to do this.” So, that was rotten enough
behavior. I was so disgusted that I went to wait outside for my
friends to finish paying.

When they came out,they were all shaking their heads at further
comments from your guy. Our last guy’s total was only $7, he’d been in
the bathroom and missed the earlier discussion, sone another of our
guys said “put on $14 so they get a tip.”. Your guy said, “that isn’t
even 20%.”. All of our guys were shocked and one said, “this is for
counter service. We came up to order and got our own beer.” We then
all gathered outside wondered what kind of place treats customers like
that.

Your pizza place was listed as a recommendation on our conference
paperwork. I’m pretty sure it shouldn’t be.

Declan Fleming

No reply so far 😉

I’m up in Or-EE-Gone for code4lib2008

I walked around the city and took a few pictures:

I got to have dinner with Dave Pearson and Greg Tao, a couple of my old students. Real old now… 😉

More here:

We’re playing with the format a bit. Lots of CES talk, lots of MacWorld anticipation.

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Hear us ramble on about our geek New Year’s Resolutions!

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PLEASE download the mp3 version so I can get Dan to quit whining about making him provide it! 😉

First we got up and had some presents:

The we joined some buddies and had some Dim Sum!

Hear Dan ramble on about Macs in the corporate setting, with absolutely no concept of or experience with the support issues of multiple platforms… 🙂

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Hear me make stuff up about MAPI and whine about how SOME people use Holiday Newsletters inappropriately. Oh, and Mac stuff too… 🙂

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An old friend, Tim Laurent, is on a contract in town, so I showed him around La Jolla Cove, then we stuffed ourselves with sushi!