This weekend we celebrated Jenztravaganza 2009, which is the multi-day event that I put on to celebrate Jennifer’s Birthday.  There were streamers, balloons, disco decorations, cats, fancy flowers, dining, dancing, movies, and lots of jennifer’ favorite foods.  She didn’t really give me much to go on in terms of desires for birthday presents, so instead she got a lot of little fun things.  All in all I think she found it an enjoyable celebration.

Her birthday is actually this coming Thursday, so make sure to send her an online birthday card!

I found this an interesting concept.  The question of the day, however, is will it work?

I’ve never been convicted of serial arson.

I like to share this fact with my coworkers often.

I have come up with an idea for a hit new TV Special called “Brandon and the Baby Cheeses.”  We’ll film it in stop motion animation and release it every year during Christmas time, which will coincide with the release of the action figures, plushies, t-shirts, ornaments, and limited edition plastic cups from McDonalds.  The story will basically follow Brandon and he learns about the Baby Cheeses.

I plan to follow this special up with a spin-off TV Sitcom “Brandon and Cheeses” which will be detective show set in Venice Beach California.  I think a spring release would be perfect timing for this one.

Yes, I know I am an odd person.

I enjoy doing taxes, largely because modern technology has made them so mind numbingly simple, especially when you don’t have complicated situations.  I also enjoy getting a phat stack of cash back from the government every year.  Now, admittedly it’s my phat stack of cash all along and it would probably be wiser just to get the money up front each pay check.  Yet I’m one of those individuals who prefers to look at taxes as an IRS held personal savings account that I forget about and then it pays out once a year.

This year I was especially good at putting money into my IRS held bank account apparently and there’s a very big phat stack of cash coming my way.  Time to install a Jacuzzi.

Apparently something has clicked.  The great pull I wrote about just the other day must have been magical.  Maybe there was fairy dust on the frisbee? or maybe some of my Irish luck cashed out or my positive karma balance was consumed.

Ever since my amazing pull the other day, I suddenly know how to pull.  I know exactly what I have to do, how to stand, how to move, how to throw.  It’s like something inside my head went clicky clicky and suddenly everything is clear.  It’s quite a feeling.

Now, I won’t claim to be a pulling god or anything… yet.  The distance on my pulls could be better and I still occasionally make a mistake and F it up, but of the 20 or so times I tried pulling during warm up and during my game tuesday, 16 were consistently acceptable pulls. That makes me very happy.

For a long time now I have always envied the ultimate frisbee giants who can pull a frisbee.  I just cannot seem to get one of those nice long, perfectly aimed throws and every time I try it falls woefully short and then awkwardly rolls.  However, that does not stop me from trying.  I pull two or three times every game I play with the sole intent of trying until I master it.  Well, I won’t say I’ve mastered the pull, but at my game saturday I did what I consider the perfect pull.

It was a smooth, nice floaty pull that landed just feet from the back of the opposing end zone.  A nice straight throw with no angles or curves or anything, just drifting over the heads of everyone playing.

My entire team, including myself, was so amazed at my beautiful pull (especially in light of the way I usually pull), that we all just stared at it in utter amazement, forgetting to run down the field and play defense completely.  The other team turned my awesome pull into a quick score and that pretty much ended that.

But I can still revel in the day that I made my perfect pull.

It’s true.  The corporate monster of Mantech is trying to acquire my services.  The have just completed purchasing a company I used to work for DDK Technology Group and this is the second time they have done that.  Perviously, Mantech acquired Mcdonald Bradley Inc, another company I worked for which I left to go work at DDK.  The acquisitions of these companies always seems to take place a few months after I have left.  This has lead me to believe that Mantech is secretly trying to acquire me personally but that I keep outrunning them by changing jobs.

I’m off to warn the CEO of my current company about the looming mantech monster.

So I found a fun little bug in IE 6 just now.  Don’t know if it is in IE 7 or 8.

Essentially if you have an element as shown:

<input type="checkbox" id="test-checkbox" />

And do the call:

document.getElementById("test-checkbox").checked

The result will not always reflect the checked state of the element.  The reason for this is the lack of a “name” attribute in the input element.  IE 6 appears to reset the state of any checkbox form element that is missing a name attribute under certain conditions.  Adding the “name”  attribute solves this problem.

Spent 2 hours on that gem.

So I have an iPhone, just like all the other nerds out there.  Next week apple is going to offer details on their next version of the iPhone software (version 3.0) and as such everyone out there in the blogosphere seems to be writing about what they want in this new version.  I’ve read a few of these lists and agree with some of the items on them such as Cut and Paste, Images in Text messages, and background processing, but there’s one spot I’d really like some work on that nobody seems to think about.  I cannot help but wonder if i’m either missing something or no one else has every thought about this.

So the feature I’d really like to see is: The ability to adjust cache settings inside safari.  See, Safari, the iPhone web browser, appears to have a tiny little cache that remembers almost nothing.  The means that web pages are slower to download overall, plus when safari restarts, any old pages you want to revisit need to get downloaded again, which is slow.  What I’d like to see is a number of settings that you can adjust in safari that let you dictate whether or not the caching is allowed, how big the cache can be, and whether or not to clear the cache when closing safari.  The second one, how big the cache is, is especially important to me.  See, I don’t store a lot of video or music on my iPhone so I basically have like 75% of my iPhone’s memory sitting around doing nothing.  I’d love to be able to amke that 75% assigned to my safari cache and thus increase some of my browsing performance.

Now, all of that said, I know its really a minor request.  Plus since I own a first generation iPhone and not one of those 3G specials, I understand performance is more of an issue for me and less of one for other people.  Yet, at the end of the day, this is just one man’s blog and one man’s request for what *I* want to see.  So I get to make crazy demands.