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You know, it almost hurts being this cool. Dude, I am the coolest. Before you vow to pants me for the preceding statement, check out this evidence right here: TO: john@tikaro.com FROM: Sea World San Antonio ======================= Good morning, I work for Sea World San Antonio. My supervisor for Creative Services, Al Torres, had a…

Minor Celebrity Week Continues Yesterday’s post reminded Henry Berg that he still had some pictures of mine from March 2001: the Day I Met Hasselhoff. So I’m posting the pictures below for the first time anywhere! I subscribe to UPOC’s Celebrity Sightings wireless message group, for kitsch value and to have something to show executive…

The best piece of swag ever. Like a mysterious ifrit, Gary Coleman appeared in the hallway outside my office today. No, really; here’s a company email you don’t get every day: TO: NY Office SUBJECT: Company Announcement: Special Guest In case anyone is interested (and they said it was okay), Gary Coleman is visiting the…

Holy cow! I just got an e-mail from Junkyard Wars, asking if I have any advice to contribute on water cannons (seeing as how I’m the creator of the Ultimate Water Gun. Jeez, this rocks!

The worst piece of swag ever I gave platelets again this morning. It was hard this time; I was on the one-arm machine this time, and it complained the whole time (“Warning! Low Draw Volume! [continue/rinseback]”), and my hand went to sleep, and my lips were tingling (so I had to chew Tums, I’m not…

“Let’s put on a show in the barn” has a much different meaning at a large direct-marketing company.Ever since hearing about the fledgling charity “Mustaches for Kids”, in which participants collect pledges to grow ugly-ass mustaches, I’ve been hooked. Mustaches are grown for six weeks, with regular checkpoints and rules — no handlebar mustaches, pencil-thin…

Okay, the aquarium webcam is up! As you can see from my webcam above, I’ve pointed a second webcam at the aquarium. The second webcam is a Lego Vision Command USB camera, with a lego base that I built for it. The camera has its own server, a box we cannibalized from the (defunct, right…

My office mates and I went to Petland on 29th and 3rd to buy fish for the aquarium in our room. We got rid of the diving treasure hunter with the animated opening treasure chest: like my colleague Tim Griffin says, it’s like a new apartment that looks big before there’s any furniture in it,…

The long train ride on Friday gave me time to finish Louise de la Valliere and The Man in the Iron Mask, by archetypical historical-populist Alexandre Dumas. Together with The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years Later, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Dumas’ Three Musketeers series runs to over 1.25 million words. The last chunk I was…

I’m writing this in the quiet car of the Acela Express train from Boston, after my fourth day trip to visit the offices of the Bridgespan Group. Tighter baggage regulations went into effect nationwide today, so it seemed like a good time to try the train instead of the Delta Shuttle. The Delta Shuttle is…