Archive for June, 2008

Doesn’t Say Much for the Dutch

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

I just saw this article after lunch, and I thought it was too funny not to share.  It sounds like a Darwin Award waiting to happen… Railway changes orange strip to avoid mixup In a MegDesk exclusive interview, a representative of the Dutch population responded to the incident saying, ”I must say that this is not a representative [...]

Clever Programming Quotes

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Last night Lucas and I ordered a new laptop for me, and one of the semi-cool features is that it can be engraved. This was too good an opportunity to pass up. I nixed Lucas’s original suggestion of Meg Natraj www.MegDesk.com hoping instead to find a clever and appropriate quotation to carve onto the machine. [...]

Cruising the Coast of Norway

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

We had originally planned to do a trip up the coast this summer on the Hurtigruten coastal ferry.  However, as I was planning the trip last winter, I found that for the same price as 6 days on the ferry, we could do a 13-night cruise on the Queen Elizabeth II that also included a [...]