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This afternoon I met up with my buddy Joel and introduced him to one of my favorites, Eggspectations. Definitely fun times to catch up on life from the past few months and exchange a few laughs. When we excited though I had to smile when I saw the car converted reindeer parked near Joel. ]]> http://uvageek.net/2011/12/22/getting-in-the-spirit-of-things/feed/ 0 http://uvageek.net/2011/12/21/mobile-telecommunications-and-verizon-wireless-service-level-agreements/ http://uvageek.net/2011/12/21/mobile-telecommunications-and-verizon-wireless-service-level-agreements/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:37:38 +0000 Dan http://uvageek.net/?p=803 This morning in the Northern Virginia area, Verizon Wireless seems to have had a hiccup in their data networks that support their mobile devices. This is the third such hiccup to effect the 4G customer base this year – something that marketing is heavily pushing and early adopters are salivating over due to the speed and technology advances that are provided.

Information regarding outage: http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/12/21/verizon-suffering-another-outage-many-3g-and-4g-customers-left-without-data-services/

It really would be nice to know when the system will come to steady state for LTE and CDMA access to be restored. While I realize that Verizon is doing its best to provide service to millions of customers, I would also hope that Verizon would be willing to provide something like “status.vzw.com” that has either a blog with entries of what network outages may be occurring on a large scale or something like Google or Amazon Web Services dashboard that shows outages related to services with additional information below.

Is this too much to ask for a multi-billion dollar industry so that individuals that rely on mobile telecommunications are able to more adequately recommend or put faith into their provider?

Linkage – http://youtu.be/pq8iyhMFLYE?hd=1

Oh it’s on… that’s right ladies and gents (I know that there are six of you reading this ). French Roast from Starbucks for your Keurig machine (or mine ) is now available in your favorite supermarket, grocery store or Amazon. So what’s this mean? Well now you can brew your own drip coffee for half the coast that you would if you’re buying it in a local store. Sure you don’t get your Starbucks Gold card drink points, but you can put it in the cup of your choice and brew at your leisure.

So first impressions, it’s definitely decent and the barista even served it up in a snazzy mug instead of just a paper cup. How’s that for finesse?

Ingredients Required:
1 cup dark brown sugar
1 cup (two sticks) butter
1 cup granulated sugar
4 large eggs
2 cups dried fruit (dried cranberries or raisins)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
1 cup coarsely chopped walnuts or pecans
2 cups all purpose flour
1 bottle Jose Cuervo Tequila (silver or gold, as desired), alternatively Patron Silver

First, sample the Cuervo to check quality.

Take a large bowl. Check the Cuervo to be sure it is of the highest quality.

Pour another 4 ounces in a measuring cup and drink.

Turn on the electric mixer.

Beat one cup of the butter in a large fluffy bowl.

Add one teaspoon sugar. Beat again.

At this point, it is best to make sure the Cuervo is still OK. Try another 4 ounces, just in case.

Turn off the mixerer thingy. Break two leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit, picking the frigging fruit off the floor.

Mix on the turner. If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers, just pry it loose with a screwdriver.

Sample the Cuervo to check for tonsisticity.

Next, sift 2 cups of salt or something.

Check the Jose Cuervo.

Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts.

Add one table.

Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find.

Greash the oven. Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over.

Don’t forget to beat off the turner.

Finally, throw the bowl through the window, finish the Cose Juervo and make sure to put the stove in the dishwasher.

Cherry Mistmas.

Step 1: Go buy a turkey

Step 2: Take a drink of whiskey (scotch) OR JD

Step 3: Put turkey in the oven

Step 4: Take another 2 drinks of whiskey

Step 5: Set the degree at 375 ovens

Step 6: Take 3 more whiskeys of drink

Step 7: Turn oven the on

Step 8: Take 4 whisks of drinky

Step 9: Turk the bastey

Step 10: Whiskey another bottle of get

Step 11: Stick a turkey in the thermometer

Step 12: Glass yourself a pour of whiskey

Step 13: Bake the whiskey for 4 hours

Step 14: Take the oven out of the turkey

Step 14: Take the oven out of the turkey

Step 15: Floor the turkey up off of the pick

Step 16: Turk the carvey

Step 17: Get yourself another scottle of botch

Step 18: Tet the sable and pour yourself a glass of turkey

Step 19: Bless the saying, pass and eat out

Do you ever wonder about how our lives get so convoluted with different activities, projects that we volunteer to help out with, relationships, family, mud? Well, there’s only one way to get through it all – cleaning up

Some folks have the notion of Spring cleaning – or “clean up big”. What’s the point is my question? Especially if it just means that within a month that things will go back to the way that they were with piles starting to grow where the piles that were there a few minutes earlier were.

Nevertheless, like other aspects of life, there always seems to be a catch – something that prevents us from keeping life in perfect working order (and if everything is in perfect working order, man your life has gotta be boring… try some espresso roast coffee to liven things up ). So I encourage you – start cleaning up on a regular basis, not just once a month.

The mantra doesn’t stop with cleaning though, keeping your skills in tune through regular practice – definitely key. Exercise, another great area – you can’t just throw yourself back into the gym after not having been there for weeks or you’ll end up with tendanitis or something like that

Take care, live it up and get soapy!