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The Amazing Escaping Lobster 05 July 2005 at 8:07 am by Jason 48 views

Just a quick note this morning, Levi decided yesterday that he was going to escape his tank. He managed to climb up the air tubing, to the heater, to the filter… but he just couldn’t quite get to the top (he was about half an inch away). So using my awesome cardboard and tape skills, I fashioned a “Lobster Containment Unit”, though to the layman, it might just look like I taped cardboard over the little filter opening. Either way, I believe I’ve stopped any future escape attempts! :)



+ Life, the Universe, and a Blog… By Jason 22 June 2005 at 6:22 pm 41 views 1 Comment

This here, is Levi. He’s not really a lobster, he’s actually a crayfish (Procambarus alleni, to be exact). Why am I blogging about my aquatic pal here? Well, I figured he’d never be able to claw his own blog, so I’d help him out.I’ve had him for about two and a half weeks now, and he is one of the coolest pets I’ve ever had (no offense to the snail, fish, or cats I own). He spends his days under the leaf you see here, coming out at night to dig up all our rocks. So far, he’s left the rest of his roommates alone, except I believe he ate two of our smaller fish the first two nights we had him, but none since (guess the stuff I feed him tastes better than real fish, anyhow).

Well, that’s all about Levi, for now… I’ll be sure to bring him up again at a later date.

Now, about other things!

I have about 40 min to go before I can leave work and go home… and I just can’t wait. I just need to relax (had to format a machine this morning, and currently I’m in the middle of burning 36 DVDs on a 4x burner), plus, my new favorite show comes on tonight!

30 Days

If you haven’t already started watching, you need to. It’s one of the best shows on TV right now, and it might make you learn something (I can hear the groans now). So, if you have FX, you need to tune in… do it! Now*!!

So, I need to do a little complaining about a company I have to deal with on a daily basis. Let’s call them “HouseCube”**… they make a product called “Constructor180″** and it sucks. Now, we’ve been using this product for over 2 years now… and it still isn’t being completely implemented. Why? Well, because it sucks. It crashes constantly, and when it’s not crashing, it’s changing our data… which ties into our accounting, nice, huh? Also, to make matters worse, they have a support staff consisting of 2 high school cheerleader dropouts and one trained monkey. It takes days (if not months, one issue has lasted nearly a year) to have them get back to us and fix the problem. Also, they rarely (if ever) admit it’s their program’s fault. Here are the things they normally blame:

Microsoft Windows (and components such as MDAC)
Microsoft Office (namely Access)
Dell PCs (when blaming software gets boring, try hardware!)

I just don’t see why we still use them. As I type this, they are currently on two different computers, logged in remotely, trying to fix issues that they don’t understand. *sigh*

Okay, I think I’m ranted out for the moment (plus, I have a couple things to do before I leave)… so feel free to drop a comment or whatever, and I’ll try to keep this up to date.

* Not “Now”, at 10:00pm, EST
** The name of the company and product have been changed to protect the innocent.

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