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OH THE SUSPENSE!!!!

jfavreau — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:07:28 +0000

Polishing polishing, but what IS it?

A BOX! On a stage? With polishing! And corners!

Another box in my living room?? WHY IS IT HERE??

Badier is the master of dust! It looks like some sort of… base?

It IS a base! but what is it going to track? Planes? Does it score you more points after a touchdown?

Mill mill mill…. I’m a miller! (P.S. new glasses. P.P.S. still not using the safety goggles correctly…)

All my work! Badier has painted it black!

Two things are in this picture that are (a) free and (b) necessary to complete this job…

By the way… those starbucks machines grind the beans and brew the coffee WHILE YOU WAIT. I had 40 cups in a week or so…

Burning

jfavreau — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:34:35 +0000

….. Burning….

See you in a week!

Life Is Good But Keys Are A Sham

jfavreau — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:52:43 +0000

While I can’t put up exactly what I do for work, I would like to announce that after working on a project for the last year of my life it finally worked! We’re talking 11th hour like you would not believe. Had this not worked this week I, just wittle ol me, would be causing the ship date of my companies next big product to be pushed back until I figured it out. We’re talking a billion dollar a year company being held up by spiff-o-keen engineering wonder Jacques Favreau. I was pretty stressed about this. HOWEVER, it WORKS! I saw it make the specification levels with my own eyes. Dancing and whooping followed. A general feeling of personal worth followed. A general feeling of drunk followed… but not right away because….

For every up there is a down.

Sooooo my keyless entry thing has stopped working on my pimp-mobile…

This would normally not be a big issues because… well you just use the key in the door. Unfortunately Cadillac has their noses so high in the air that they need DIFFERENT keys to use the door and turn the car on. Sadly I am not in possession of such door key. Never had one :(

Donut is here and we decided to try the new battery approach (no luck) the begging approach (no luck) and finally the hitting/jumping on the car approch (still… no luck.) So it was time for a locksmith.

First: Locksmiths charge you between $85 and $150 to come out and open your car. This is the suck.

Second: The guy never showed up. First 50 minutes was my fault, the following 2 hours were his. Promised to call me back this morning to set up a time to do it (around 9.)

Third: He never called.

So that was less that optimal.

I had always figured that AAA didn’t allow you to do the whole sign-up-and-get-assistance thing because that doesn’t seem money-safe. HOWEVER that is NOT so. I called AAA this morning. Got a policy number over the phone for $67 bucks total. A very nice guy showed up and popped my lock in about 30 seconds (“Locks are only good for keeping drunks out.”) and I can do that 3 more times this year! That or get towed. Or get nice discounts on rental cars and what have you. I was totally floored that for LESS than the freakin’ shady local guys you could get this kind of service. I am a fan.

Update: The car has a dead battery (lights? perhaps. I don’t know and I fiddled with the knobs before I looked at what they were set at) which, and here’s the great part, MEANS I CAN’T POP THE TRUNK TO GET MY JUMPER CABLES OUT!

Sigh… oh well. I’m going to go have champaign in the desert and celebrate.

Interwebz…

jfavreau — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:19:29 +0000

We are officially moved in. Not settled, but moved. We have running water, power, gas, and now…. interwebz! Still some things in storage and waiting on the word from up north about shipping some furniture down to us, but I’m calling us moved.

Again, thanks for all the support and help in the last seven weeks.

Pictures and parties to follow…

With our new found interwebz I bring you

I(can has)Robot

jfavreau — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:01:43 +0000

I have a robot that does housework for me! Oh happy day! That news reel from the 50’s about the future is here and I’m playing the part of the happy housewife…

Honestly though, I have a robot. My robot cleans. It is awesome.

Recently Megan and I realized that we needed a vacuum for our future place (see last post) and the thinking went something like this: $100 will get us a vacuum, but $150 will get us a robotic companion that does it when I’m at work… Sold!

Enter the RoombaSage.

He tools around the room for an hour or so while you’re out and then, when he starts running out of batteries, HE GOES BACK TO HIS CHARGING STATION AND PLUGS HIMSELF IN!!! All I have to do is hit the “clean” button on my way out and when get I back, everything’s done! As an engineer who loathes vacuuming (and the boyfriend of a woman who hates vacuuming with the burning passion of a thousand fiery suns) this is an extraordinarily exciting event.

Also, I have a robot who cleans my house… awesome…

Names! We’re in the process of naming him/he so if you have a good name for our little robot tell us!