If you ever decide to visit Scotland, namely Edinburgh Scotland, I have one piece of rock-solid advice for your trip: do not go to the "Scotch Whisky Experience." The Scotch Whisky Experience is a tourist attraction, right outside Edinburgh Castle on the Royal Mile. Let me give you the highlights. You go in, pay like £9 ($18 USD) per person and then wait in a room for the tour to start. After a while, a nice Scottish lady comes in and gives you a shot of Scotch, in our case it was the exquisite and rare Dewars (yes, this was Jon Favreau's drink in Swingers). Then you watch a video produced in 1994 of an American "tourist" (you know he's a tourist because he keeps taking pictures of crap with a gigantic camera with oversized strap) who takes a sip of scotch to be transported back in time to see how whisky is made. That goes on for a while. The second part is the tour guide pointing out parts of a diorama with a wand. The third part is another hokie video of a "ghost bartender" who floats out of a bottle of whisky projected onto a piece of glass to give the ghost effect. But the finale... the finale is a theme park style ride where you sit in a whisky-barrel-mobile cart that goes on a track at 0.25mph through "the history of whisky." It was like It's a Small World but with whisky. The whole thing was like it was made for a 7 year old, but you had to be 18 to drink any whisky, it was just awful and lasted forever. So there's my Edinburgh advice: don't go to the Scotch Whisky Experience.
We're in Edinburgh, Scottland Airport right now about to fly to Dublin to finish up the last part of our honeymoon. We started in London and stayed there for a few days. Everything has been pretty awesome so far, including a drunk Brit on the London Underground, and a crazy hotel manager that was also our server and receptionist. Look forward to writing when we're back! Bye!
Just a quick post to say that I am getting married today to the most amazing woman in the world and I am incredibly excited. I'd better get ready for the wedding tho. And not forget the rings. Can't forget the rings. Labels: life
Steps to Reproduce: I recently read that a good bug is like a good magic trick. You clearly know what should be happening but for some reason (magic), it's not. More likely than not, someone stole the shirt while I was in the garage but I had no idea. Labels: coding, technology
Well first of all – let me apologize for not having posted in a while. I know that Mark’s tech-y posts have, uh, “kept you going,” but I’ve neglected the loyal /mark readers and for that, I am deeply sorry. I also feel like I should have probably been posting more regarding all of these wedding shenanigans (what a great word!), but sometimes when I’m home – I try to get away from planning a bit. Today’s post is regarding my/our “winning” week. I’m know some of you have heard about this, but details may have been a little fuzzy – so here goes. Yes, my face did run into an RTD bus. Yes, I do have some bruises. Yes, I am okay. Here’s basically what happened – I was sitting on the 16th Street mall ride heading back to work and the driver who was “new” and didn’t know that when a light starts turning red on the 16th street mall – you keep going . You don’t slam on the breaks – especially with a lot of people standing. I was not expecting this sudden stop (why would I?) and my face decided it would like to become one with the brochure rack attached to a plexiglas divider. Needless to say it hurt. Pretty bad. Pretty F#@KING bad to be honest. My arm wasn’t too impressed with the events either. The 2nd driver (the trainer to the new guy) explained that his boss was coming to the scene. Well with his boss came at least two ambulances, two fire trucks and about eight cop cars. This was quite the site and it was all for me. I mean, I am totally fine with it being “all about me,” but geez! The paramedics checked me out and decided that it would be best for me to go the hospital – just in case I cracked my face and needed the doctors to “put Humpty back together again.” The doctor (who was really awesome and made me feel so much better) decided that I was fine and to just watch for changes in my vision, as well as a concussion. They sent me home. But – on the way home Mark and I decided to get Wendy’s. We both had a frosty (which I’m pretty sure was the culprit) and got food poisoning! FOOD POISONING!!! What god did I piss off? RTD accident and food poisoning all in one day? Anyway – Mark and I are now able to eat solid food again. Thankfully.
I thought of a great idea for a new feature for Google Reader. Being obsessed with reading feeds like I am, I often get done with all of my unread items and then feel sad and alone as there is nothing more to read and I don't know what to do. So my idea is this. When you get done with your unread items (or any other time you wanted), you could go to the "Browse Recommended Feeds" area, but instead of getting a list of recommended feeds or seeing a bunch of items from one recommended site, you would actually start reading all your recommended feeds as if you were subscribed to them. That is, you would start reading one item from this blog followed by one item from a different site, etc., all in the river-of-news style. You could still click on the feed name to see all items from that one site, but otherwise it would be an amazing time killer and site discovery tool. Labels: google
As the "holiday" weekend comes to a close I am feeling very accomplished. I got a lot done and thought I'd list what I did. Sara and I cleaned the house. It's not very out of the ordinary, but it makes my list bigger. We cleaned it so we could have Jared Sarah, and Quin over for dinner, which, yes, was lovely. We met the photographer at red rocks to go over some good photo-taking areas and ideas with him. One shot we decided on will feature me posing bare-chested with an axe. After going to two other pastry shops and being completely disappointed with their willingness to make our cake the way we want it, we came across Child's Pastries who had the best price, taste, and design ability and we ordered our cake. Every time I decide to wash my car, I find out that it's going to snow within the next couple of days so I don't end up washing it. This has lead to me not washing my car for about six months. By this point, you could scrape the magnesium chloride off with a spatula. Well, I bit the bullet and got my car washed, waxed, vacuumed and was actually amazed by how good it looks. Friday night we decided we should do our taxes so we can get any possible refund before our honeymoon and right now they are done, sealed in an envelope waiting to be sent out. Combined we will receive a very descent refund which will help us with our soon-to-be-incurred wedding-and-honeymoon debt. Even though we finished watching Love Liza about three and a half weeks ago, it has been sitting sealed next to the TV since then. This weekend I realized we haven't actually returned it and will be sending back the movie tomorrow morning. I now realize that I *am* Netflix's business model. Finally, for no good reason, we started going through all the boxes in our storage room tonight. By the end of the night, we had cut our storage volume in half. Thankfully, there is a bunch of stuff going to goodwill, but sadly, there are tons of VHS movies going to the dump including but not limited to One Crazy Summer (thanks michael), fightclub, office space, a few star wars trilogies, a few indiana jones trilogies, and many more. Sad to see them go. Labels: life
 
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