This is what I missed this weekend. Milwaukee & Chicago got a bit of snow the end of last week. Here are a couple photos from Schaumberg Illinios around 8 am on Friday Morning.
These photos are courtesy of my College Roomate Brian.
I miss the snow…. 
My very own swamp!
I admit it, I have been neglecting my fish tanks. They just usually run themselves so well by themselves now that I try not to mess with them. (that’s my story and I am sticking to it)
Thanksgiving weekend, my planted tank finally turned into a swamp. It quickly proceeded to turn septic, killing all the fish in it. Katie came down this weekend to the most aweful stench!
I had cleaned the tank on Friday before she arrived, and it is just finally clearing up today. I give full credit to 2 Eheim canister filters, one set up for filtering (no charcoal even with this disaster), and the other to water conditioning (and light filtering) combined with my CO2 reactor uncapped so it sucked in normal air and nocked out the protien ( I am assuming that is all the white foam that formed in it is).
What happened is this surface plant, moneywort I think it is, grew so well, it sufficated off the rest of the tank underneith. Combined with one of the lights being plugged in for nearly a week straight while I was out for thanksgiving, it killed the rest of the tank off. Oohps. Time to either finish my computer programmed light controller box or invest in a timer with a ground plug so I can plug in my big aquarium lights into it.
It truly did smell like one of those, vile, evil smelling swamps. How many of you keep a pet swamp inches from your bed? Plants climbing out of it and everything – some where already about 3 feet from the tank behind the bed!
Google Adwords multiplexer
I needed to create a list of word combinations for Google Adwords. I created a tool to do this for me. I thought the world would find it useful.
I can enter my base bid, and have certain words up that base bid so more popular terms can be bided on appropriately.
Walmart checkout lines
The lines at Walmart are getting so bad that they decided to put in TVs to keep the waiting customers occupied.
This is a obvious ackowlegement on Walmart’s behalf that they knowingly have a wait in the checkout line.
Lets not staff a few more checkout lines, lets entertain them while they wait. Feed them commercials, they will come back.
Two different stores, both with TVs installed at the checkouts.
Blogging from my cell phone. Gas pumps. What causes them to slow down to a stop when it gets cold out. I was at a station and had to leave.