Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Update 30 iPads

These iOS updates, am I right?

I actually had 32 iPads to update (five were already updated, one won't turn on, one can't handle the Wi-Fi no matter what I do, and one was dead from not being plugged in).

Saturday, September 24, 2016

30 (+) Brewfest Tokens

It's Brewfest again in Azeroth!

I was wondering how many trips with the ram I could make for the keg delivery daily, and I lost count while I was doing it. I looked up the typical maximum and it's about 17, which sounds about right. So instead of counting trips, we'll count tokens received. I probably got about 45 (15 trips) so we could say I made thirty one-way trips between Brewfest outside of Ironforge and Kharanos, or I made 30 tokens (then kept going). Either way works for me.

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

List 30 Examples for Costume Program

I'm doing a costume program with the public library in a few weeks, and I'm in the planning stage. Part of the program will be about how to come up with costume ideas that work for last-minute or minimum-effort costumes. One of the techniques is finding characters who wear "normal" clothes but are still distinct enough to be recognizable. Bonus points for doing a specific episode or reference (like Homer Simpson as Mr. Plow instead of just Homer Simpson). Another method is to see what you have in your own wardrobe and see what they match up with. I want to have lots of visual examples so that I can reach a wider audience with my examples, so today I made sure I had at least 30 ideas, which I will put in a slideshow so we can click through them.

Characters from:
The Simpsons
Bob's Burgers
Futurama
Adventure Time (may call for body paint)
Nintendo (Mario, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, Peach, Rosalina...)
Scooby-Doo (bonus points if you have a brown Great Dane with you)
Mad Max
Walking Dead
Pokemon (Ash, Misty, Brock, Nurse Joy, Officer Jenny...)
Archer
Star Trek uniforms
Daria

Individuals:
Ramona Flowers
Rosie the Riveter
Napoleon Dynamite
Lara Croft
Han Solo
Leeloo

General:
Pirate
Zombie
Celebrities you kinda look like
Memes

Disneybound (Disney character closet cosplay)

Puns:
Life, handing out lemons
Alice in chains
Ceiling fan
Holy cow
Hawaiian punch

Mashups:
Dumbledora the explorer
Taco Belle

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

30 People I Talked to Today

In order to work on my memory and also consider more closely the social interactions I have throughout the day, I reflected on my day and can name thirty people I talked to. (I excluded the 21 students in the class I taught because I don't remember them individually.)

Birk (of course)
Co-workers: MM, HF, BW, GL, SF, KD, DO, LK, JK, TP, PS, MGr, NS, BA, Amy, Shevin, Jackie, Christina.
Patrons: lady from the city, guy there for training, girl who needed print help, guy who talked about tattoos, girl who (separately) talked about tattoos, guy who needed guest Wi-Fi, girl with him, lady on the phone, guy who asked about the display.
Away from work: Melinda at Wawa, guy at Iggles.

That's 30 people! I know I talked to more people than that (for example, I know I gave out at least 4 guest Wi-Fi passes today, but I don't remember any of the actual people other than the two I listed) but these are the ones I remember and can conjure up.

Saturday, September 17, 2016

Read 30 Pages

I was hoping to save this one for much later, and use it when I was starting to run out of ideas, but there you have it.

And to salt the wound, the thirty pages I read were of Catcher in the Rye. Yeesh.

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Put Away 30 Dishes

I've been a terrible homemaker this week. Probably because I've been too busy dying on the couch. That's a slight exaggeration, but I've barely been able to leave the apartment, much less clean it. So I've had a dishwasher full of clean dishes for a couple days now, and the other dishes were starting to get impatient about getting in.

I put away 30 items out of the dishwasher, then took a photo of what was still left in the dishwasher:


Why? Well, I've already realized that some of these "30 things" are going to make 30 look like a huge number. (Wait until I try doing 30 push-ups, or running 30... name a distance.) But some of them, like this one, make 30 seem like a pretty small number. Granted, I did do silverware early, and that was at least a dozen items right there, but I really thought 30 items would be almost everything in the dishwasher. Maybe a few glasses or bowls would be left, but this load turned out to be 42 things. Neat!