Completely Saturated

It’s that time of the year for gift exchange. Our office is having its first annual “Christmas Gift Exchange”. This means it’s not a white elephant, it’s not a Secret Santa, it’s some kind of hybrid-thingy where the rules are quite clear and extensive.

The rules are:

• All gifts should be wrapped (and may I suggest you make yours look extra special). Put the gifts under the tree. Make sure you do NOT put your name on it.
• Each person selects a number from a basket to determine the order in which a person gets to select a gift. Number 1 goes first and gets to select and unwrap a gift. Everyone oohs and ahhs!
• Number 2 then selects. But they may take Number 1’s gift or they may select a gift from the pile. If they take Number 1’s gift, Number 1 gets to select again from the pile. After he/she has finished his/her turn, Number 3 gets to select.
• Once again, he/she may select any opened or unopened gift. Each time a gift is taken away from someone, that person gets to select again. He/she may select any gift except the one that was just taken away from them. He/she may however, have the opportunity to select it again later

Normally I wouldn’t even lift an eyebrow to this idea but when I got the email I realized that there are just too many rules. I mean come on its just gift giving. This isn’t the freak’n Red Cross or something. And to top it all off the limit is 5 bucks!! Come on, you can’t hardly even get a coffee at Starbucks for that!!

Anyways, confined by the rules I thought what the heck am I going to do. Well, my prayers have been answered. Wired has a great article about how to pick out, achem, gifts for office parties. Their how-to suggests several questions to ask your self before purchasing a gift, like What is his/her favorite color? Does s/he have an iPod? Is there anything that s/he is allergic to? And if that doesn’t solve the problem you can always wing it and just buy them a gift card to Starbuck for 5 bucks.

Doc Scott came out with a massive mix of what i consider some of the best DnB. This is one of the best sets I’ve seen from the old’skewlers in a long time. But if you check out his Myspace page you’ll see that he’s still turning out chune after chune!

Listen to it!

I found this video of Matt Cutts, who heads up Google’s webspam team. In this video he talks about the anatomy of a search result and how you can help improve how your site appears in Google’s results pages.

kinda interesting…

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In keeping with the holiday season I thought I would post a how on carving a turkey. This year I’m hosting my entire family at my house and I’ll be the one carving the turkey. Some think it’s just as simple as taking a knife and start cutting. Well, there’s more to it than that my friends.

Some things you’ll need are:

• 1 roast turkey
• 1 sharp knife. A boning or carving knife, which has a long, narrow blade or electric carving knife is best, but any very sharp knife will do.
• 2 cutting boards
• 1 fork and/or rubber gloves or silicone mitt (the turkey is hot!)
• 1 platter (or 2), ready to receive carved pieces

And now, how to carve a turkey!