In Search of Ice Cream

Now, here’s the levity you may need today.

A software engineer who loves his McDonald’s ice cream cones has designed a website with a map showing every location in the United States and whether its ice cream machine is working or broken.

Brilliant, man. Just brilliant.

If you like McDonald’s ice cream cones, sadly, you will relate to this. They are delicious! It’s just, they’re often hard to actually acquire. The gentleman (like so many of us if we can be perfectly honest, here) was simply tired of not being able to get the ice cream cone he was seeking because the machine was broken…and so, he did something about it.

Now, thanks to his efforts you can check to see if the ice cream machine is working before you head out to go pick up a cone. Green dot means it’s working. Red dot means it’s broken.

Gotta say, this is a pretty good example of turning frustration into fruitfulness. Bravo sir, lol.

Have a great day!

Fun with Fatherhood – Emoticons

So, my youngest son has learned how to use those wonderful little emoticon things in messages. His Dad only recently learned how to do this, thanks to a more iPhone savvy friend who was gracious enough to help.

I showed him how to set it up on his iPod last night.

Now I am getting messages like this one from my little guy…and apparently I’m going to have to procure plane fare to Antarctica as a result.

Gotta love technology 🙂

Today’s Question: Google Plus is Now Open to Everyone…Are You In?

Well, it’s official. We are all special enough to join Google+ now. The bouncers have left their posts at the entrance doors and the VIP tag has been removed.

https://plus.google.com/

From the Google guy’s blog post today:

100. Anyone can sign up for Google+—no invitation required.
For the past 12 weeks we’ve been in field trial, and during that time we’ve listened and learned a great deal. We’re nowhere near done, but with the improvements we’ve made so far we’re ready to move from field trial to beta, and introduce our 100th feature: open signups. This way anyone can visit google.com/+, join the project and connect with the people they care about.

Over the next day we’ll be rolling out all of these features globally. In the meantime, you can check out what’s next in Google+.

So, are you going to be a part of it? Vote below.