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News Archive: 2005

  • 24 September 2005- Do you hear the sound of churchbells...must be because Dan is a married man now. Congratulations Dan! And hello to Christie. We hope you both live happily ever after, starting with a great honeymoon in Cancun.
  • 20 September 2005- Rockapella visited the Vern Riffe Center in Portsmouth tonight, and gave a phenomenal performance. If you've never heard them...well you have, but maybe you don't know them by name. Go see them. You'll love it. Doesn't matter what kind of music you like, what age you are, you'll love it. Trust us on this. No instruments except themselves, but don't let that fool you. You won't be missing instruments at all, as they fill it in vocally, including the drum beat.
  • 11 August 2005- King's Island 2005 was another great trip. Everyone had a great day, and some kind of "I'll do it if you do it" pact resulted in several people taking a giant group bungee leap...we're afraid to ask how they plan to top that next year!
  • 8 August 2005- Amy 2.0 arrived today. But not to worry, we're keeping Aimee 1.0 too. Amy 2.0 will be jumping in to manage our marketing and service efforts. She has a great history of successful work projects, and we can't wait to learn from her.
  • 25 July 2005- Our Healthcare Division will be exhibiting this week at both the AHRMM Convention in Anaheim, and the Leadership Summit in San Diego. Please stop by and say hello!
  • 5 July 2005- Welcome Kyle! Kyle will be helping out with inventory management, and we look forward to SOMEBODY finally organizing the assembly and shipping area, and reminding us to clean up after ourselves.
  • 4 July 2005- Please celebrate the 4th of July -- enjoy the food, fireworks and music. And thank someone in the military today, for all they do to preserve our way of life. Want to do just a bit more? Consider a donation to Adopt-a-Sniper (http://www.americansnipers.org), which sends personal supplies and equipment to sniper units overseas.
  • 13 June 2005- Some of our management was visiting a company in Florida this week as a potential acquisition target. The company turned out to be a disaster, and we are convinced it had to be the real-life model for the Dilbert cartoons...but Florida was pretty fun. Except for the warning signs on the beach about "sea lice." Sea lice? We never saw anything like that on Baywatch!
  • 3 June 2005- School's out for Summer! Heh heh...student interns beware...we've been waiting for you!
  • 31 May 2005- By now you've hopefully made your way through a few hours of entertainment from the Stupid TV Gameshow Answers post (May 2nd). Want something else to amaze and delight? Apparently some academics can't think of anything particularly important to research and are beefing up their CVs with really ridiculous research (let's hope not too many tax dollars are involved). From a Wall Street Journal article, Scientists Research Questions Few Would Ask .
  • 2 May 2005- If you need something really funny to read for a while, try Stupid Answers on TV Gameshows. Guaranteed to make you wonder whether oblivion really is bliss...
  • 30 April 2005- Tonight we revisited Teak Thai Cuisine in Cincinnati for our annual Thai food dinner trip. The food was good as always. And afterwards we went to our favorite ice cream shop, where the "Ice Cream Nazi" yells at everyone who orders and makes you fear turning your back on her...probably a butcher knife somewhere. We're not sure why she hates everyone in the world, but she does it really well. (By the way, nice to meet you Christie of Mystery...guess maybe Dan really didn't make you up!)
  • 31 March 2005- Sneaky Chicken reappeared today, scratching around in the lot and daring us to catch her. Aaron once again took up the role of "run the chicken towards the catchers" and Dan assisted, this time with a beach ball. Troy decided to help today, and he chased the chicken out of the trees (note: chickens are faster at flying into and out of trees than people are.) We finally captured the wily feathered creature and returned her to the cage. This time we actually cable-tied all ends of the cage to prevent escape. Imagine our surprise when 1 hour later, she was gone, leaving a mangled cage door. Some kind of Olympic steriod hen? She has now disappeared without a trace again. We are all very lonely and miss her.
  • 29 March 2005- It was with great disappointment that we arrived today to find that the hen had escaped. Wily chickens? Apparently she managed to get one side of the cage to unhinge, and made her escape before she had to start making us breakfast. No sign of her, so maybe she was magical.
  • 28 March 2005- Today the grass space between our building and parking lot was seeded and topped with hay. By this afternoon, a chicken appeared, scratching in the hay and eating seed. In downtown Portsmouth??? Maybe chickens spring from hay? After a few hours of sightings (and one employee who figured his cough medicine must be a little too strong), we decided to catch the chicken and put her in a cage in the courtyard. Apparently catching a chicken is not so easy in a large open space. But after a lot of running, some near wipe-outs by Aaron in the mud, actual flight by the chicken (who knew they could really fly?), and a really awesome jacket-smothering move by Dan, the chicken was captured. It is now happily clucking in our courtyard. Maybe we can start serving fresh eggs for breakfast soon!
  • 28 March 2005- Continuing the popular duct tape theme, we also recommend The Duct Tape Guys. You can find everything you need as a gift there as well...t-shirts, videos, mousepads, books, mugs, bumperstickers, and even dog attire. Why? We have no idea. But we like it...
  • 14 February 2005- Happy Valentine's Day! GUY HELP 101: Forget to buy flowers and need a good story before you get home? Try the History Channel's Valentine's Day scoop. Because compared to boys slicing goat hides into strips, dipping them in sacrificial blood and then wandering the streets slapping women with the goathide strips, ANYTHING you do is likely to be far better. In fact, if all imagination fails you, try a romantic kiss and those three simple words (not "grab the goat").
  • 1 February 2005- The Third Frontier Program in Ohio is continuing to expand opportunities for college students in technical majors to work for companies while in school. This great program gives students more work experience in their field, and provides both the students and their employers with an introduction to each other. And by the time the student graduates, perhaps a full-time position in an already-tested environment. We are currently providing intern positions to three Shawnee State University computer engineering students -- the newest being Troy, who just started last week. In Ohio? Check out the Third Frontier opportunities! You can even see a picture of Jeff in the Third Frontier Fall newsletter.
  • 25 January 2005- We are happy to welcome Dan to the programming staff. (Dan actually showed up at our door a couple of months ago, and while his resume was being passed around, a new position opened up -- talk about great timing!) Good luck dealing with our wacky office Dan!