From wikipedia: "The Easter Bunny or Easter Rabbit (sometimes Spring Bunny in the U.S.^[1][2][3]) is a character depicted as a rabbit bringing Easter eggs, who sometimes is depicted with clothes. In legend, the creature brings baskets filled with colored eggs, candy and sometimes also toys to the homes of children, and as such shows similarities to Father Christmas, as they both bring gifts to children on the night before their respective holiday."

The Easter Bunny – a simple rabbit that performs almost the same duties as Santa Claus… but without the support staff. No flying reindeers, no sleigh, no elves to build toys. No, the Easter Bunny has to do it all on his own. Can you imagine a little rabbit hauling just a bunch of candy? Imagine the eggs, not just having to carry them around, but also having to hardboil them all! And then hide them! AHHHH! Santa has all kinds of magic (and Elves) to get his duties done, what does this bunny have? Nothing!

And what's the deal with the eggs? Why is a rabbit hiding eggs laid by a chicken?

So….

I started to wonder how much weight this magic bunny has to carry around just in eggs. I have no idea the number of kids who have eggs hidden for them, so I'll just use some obviously low numbers.

1 egg is about 2oz. If we assume each city has 100 kids that have to find eggs, and that each one has to find 8 eggs (just to make an even pound per kid), and pretend that there are only 1,000 cities that need to be visited – that comes out to 100,000lbs of eggs (1lb x 100kids * 1,000cities = 100,000). Crazy!

What about the volume? In the above example we have  800,000 eggs at 2oz each, there are 128fl oz in a gallon, so that gives us 64 eggs per gallon (ignore the switch from oz to fl oz please 🙂 ), or 12,500 gallons of eggs.

So even using extremely conservative numbers, and sloppy math, we can see the insanity that this bunny has to deal with. My suggestion to the Easter Bunny: form an army of monkeys and send out the Easter Monkeys to do the leg work.

Yep, I said it. Easter Monkeys.

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The last time I visited Taco Bell I was given a flyer to take their survey and win an iPad 2.

There are 2 things that jumped out at me:

1. tellthebell.com is a great domain name. It's short (relatively) and to the point, it rhymes(!), and it's super easy to remember. They could have gone with "telltacobell" which still has all the characteristics I just listed, but "tellthebell" has a better rhythm to it – it's obvious that someone on Taco Bell's advertising team can actually think outside the box (or bun, in this case). (much better than walgreen's tellwag.com)
2. an iPad 2? Didn't Apple just release the New iPad? The prize, while still cool, seems a bit dated. Is the second place prize a 1990 Honda Accord?

What do you think? Leave your comments below.

There are a few web comics that were published this week that I thought were really great – I'm not going to steal the images, hotlink to them, or bother to create thumbnails. I'm just going to put links to them. Starting… now!

1. Networking (xkcd) – This totally makes me want to become a business professional!
2. Not Winter (left-handed toons) – This guy shares my superpower!
3. Craps (left-handed toons) – This was me in Vegas. I spent a lot of time around the craps table trying to make sure I understood how to play. I never did get up the confidence to jump in and throw some dice though.

This morning, while I was walking from my car into work, I heard a rustling noise.
It was a plastic bag stuck on the branches of a bush.
My first thought was that it was trapped, and I should help it get free… then the other half of my brain kicked in and reminded me that plastic bags aren't alive.

Still, I hope he made it wherever he was trying to go.

On Saturday I received an email from Dreamhost (my webhost) that they had detected an intrusion on one of their servers on Thursday night.
Passwords may have been compromised.
As a result, ALL users had their passwords reset and were forced to create new ones. I had nine users myself, so trying to come up with new passwords took a bit of time.

Sunday I received an email from one of my WordPress instances that there were new users being registered… something that shouldn't have been happening. Luckily they were unable to do anything more than that, but I spent a good chunk of the day locking things down. I changed all my database passwords (just for good measure), deleted unused users, deleted unused WordPress blogs (there were like 15 of them set up for my ebay project that has been dead for about a year now), and did a bit of extra tidying – just because.

End result: nothing was negatively affected, although I did have a few moments that one might refer to as "panic attacks".

On a much more pleasant note, I start a 13 week Tai Chi class on Thursday. 3 days! WOOOOOH!

I must learn this dance!