| Thursday, December 24th, 2009 |
| 7:55 am |
Countdown!
5:05 until the weekend. You know, I could really get used to this "20-hour work week" thing. :) |
| Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 |
| 5:34 pm |
Thought for the day...
The best kind of rum cake is the kind provided, dripping with rum (I don't think you're supposed to use the entire fifth...), by $CUSTOMER manager, first thing in the morning. Makes morning meetings go _so_ _much_ _better_. Rum cake in the afternoon (after all the alcohol evaporates off) is still kinda tasty (if overly moist), but not nearly as good. |
| Monday, December 21st, 2009 |
| 11:45 pm |
Zombieland
Saw it at the Drafthouse. I have a new-found appreciation for Woody Harrelson. I'm wondering where the video game is. Best dollar I ever spent on entertainment. Probably would have paid for a first-run ticket if I had realized exactly how good it was (but then I wouldn't have had a tasty, tasty beverage to keep me company). :) |
| Sunday, December 20th, 2009 |
| 1:29 pm |
Experiments in snow removal...
I started digging out 2.0 this morning, expecting that completing that would be the magical incantation that brought the snowplow (which would re-bury my car, but clear the street, giving me somewhere to _go_ when I re-excavated). And it worked... No sooner did I get the wheels uncovered, a county pickup with a snowplow blade decided to make a random pass up my block. Really random, because it didn't do streets on either side, and didn't continue up my street, just plowed my block, got stuck going around the corner, raised the blade and drove off. Unlike every single other time my block has been plowed in the last 10 years, the plow was angled to dump snow on the side of the street that does not have people parked on it. (I'm assuming there's a reason the county has always done it that way, but I'll be darned if anyone I've asked knows why...) I think the almighty is just messing with my head... |
| Saturday, December 19th, 2009 |
| 2:01 pm |
Dear $GUY_UP_THE_STREET,
Lemme see if I have this right: You bought and maintain a snowblower for those once-every-5-year snowfalls where it makes sense to actually haul it out... and then you use it to clean off your 15' front walk and 40' of frontage, being very careful to stop just shy of your property lines? *boggle* |
| Friday, December 11th, 2009 |
| 8:26 pm |
Silly Hippies!
I played hooky today, and went down to the mall to do some ark-building. When I got there (fashionably late... 9:30-10ish, when they officially started at 7:30), there were 10 people at the job site... with a combined total of one (really, really cheap) hammer and one (really, really cheap) screw gun for the lot of them. *sigh* Luckily for me (and them), I did bring tools. But then I ended up spending most of the day being "adult supervision" for people who had apparently never built anything more involved than Ikea furniture before. But at least there was something vaguely ark-like when I left (those of you at Santarchy will probably see it...). If this is their _third_ day of work, I gotta wonder what they've been doing for the last two days... And now to shower, change, and head off to the Snow Ball! Current Mood:  tired |
| Monday, December 7th, 2009 |
| 10:24 pm |
Build Ye An Ark...
Some friends-of-friends are building (with permit, etc) an ark as part of a protest regarding climate change. They're dubbing it the "Plan B Ark" (where "Plan A" is restriction emissions). I've already seen it referred to (apparently obliviously) as "The B Ark". Do I point out the origin of the phrase "B Ark", or just say nothing and hope it's too obscure a joke for the media? |
| Saturday, November 28th, 2009 |
| 1:47 pm |
Yay! I have a copy of "And Another Thing" (the ghost-written completion of Douglas Adams' last book), a nice sunny day, and a porch to read it on. :) Current Mood:  happy |
| Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 |
| 11:10 pm |
Thought for the Day...
The danger of doing professional number crunching is realizing that you've spent 45 minutes (of your own time) setting up spreadsheet number crunching on a month of gym weigh-in weights. (The trend is generally downward. Yay. Of course, a simple scatter plot made this perfectly obvious with about 10 seconds of work...) |
| Monday, November 23rd, 2009 |
| 10:16 pm |
I'm wondering why people feel the need to have high-calorie fundraisers during the holidays (because hey, everyone needs a $3 banana split after lunch, right?). Also, why other people feel the need to bring in donuts on the same day. (And I didn't feel any particular desire to partake in either. Maybe I'm growing up...) |
| Saturday, November 21st, 2009 |
| 7:43 pm |
UNIXy question...
Unix admins: I'm noticing that some of the new juniors coming in from elsewhere have a propensity for creating a new directory under / any time they're mounting something (even temporarily) or need a working directory for patches, and then just leaving them there. Is having a root with 50ish entries the new "normal", or is this just more of the fail I have come to know and hate from $OTHER_CONTRACTOR? And, in other news, picked up a cheapo webcam (1280x1024 for about $15... gosh, technology is cheap) as part of a project, plugged it in to my (home, obviously) Linux box, and it Just Worked(tm) without configuration, including the viewing software. Nifty! |
| Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 |
| 11:54 pm |
Thought for the evening...
"No, there's nothing wrong with your wifi box. Your problem is that there are 50-something 'visible' wifi networks in the area, and at least some of them are getting heavy use at the moment." |
| Monday, November 16th, 2009 |
| 5:29 pm |
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| Saturday, November 14th, 2009 |
| 11:58 am |
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| Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 |
| 12:29 pm |
Thought for the Day...
"Unpretentious" now seems to be the codeword used to identify hipster hangouts these days. (Apparently, this egregious misuse of the word is "ironic".) |
| 11:20 am |
Bleh
I'm lacking motivation to do any of the things I _should_ be doing (like, say, cleaning), and the weather precludes most of the things I want to do. But at least I got to sleep in this morning... |
| 12:00 am |
Business commentary...
Google buying Gizmo? Wow. Makes perfect sense, Google has (data) peering agreements with every major (and most midsize) carriers (and, presumably, Verizon), Gizmo has (voice) peering agreements with a lotta companies, notably including all of the cellphone carriers except for Verizon. If you aren't calling to or from a landline, Google Voice is now probably your best bet going. :) |
| Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 |
| 6:16 pm |
Dear Media...
You know, Warren Buffet has a reputation for being a pretty savvy investor. It just might be possible that he has a motive for buying a railroad other than "being some crazy old rich guy wanting to play with trains". (If I had to guess, I'd say it's a hedge on fuel prices trending significantly higher and staying there, either due to supply shortage or taxation, because, for actually moving vast amounts of stuff, trains are way more efficient than trucks. But hey, I could well be wrong.) |
| Sunday, November 1st, 2009 |
| 6:27 pm |
Quote for the day
Was chatting online with someone I know socially, who was in my neighborhood earlier this week on a job interview. Her comment was "Geez, the neighborhood seems so unlike you. I had always seen you as living on a working horse farm in upper Marlburo." Current Mood: amused |
| Friday, October 30th, 2009 |
| 5:21 pm |
As I walked home from work today, there was a sign spinner for the upcoming election on one side of the median, and a homeless person with a sign asking for money on the other. And somehow, I think that's a microcosm of where we are as a country at the moment... |
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