Hello, darlings. I've fallen off the face of LiveJournal for the past three weeks or so. Work's been very busy and I just don't feel like it when I'm at home so I really haven't been keeping up on your lives lately. I hope everyone is doing well. Please update me if you like. Give me the highlights. Tell me the stuff I definitely shouldn't ( Read more... )

Tomorrow night, I fly out to Las Vegas. Originally the trip was for a wedding but that's been pushed back. Now I have four days of care-free fun to look forward to. That means I won't be seeing any of you until Thursday, most likely ( Read more... )

Today has been a stressfull, undeniably shitty workday.  Please cheer me up.

_Phaedrus_

I know a lot of really smart people who do interesting things and write interesting stuff.  Just wanted to say that I thank my lucky stars every day for knowing people like mayhem_chaos, infohazard, giantlaser, elsparquito, loudrthanwrds and others.  I realise I've left out several of you who write interesting stuff on a regular basis but I wanted to post compliments to these folks because they all ( Read more... )

I just got one of those Nigerian scam emails you always hear about (only it's from Dubai this time).  Just to waste their time, I wrote back pretending to be very excited at the great opportunity they offered and asking why they chose me as the benificiary of $17 million in unclaimed funds.  I really hope they write me back.  This ought to be good ( Read more... )

I remember last year when LJ was bought by Six Apart, all the oldbies who had been designing and running LJ from the beginning swore up and down that this would not introduce some new commercial element to the mix.  A lot of us were worried about this exact thing happening.  As a matter of fact, in the early days (2001) when I first started my ( Read more... )

...and it's pretty much the most beautiful day of the year outside.  Light breeze, sun, perfectly mild temperature, fresh growth everywhere...I think I'd rather be anywhere but this windowless office right now.

_Phaedrus_

You know how some people are color blind?  I think some people are body language blind.  Let me preface this by saying I'm totally stoked about my student sysadmin whom I hired last year.  He's a really smart, amazingly productive person...but he insists on giving me the play-by-play of every little change he makes and what broke and what's great ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, Heather!

Today marks the anniversary of the day our lovely and talented isis_page entered this world.  Everyone who knows and loves this girl, please join me in singing her praises on this special day.  Big hugs, darlin'!
Hopefully I'll catch up with you on Monday! :)

_Phaedrus_

So, I'm going to see a rare orchestrion showing tomorrow in Atascadero and I'm inviting anyone out there who wants to join me. For those who don't know, an orchestrion is a bit like a player piano on steroids. The machines date back to the 1800's and early 1900's and are a genuine marvel of engineering. Instead of playing music like a piano, ( Read more... )