I'm copying the contents of my home whiteboard to here, so I can deal with this stuff elsewhere and reclaim the space. This might hold some interest for Chaotic people wondering why there will be downtime tomorrow. All of these things vaguely represent stuff that needs to be set up, copied onto, or removed from one of our normal NetBSD ( Read more... )

Bluh. So I just locked myself out of the house while xel_'s at work and kareila's out of town. I called Alex from the neighbors' house (yup, forgot my cellphone too), so he'll come home and let me in. Meanwhile, there's a shade tree and a lawn chair in the back yard (good thing we got it mowed!), and I can use my laptop out here if I don't sit too far from ( Read more... )

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My grandmother Griffin, from whom I learned a lot of excellent reasons not to do certain things, hated Valentine's Day. It was her birthday, but that wasn't the heart of the problem. To her, it was a painful reminder of the romance she once lost ( Read more... )

Sunday after we got back from Providence I held the camera out the kitchen window and caught the sun setting on these icicles. Yes, the birdfeeder is very empty.

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At some point the shopping cart metaphor for online purchasing breaks down, and I have to wonder why some sites use it. I occasionally go browsing the web for objects of beauty (no, not porn), to convince myself that not everything is junk, and run across stuff like this. $82,000.00 (Add to Cart). Right. Like it would fit ( Read more... )

when the
automatic caution door
swallowed me whole
once before
it stole
all the people and the sun
took a vacation
from fun
but none
of the serious slush
shut me inside
the hush
just died

Ugh. I was doing so well last week at the LISA conference. I was sleeping 11pm to 7am without having to use an alarm clock or wakeup calls. Here I am three days later going to work at 2:30am just because there's nothing to do at home. Naturally it wouldn't occur to my brain to actually get sleepy at the same time for two weeks in a row. Bork bork ( Read more... )

For kareila, saw this in tikva's journal: paint by numbers.

There's something distinctly odd about these "Robby is" things from Google. Were other people's this funny? kareila kept pointing to more that I just had to post.

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