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My desk phone rang a few minutes ago. That's pretty unusual all by itself; it's only happened a handfull of times ever (in a coupld of years). I looked in surprise at the phone, which displayed the caller as "Reception." We don't have a reception desk in this building (I'm on a first name basis with the UPS delivery driver), so it took my brain a ( Read more... ) -
Philosophy as extracted from my cookie file
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
If you can't fix it, don't break it.
Just because it works doesn't mean it ain't broke.
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I took a few pictures at the East Kingdom coronation on Saturday.
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Archery and Lasers
Given the types of people I hang out with, I should apologize up front for the title of this post, as I am not in fact writing about combining lasers with archery (nor the even sillier reverse). No, this is about what the two areas have in common -- in my thoughts, at the very least ( Read more... ) -
Leaking house...
Woken up this morning to help deal with water dripping into our mud room. Fortunately Josh had found it before I woke up and he and Kris had the mess mostly cleaned up before I was really conscious ( Read more... ) -
"birthday of the Internet"
So here we are, around the quarter-century anniversary of the original proposal for the project that produced the first versions of HTTP and HTML. And a lot of people really don't get (or, to be fair, care about) the difference between the Internet and the World-Wide Web. [1]I'm not really sure that I consider "Tim Berners-Lee" to be a ( Read more... ) -
"Easily Amused"
Addressed to no one in particular (oh, okay, it's you -- I admit it): you use the phrase "easily amused" as if it were a bad thing. I assume that at some point you explained why, but I seem to have missed that conversation. -
flying out of little tiny airports in the snow
Apparently, at this airport, they have to send out for the mechanic when a plane has mechanical problems. As in, call him at home ( Read more... ) -
Cool I suppose, but I still have to learn a new lock combination...
Look, I knew that in theory, gym locks will break eventually. But I never expected to run into an existence proof of this fact, short of visiting a manufacturer of cheap locks. Nonetheless, I have just had a Master lock (of the model that's usually the only lock style available in a drug store) die on me. I have no idea how I built my habits into ( Read more... ) -
Book review: "Liars & Outliers (enabling the trust that society needs to thrive)", Bruce Schneier
I finally got around to posting my review on Amazon, so I'll also announce this essay on LJ. You can read it on my website.