The Alcoholian is a friend and former co-worker of mine, and his tales of hamburger experimentation have inspired me. Specifically, they've inspired me to actually put some effort into making hamburgers, rather than just buying pre-made patties and throwing them on the grill ( Read more... )

I am... not an artist. I occasionally have to mess around with a photograph in Gimp, to crop it or resize it or convert the format, but that's basically the extent of my graphics skill.

Yesterday, for my other blog, I decided I wanted a version of the standard RSS feed icon (
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http://xkcd.com/627/

That's not entirely correct, though; the other part of the equation is how I know, for example, a way to turn closed captioning on/off on our DVR in fewer button presses than misphit uses (this is significant because even that smaller number is something like 17... they just didn't think people would change it once they'd set it to ( Read more... )

Today I've done a bit of cleaning and reorganizing of my home office... I hesitate to show pictures even now, but I've made some progress. The Sun Ultra 10, E-250, and E-4500 are all stacked vertically (on shelves, not on each other!), old laptops are getting closer to a point where I can turn them in to Goodwill for recycling (both the 500MHz ( Read more... )

More bad? 2 girls 1 cup. (Don't, don't, DON'T Google that ( Read more... )

ehowton subtly prodded me to update here, since it's been precisely a month since my last blog post. Between trying to keep my other blog updated, losing another family member, and being out of town and far away from Internet access a fair bit lately, I haven't really felt much push to update here. I'm also pretty focused on work right now; it's work ( Read more... )

I drove up with my mother, brother, and his girlfriend yesterday; from Austin to a small town outside Kansas City in about 13 hours. My sister, her husband, and our father came up separately, with other family coming in from California and all over Kansas. We had a brief memorial at my grandmother's grave at Mt. Muncie Cemetery this morning; my ( Read more... )

Shaved my head this evening. I'll try to update the avatar pic later.

Tried to use my new laptop at the place where WPA is required last night, it worked about as well as it did when I had OpenBSD on my old T23. It never connected, never indicated any problem, nothing ever happened. Without any kind of error messages, tracking down the problem is kind of a pain; I'm just trying different things and seeing what ( Read more... )

This time last night, misphit and I were just getting back from taking our Basset Hound Beth to the emergency vet down the street, for lack of appetite, vomiting, and bloody diarrhea. While at the vet, Beth at one point went over to a corner, squatted, and let loose about a cup of blood with a minimum of fecal matter... which I got to clean up, because ( Read more... )