I'm doing an on-line course that is supposed* to help me prepare for the test for the next *big* certification for work, and the title of the next subsection is "NOM and FSM". My first thought was that the flying spaghetti monster is pleased with its food ("om nom nom") but now I'm wondering if it's being eaten instead... and if that's appropriate ( Read more... )

A fairly frequent rhetorical request at work is "more hours in a day". Last week I took Thursday and Friday off, and as of this afternoon I still hadn't caught up on everything (because of course more has been added in the meantime, with very short deadlines), so I found a way to cram more work hours into tomorrow: I volunteered to work from home ( Read more... )

January: Arisia ( Read more... )

Once again I'm officially (re)certifiable. Not the "big" one which I re-upped last year, this time it's a certification for a manufacturer who didn't send me the promised e-mail reminder/instructions for re-certification because they're in the middle of updating things and which required (a) watching hours of videos (8? 10? I lost track) and (b) ( Read more... )

I don't usually do a "what I'm thankful for" post, but... I recently choose to skip a high school reunion, and choose to not send a response to a related questionnaire (they were asking for things like favorite teacher, class, memory, etc). After the reunion, they e-mailed some stuff: a slideshow of pictures from when we were in high school and ( Read more... )

A major manufacturer recently gave a presentation via webinar, using a PowerPoint file which included this gem: "You can be easy to bring and install."

Um, yeah... I really hope the people in charge of checking their hardware are more detail oriented than the people in charge of writing/translating their marketing materials.

Apparently the local movie theater is now posting sports scores, possibly as a service to all the local sabbath observers who otherwise would have to wait until Saturday night to get the news... although they've had the same tennis* scores up for at least half a week now ( Read more... )

Last year I posted this, and this year once again we got through all the prep work and the sedarim and the rest of pesach with a lot less fuss than I remember from many of past years. This year I also remembered the too-strong maror from last year, so after G cut the maror we left it out uncovered for a couple of hours, and that plus him cutting ( Read more... )

"Grown up life is open book." - Said by me at an "Alumnae in Math, Physics & Engineering Careers Panel".

"They're ready for the zombie apocalypse." - Said by me to a colleague re a client. My next sentence was, "They've got a bunch of war rooms and one 'War Room Z'." First sentence got a startled look, the next one got a laugh.

Less than 2 weeks ago we spent 2.5 hours walking around the neighborhood in the snow to deliver shalach manot on purim. Today I was outside in my spring/fall jacket and no hat, and we spent time planning for pesach. With the longer days and later candle-lighting times (especially with DST), it's finally starting to feel like we might be done with ( Read more... )