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Ah, the Holidays
I hope all of you have had a [merry|happy|joyous|blessed|great] [Christmas|Chanukkah|Saturnalia|Yule|other non-sectarian day off], and are enjoying the Holiday Season so far.
On the subject of Christmas, Bob Rivers' I am Santa Claus (parody of I am Iron Man has a serious contender for the #1 spot on my Christmas playlist: O Come All Ye Faithful as ( Read more... ) -
Random Quote: Classic Blunders
You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha [sudden silence]
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No good deed....
Just this Friday, a real brat of a student came up to Lise and said he'd like to pay her 10 of his earned "classroom bucks" as thanks for "forcing" him to read books since the start of the year and teaching him a new way to entertain himself. How's that for rewarding?
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And the geek shall inherit the earth
I spent the better part of three hours on Sunday installing Cygwin/X on my home Windows box just so I could use Quanta+ instead of Dreamweaver, and ssh from the commandline without using PuTTY. Why not just migrate to Solaris or FreeBSD? The wife uses the computer too. Why not partition and dual-boot? Too lazy ( Read more... ) -
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Happy Halloween!
I've just realized that it's been just over a year since I started "blogging" and contrary to what I believed, I've been able to do it with some semblance of regularity. I honestly thought it would take more effort than it does to write a few sentences about "right now," but it's been surprisingly easy and organic. It's also been ( Read more... ) -
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Some people actually think Windows is a free Operating System!
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Qualified applicants
If you think looking for a job is tough, try hiring people. It's been a heck of a week.
First, there's this applicant who applied for the Web Developer position, sends me her resume and a demo of her web programming skills. She has a degree in marketing, and has only documented that she's ever worked in HR and QC. And the demo could scarcely be ( Read more... )
