Yay! Amazon has notified me that a certain pre-order has shipped. Hooray! \o/

And now I see I'm not the only one who has mentioned it on my flist. Hee hee.

I'm still alive. Speaking of being alive, I wanna be this guy when I'm 73.

While I've got you here, if any of y'all missed the DJ Earworm top songs of 2009 mashup when it went around before, it's pretty fucking amazing. Though I admit I'm an easy target for that sort of thing. Easy like your mom ( Read more... )

Hey, look what our fair city just opened for us a couple blocks away to welcome us to the city ( Read more... )

Oh man, I love Aaron Diaz so much. Maybe post-Singularity I can have his babies.

http://dresdencodak.com/2009/05/15/a-thinking-apes-critique-of-trans-simianism-repost/

In living so long and spending so much time ‘thinking,’ do we ( Read more... )

I just heard my first conservative threaten to move to "umm...New Zealand...I guess." I hear China's pretty good for pure, raw free market folks as long as you don't say anything bad about the...ahem...Communist party.

Here's hoping today is better then yesterday. Time to get started.

One of the strangest things about the new job?

Digging through "old" code that was written in 2007 or 2008. Brain asplody.

Work as a software engineer can be kind of bizarre. Take today for example, which began with a low-grade excitement because I knew today I was going to get to try a new trick that would turn out to be a pretty nifty new tool in my toolbox if it worked. The excitement built as things were taking shape well over the course of the morning to elation ( Read more... )

Sysadmins of the world, please save my poor city...

Today's Globe Story

Particularly of note, the city IT office was unable to retrieve more than 18 of the aide's emails because he "double-deleted" them. Where "double-deleting" involves the nefarious steps of deleting an email, then emptying the trash. Whoops! All backups gone! All traces of ( Read more... )

You know those times when kids make a cognitive leap that kind of blows your mind? After countless times of offering us bits of his food and us pretending to eat it and put it back (because, you know, sweet but eww!), last night the kidlet picked up one of his toys, took a huge pretend bite out of it, and looked straight at me while literally ( Read more... )