Odd how getting rid of some stuff I haven't used (or even looked at) for almost 10 years now can leave me with an odd empty feeling.

(But on the plus side, got rid of this week's cubic foot o' crap from long-term storage.)

... and never flying United again. Having to say "no" to attempts at upsells 6 times during check-in was bad enough. Finally getting to my seat and realizing that I was going to spend the entire f**king trip with the seat ahead of mine against my knees? Yeah, not doing this again (unless it's business travel and $CUSTOMER is willing to spring for a ( Read more... )

Somewhere between setting 11 (800Cal/hr) and setting 15 (1015Cal/hr), the stationary bike stops being my friend...

... offered by the guy on the next stationary bike over ( Read more... )

Yeah, the [cluster] instance went Cheney.

"Cheney?"

Had a heartbeat failure and ended up shooting a largely innocent box in the head.

$CUSTOMER's nannybot is perfectly OK with stories about "gay marriage".

But stories about "same-sex marriage"? Apparently an abomination that nobody should be allowed to read of.

The stuff with the half-life of 15,000 years isn't a problem.

The stuff with a half-life of 15 days (or 15 minutes) is a problem.

I picked up an old industrial touchscreen embedded control box, and am tinkering with it for possible future home control applications ( Read more... )

If you've ever self-identified with John Galt with coworkers who were pretty much ignoring you because they were actually working (you know, the same way they always blow you off, because, unlike you, they are f**king _WORKING_): You are not the objectivist superman. You are just engaged in a particularly pathetic and self-delusional display of ( Read more... )

Catching up on reading today, I saw a reference to a recent filing for chapter 9 bankruptcy, and actually knew (in vague generalities, anyway) what it was. I do not have an economics problem, I can quit any time I want...