All right! The huge scary network configuration is ready to be tested. It authenticated when the exact same setup failed two and a half hours earlier - no reason why - but it's working and goddamnit it'll be all behind me after tomorrow ( Read more... )

The last three or four days have been really busy/eventful and I've been online almost not at all. I'll try to get everything up to date over the course of several posts ( Read more... )

The QA guys are absolutely insane. Matt bought a webcam under the behest of his wife to remotely check up on their dog at home. So while he has it here, he, Tom, and Jeff rigged it up as our own surveillance camera. There's a big storage closet next to the QA lab that's usually open and full of crap. They ran a long ethernet cable into the space ( Read more... )

I don't think of New Hampshire as being all that rural-retarded, but this work email is platinum. I think it speaks for itself ( Read more... )

Musing #11

Learning Over Teaching

trust
adj.

1. Firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing.
2. Custody; care.
3. Something committed into the care of another; charge.
4. The condition and resulting obligation of having confidence placed in one: violated a public trust5. One in which confidence is placed ( Read more... )

"Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer." - Dave Barry ( Read more... )

Almost every Tuesday and Thursday, some of the guys from our company and a couple from neighboring buildings join in a game of Ultimate Frisbee during lunch hour (there's lots of flat field area at Pease). I haven't played with them for a couple weeks now and so Eric guilted me into playing today. HOLY SHIT WHAT A BAD IDEA. I'm looking at Weather. ( Read more... )

I usually avoid them. I liked this one, though.

(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

✓ I miss somebody right now.  (Several somebodies. And I always miss the past.)
✓ I don't watch much TV these days.
× I own lots of books.  (I wouldn't say lots.)

× I wear glasses or contact lenses.
✓ I love to play video games. ( Read more... )

Yesterday afternoon we had An Ominous Company Meeting. Turns out Meetinghouse has been bought by Cisco in an acquisition. Part of the employees are staying in a newly formed company and most of the rest, including me, are going to be Cisco employees by mid-August. Same job, same place, just another name to tack onto my resume I guess. It's not a ( Read more... )

I received an email in my corporate email that was so ridiculous I just had to share it ( Read more... )