I got up this morning feeling very rested when the alarm went off, lazed in bed for a while, and eventually got up. Andrea commented that her phone said it was an hour later than the clock showed. We wondered if the phone had somehow switched over early... bizarre, especially for a connected device. (You can tell if you're following along at ( Read more... )

I am in Ottawa, for a conference. I should have gone straight to bed when I got back to the room two hours ago, after dinner with my company (and my wine quota for the quarter). But I had an unfinished book sitting by my bedside, and I simply could not stop myself. At least the talk I was giving was this morning, when I was fresh, not tomorrow ( Read more... )

I'm enjoying a mid-week weekend. mrblackwood said that this weekend felt like Monday, Friday, weekend, Monday, Friday, and that's totally true - in fact it's so true that I tried to go out for dinner a little early yesterday to beat the Friday rush and didn't realize until after we were seated that it was still Tuesday ( Read more... )

Two people on my friends list have already posted this but I don't care, I have to share anyway.
Especially recommended to anyone who has ever played Zork or been a graduate student.
zwol, that means I'm talking to you.

And then I was eaten by a grue

I want something from the world. A fairly simple thing, I think. This is what I want ( Read more... )

After a pissed off week of messing around with cables, splitters, jacks, modems, and ranting, I think my phone is working again. About two weeks ago, it developed a loud and dreadful case of static. It came and went, and most notably went away when the DSL was unplugged. Which meant I couldn't test it downstairs at the junction box and thus I ( Read more... )

I keep meaning to update this more regularly, but it just hasn't happened... the last couple of months have been somewhat overwhelming. And I'm way too easily distracted. Case in point: I have about five projects I was GOING to work on this weekend, but instead I finished reading EVERY LAST STRIP of Questionable Content. It's hella funny. Oh my ( Read more... )

Some photos from Devin and Beth's housewarming party are up now; not very many. The highlights are Shadow and the power drilled pork.

I've put up a second blog. I mostly use LiveJournal for friends and personal stuff; the other one, assuming I keep updating it, is going to be more geeky. It's on Planet Debian, so it's got a whole lot more readers than I'm used to...

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Other times a picture can be priceless. Here's a priceless one for all of you:


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