A long time ago, I saw a picture that was a strobe shadowgraph of a handgun being fired. The compresion waves from the shot were clearly visible and the bullet was only a short distance from the end of the barrel. You could also see the compresion gases venting out of holes on top of the barrel to keep the recoil from lifting it. I'm not sure, ( Read more... )

I spent several hours today teaching a woman how to drag and drop files. Hours ( Read more... )

Got home Friday after work and passed right out. Slept for about 16 hours, much to the frustration of Marisa ( Read more... )

A co-worker of mine was having a issue where when she tried to open an IE shortcut it would open in an open window instead of a new window. I had previously had this problem on my work machine so I new it was just a setting somewhere that needed to be changed. I did a quick google search to see if I could find where to change the setting faster ( Read more... )

People-people, baby-baby, baby-baby, people-people, people-people, pencil-pencil, pencil-pencil, paper-paper, put the pencil to the paper, give the paper to the people, let the people read about the cello tape, oh baby-baby.

OK...Ready?

(Deep Breath!)...and go ( Read more... )

Servers are down at work. Think that's a sign from the almighty to update LJ ( Read more... )

Bicycle: The Google Maps directions took us through some abandoned warehouses south of the stadiums but got us there ok. Parking was scarce, though we got lucky finding someone who was just leaving. Food was fantastic. Everything was delicious, if a bit on the artsy side. My steak would have been improved by fewer crazily-cut vegetables ontop, ( Read more... )

My company (in an effort to combine all of its brands under one name) has decided that they would like for all of our e-mail addresses to end in Citi.com rather than citifinancial.com or citiretail.com or citimortgage.com etc. Yesterday, they migrated all of our accounts to a new mail server. This processes was not well organized (the ( Read more... )

The other night Risa and I went down to Georgetown to celebrate Kidder's birthday. There were 19 people total that went to Benihana's. The food was good and the chef entertaining, but the service was terrible. By far the worst service that I have ever seen. Here's a sample of one of many conversations with the waiter ( Read more... )