Car seats stolen again. At least this time the roof wasn't cut.

Not like I need the car right now, what with looking for a new place to live and trying to figure out if this job is going away and what I want to do next. At least I got snake food last night. In a few days, I can figure out exactly how many of them need to go to the vet.

47,636 characters on a line. Same structure. I'm going to lunch.

Actual comments from the script I've been working on for two days, trying to automatically grab data from a javascript application ( Read more... )

Taxes done. This is left over from back when I would owe quite a bit of money each year, and needed the next three month to save up enough to pay them. I suspect that might happen again next year unless I buy another house between now and then, but this year I shall bask in the glory of my refund check.

A trip to St. Louis! In January!

This is probably really good for me in the long term, but short term it isn't going to be so pleasant. Now to figure out when it will fit in.

For those behind on the story, I sold the floating home and am now in an apartment very close to Seattle Center. I have a secured parking spot, so hopefully no more car breakins for now, but getting into and out of my spot takes a lot of patience ( Read more... )

Gross, Politzer, and Wilczeck win Nobel for Physics. Of course, he was the professor teaching when they decided to experiment not letting the non-physics majors collaborate when learing quantum mechanics. As a result, I think I remember even less QM than I do of other things I studied ( Read more... )

The owner of the company I work for rang the bell to open trading on the NYSE today. No one bothered to tell us this was going on ( Read more... )

For years now, I've happily shared a parking lot with a couple red 911s, and a handful of 60s to 70s British sports cars, and everything was fine. Recently, though, there's been an interloper. A yellow Lamborghini Countach. The first two times I spotted it, it was simply parked close to my car, so they were both trying to out-yellow each other ( Read more... )

I know I'm tempting fate here, but I had a sinking feeling that our backup system needed some attention since it hadn't had any problems in quite a long time. I asked the tape drive a few questions:

Last power on: 11575 hours ago
Last cleaning: 11499 hours ago
Need cleaning: No

For those without a calculator, that's 479 days without cleaning.