Last Sunday, cmat, ruato, and I went to Scarborough Faire to see the_barticus in action, along with various other sights. We met up with ndrtoon and _fool and friends while there. A splendid time was had by all.

I took 1GB of pictures while I was there:


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It's been way too long since I've updated anything, and I've had a backlog of pictures to post, so here they are:

On my way to work this morning, I had to stop and wait for a group of ducks to cross:


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I'm way behind on posting things, but here's a quick note:

I took the last four days off of work, mostly to get stuff done around the house. On Wednesday, though, I went out with MrCrankyPants to Llano, TX to take some pictures. Here's a tiny crop from one of them:


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At a recent trip to Fry's, I picked up the Afterglow Live DVD/CD set by Sarah McLachlan. There was a little official-looking sticker on the front of the packaging, warning that the included audio CD was PROTECTED AGAINST UNAUTHORIZED COPYING and other such nonsense ( Read more... )

I want to write a full entry for each of these, but just in case I figured I'd sum up.

I had a super-geeky weekend, playing with a number of new toys:

• My Mac showed up! It is tiny, but mighty. I am using it now.
• I got a new case for the household server machine.
• I bought an ATI HTDV Wonder card for the server. Then I installed it, played with it ( Read more... )

I have ordered a Mac. In 3-4 weeks, that will mean something.

I was going to mention this a while ago, but I got distracted.

The "Evolution is just a theory" stickers that were placed on Georgia school textbooks were ruled unconstitutional.

You may have seen that on a news site. What you probably missed is this brilliant collection of other textbook disclaimer stickers.

Background: I recently rewrote our lab's assignment submission system to be all web-based. So far the deployment has been without any incidents at all, so all appears to be going well. The system was developed running under a local copy of IIS on my XP machine for convenience, and then configured under Apache for the actual server, because I'm ( Read more... )

A couple of days ago I was walking from the parking garage to my office, and passed by some groundsworkers using a gas-powered air compressor. It sounded exactly like a flying slig. It was fairly unnerving, actually.

I occasionally use my LJ to post reviews of gadgets or DVDs, but one thing I've meant to do for a while was start posting comparative DVD reviews, as an increasing number of films are being rereleased in packages that are described as "Special Edition", "Digitally Remastered", "Ultimate", or, god help us, "Extreme". But how special is the "Special ( Read more... )