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Random thoughts and Chinese food
I had to chuckle. On the way back to the office after picking up the cats at the vets, dropping them at home, and swinging by China 88 for some tasty comestibles, As is my wont when there's no one to talk to on 40 meters, I got to button-pushing on the stereo. I landed on 94.7, which is shared on a rotating basis by low power stations owned by ( Read more... ) -
(*tap*tap*tap*) Is this thing on? (*tap*tap*SQUEEEEEEEEAL*tap*)
Well, another year, another Livejournal posting. What's new? Well, um... Amanda's at UF and has moved out of the house (kinda sorta mostly), Laura's at Santa Fe doing the dual enrollment thing. Front bathroom's gutted and mostly rebuilt - still have baseboards, a bit of plastering, electrical and the last of the plumbing to do. Now suemac's got the ( Read more... ) -
Getting the Simulator Bug ™ again
So I've been doing a bunch of reading online about the current state of the home simulation arena, and stumbled across an absolutely brilliant idea - build a simulation cockpit with touchscreens for panel displays. Just brilliant, along the lines of "Why didn't I think of that before?!?!?"Now I've got in my headbones a concept for a low-to-the- ( Read more... ) -
Compounded syncing headaches ahead - take aspirin, hide under desk
So the word recently came down from On High™ (Read: UF's CIO) that all UF IT employees must migrate email and calenders to Exchange, I think by the end of this month. Needless to say, this has not be welcomed with open arms here at Stately Eight Bit Manor ( Read more... ) -
Addressing the provenence of the present occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
(*Insert standard I AM NOT A LAWYER disclaimer here ( Read more... ) -
The Obligatory Reminiscence...
Tuesday, September 11, 2001: Several of us from the office were at InterOp in Atlanta. I was in a session and came out for a stretch break. A bunch of people were gathered around an information kiosk in the convention center lobby that had a TV showing the news. I wandered over and asked what was up. Someone told me, "There's been a terrible ( Read more... ) -
Rant on - Score Another One for The Janus Party
Response I made in a thread over on Patriot Action Network about the whole "I want to give my jobs speech the same night as the GOP debate" kerfluffle:
You people really don't get it, do you? Someone in that Administration is a *master* of political theater. The President just handed Speaker Boehner is very own set of prime-time political ( Read more... ) -
Things To Do, A New Short List
So Saturday marks the long-awaited start of football season (GO GATORS!!!), and there's some Things What Need Doin' t' git done 'fore Saturday night and the madding throng's descent upon Stately Eight Bit Manor, to wit:
- Return incorrect model toilet to Home Cheapot and obtain correct model
- Install said commode in guest bathroom
- Clear garage space ( Read more... )
- Return incorrect model toilet to Home Cheapot and obtain correct model
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Brace yourself for Politics!
And so, Speaker Boehner cajoled the House into sending onto the Senate this wonderful "solution to the debt ceiling crisis (said crisis being of course, manufactured out of whole cloth by the Administration, but that's another diatribe for another time)", which the Senate of course lost no time in passing and dropping on the President's desk for ( Read more... ) -
Atlanta... a retrospective
So Monday morning suemac and I decamped for Hotlanta, ostensibly for me to do network work for UF. But we all know the REAL reason to go to Atlanta is for the plethora of vendors of culinary excellence, all designed to separate you from the bulk of your cash and all of your diet ambitions ( Read more... )