So we have a half-baked, home-made accounting system that is utter crap.  I was up all night trying to generate a discount PRN file.  It's supposed to take 3 hours to run.  However, they have it running from a webportal.  Meaning your page times out.  So you have to refresh at the 3 hour mark, hoping that it is actually done.  Then you are prompted ( Read more... )

I know Theliel has shown me a pretty damn big Star Wars Rebel Blockade Runner.

That was impressive.

But now someone is building a minifig scale blockade runner.  It is in progress, with perhaps the first 1/3 of the ship done.  It is currently 12 feet long.

Look on in awe: Leave a comment

How awesome is UNC Hospital ( Read more... )

Since before Thanksgiving has been near-constant insanity ( Read more... )

Now living in NC, it's probably inevitable that I would have to start paying at least marginal attention to college basketball ( Read more... )

Intelligence is identifying the source of the problem.  Knowing the solution, not implementing it, then being surprised when said problem still occurs because you forgot that you didn't implement the solution.

I'm seriously so frayed right now.  As put quite well in the Hobbit: Like too little jam spread over too much toast

I hope all had a good turkey day (or non-turkey as it may be for some).  We made up for the fact that we have no family down here by celebrating Thanksgiving twice with two different friends' families.  The first was on TG day itself.  Another teacher in the county had us over.  I've brewed beer with him before (that batch wasn't ready yet, but he ( Read more... )

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R.E.M.s album Document is old enough to drink.

Edit: And their first album, Murmur, turns 25 November 25th.

I think I'm finally coming to terms with living in the NC.  I've been wondering about where we should buy a house.  The best candidates seem to be Chapel Hill (like Ann Arbor, both in atmosphere and price), Carrboro (Chapel Hill's next door neighbor, smaller, similarly liberal, little less expensive), and Hillsborough (small town, good atmosphere, ( Read more... )