This weekend is the first weekend I've had entirely off in months. I've been working 16 hour days for the last couple of weeks, preparatory to a big meeting yesterday, which went perfectly ( Read more... )

Happy New Year to all. :)

OH MY GOD! This video of the Wizards of Winter is just stunning. I spent three entire renditions figuring out how they did it. . . and I'm inspired to try it for next year at MY house. :)

Does anyone know what time it is?

You know it's going to be a long day when ( Read more... )

( Cut because it's too funny )

This game ( http://www.websudoku.com ) is evil! Fun, challenging, and a great way to stretch my pattern-matching mind. . . if you like puzzle games, this one is a nice one to play by yourself.

(You will never look at a cup of coffee the same way again.) A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose.
Her mother took her to ( Read more... )

I have a new Powermac on loan from a friend ... it's trying to run OS X 10.4.2 (Tiger). It works fine until we get the updates from Apple, at which point it fails to reboot. Argh!

We also practiced for this Sunday's gig. . .

We named the computer ISAAC (after Isaac Newton), and of course the hard drive is called ISHMAEL. :)

Sitting by the window of her convent, Sister Barbara opened a letter from home one evening. Inside the letter was a $100 bill her parents had sent. Sister Barbara smiled at the gesture. As she read the letter by the window, she noticed a shabbily dressed stranger leaning against the lamp post below ( Read more... )