As I prepared to leave work Friday, my supplier told me that the new video card we were going to ship with our gaming system won't be available for another week. Of course, I had worked my ass off to get the software ready for today, when the first new cards were supposed to arrive. Now we have to redo the hard drives for the dozen or so machines ( Read more... )

45.23809523809524% of me is a huge nerd! How about you?

40-49%: What's this, a well balanced nerd? Impressive.

Heh heh

My little brother tells me that haiku is 5-7-5, not 7-5-7. So I've actually been writing the ignorant Westerner version of Japanese poetry. How embarrasing.

I feel bad for brideofsatan23. I can tell she's in a lot of pain, and I wish there was some magic I could cast to make her feel better ( Read more... )

Gawd, I hate the taste of Coke. Especially Diet Coke. But here I am guzzling it down to stay awake. The warehouse is hot and a little too quiet. I think I'll put on Depeche Mode really loud ( Read more... )

I felt the need to write some bad poetry. Fortunately for you, I will keep it to myself, except for some rather distilled nonsense in the form on haiku.

My heart aches, not that I am
Not loved, but that I
Am loved and do not know whyOf course, any true Japanese poetry must mention the seasons, furthur obscuring its meaning. Thus, the above ( Read more... )

aka, Weevil Spirits be Gone (Weevil-Ryu Taisan)
aka, The Root of All Weevil

There were weevils in my cupboard. Past tense, for the weevils are no longer. In fact, there are no longer any living things in my cupboard. Like Mars, it may once have harbored life, but is now sterile. brideofsatan23 said I should "blast it with chlorine," and I have done just ( Read more... )

brideofsatan23 left for Colorado with her kids. I have decided that they are all insane. I like them ( Read more... )

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I spent the day trying to track down a problem that one of my techs reported. Turned out that there is no problem with the product. The problem is that he is a dumbass and won't take the time to actually think and troubleshoot (which is why we hired him in the first place, I think ( Read more... )

It turns out that boiled corn does taste good if it's done right, if Katte cooks it. She doesn't boil it to death; she just brings the water to a boil and that's it. Ah. I love corn ( Read more... )