We've returned from a mostly lovely long weekend in Florida. ( Details within )

So, we headed out for Vegas Sunday afternoon. This is our first experience flying with Virgin America. It was nice actually. The entertainment in the seats doesn't really matter for short-term flights, but for longer flights it's nice. The plane was only about half full, so we go to move and get our own row. We then took a cab to Mandalay Bay. It ( Read more... )

Since it is Christmas (even though I don't celebrate it), I will come out and apologize now and publicly to all the Hillary supporters out there. I will admit that you were right - Obama is a stuffed suit with a gift for gab, but when it comes down to it, he comes up short. This latest debacle over health care is just one of the latest. So far we ( Read more... )

Another term is starting to come to conclusion. Barring any major screw-ups on my part, I should do OK aside from the courses I dropped. I'm pondering what to take next. I'm tempted to proceed to UNIX/Linux System Administration to gain that skill set. I could try Math again, but I'm not sure I want to go down that road. I'm also considering Perl, ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in my Computer Architecture class and maybe a third of the class is listening. The rest zoned out, one appears to be sleeping. The instructor is a nice guy, but well, way past his prime. I don't know if he had a stroke or something, but he mumbles a lot. He also never prepares anything. Most of the time he asks us where we left off last ( Read more... )

So pegasussf's Windows box died yet again (third time in a year), so he'd had enough. We drove over to the Stonestown Apple Store and picked up a shiny new Mac Pro (with my education discount). I had a version of MS Office, but I rarely use it. Being a (hopefully future) CS nerd, I turn in most assignments as text files. So I gave him my copy. I got iWork ( Read more... )

So we know what Gallup thinks, what do y'all think of the current political punditry?
Poll Political flip-flopping

Stolen from hardvice:

( Another political quiz thingy. )

In a few hours, a cab will come to take us to SFO where we will wait around in incredibly long lines (or should I say queues?) going through security and such and awaiting our flight to Heathrow. I am hoping that the travel mayhem this time of year will be significantly lower at the international terminal. Since Thanksgiving is an American holiday ( Read more... )

It would appear that Senator McCain is down to his last quarter million dollars. What can you say about a formerly progressive Republican who used to be somewhat of a maverick, unafraid to challenge other party members who started sticking his head so far up the President's ass, if he had a mustache, it would be tickling the back of Dubya's throat ( Read more... )