At work today, I am having one of those days when nothing, absolutely nothing goes right. Every production issue that could or could not happen does, in fact happen.

So. In honor of today, may I present to you... Murphy's Law! (taken verbatim from http://www.theparticle.com/murphy. ( Read more... )

I've noticed a couple of years ago that while my English is no longer making much progress, my Russian is rapidly deteriorating. While this leads to many amusing conversations (me: "Ya byla skonfuzhena/I was confused". Mom: "sunshine, 'confused' means 'embarrassed' in Russian"), it is turning into a real problem ( Read more... )

Listening to the press conf, so the quote is approximate:

"Success in Iraq is more than a military mission, which is why I decided to send more troops". Impeccable logic, isn't it?

And never even mind the constant "Congress has no business telling our generals what to do". OH, RLLY?

Okay. Bush just called Iraq "a young democracy". Three times.

I am taking a data mining class this semester. Spam filtering is, obviously, an important application and is discussed quite a bit in class ( Read more... )

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From LA Times: (unfortunately, registration is required. Fortunately, it's free)

"... like every parent in America, I couldn't miss this week's blockbuster parenting news, broken by the New York Times: "Poor Behavior Is Linked to Time in Day Care."
...
Way down in paragraph 15 of the Times story, we finally get to the nitty gritty: "Every year spent ( Read more... )

Came in to work; about an hour into it, the computer mouse started snubbing me. Most likely cause: accumulations of... stuff ( Read more... )

Where there is a will, there is a way.

I've re-modeled my cube this month -- it's not quite the bamboo version, but is much improved over the standard layout.

I moved everything that wasn't nailed down and gained air rights over the cube. The sun now comes down directly into my space instead of slamming into an unfortunately situated shelf and ( Read more... )

The world didn't end. Who would've thought?!

The timeline went like this:

Point 1, July 2005

Government: Daylight Savings should arrive early and leave late.
Business: oh, whatever, Microsoft will take care of it
Individual: *zzzzzz*

Point 2, end of 2006

Government: Told you we were serious!
Businesses: FYI: OMG! DST Y2K! MS, where'z our patchez?!
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Never mind that for the first 20 years of my life, I couldn't repeat a tune without killing it completely.

You scored as Euterpe. You are Euterpe, the muse of music. You are an inventor, and you constantly come up with new ideas. You are happy when everyone else is happy.

Euterpe
 81%
Thalia
 69%
Melpomene
 63%
Urania
 50%
Terpischore
 50%
Calliope
 44%
Clio
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