Tomorrow is zSnow Day. At Zillow we have a tradition of prepending words or terms with our initial. For the company birthday celebration at the ski slopes, we have zSnow Day. All employees have been offered transportation and ski passes for the day, though many may take the company holiday in another manner. As for myself, I will be at work. An ( Read more... )

Nothing beats the Blues like winning.

Another item on my list for staving off the Winter Blues as yet another week goes by in the 30s here: Competition.I have found that engaging the competitive spirit is an easy balm, though in the short term it provides only momentary relief. Games and puzzles are always a good way to work areas of the brain that ( Read more... )

Ceres, the new desktop, is slowly becoming more functional. I am able to play most video and music, though sometimes I have to load different programs than my defaults. With my friend GDub's help I was able to mount one of the large NTFS drives from Claire and get the data off of it. I have to scan for duplicate MP3s on every drive, now, and move ( Read more... )

This is my second stew with the Adadaba seasoning from Market Spice. This unusual spice mix is only available in store and not in their Amazon catalog. I will endeavor to discern the actual contents of this tasty blend at a later date. If you really need some I might be persuaded to ship it myself.

4T Adadaba
15 medium potatoes, chopped
2 large ( Read more... )

Claire, my hme-build, painstakingly maintained desktop, died this weekend. I built her up from parts scavenged at a Pair Networks fire-sale back in '01 and then upgraded her slowly over four years. She faithfully waited for me in storage when I began my exile in the desert, and worked hard for me when she was retrieved by my awesome father on his ( Read more... )

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I spent my weekend, Tue/Wed, getting Silvia licensed to be totally street legal. It cost me another $122.25 total for the emissions test and title transfer. I now have a license plate with an X and a K in it--this was not just significant to me, but to the clerk at the Licensing office, the property manager at the facility where Silvia is stored, ( Read more... )

Delilah, my decrepit digital camera, seems to have slipped into a mechanical coma. She turns on, but does not take photos or sync with any computer. On windows, nothing happens at all, and in Linux I am unable to see the device on the USB bus. I have tried replacing her batteries and fiddling with the memory card, to no use.

I could go out and ( Read more... )