Why my job sometimes is fun: my favorite email line for the week (I write an absurd amount of email), while explaining the options that our support staff should try to suggest and use before suggesting that the folks we support use FTP:

- A fifth and possible option, is a carrier pigeon to carry the files between your domicile and campus. This ( Read more... )

I have been programming straight for about 8 hours, devolving into a spaghetti mess of self-referential kluges. Probably me and the code. It works though, for now. Hours and hours and hours of programming and hours more needed just to do what I really want to do, communicate and teach. Sigh, I actually really want to just live again ( Read more... )

It's on the tip of my heart, the words to say ( Read more... )

It's 9:30 and I'm completely bushwhacked - which "tired" is in no way a synonym for - but who cares? It sounds like it should be.

I really need to work on work things, but I'll leave the work to work. Besides, I'm all worried about the trucking industry. Country music is powerful stuff, man.

And you should remember your tornado safetyReally, ( Read more... )

I think all the songs I like have come before my time.

I really need to stay out of the iTunes Music Store, but I bought me a Blind Boys of Alabama song - that I actually think Moby did a version of with them ( Read more... )

In Memory of Memorial Day 2004...

So, I've been doing system administration for now on 10 years or so, both to put myself through College and after. Unfortunately, I'm slowing turning into the pointy haired boss - but I'm fighting it by trying to dive in and troubleshoot problems when I can ( Read more... )

I went browsing through the music store tonight, basically because I can't sleep. So I went search for all songs that have the day of the week in them. You know, Thursday is clearly under-appreciated.

• Sunday: 680
• Monday: 274
• Tuesday: 107
• Wednesday: 38
• Thursday: 37

Take at look at Delmar here as your paradigm of hope.


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It's a bit more quiet tonight. We (I guess that's the royal "we") had storms the last two evenings. Spring/Summer North Carolina storms that are usually more sound than fury. It was nice to hear and watch. The best are when there's lightning and no rain - at dusk, where the lightning, and the lightening bugs dance together in a kind of ( Read more... )