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If you would like a beating, please send me an email, then immediately IM me to ask if I’ve read it yet. For extra vigor on your beating, you may call to confirm that I received your IM. Thank you. Beatings will be delivered in the order that the emails are received. We currently . . . → Read More: How to be killed. Word on the street (my street, at least) is that the hammer of inditement drops on Libby and Rove on Wed. Given that Rove is the architect of all that has gone evil and wrong in my country in the past six years, I am planning to have a party. You heard it here first. Okay, the next two weeks are doomed. Rather, I’m doomed. I suspect that the weeks themselves have other things on their minds. Here are the high points of the next two weeks: * Thursday, I’m teaching a day long class about The Software. * Friday, I’m sitting in on my colleague’s class about His Software . . . → Read More: Rock star So, I made some hard cider. Some apple jack. This is the alcohol-laden version of everybody’s favorite fall beverage. It was stunningly simple compared to making beer. Basically, I took the cider (pasteurized, but with no chemical additives, since they would kill the yeast), put it in a sterilized carboy, and added yeast (a nice . . . → Read More: Cider We’ve got a behavior in The Software, which only came up with the most recent release of Safari. We use cookies to do authentication to our web portal system. When someone successfully authenticates, we issue a cookie, good for 24 hours. Anytime someone comes to the front door of the system, we ask for . . . → Read More: Deer geeky helpers Everyone must go rent and watch the movie Kontroll, now. I will wait. Allright, now that we’ve all got a shared context, what the hell just happened to my brain? It was genius, that much is clear, but in such random directions. Based on the first 5 minutes, I was totally expecting somebody to (a) . . . → Read More: Kontroll It’s raining record amounts now. We just surpassed the 100 year record for rain in October, and yesterday something like doubled the single-day rainfall ever recorded in Providence. It’s been alternating between drenching deluge and dampening drizzle for about a week now. Got my computer memory back, and I’m now clocking in at a consistent . . . → Read More: Rain I got my laptop back from the shop today. Shiny new display. No dead pixels that I can see! Apparently, a shiny new logic board as well, with TWO working SO-DIMM slots rather than one. W00t. However, the tech forgot to put my gig of RAM back in the machine before giving it back to . . . → Read More: Laptop Perfect little birds fluffed against the morning chill Through the window seen Starbucks, warm and bland Nature sits on its trash And catches my eye How odd, odd indeed Being the known personage Seen at random here All non geeks may feel free to stop reading now. This may well be incomprehensible. I don’t know, I have no context. There is a dialect of text speech, related to text message abbreviation. Gamer kiddies use it. It’s called 1337, which is pronounced “Leet”. A decent definition is here. I would be in the . . . → Read More: U 5p3a/< L337 |
