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Went to Evil Pharma today. Spent the day integrating their custom software with my software and somebody elses software. At the beginning of the day, the question was “can we make this work at all?” By the end of the day I had elicited solid snorts of respect from both the guy and his boss. . . . → Read More: In which, no exaggeration, I rock. Oh pure bliss. The first gazpacho of the year. Farmers market tomatoes and cukes. I roll on the floor in hedonistic bliss, and dip out another bowl. redmed will be away this weekend. While the cat’s away, the mouse is going to get some work done. I’m planning to brew a couple of batches of beer this weekend. Anyone within the sound of my voice is welcome to come over. Anyone who helps with the dishes is welcome to a significant . . . → Read More: Brewing this weekend Sitting in StarbuXXX trying to eke another productive hour or two out of a pretty good day. A woman walked up and asked me how I liked “that there Apple computer.” In a heartbeat, I was into a solid monolog of the virtues of Apple as compared with just about anything else. The elegant lines, . . . → Read More: I am them! It’s raining a bit, just gently soaking the grass, the garden, the houses, and the cars. It smells pleasantly like rain, and the breezes have turned cool. It makes me think of a lot of memories, suppose it’s that scent-memory thing. They all come jumbled up together. Nothing clear, but afternoons camping, crouched under a . . . → Read More: Rain smell I’m still stuck on this demolition derby. It was a strange and savage event. I found myself filled with the bloodlust of sheer competitive destruction. I would like to say that it overwhelmed me from the outside, but the reality is that my personality is apparently built on top of some sort of volcano of . . . → Read More: How to say, It’s been too long since I posted pictures. Here are a whole bunch of them. Pics from the demolition derby are at the end. Also included are some shots of Detroit and the garden. For the intrepid (it’s 10 Megs, and no whining to me if your computer can’t play it) here’s a Quicktime . . . → Read More: Pictures! The demolition derby exceeded all my expectations. I wasn’t really sure what expectations I had (Nascar idiots, mostly), but they were blown away by the sheer and wondrous reality of it all. The event started with “spectator drags,” where ordinary people entered their “street legal” cars in pairwise races. One lap around a quarter . . . → Read More: Demolition Man Installed a ceiling fan in the office / guest room today. We’ll have to see how it does with the whole “no air flow” situation in there. amnesiadust is staying there for the next couple of nights. We’ll have to wait eagerly for his reports. Installing the ceiling fan involved some fairly high level (for . . . → Read More: Victory Justice O’Connor has resigned from the supreme court. This steps up the pace a bit, and probably hands Bush two opportunities to work his will on the judicial system. Hopefully, he’ll use this as an opportunity to act as “a uniter, not a divider,” but I doubt it. This one’s going to be ugly, folks. . . . → Read More: Mix up, shake up… |
