I try to be a good person, but sometimes my wicked nature wins through. In this case, it was the surge of evil glee with which I watched a woman not make it to the train, as we pulled away. I had seen her coming across the parking lot as the train pulled up, dragging . . . → Read More: The hindmost gets not the train…
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In honor of impending spring, I just tried the Navy Seals Workout (NSW) again. I had sort of fallen out of the NSW habit since I achieved my goal weight and picked up karate. Little did I know that I have been slowly weakening without my twice weekly butt kicking. Ouch. The legs section is . . . → Read More: Navy Seals Production has outstripped demand, resulting in surplus. In my basement, as of this afternoon, there are: – 6 cases (24 bottles each) of 12oz bottles (2 x Imperial Stout, Double IPA, Raspberry Lambic, Barley Wine, and a mixed case of Presidential Election spoils which are still owed to robotify. – 3 mixed six packs plus . . . → Read More: Enough booze Two more hours with H&R Block and we’re done with the Federal, the RI, and the MA returns. MN has to be sent to someone who is certified to deal with MN taxes, which was not our agent (though she was quite good). They used 3.5″ floppies to send the files. It was so quaint! . . . → Read More: Tax man… We spent our first hour of the year at H&R Block last night. That got through the preliminary data entry and the setup. We’re going back on Saturday to finish the job. Even if they don’t save me any money, it’s worth it. four W-2’s (two each from two of us), some random consulting income, . . . → Read More: Squeeeeee Mainly, I love my job because I never, ever, have to walk up to a car in which someone just killed themselves: The story The officer drove by a second time, prompting the man to make a U-turn and attempt to leave the area, Puschnig said. The officer noticed the van had no taillights and . . . → Read More: I love my job I’m going to Ottowa next week to build a Linux cluster. I’m flying Air Canada. And dammit, their stupid web site is telling me that I really ought to be using Internet Explorer (version 6 and above) or Netscape 7.2. How sad, for the web designers to admit on the very front page that they . . . → Read More: Oh, Canada! The Onion today: Bush announces Iraq Exit Strategy: ‘We’ll Go Through Iran’ “The plan also includes a minor stopover for refueling and provisional replenishment in Syria,” Casey said. “But I don’t expect we’ll need more than 50,000 additional troops for that stretch of the Iraq pullout.” I’ll try to do this story justice. Over dinner, it handily defeated my harrowing tales of version skew between the head and compute nodes on a big cluster. The story starts off at 6am yesterday, with Jen on the helipad at the hospital waiting for a Coast Guard helicopter to arrive. Said helicopter bore a . . . → Read More: My wife is such a badass |
