Installed a new mailbox / post in place of the hack job I did last month. This involved driving a rather large stake into the ground as an anchor, and mounting the post on top of said stake. I quickly discovered, with about 2.5 feet of stake remaining, that my trusty rubber mallet was just . . . → Read More: The right tool for the job
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Budget cleaner for your screen Awe inspiring houses of cards. Where’s the one entitled “US Domestic and Foreign policy?” Idiots, or geniuses? They filtered cheap vodka using a Brita water filter, and it got better. Odd and anthropomorphic food A truly odd piece of art. I like it. perl -e ‘sub b{my($w,$x,$v)=@_;while(($y=$w*$w)+($z=$x*$x) Okay, now we’ve got snow. We had to postpone an install of my software this week because (thank God) I took the time to chat with the system admin for a while and learned that it was *far* from a vanilla cluster. Three kinds of hardware, two mechanisms for imaging nodes, three operating systems . . . → Read More: Snow So I’m building Linuxes (again), and our corporate connection to the internet is driving me NUTS. It’s the rate-limiting factor in these builds. Yes, that’s correct: The machines I’m dealing with can build their OS in less time than it takes to download the source code for said OS. This is sick and wrong. . . . → Read More: Frustrated by the size of the pipe… We went into town (Providence) and checked in to the Westin downtown for New Years. It was like a mini-vacation. Very cool to not have to drive home, and to be able to get up and be fed breakfast and not worry about making the bed. Providence has a New Years Eve festival they . . . → Read More: Rockin’ New Years Dave Barry’s take on 2004 Looking back on 2004, we have to conclude that it could have been worse. ”HOW??” you ask, spitting out your coffee… http://jen.dwan.org/2004Christmas/ In which is shown, among other things, my new panda footrest: Wow, this is approximately 500 times easier than it was the last time I tried it. Got a web server online too. |
