I would like to welcome everyone to my first day free of coffee in too many years to count. I honestly have no idea as to the last time I went a day without my demon cup. I’ve been sucking down earl grey tea like you wouldn’t believe, to stave off the caffeine DTs, but . . . → Read More: Free of the Demons!
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My last post appears to have overwritten the one about Jen and her miracle delivery, leaving the comments attached. Bummer. Overdue update on the beer making process. Both the Lambic and the Wheat are in the bottles. Wheat Ale had a run-out of 43 12oz and 5 Grolsch. It was totally standard in the bottling process. Initial tasting indicates that I got the style square on the nose. It has the distinctive citrus characteristic, and . . . → Read More: Beer For the first time in months, I feel happy and confident about my house. Not that anything is fixed, but we might finally have someone competent and honest to start to deal with things. Plus, they said that the bathroom isn’t going to fall off. Yay! . . . → Read More: House I am a member of 3 cliques of size 6 simianpower, rev_e, technolope, _earthshine_, fdmts, mcniadh simianpower, rev_e, capital_l, technolope, fdmts, mcniadh simianpower, theshunter, technolope, capital_l, fdmts, mcniadh Find the largest clique containing: (Enter your livejournal username here). . . . → Read More: Geek chic. I just slept, like, 11 hours. I feel awesome. Or at least, I feel less like poo. Here’s a long babble about my credit card company (MBNA): . . . → Read More: Stuff… Woo hoo! Another week down and gone forever. I got my purple belt, sold some training time (going to Duke, in NC), and learned some nifty things about SVN. Red vs. Blue take on Thanksgiving. (19MB quicktime. You have been warned). This would suck. Also of note is that you can apparently use other . . . → Read More: Random crap from the web Friday! I think that I’ve shared this thought before. It applies today, so I’ll say it again: Why, oh why, must my relationship with computers be some sort of hillbilly romance? It swings from “Baby I love you” to “Baby, why you make me hit you?” To summarize: *parsing* issues because freakin’ printf works differently from . . . → Read More: multiplatform blues. It’s stupid when web developers design by explicit inclusion rather than exclusion. We’ve covered this. I was invited to a “webex” presentation that I couldn’t watch, for love or money, from my Apple. The truly infuriating bit was that the error message came from the Java client that the page wanted my browser to run. . . . → Read More: RAGE against “webex!” |
