“It may not F-ing work, but at least it’s F-ing pretty.” – A nameless, yet fairly senior person at Apple
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Bottling day. 43 12 oz bottles of American Cream Ale. A low yield (generally, you expect around 50 bottles from a 5 gallon batch) but it’s tasty already, even in its current warm and uncarbonated state. I dry hopped (tossed in to the secondary fermenter) an entire chopped vanilla bean. It’s unexpectedly fun. In my . . . → Read More: Beer Not that this is news to anyone reading this, but wow. So I fired Verizon and got a cablemodem instead. I therefore had to return the DSL modem that Verizon had given us. They sent a prepaid UPS label, so that I could just stick the device in a box and ship it out. Simultaneously, . . . → Read More: I am an incredible dumbass. I watched the Michael Moore movie last night (thanks for the DVD, mom!) and my reactions were mixed. On the one hand, it’s certainly a fine piece of political spin, in support of an aim with which I agree (remove Bush from office, ASAP). On the other hand, I found the film’s methods a bit . . . → Read More: Moore Everyone, everyone, watch this video of Jon Stewart (comedian) all alone on “Crossfire” (a political debate show). If you’d like to read the transcript instead, that’s cool too…but the video is much better. . . . → Read More: Jon Stewart on Crossfire What a week. I think that the large cluster may live, though it’s still not good. We’re actually writing a butt-covering letter that says “we tuned and configured your cluster. It’s still not a good architecture. We think that it will crash frequently, costing you lots of time and frustration. We’ve given you suggestions for . . . → Read More: Wheeeeee This is what I’m looking for at the 20 year high school reunion. Who’s in? Just got back from my exercise. My karate instructor is pissed off because someone pirated Halo 2 and it’s all over the net now. He’s something of a Halo fanatic. He was going to have a 16-way Halo 2 party on Nov 9 (the putative release date, pre pirating). Now that’s pointless, or at least . . . → Read More: Halo 2 Today marks the fourth straight day of nonstop “FUN!!!” this week. At least I got to work from home, but yeesh. In theory, worked on the 240 node cluster all day. In reality, that was interrupted by (a) the guy from that famous place out East, (b) that other guy with a cluster at another . . . → Read More: What the hell is happening to this week? Jen asked “why did someone leave a root password on our answering machine?” Have to say, I was wondering about that myself. |
