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- Not Quite Wrong, Not Quite Right
“Here’s a metaphor to help you get a sense for how this complicated thing functions.” “But it’s not really doing that!” “That’s why it’s a metaphor, not a description.” … “Here’s an explanation in layman’s terms.” “No, that’s wrong, that term only means this specific thing when used in the relevant technical jargon.” “I’m not […]
- The Ferengi are the ones in suits
Tonight, our Star Trek: Deep Space Nine rewatch (on DVD) is up to “Bar Association”, the episode in which Rom leads all of Quark’s employees on a strike to demand better working conditions. I swear I didn’t time this intentionally, but it seems appropriate! Ferengi workers don’t want to stop the exploitation. We want to […]
- Guest Posts Not Accepted
This is a personal blog for a handful of people, and we don’t accept sponsored posts or guest posts or anything like that.
- A paint program in Scratch that i made
- My first post ☺
☺☺☺☺Hi! This is my first post. I hope you’re doing well!☺☺☺☺
- Pokemon Pumpkins
Patterns found online and carved by the mom-and-son team.
- Bisected Halo
A clear 22-degree halo around the sun, bright enough that I didn’t have to adjust the image afterward. This is straight from my phone. Even cooler: you can actually see the contrail’s shadow on the layer of cloud that’s producing the halo! The sun is behind the tree, and while the contrail pops out so […]
- The Google+ Rescue Mission
In advance of Google shuttering their third(?) attempt at a social network, Google+, I’ve retrieved a full archive, and I’ve trawled through it looking for anything that I want to keep online after the shutdown. Most of them were cross-posts of one sort or another, or (early on, especially) the kind of random social media […]
- Bringing Back the Old Camera
A couple of weeks ago, the almost-8YO found my old manual SLR camera – the 1967 model my grandfather gave me. I bought some film, and picked up a light meter app while waiting for the battery to arrive (the light meter is the only powered part of the camera), and I showed him how […]
- Ant-Man Approves of this Jack O’Lantern
The kiddo managed to get another Halloween out of last year’s homemade Minecraft Spider Jockey costume. But it’s not easy to run around and play in, so we offered to buy him an alternate for parties, and he chose Ant-Man. Curiously, the costume didn’t come with gloves, so Katie took a pair of plain black […]
- Up Late…
But I got the new printer set up on just about everything, and I bought and downloaded the latest Humble Bundle full of Java reference books, and I fixed the .htaccess on this site to force access over HTTPS. Regarding the printer: When CUPS works, it’s more or less automatic, and stays out of the […]
- R2-D2 is looking extra boxy
Not quite Minecraft IRL
- I would have done the same
“I would have done the same” should never be the end of your thought process, but the start of it. Why would you have done the same? Would you have been right or wrong? What knowledge or differences would have changed your actions or their rightness/wrongness?
- On Backdating Blog Posts
Most social networks don’t give you the ability to backdate your posts. That’s good, because it provides a trail that you can point to, saying “Yes, I did in fact post this before it became common knowledge/was plagiarized/etc.” But other publishing platforms do. It’s helpful for things like transferring an archive from another site — […]
- Not impressed with the Google Assistant
I’ve had the “Google Assistant” on my phone for a few weeks now. Since I don’t use the always-on voice activation, this means it’s pushing extra notifications based on what it thinks I want/can use. Fortunately it doesn’t do audio alerts, so it’s a lot less intrusive than it could be. I figured I’d give […]
- (Ir)replaceable?
I have a bunch of old coffee mugs from TV shows, art museums, even an apartment complex where I used to live. In once sense these aren’t replaceable. If I ever break my Mozilla Coffee mug or the “I’m in the middle of fifteen things, all of them annoying” quote from Cmdr. Ivanova, or if […]
- Fireworks All Over LA
We went out to a hill to view last night’s Independence Day fireworks after an afternoon at a family barbecue. Some years we go down to the beach for a closer view. This year the process of getting there, finding a parking space (usually very far away), walking all the way down (and all the […]
- Happy New Year
“What do you mean? Do you wish me a happy new year, or mean that it is a happy new year whether I want it or not; or that it is a new year to be happy on?” “All of them at once.” — With apologies to JRR Tolkien. (Though I suspect it’s only going […]
- Anaheim GardenWalk: Reinvented?
The Beat’s offhand mention of Anaheim GardenWalk got me curious and I went looking around for more info on the mall’s current status. The last few times I’ve been there, it’s been practically a ghost town: behind the anchor restaurants out front, there were a handful of stores, then nothing, nothing, more nothing, and finally […]
- Tablet Blogging is Actually Convenient!
For short posts, I’m actually more comfortable sitting on the couch and writing on my tablet than firing up my computer and sitting at my desk. This is something I discovered during NaBloPoMo. My workflow typically went like this: Write the post in the WordPress App. Set categories/tags and upload as a draft. Switch over […]
- Is the ransom note look obsolete?
I remember countless mystery movies, TV shows, comics and stories where a kidnapper or other extortionist of some sort sent a ransom note using letters or words cut from multiple newspapers and magazines to defeat handwriting analysis and prevent matching the quirks of individual typewriters. The jumble of different fonts made for a distinctive look. […]
- Coin Slot For Your Cell Phone
The 5YO had an interesting idea tonight: “Devices should have slots that you can put real-world money into.” I explained that it wouldn’t be practical because someone would have to go around collecting it, and meanwhile your phone or tablet would get weighed down by all those quarters or bills. Then I brought up Square […]
- Epi-pen How-To
A diagram of how to administer an epi-pen to someone experiencing severe anaphylaxis as a result of a food allergy, bee sting, etc.
- Mixed Emotions / Halloween / Comikaze
I haven’t been to Comikaze Expo since their first year. It’s always been close to Long Beach Comic-Con, and I’d choose Long Beach every time. This year, though, LBCC was in mid-September, and Comikaze was Halloween weekend. And since we missed out on San Diego, it seemed like a good plan for a family comic-con. […]
- California Drought Sim, Water Use, and Preserving Open Space
According to simulations, California could adapt to long-term drought. We just have to actually do it. Meanwhile, the Irvine Co. sets some limits on sprawl.
- Open Space. Good!
Final pieces of Irvine Ranch complete ‘open-space puzzle’ in O.C. – LA Times This spot in eastern Orange is now part of a proposed 2,500-acre gift from the Irvine Co. to Orange County — 1,400 acres here and an additional 1,100 in Anaheim Hills. Well, good. I’ve lamented the loss of both open space and […]
- This is why I can’t see stars anymore
Rain, a late night and dark adapted eyes gave me a relatively nice view last night…but I miss clear skies. A photo of LA from space explains why.
- Gullible
There’s an old children’s joke that goes like this: “Did you know the word gullible isn’t in the dictionary?” Then when the other child goes to look it up, you laugh at them for believing you. On the face of it, it’s a lesson in not believing everything you hear. But when it comes down […]
- Concurrent Drink Network
Overheard at WordCamp LA: So CDNs can make us get drunk faster?
- I have cobbled together a pinhole camera
I have cobbled together a pinhole camera out of two Amazon.com boxes (one at first, but the image was too small), a piece of paper, a piece of foil, and a lot of packing tape. The test run looks good: The image isn’t that big, maybe 3/8 of an inch, but I was able to […]
- Recent Links: Chocwave, Hipsters & More
When everyone’s a hipster…no one will be. Also: Transformers cupcakes and emergency preparedness on your phone.
- Recent Links: USB Sticks, Spam, Google+, etc.
Some sites I’ve linked to on Twitter, Facebook & Google+ over the past few weeks. “The problem isn’t that people are idiots…The problem is that the OS trusts random USB sticks.” Schneier on Security: Yet Another “People Plug in Strange USB Sticks” Story (via slashdot) The Robustness Principle Reconsidered I remember a lot of discussions […]
- Land and Ocean Sunset (Geography Geekery)
The ocean sunset looked like the sun was setting behind a line of distant mountains. But was it possible, with only the sea to the west?
- Recent Links
Those early Priuses are still going strong, ten years later. Never put critical private information online unless you are certain it’s protected. Your tax documents could show up in search results. Optimizing a Screen for Mobile Use (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) Why bad science reporting matters: Churn The Other Cheek Homeopathy vs. Science: A Metaphor
- Links: Humans.txt, Nighttime Photos, Evaporating Cloud and More
Very cool! 175 Photos of Day Taken at Night Humans TXT: We Are People, Not Machines. Cool idea, but I’m not sure how practical it is without (ironically, I know) a machine-readable standard. If we can’t get most people to watch the credits on a movie, who’s going to go looking for a text file […]
- Recent Links: Citation Needed, App Store, etc.
Snowflakes Under an Electron Microscope (via @ThisIsTrue) The United States of Autocomplete (Strange Maps) – What happens if you type each state name into Google and see what the popular searchers are? See something? Cite something! (How to share content on the Internet) I agree that “App Store” is too generic to be trademarked, but […]
- Recent Links: CMS Nirvana, $1M Comma, Voltron as a Band
CMS Nirvana, the million-dollar comma, and the Voltron concert poster.
- Taking Aim at Whooping Cough
Got the pertussis vaccine. With whooping cough epidemic in California, the CDPH
recommends anyone who’ll be around infants get the shot. - Crowds at the Street Fair
I’ve finally found something more crowded than Comic-Con: The Orange International Street Fair on a Saturday night.
- Arcadia & Orange Moon Over LA
A trip to the theater, then an unexpected bonus: A view of a deep orange half-moon above the distant LA skyline.
- Links: Yen Droid Mobile Woot Quake!
I’ve always wondered how the name of Japan’s currency ended up meaning “craving” or desire in English. It turns out to be coincidence, probably from the Chinese yáhn or yin, “craving.” Word of the Day: yen. TweetUp acquires Twidroid and changes its name to Twidroyd “to ensure minimal confusion with products from Lucas Films.” Fortunately […]
- Quake
That was a surprisingly long earthquake. When it started, it was mild enough that I thought it was just someone walking heavily across the office. (I wonder how many small quakes I don’t notice because of that?) After about 20 seconds, the shaking got stronger…and it just kept going. 60 seconds? 90? USGS rates it […]
- Link Archive 2010
Some interesting links I encountered over the last few months, between the time I stopped importing Twitter digests and the time I started using them for linkblogging.
- Rain
Rain (when we get it) is usually silent four stories above ground, but today gusts of wind have been spattering it against the windows.
- Earthquake Frequency
According to the USGS, the frequency of large earthquakes has remained constant over the last century. In a typical year, the planet has roughly 17 “major” earthquakes (measuring 7.0 to 7.9 on the Richter scale) and one “great” earthquake (measuring 8.0 or higher). So, no, earthquakes are not increasing as a sign/symptom of the impending […]
- Late Night
Staying up until midnight for New Year’s Eve was a BIG DEAL when I was a kid. Now it’s a typical day. (I need to try to sleep earlier!)
- Monday Morning
I’m not sure light drizzle counts as “wind and rain,” but since I’d like to have water next year, I’ll take what I can get. (We did finally get some later in the day.) You know you need coffee when you bring your travel mug from home and leave it in the car.
- Flu Away
After waiting two months, I finally got my H1H1 flu vaccine, which the CDC has been recommending for people with chronic respiratory conditions.
- Flooded!
Wow…nothing like flood damage in the office to start a Monday morning. Fortunately people were in over the weekend & caught it. Ooh, neat! Server problems too! (Not flood-related.) But wait, there’s more! They had to shut off the water line to the coffee maker! Can the entire office manage on a tiny 3-cup coffee […]
- Skull Pumpkin & Vampire Halloween
Katie carved this incredible anatomically-correct skull Jack-O-Lantern for Halloween today. Update: Check the comments for her writeup on how she carved it. It seems to have worked as a “yes, we’re handing out candy” signal. Last year we didn’t get any trick-or-treaters. (We also didn’t put up any decorations that year, either.) This year, they […]
- Mountain Silhouette
It’s cool that sunset/sunrise can make distant mountains stand out in silhouette even when they fade into the haze in broad daylight. The San Gabriels to the north, the Santa Monica Mountains to the northwest, Signal Hill Palos Verdes* to the west, and even a small segment of Catalina Island to the southwest were all […]
- Morning
Morning: The time of day when you can set up coffee but forget to turn it on, or walk past a mailbox with a Netflix envelope in your hands.
- Fire by Satellite
From @ThisIsTrue: AMAZING false-color NASA satellite pic of the damage caused by LA’s Station Fire. Yes. Yes it is. (Full size on the linked article.)
- Link: Station Fire Photos
LA fire pix at Flickr. An impressive round-up.
- Mt. Wilson Fire Status (Sep 1 2009)
Mt Wilson still intact for now! Status, Towercam. Image from Mt. Wilson Observatory Towercam at 12:06 pm. Observatory website still up, but towercam very slow. Mt. Wilson Towercam showing lots of smoke: 12:21 was the last image I could get. Definitely cooler today, but humidity & smoke since the wind changed make it feel worse […]
- Daily Halo Pics!
Just discovered there’s an Atmospheric Optics Picture of the Day!
- Link Archive
I used to keep a sidebar linkblog here, but I’ve long since stopped. These days I’m more likely to post an interesting link to Twitter, or just save it up for a later post. I figured the WordPress 2.8 upgrade was as good a time as any to clean out the old plugin. Still, I […]
- Pandemic Question
Why didn’t WHO declare A(H1N1) flu to be a phase 6 pandemic several weeks ago when it first met the published criteria?
- 2000
Hard to believe it, but this is the 2,000th post on this blog. In celebration, here’s looking back at…the year 2000!
- Questions
Is the glut of vampire novels a result of more people WRITING them, or more publishers ACCEPTING them? Google employees ask the all-important question: Will It Lens?
- Walking
Trying to get back into habit of walking to lunch once a week. Of course, the weather picks today to heat up. I’m thinking maybe Jamba Juice. Breeze really helps – when it’s not blowing past fields of mulch.
- San Diego: Enlarge Your Convention Center
San Diego is getting worried about the size of their convention center
- Digital Disadvantage
Disadvantage of going digital: no film canisters to carry quarters.
- Rain!
Rain! Walked out the door this morning and saw clear blue sky, so I wasn’t convinced… but RAIN! (We seriously need it.) *sigh* Google maps informs me that my usual route home is solid red. Rush hour + OMGWTF water from sky! Surface streets it is.
- Watching Helvetica
Some thoughts on watching Helvetica, a documentary about the typeface.
- Mall Crush
Must remember: just because the mall is the CLOSEST place to grab lunch doesn’t make it the BEST place, esp. 3 days before Christmas.
- Sick Day
Oddly, after a day sick in bed, doing dishes felt good because I was doing something. I got a lot of reading done, though.
- Personality “Type”
I tried out the Typealizer, which purports to analyze the text of a blog and determine the author’s personality type. Interestingly enough, it came up with different results depending on which of my blogs I pointed it to. LiveJournal: ESTP – The Doers K-Squared Ramblings: ESTJ – The Guardians (technically this one’s a group blog, […]
- Clarify and Classify
If only the super high-tech jet fighters had identified, clarified & classified, they’d have seen the attack for what it really was. Good grief. “Traditional marriage” didn’t go away when gays were let into the club. It doesn’t need a discriminatory law to “restore” it. South Coast Plaza has Christmas decorations up ALREADY. Halloween doesn’t […]
- Quake and Con
Here’s a scary thought: Imagine Comic Con, with the San Diego Convention Center jammed with people from out of town, jolted by an earthquake.
- The Inadequacy of the Car Horn
This morning I found myself asking the question: How do you tell someone their gas cap is open at 65 MPH? I was on one of those giant, arcing ramps connecting one freeway to another, and noticed that the car in front of me (a PT Cruiser, I think) had something flopping around on its […]
- Hidden Costs of Moving
This past week has mostly been taken up by unpacking, at least to the point that we can use things. We got most of the bedroom set up the first night — we needed somewhere to sleep — but the rest has been slow going. We finally got the TV and DVD player hooked up […]
- Missing Posts Found
Five posts since last weekend didn’t show up properly in the feed, so if you’re following by RSS or LiveJournal, you probably missed these: No, They Don’t Read — A study finds out just how little people actually read on the web. Hazards of DRM on Music (or video, or any other media) — If […]
- Efficiency at the DMV
Yes, I’m shocked as well. 🙂 This morning I had to go into the Department of Motor Vehicles for the first time in several years, and was surprised to find that they’d actually worked out a very efficient system for handling people as they came in. I don’t know if this is standard across the […]
- Clouds Replace Smoke
The change in the weather has brought in clouds today (Saturday), and even the occasional sprinkle of rain. It apparently helped slow the Santiago Fire considerably. I went into work this morning to deal with some network problems (you may have noticed that this site was down for a while), then went over to the […]
- A Breath of Fresh Air. Please.
The Santiago Fire has moved up into the mountains, raging through the Cleveland National Forest. The canyons are still under evacuation, but out here in the Saddleback Valley, it just looks like a really smoggy day. With yellower-than normal sunlight. It was actually cold this morning, for the first time in well over a week. […]
- Wind and Fire
The Santa Ana winds arrived in earnest overnight. We spent most of the day indoors, going about our usual business with the howling wind and occasional thump in the background. I’d glance up from my book (I’m about halfway through Regeneration, the conclusion of Julie Czerneda’s 3-part Species Imperative) and look out at the trees […]
- Oh, you mean THIS drought!
Over the last week or so, newspapers and radio announcements have been proclaiming that California is experiencing drier than usual conditions, already using its reserves for day-to-day living, and we should really start saving water now. Finally. We really could have used this campaign earlier in the year. We knew by the end of spring […]
- Victimized Hero
I didn’t think I had anything to add to the discussion on the infamous Heroes For Hire #13 cover. (Some of those links possibly NSFW.) Something stuck in my mind, though. Typolad suggested that “you would never, ever see Marvel or DC make a cover like this with a male protagonist. Yes, a male hero […]
- ¿Cómo se dice, «duh»?
NPR’s “Morning Edition” ran a story today on the rise of the Spanish-language television market, and Univision in particular. They led into it with a remark that Spanish-language coverage of the World Cup has been getting higher ratings than the English-language coverage. This should surprise no one, given that soccer (as we norteamericanos call what […]
- Building a Better Walk Signal
I recently took a walk through some streets that have only recently opened to traffic. One of the things that struck me was that the buttons for triggering the walk/don’t walk signs had a new design. Instead of a tiny recessed button, or a larger rounded button, they had a ~2″ flat button with a […]
- Paying the Piper
Yesterday, Mark Evanier quoted Justice Antonin Scalia using an aphorism in a debate on government funding of the arts. The phrase he used: “He who pays the piper calls the tune.” It’s a reminder that the person who funds something invariably has a say in just what they’ve funded. (In this case, he pointed out […]
- Relief Spam Dilemma
This is incredibly bizarre. Today I’ve started getting spam which is clearly coming from zombies and using fake return addresses and forged headers, but the content is a plaintext message encouraging hurricane relief donations and linking to the legitimate Red Cross and FEMA websites. There’s one further link, to arc.convio.net, but the ISC reports that […]
- In a word
I’m thinking of a word. The definition is “a feeling of shock, sadness, compassion and sometimes guilty relief in response to a disaster that happens somewhere else.” It’s not “horror,” “rage,” pity,” or “sympathy.” It could be German in origin. It’s what a good chunk of the world felt after last year’s tsunami, and it’s […]
- Talk about lousy timing
The SANS Internet Storm center, which has found itself dealing with the fallout on the Internet from a quite literal storm, is reporting that a vulnerability in Dameware (apparently a remote admin system for Windows) is being exploited. Ordinarily the solution would be to tell people to download the update… but the Dameware website is […]
- Bringing out the best and the worst
It wasn’t enough for scum-sucking leeches to kidnap, defraud, rob, and rape survivors of last week’s tsunami. No, they have to go after victims’ families abroad. Sweden won’t release the names of hundreds of missing Swedes for fear that thieves will target their homes. Fake charities are springing up to siphon off donations. And one […]
- Pronunciation of the Year
I heard someone on the radio refer to the year as “two double-oh four” (2004), a pronunciation I had never heard before in my life. This fits somewhat with what seems to me the American tendency to speak the year 1906 as “nineteen oh six,” but we also tend to say “two-thousand four.” I have […]
- The saddest part of the tsunami
Apparently [giant]* tsunamis are so rare in the Indian Ocean—once every 700 years—that there is no warning system in place. When the USGS detected the quake, they scrambled to send a warning, but couldn’t reach anyone in the area: “We tried to do what we could,” McCreery said. “We don’t have contacts in our address […]
- Ah, the spirit of giving
Dear [insert advice columnist here], I moved out of my parents’ home four years ago and have been speaking to them and my sister less and less over time. They rarely have time to visit us, and it is impractical for us to visit them at their home, due to the amount of junk accumulated […]
- Nostalgia not included
My dresser is an IKEA kit and was something of a bear to assemble. The second drawer down has recently developed the annoying habit of not closing on the first go, and I feel a strange obligation to fix it but I’m not sure how. It’d be nice if the stuff would come with more […]
- Do You Speak American?
Via WebWord: Do You Speak American? is an upcoming documentary about the many dialects that make up American English. Some interesting observations include: Major cities’ dialects are actually diverging, not converging as people predicted with the spread of TV and travel. Another “great vowel shift” is underway in the Great Lakes region. Most Americans consider […]
- Apartment snobbery
We got home tonight, after a good round of beer therapy and poking fun at the evil that is casual dinnerware, and found that we now live in Aliso Springs. They didn’t change the city name, mind you, just the name of our apartment “village.” We’d been wondering how they were going to handle having […]
- Lousy timing
I’m aware that I’ve been grumbling for a while that my drama-queen examiner (who has reappeared, by the way, and pretty much kept from disappearing again) would get more done if she’d delegate stuff to me. However, I don’t think that the week we’re cleaning up in the wake of a major system upgrade when […]
- Rain delay
It seems like every time they try to get on track with painting the apartments, it rains. They actually started shrouding everything in plastic yesterday and primer-coated the balconies, and some of the stucco got painted. I’m interested to find out how much they got done before the clouds let loose today. And how long […]
- Oh. My. God.
I just about had a heart attack this morning when I noticed that not only had they put in the cubicle divider I’d been wanting since getting this desk, but my iPod was sitting on my desk waiting to greet me. Yep, I needed the 3-day weekend.
- Drama queen
One of my co-workers has disappeared. She called in yesterday and said she was waiting for the electrician, and then didn’t show up. Today she called in and said she’d be in at noon, then didn’t show. She’s done this sort of thing before, but never two days in a row after being 3 hours […]
- Halloween madness
So work decided to do Halloween on the 30th rather than the 31st because some people don’t work Fridays. This was a good thing, considering that we have not only a potluck but also a costume contest and a pumpkin-carving contest all on the same day and I have a finite amount of time after […]
- Smoke
The weather has been… unusual the last few days, to say the least. Tuesday afternoon I could see smoke from at least two of the fires that had broken out. There was a huge cloud billowing up from the southern horizon, and another huge cloud creeping over the hills to the north. Both seemed to […]
- No Air
Well, none pleasant, anyway. I just spent the last 10-15 minutes in the computer room (with several co-workers) because it’s the only place in the office where the air conditioning is running. As far as we know it shut off during the (hot) weekend, and of course none of the windows open. (You won’t want […]
- Kitty Update
I found out last night that 1) he is a she, and 2) her name is Tigger. And apparently the family is okay with her visiting our balcony. Yay!
- Kitty!
The next-door neighbors have a cat. He’s about four months old, judging from his level of clumsiness, and he’s a complete sweetheart. He reminds me of my first cat at that age, in temperament and coloration, but the markings are different. I know all this because he figured out that the balcony rail of his […]
- Now I know why they call it “Northern”
Okay, so this may border on TMI, but…
- Uruk-Hai in the building
Some kind of maintenance people are banging on pipes downstairs and I swear it sounds just like the frikkin “drums in the deep…”
- Scary Thing #43
So I let work push me into taking a permanent disability rating class. (Which you probably knew if you’ve read my rating on Lindsey.) It’s pretty math-heavy, but most of it is relatively simple. We had a math quiz a few days in, to which I forgot to bring a calculator and ended up doing […]
- Eep
I just looked up and found out that I was so out of it yesterday, I left my iPod sitting out on my desk here at work all night…..
- It’s a COLD, dammit
So I caught some kind of bug at the right time last week to have it really fully hit me on Saturday evening, while watching X2. I’d already been having the sinus pressure and sore throat, so I had my box of Kleenex with me, and I had fun timing my nose-blowing during explosion scenes. […]
- Better Accepted than damane.
On the rare occasion that I answer an email, my “about” fields indicate that I am Brown Ajah, of the Salidar faction. In recent weeks I have come to realize that I may have jumped the gun on my designation. Salidar I may be, but as yet I think Accepted is a more accurate term. […]
- Random acts of weirdness
I went into the lunchroom a bit ago and saw that someone had tied a very large rubber band around two chairs for no apparent reason. So I decided to give them something to think about: I went back to my desk, cut out several articles of miniature paper clothing, and taped them over the […]
- I’ve got to avoid getting used to this
We’ve got some construction going on at the office, and for the duration, we’ve turned off the alarm on one of the emergency exits to make it easier for the contractors to get in and out of the area where they’re working. This exit happens to be right by my desk, making it very convenient […]
- Blustery Night, Blustery Day
The Santa Ana winds are back. I spent a considerable amount of time last night wondering just how strong the glass is in our windows, particularly the big sliding door onto the balcony. We had several brief power outages, the first just long enough for us to head for the flashlights and convince us to […]
- Vaccini, Vaccina
So there’s finally a plan to start up smallpox vaccinations. The bad news is, it’s likely to become necessary. Worse news is, I may be at risk for some of the nasty side effects. As Katie pointed out, it worked so well the first time that no one made any effort to improve it. The […]
- When Desks Attack
My desk is going to file a work comp claim of its own one of these days. I’m forcing it to hold more than anybody else’s desk, except maybe this one woman on the other side of the office. That’s a continuous trauma for excess loadbearing, and a psyche claim for unequal treatment by a […]
- Yeah, it’s sorta like that.
Kelly: “I’m about to blow up my desk right now.” Me: “Yeah, but do you want to be sitting at it at the time?” Work sucks, but the quotes are good.
- Bringer of Doom!
Mwa ha ha! Guilty as charged. Beware the summer cold, my dear, The nose that blows, the throat that hacks! Beware the Sudafed, and fear The Kleenex pocket packs! ….And now for some lemon tea. *snif*
- Doom!
It’s a strange feeling, when someone you live with gets sick, and you know, just know that in a week, two weeks at the most, you’re next. I’m not looking forward to coughing, sneezing, and living on Ny-Quil, although spending the day in bed sounds nice…