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| Thursday, August 14th, 2008 | | 2:17 pm |
Home!
I'm home from Costa Rica... minus a cell phone. I'll post pictures and such as soon as Jen, Nicole, Lindsay and I get them all together and remove the bad ones. In the meantime, can I get everyone's numbers again? Just email them to squeezer at g mail dot com if you don't mind. Ciao! | | Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 | | 10:45 pm |
Exciting times ahead and behind
After the worst month of work on record, I'm currently packing for a 2-week trip to Costa Rica. We fly out tomorrow (Thursday) at 5:00am, meaning we have to leave for the airport around 2:30am.... 4 hours from now or so. So, if I'm out of contact with anyone for a few weeks, that's why. Hey Tim, are you anywhere near Houston? We have a few hours of a layover on our way to and from... Current Music: Depeche Mode - Precious | | Thursday, July 17th, 2008 | | 3:27 pm |
| | Saturday, May 24th, 2008 | | 10:55 pm |
In other news
Has anyone else noticed that Stevie Ray Vaughan could probably compete for the title of ugliest musician ever? I just watched the 1 hour special of his best performances, and besides being suitably impressed by his playing.... damn that's one ugly guy. We now return you to your regularly scheduled program. | | Thursday, May 1st, 2008 | | 10:53 am |
| | Friday, April 25th, 2008 | | 1:08 pm |
My cat is brilliant
For those of you who don't know, Jen and I got a kitten a few months back. In what has proven to be a supreme irony, we named him Darwin. Unfortunately, I think he may be a couple tacos short of a combo. Darwin likes hanging out in the bathroom, and loves trying to pounce on drops of water that fall from the shower after use. So, it's very normal to get out to dry myself off, only to find Darwin waiting to jump into the bathtub. This morning, I was in the shower and Darwin hopped up onto the edge, between the shower curtain and the cloth cover that faces outward. He was particularly interested in a piece of lint that was being pushed around by the water, and started leaning over to bat at it. Finally, his curiosity got the best of him, and he jumped into the shower to pounce, only to realize that he had landed in front of the shower stream. He started running around in circles, which only served to get him wetter. Next, he jumped at the curtain, only to slide right back into the bathtub. Worried that me might try climbing up my leg, I opened the curtain a bit, allowing him to jump out. When I got out of the shower, I saw a very unhappy looking, dripping wet cat giving himself a bath in the corner of the room. I'm curious to see if he learns from his mistakes. | | Friday, April 18th, 2008 | | 10:15 am |
Idle thinking
Did anyone else see The Colbert Report last night? SO GOOD. | | Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 | | 5:16 pm |
| | Saturday, April 12th, 2008 | | 11:07 am |
Life goes on
My grandmother, Eva Reis, passed away on Wednesday. She was nearly 90, and her health had been in decline for awhile. So for the last few days, I have been in Cleveland, OH (after the craziest night of flying I've ever experienced) with my family. The service and burial, conducted in the orthodox Jewish tradition, were Friday afternoon, and afterward we all congregated at my uncle's house and told stories and reminisced about our experiences with her while sitting shiva (aka, mourning). Traditionally, this lasts a week, during which friends and community members come by and offer condolences to the family, as well as paying their respects to the deceased. They also bring food. (A lot of it. I had 7 meals today, and that's no exaggeration.) However, we decided that we would shorten the process to three days instead of seven, largely because we know grandma would never, ever want to "inconvenience" us like this for a whole week. During this process, I learned a lot more about my grandmother's history (and my mom's and uncles' childhoods), and I think the whole experience was very therapeutic. ( Read on if you're interested... )In any case, I will post more about this later. | | Friday, April 4th, 2008 | | 11:17 am |
How to make a web update in my office (aka playing telephone)
1) The user contacts their supervisor and says “X, Y and Z need to be changed on our website” 2) The supervisor contacts our help desk and says "X Y and Z need to be changed." 3) We contact Alice, director of payroll, saying "Our user says X Y and Z need to be changed." 4) Alice contacts James, her web designer who lives in Oklahoma at the moment and says "X, Y and Z need to be changed." 5) James makes the changes 6) James emails Alice and asks if everything looks alright 7) Alice emails us and asks if everything looks alright. 8) We email the supervisor and ask if everything looks alright. 9) The supervisor emails the user and asks if everything looks alright 10) Profit! (note: I used to do web design as 25% of my job description at my previous position) (note: we have in-house web design software that makes this whole process as easy as editing a Word document, effectively rendering James, Alice, and our help desk obsolete once the help desk or James has set up the initial page) Now some of you might ask "why don't the users, or their supervisors, just email James and ask?" You see, my life is OFFICE SPACE, and this is analagous to the guy who says that he has PEOPLE SKILLS. Someone kill me please. | | Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 | | 1:20 pm |
Cisco anyone?
Does anyone know much about Cisco ASAs? I would like to run a configuration by you to see if I'm missing something really obvious.. I'll pay in beer :) | | 12:33 pm |
Gary Gygax dead
For anyone who played D&D or AD&D when they were younger, or who still plays it, you will doubtlessly be saddened to hear that Gary Gygax just passed away. I still have my first and second edition books. This kind of makes me want to pull them out and read through again. | | Monday, March 3rd, 2008 | | 5:17 pm |
| | Thursday, February 28th, 2008 | | 7:49 pm |
| | Monday, February 25th, 2008 | | 11:37 pm |
I got Rick Rolled
That's really all I have to say -- I was reading Digg and clicked on one of the links. I listened to a good 2 minutes of the song in utter shame. I guess this makes me a bad person. :( | | Saturday, February 16th, 2008 | | 12:39 pm |
| | Friday, February 15th, 2008 | | 12:27 pm |
| | Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 | | 3:25 pm |
| | Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 | | 5:04 pm |
| | Monday, January 7th, 2008 | | 9:20 pm |
Everyone else is doing it...
Frankly, I'm surprised that Kucinich wasn't a clear leader for me, but hey, I don't disagree with these results really 92% Mike Gravel
92% Dennis Kucinich
87% Chris Dodd
84% John Edwards
84% Barack Obama
82% Joe Biden
81% Hillary Clinton
74% Bill Richardson
35% Rudy Giuliani
23% Ron Paul
21% John McCain
17% Tom Tancredo
15% Mike Huckabee
14% Mitt Romney
6% Fred Thompson
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