Monthly Archives: September 2003

Office Building Demolition

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Good bye to the old Clinical Faculty Office Building… It’s being demolished as part of the constant University Hospital expansion. I was only ever in the building twice, ‘way back during my tenure as a student employee and semi-professional computer geek. The impression I took away from the place was awkwardness. It was built in the late 1930’s, in the days before ergonomics or handicap accessibility. Getting a cartload of computers from floor to floor was an adventure, especially since the only elevator was the little dumbwaiter.

There are more demolition pictures in the extended entry…
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Sunny Rainy Weekend

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It’s an ok picture. The real rainbow was much more vivid.
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Hey! It’s insomnia time!

That’s right, I’m up and about. Bright of eye and bushy of tail. Why should a little thing like the time bother me? Sure, it’s after midnight and the rest of the household is snoozing away, but that’s no reason for me to turn in! I’m wired! I’m awake! I’m CAPTAIN INSOMNIA!
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Jawa Cat

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It got a little cold last night, so we piled some extra blankets on the bed. The “I” managed to burrow his way into a little cat shelter between the time we got up and the time that the bed got made…

Looks like ought to have a really sweet deal on some second-hand droids, eh?

Spam game…

I think I just won the office junk e-mail game. It’s sort of an unofficial contest to see whose account lets the most bizarre or outrageous krep through the filters. And no fishing through the “Junk” folder either, this has to make it past the filters and into the “In” box. All of us have been getting the standard inducements to enlarge, invigorate, enhance, firm up, and enrich various parts of the human anatomy, some of which don’t apply to us.

My boss and I have been getting additional blandishments, advising us that rates have never been lower and that now is the time to refinance properties at addresses that we no longer live at. WorkKevin hasn’t been getting these yet… Our theory is that he’s below their threshold age.

Today was something entirely new. I got something in Russian.

I have no idea what it says, but I love reading it.
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Bwah ha ha!

From 0xDECAFBAD:

The Monitor – Local – Parents seek to ban books: …because Huxley’s Brave New World might cause “inappropriate sexual arousal of young teens.” Have these people not lived with teens long? An oddly shaped cardboard box will cause sexual arousal in young teens.

Wild wildlife…

All of us in the office have had close encounters with deer in the past two days. Mine was this morning. We were driving in along North Huron and a panic-stricken doe (or perhaps a young buck…) nearly jumped into the road in front of us. Fortunately, it saw us and decided to run away rather than charging across the road and onto the railroad tracks.
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I’m sick of water…

Had a horrifying tuxedo experience on Sunday. My dad was in town so we hit the tux shoppe to get our measurements taken for the wedding outfits. It’s kind of odd how old it made me feel. It was sobering for me to realize that not only am I now taller than my dad, I’ve got broader shoulders and chest. And a phenomenally larger waist.
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Huzzah, or words to that effect

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This man is happy because his pants are not on fire.

That’s right, we hit the Renaissance Faire this weekend! There can be no other explanation for why I’m posting pictures of long haired guys in floppy hats juggling flaming torches…

Don’t worry, it’s not all juggling pictures…
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Oi! Chip! Hold still, wouldja?

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This little bugger was zipping around just outside of work. I took a half-dozen photos of it and this is the only one where it wasn’t a blur of fur…