Tag Archives: Personal Blather

Caught CSI last night… It’s not one of the two shows that we usually watch in the Q household (Stargate SG-1 and Law & Order), but it might make the short list. We did the viewing ‘cos of Wil Wheaton’s role as a crazy homeless murder suspect.
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BadMovie just send me an email letting me know that the infamous witch hunter’s manual, the Malleus Maleficarum has been released online. In addition to the hypertext version, they’ve got a couple of other editions for download.

Including a Microsoft Help compatible version of the book. I can just picture Clippy now…

“It looks like you’re trying to execute a witch. Do you need help with:
a) Burning at the stake
b) Pressing
c) Mail Merge
or d) Using a ducking stool”

Ok, so this has probably already been seen by everyone and their dog, but I still think it’s neat: Nanaca Crash possibly (hopefully!) the only flash-based video game in the world where cute anime girls use a bicycle to hit someone for distance.

So far my record is around 8350 meters, but that was a total fluke…

I was working from home today and the Vande-cat helped me solve a bit of a problem. Y’see, for a while I’ve been working on setting up some software for our web development group. Apache2, PHP4 and SVN 1.13 for you geeks out there, but that’s not terribly important.
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I’d never noticed before just how much “Imagine” by John Lennon had in common with “Take a Walk on the Wild Side” by Lou Reed. A sample artist named ‘rx’ did a great mash-up version of it on his site, thepartyparty. It’s really well done.

Especially since the vocals on the whole thing are samples from Dubya.

The people at the State Theatre have either got a wicked sense of humor or they’re oblivious beyond belief. Right now the marquee out front says:

“Inside Deep Throat and Sideways”

…which sounds incredibly uncomfortable. I’ll try to remember my camera and post a pic sometime before the week is out.

Picture!

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Nothing like spending the morning in the auto shop…
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So. Taking Thursday off and heading back to work on Friday. What the blistering heck was I thinking? Having one day off near the end of the week is almost the polar opposite of having a three day weekend. You can’t truly relax and enjoy yourself because you know you’ve got to get up and go back to work the next day.
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I’m all full up on vacation time at work so I’ve been told, in no uncertain terms, that I need to actually use some of it. The boss said something about avoiding burnout… As if I didn’t feed on the fumes of overwork and stress, transmuting it through some alchemical process into the essence of productivity! It’s an alchemical process so powerful that it can only be used for good or evil. I dare not reveal the technique to the general public, but I can let you know that, in addition to stress, one of the other ingredients is coffee.
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Ok, maybe not in the world, but at least in the office.

It’s kinda funny how it worked out that way. Basically, we’ve got these really cool Anthro corner desks. Antrho stuff is really expandable, so we got extender bars and top shelves for them too, turning them into really nice desks for large systems with multiple screens.
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