Archive for January, 2004
Thursday, January 29th, 2004
Procrastination
I’ve been working on a source code migration thing slowly for a few months now. It’s painful and boring and dull. This week is when I’m supposed to be testing it and moving it to production. But like studying for finals in college I’m finding all sorts of semi-legitimate things to do instead. Here’s what [...]
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Monday, January 26th, 2004
Guh
That was one of the hardest earned 283 calories I’ve burned in a long time. I barely have enough energy to lift this pen. The exit is a long flight of stairs up from the locker room, a cruel joke of the architect. As a test to see if you’re pushing yourself hard enough, it’s [...]
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2004
2 plus 2 is 5
Checking out of a store yesterday, my total was $9.72. I gave the clerk a $20 and fished out some change, eventually handing him $.77. He gave me back my two pennies. “No”, I said, “I want a nickel back.” He looked at me like a three headed martian, then stared down in his palm [...]
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Sunday, January 18th, 2004
QOTD
A critical faculty is a terrible thing. When I was eleven there were no bad films, just flms that I didn’t want to see, there was no bad food, just Brussels sprouts and cabbage, and there were no bad books – everything I read was great. Then suddenly, I woke up in the morning and [...]
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Thursday, January 15th, 2004
QOTD
The truth is this: for alarmingly large chunk of an average day, I am a moron. — Nick Hornby, “Fever Pitch”
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Monday, January 12th, 2004
Too much power
The only problem I have with my dual 19″ monitor setup at work is that when something beeps I don’t know what it is. Right now I have 14 windows open, not including all the systray extensions and other cruft. It really drives me nuts when I hear a beep and can’t track it down. [...]
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2004
Portentous
My boss, who is also a very good friend, scheduled a staff meeting this morning for this afternoon. She’s given up on staff meetings as process, and certainly a last minute meeting like that had to be about something specific. I messaged her during the day. “Do I have anything worry about for this meeting?” [...]
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2004
Random Lyric
Penguins are so sensitive to my needs.
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2004
Behold the power of Cheese
I spent many hours today bending a Movable Type plugin to my will so I could send an email to an address and have it automatically post to the site. Somewhere in the 3rd or 4th hour I briefly wondered why this was suddenly so important to me, but couldn’t give up the fight to [...]
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Monday, January 5th, 2004
2003 in Review
Like a lemming flying off the cliff, I also present my 2003 in Review.