Archive for February, 2007
Sunday, February 25th, 2007
Wherein I forget all objectivity
I love my son, but he’s one of the least photogenic kids I know, when he’s trying. Candid shots are fine, but when he tries to pose for something he looks like Chandler Bing. But as a birthday present for Cassandra, my mother in law took the kids to Sears today. She works there, and [...]
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
In the Zone
I’m in the zone lately at work. I’m finally getting into custom coding for the middleware we bought a while ago. It’s in REXX. Woohoo! Anyway, I’m loving it. I like learning new stuff, no matter how antiquated it may be. Anyway, it was on my mind at the gym today. Then it was really [...]
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Monday, February 12th, 2007
It’s a perfectly normal association
Received recently on a campus listserv: Open the attached for details about this week’s theme, Valentine’ Celebration, and a special event, “Sexual Responsibility Week,” at the Farmers’ Market this Friday.
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Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
Scenes from a Gym
Look to the left. Good, he’s wearing headphones. Look to the right. Headphones, check. Check the mirror to see behind you. All clear. Relllllllleeeeease the gas. Ahhhhhhhhhh.
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Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
Now that’s what I call a policy
Went to Albertson’s to get some pull ups. We have no brand loyalty between Huggies and Pampers, but have had little success with store brands. Pampers have the best sale going on right now, so I pick those up. List Price: 16.49 Sale Price: 12.99 Price that came up when I checked out: 14.99 [...]
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Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
Launchy is Love
I’ve been using Launchy for a few months, and have fallen completely in love with it. I’ve completely abandoned my start and quick launch menu’s. On my work PC and my laptop it’s mapped to alt-spacebar, and when I’m on my fife’s computer I hit the combination *every single time* before I complain and find [...]
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Monday, February 5th, 2007
Props from a Cop
A car was rear ended today when they stopped for me to cross a cross walk. I had a green light, but I stopped on the curb and checked to my left just to make sure, as I always do. Then I heard squealing and a crunch. The back end of her 2 day old [...]
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Monday, February 5th, 2007
stupid password policies
sourceforge.net, which is an important website for a whole lot of open source stuff, only allows letters and numbers in their passwords. How dumb is that?
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Friday, February 2nd, 2007
Solid!
When you have nearly all of your music collection digitized, you often run across random songs that make you go “What the hell?”. The song currently playing that made me think of that? “Solid”, by Ashford and Simpson. The singing and the drum machines and the synthesizers are going to make my head explode. The [...]