Archive for June, 2008
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Teamwork
It’s been many, many years since I started working in more of a team environment, and it’s still really frustrating sometimes. Like right now, in the groove, grinding out some code at 11p. execute permission denied on stored procedure. Groove comes to a screeching halt.
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
Home Ownership at it’s finest
For the last few months we had a small leak in an outdoor pipe. We knew it was small because the blip in the water bill wasn’t monstrous. But we knew it was there because we had weeds where there hadn’t been any before, and the ground was pretty wet. The good news: the pipe [...]
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
mindfreak
While watching the excellent new version of “Andromeda Strain” (I only have vague recollections of the original so I can’t compare), an ad for Criss Angel’s “Mindfreak” came on. He asked, I guess provocatively, “You think you’re the only one controlling your mind?” To which I thought, “If that.”