Doug

Doug

Husband & father with youngins; Presbyterian; Will devops for boardgames; Dadjoke Enthusiast; Longtime WordPress user; The failure mode of “clever” is...

The Tao of Wahila

Back when I went to college, there was a fellow by the name of Kevin Wahila that attended the InterVarsity Christian fellowship with me on campus. Kevin was a great guy, very forthright and earnest, almost to a fault. In…

Even More Atrocious Customer Service

Yes, it’s that time again. Time for another installment in our ongoing series, “Doug Gets Poor Customer Service.” My wife and I went to Genuardi’s the other day in order to obtain certain products that we’ve been unable or unwilling…

Help Get LCpl. Van Fleet Hired!

I have a bit of a favor to ask from my readers today. There’s a young Marine that goes to my church by the name of LCpl. Brian Van Fleet who needs some help in his “blue-to-gray” transition. He’s currently…

Indecision 2004

Well, Toomey lost yesterday. He lost by somewhere between 15k-20k votes (~2% of the votes cast). Needless to say, I’m pretty disappointed, and not just because I dislike Specter so much. PA Republicans missed a genuine opportunity yesterday, not only…

Fedora Core 2 Test 3 Released

The latest, greatest test version of Fedora has been released and is ready for all you early adopters to pound it into the ground. As always, DULUG has .torrents available for your (and everyone else’s) downloading convenience. I’ll be grabbing…

PA Primary Day

To all PA GOP’ers: Remember, today is primary (I like to call it “Freedom from Specter” Day) day in PA. Head to the polls and pull the lever for Toomey, a genuine conservative.

GMail Beta Test

I logged into Blogger today, due mainly to yesterday’s story on Slashdot regarding Blogger users being chosen as GMail beta testers. Lo and behold, what did I see? I’ll post more as I have experience with it.

Exhibit 13 – continued

After some quick Googling this morning, I found that the Exhibit 13 song and video are available on the web at Exhibit13.com (Viewing requires that you have Flash installed, so beware). I found it to be extremely moving and even…

Exhibit 13

I know this sounds completely stupid, but I’m sitting here watching the Blue Man Group Complex Tour “freeview” on DirecTV and I’m almost ready to shed a tear or two. There’s a song on the Complex album called “Exhibit 13”.…