Tales From The Subconscious, Jet Lag Edition
5:30am, local time Id: WAKE UP. Ego: …*snrrrrk* Wha? Huh? Gah! I: WE WAKE UP. NOW. E: What the heck time is it… Idiot! It’s bleedin’ 5:30 in the bleedin’ morning! Let’s go back to sleep. I: IS NOT. IS…
Doug
Husband & father with youngins; Presbyterian; Will devops for boardgames; Dadjoke Enthusiast; Longtime WordPress user; The failure mode of “clever” is...
The “People’s Car”, My Foot
An Update To “The Dealership That We Shall Not Name” I spoke very briefly with the general manager of T.D.T.W.S.N.N. on Friday and explained the situation, also mentioning that I had faxed copies of the documentation in my possession and…
In-Flight Blogging
[Recorded somewhere over Western Pennsylvania or possibly Ohio, I think, 6:07pm EDT] After an unspecified “paperwork”-based delay of almost 45 minutes (due, according to the pilot, to a delayed or mishandled flight from either Phoenix or Las Vegas, curse you…
Airport Blogging
I’m sitting in PHL waiting for my flight to arrive and ferry me off to Apple’s WWDC ’07 and must admit to a good deal of excitement. Not only am I going to get to attend my first Stevenote (one…
Cold Fury… Rising.
I just got off the phone with the local VW dealership and I am pissed off. I had my Passat in to the shop for a little look at the transmission (several warning lights had been going off and Bob,…
Mee-su Bah-stahhs
So I guess this is what passes for Mythbusters in Japan (nice use of Matrix music, by the way): Frames of reference are fun! [Yes, but what happens if a jet plane tries to take off from a moving conveyor…
Burning The Midnight Oil At Both Ends, And Other Mixed Metaphors
I’m sitting here at work at ~9pm EDT waiting for several servers to finish their upgrade processes and realized that I had quelle shock! horreur! forgotten to post, so busy was I all the livelong day. Consider this my penance:…
Get Bused, Get Omnibused
It’s that time again — time for some bigtime link aggregation. So strap in and enjoy the ride, y’all. PA liquor laws are stupid, unpopular. Sky blue, Pope Catholic, Queen English. I pride myself on being a bit of a…
I Didn’t Even Realize I HAD A List Of “Songs I’d Rather Dolly Parton Hadn’t Covered”
…Coming in at #1 is “Shine”, formerly by Collective Soul: It just sounds so… wrong. h/t Aron.
“SAT Words”
I used to be regularly derided by friends and acquaintances of all stripe for my use of “SAT words”, generally defined as words that do not see regular use in the populace at large and thus achieve a “nerdy” gloss.…
