I’d Best Be Working Some Overtime, Then.
I have to admit, I’ve started to become a bit of an Apple fanboy in the wake of my Powerbook/MacBook Pro conversion, but even if I hadn’t started down the road to Macdom, I still would have lusted after an…
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It’s In The Air, Man! The Internet’s IN The AIR!
I’m sitting in an NTB waiting for the service techs to finish patching up a seeping flat, typing away on my MacBook Pro, posting courtesy of the mega-sweet Verizon Wireless V640 Express Card. My employer has been buying the PCMCIA…
Be Careful What You Wish For
While I definitely rejoiced in the “untimely” death of Smooth Jazz WJJZ, my joy was definitely short-lived, as the corporate monsterswonderful, caring people in charge of such things replaced The Hideousness That Was with The Hideousness That Is – the…
Phriday Video Phun
Presented for your enjoyment: Counter Struck: Counter-Strike meets the real world. Heh. Those lucky British Microsoft sods – they got Ricky Gervais (of The Office fame) to do employee training videos for ’em. Brilliant. (Profanity warning: you know those Brits…
Fun In The Sun (Microsystems Server)
Or: RedHat Enterprise Linux’s `ypbind` Is Functionally Brain-Dead WARNING/WARNUNG/ADVERTENCIA/AVERTISSEMENT: Geeky rant follows. If you don’t give a hoot about UNIX and/or Linux, you may just want to give this post a pass. -ed. First, a little background: like many shops…
H2Oh No!
I was sitting in a meeting this afternoon when a rather vicious line of thunderstorms moved in, complete with torrential downpours and large bolts of lightning. About 20 minutes into the meeting, lightning apparently hit a power substation somewhere near…
A New High Water Mark Has Been Set In The Office Prank Arena
Purveyors of packing peanut cubicles, aluminum-foiled apartments and balloon-filled offices * have met their match: the all-cardboard office. Nice. * [Language/Humor Impairment Warning: video link contains humorless foul-mouthed University of South Carolina student body Vice President making a royal fool…
Doings And Goings-On
Things have been busy – very busy – over the last few days, hence my lack of posting. First off, I was officially installed as an elder of my church this past Sunday. I had to give my testimony in…
On To Plan B
My wife recently read a book outlining a decent spiritual/mental model to help one to deal with the ins and outs of daily life. The model goes as follows: Either the night prior to or the morning of a day…
Curse You, Co-Workers!
I could have gone an entire lifetime without ever thinking of Captain EO again, but noooooooo, you just had to bring up “that Michael Jackson ride at Disneyland” and I just had to go and look it up, lest not…
