(What is this? An Introduction) So, it’s Thursday. Who’s going to get the first nod as a person I happen to think is quite keen? Well, it’s actually two, partly to make up for the fact that I’ve just decided to start this, thus I missed last Thursday, and partly, they’re married, so it’s fitting […]
So I’ve been poking around Ryan Macklin‘s blog. He’s a wonderful creative guy whom I worked with on the (now no longer available) Finis project (and I kick myself that I didn’t get a PDF copy while they were still around!), and he came up with a little series called “People I Admire”. So…like a […]
So I was reading XKCD’s What If again, this time on the subject of T-Rex calories. Halfway through the article, one of the illustrations caught my fancy, and I jotted off a quick email to my friend Cal, who moved from Brooklyn to Minnesota in the last year: To: Cal From: me Subject: The real […]
So…I ran a script on my WordPress blog to take advantage of a feature (featured image). It seems to have decided to edit everything in my LJ blog and put it back at the top of the friends list. This was not my intention. The photos going missing is a consequence of running the script. […]
Fundraising Link Every year, I do National Novel Writing Month. It’s become a bit of a tradition, to the point my mother just sighs and says, “You’re doing that November thing again, aren’t you?” And as part of the fun, I raise money to attend the Night of Writing Dangerously. I’ve got enough money to […]
This isn’t the best picture of them, but I decorate my cube with toys, and these are my Lego figurines. (And Luigi, and the toy car my coworkers found even they were dismantling a cube.)
Self-portrait of the artist on Halloween, goofy hat, tamale stained lips and all.
First day of NaNoWriMo 2013: Words written (as of this blog post): 2268 Stuffed toys having to be gently taken away from pug: 2 Number of alerts about dangerous levels of blood in caffeine system: 0 Friends seen: Too many to count.
(Patricia van Casteren / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) So, as a lot of you know, I’m a diehard Cal football fan. (It’s awful. Don’t ask.) And so, like any Cal fan, I want to know more about my team that I support, and I fell in with the crew at California Golden Blogs. One of the […]
From Expanding Earth, the latest from xkcd‘s What If? section: After the initial jolt, one of the first effects you’d notice would be that your GPS would stop working. The satellites would stay in roughly the same orbits, but the delicate timing that the GPS system is based on would be completely ruined within hours. […]
So, I have a problem. I have two live accounts, one under my usual email and one under my old hotmail address. I wanted to merge them, or barring that, kill the one under my usual email address so I can reassociate the old account with my new address. So I contact Microsoft support. Here […]
This piece of wood is the edge of a bleacher seat from California Memorial Stadium, home of my beloved California Golden Bears. In the process of renovating and modernizing the facility, which was originally built in 1923 on top of a major earthquake fault, they tore out the wooden bleachers. I’ve not had a chance […]
There are many tools in a system administrator’s arsenal. But none are quite as awesome as the bent paperclip for manually popping CD drives. :)