Grandma died ten years ago today and I still remember the day as if it were yesterday. She died at 11:05 AM and I, having stayed up all night sitting with her in the hospital, had taken a short nap and woke up as people began to stir around me.
I drank more than I intended at happy hour last night, knowing I had to get up early this morning to head down to Richmond for Ravencon. However, I drank ten or fifteen times as much water as anything else which minimized the damage. In fact, the 2 beers and 4 shots I had was…
…for someone like me (or strausmouse) who can’t help but absorb trivia: The Areas of My Expertise I came across it when I did my weekly check into Eric Leuliette’s What I have read website.
I get a lot of junk snail mail in the office, mostly from Gartner, which seems to me to be about the most environmentally unfriendly technology analysis firm out there. (I also don’t believe half of what they report.) But a measurable percentages comes from SANS, which apparently stands for System Administration, Networking, and Security…
Scott Adam’s Dilbert Blog is particularly cynical and funny today.
I hope that people will finally shutup about A-Rod’s performance now that he has his 10th homerun in 20 days and his 2nd walk-off homerun this season. (And there are still 10 days left in April.) Even The Post is giving A-Rod good press. (Which is more than they are doing for the likes of…
[Posted on April 20th because of problems accessing LJ last night.] Whew! It was one busy day today. All week I’ve been preparing for an important training session that I was running today for software that I have been developing for one of our research divisions. Today was training day. It went well, but I’m…
Almost no one who reads this is a programmer of any kind, so this will mean very little to you. But I just have to say that I spent the last 2-1/2 hours trying to debug a type problem in a C# .NET application I am working on. I added a cool feature that allowed…
Today is jkashlock‘s birthday. If I’m not mistaken, it’s the last birthday of his 20s and the blandishments of youth are slipping away. Somehow, I think that this time next year when I am 36 and Jason is 30, I won’t feel so much older than he. In the meantime, enjoy what’s left of your…
I had trouble falling asleep last night but at least I know why. First, I had random echoes of what I was reading running through my head. This happens to me from time to time when I read a lot on a particular day. It doesn’t happen often but I am resigned to it when…