Category: General

I can’t be the only one who got the wrong idea when glancing across the slashdot headline: Hardware: Satellites Mating Via Robotic Arm “The launch of the Orbital Express mission, with its two satellites ASTRO and NextSat, the first one servicing the other, … I should, you know, sleep or whatever.

Not much to say, but nothin’ says St. Patricks like a good old-fashioned piss-up. So I took a break last saturday night from reading about Paypal shopping cart integration APIs (you can’t set different shipping rates for Boston and Botswana? Gimme a friggin’ break!) to find out what some buds were doing. “Hey, we’re down…

I always thought bleach was used for getting unwanted colors out of clothing. Like, say, coffee colors. So I tried this the other day – it worked great! Kind of like cutting around the stained part and throwing it away, but the bleach method saves the trouble of finding scissors.

Pictures here Three days of skiing, 2 nights of our own lodge, Real Fire, marshmallows and roastin’ sticks, hot chocolate with Bailey’s, pool and jacuzzi across the street, kickass food, and zero Ski Patrol involvement this time ;-) Oh, and we found GJM’s long-lost babymaker.

me: “What idiot puts a PetCo and a PetSmart right next to each other?” JR: “Maybe they’re across the street from each other.” me: “Touche.” (The directions to get to a particular restaurant on it include a “drive past the restaurant, go three miles, pull a U-turn and backtrack three miles” step because there is…

Okay folks, so that day is coming up next week. Normally, I’d assault your eyes with one of my customary valentine’s day rants (or miscellaneous cheese), but instead… This next week I am accepting applications* for a coffee date. For those who do not like coffee… too damn bad! I like coffee. Er, I mean,…

Yesterday I was going over to GJM’s house to play with some DS networking stuff, so I said “Let me just email you the latest libraries and stuff and I’ll come over.” As I sat waiting, and waiting for only a few megs’ worth of files to send, I realized it would have actually been…

If I were president, I’d add a regular expression filter to the mass media that replaced every occurence of “In a post-9/11 world…” with “In a post-Hitler world…” as a simple demonstration of ridiculosity. Example: In this post-9/11 world… becomes: In a post-Hitler world, should we allow just any idiot with a radical idea to…

Dammit, I should know better than to tempt fate by blogging about things in jest, like extremely localized global warming (or for that matter, medical industry conspiracies). I think GK said it best. For those of you not around here, it is January 6th and 70 degrees in Boston. It’s actually warmer outside my house…

I think my housemates think there is a toilet paper fairy. For the zillionth time it seems, I bought a huge brick of toilet paper and put it in our upstairs bathroom because we’ve been completely out for several days (who knows how long; I’m not home all that much to notice). I spool up…

Noels[0]; for k=[1:3]; it=snow; end; 0 0 12 25 * cd ~ tree -i O ./xmess nice@town# adduser -e 12/26/06 Santa mv -f reindeer Grandma chmod 777 Joy midnight = (unsigned char *) calloc(bufSize,1); memcpy(midnight, it, bufSize); diff /dev/dsp /dev/audio night=sparse(night); cat | woods > river cat night > /dev/null which child gzip ~/merry_christmas smixer…

November 17 ~ 27 Batavia Chicago Countryside Elburn La Grange La Grange Park Mokena Morris Oak Park Oswego St. Charles Warrenville Westmont Western Springs Willow Springs Officially, a routine visit for the Thanksgiving holiday. Unofficially, one of both the most fun and the most depressing trips home I’ve had. My travels took me right near…

Blarrrgh. I’ve got to be up at 3:45 this morning (if I wanna shower) to be at work by 5 to pack up a sprawling mess of a helicopter blade test setup to start setting up in Connecticut by 8. And I can’t sleep, because I’m not tired. (Yaya, documentation of Chicago trip, xmas party…

So this morning GJM calls me: apparently this shit-for-brains in his company’s building has been abusing the deaf relay service to make anonymous prank calls and talk crap to people around the office. After getting hit himself about five times in a row, GJM has a prime suspect and confirms with a little social engineering.…

In the southwest suburbs’ local paper this week, there is a fullpage ad for a scam the EdenPURE 500 (R)(tm)(c)(processed cheese food), a space heater making all sorts of ridculous claims and using scare tactics to warn gullible readers away from those “other” space heaters. Did you know… this special space heater uses a quartz…

I’m back in Chicago for a long, much-needed Thanksgiving break. The other night my dad and I were relaxing shooting the bull, and the subject of my romantic life or lack thereof came up… and I ended up getting the talk. No, not that one…puberty was long ago. This was the “gee, son, it looks…