Category: General
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Ranch… and bacon. Together.
To whoever it was that came up with Ranch with Bacon dressing… I could kiss you. Or pin a medal on you. Possibly both.
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Comments re-enabled (tim.cexx.org)
For those who have posted comments to my blog, only to see them (or not see them) disappear into the aether, take heart! Comments are active again. I guess they were never technically “disabled”, in the sense that attempting to post comments would return an error; instead of immediately posting they were just held in…
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Happy Decemberween!
So, I was in Tar-Chet last weekend. There were Halloween decorations (actually, have been since before my birthday in mid-September) for sale, and right next to them, Christmas decorations. In September. CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS.
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Over and out
This has been one of those weeks. I feel like I have about a year’s worth of catching up to do, on work stuff, neglected interpersonal relationships*, technological wizardry on boards and blogs and phones, and 3e+08 other things. Like the strangers that you’ve met, with eyes that watch the world and can’t forget Yeah,…
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Tufts: Manic Street Pizzas
I got a chance to test out my antilock brakes yesterday. I was driving to work a different way than usual due to road-closed construction, and came across this. Or more technically, screeched to a halt in front of it as some Tufts freshman chick appeared on the street from out of nowhere behind a…
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Timing closure
Saturday… me being a Guild Whore, tackling a quest log (dwarfed only by my Project Stack) as a travelling-salesman optimization problem. Meanwhile, attempting (with no success, yet) to load an .iso of Shadow of the Colossus with HDloader. Eventually gave up on both of those and crashed for the night. Had a dream that night…
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0b00011010 // Happy birthday to me…
I was driving to work this morning, which takes me past Tufts…so I was enjoying the scenery, and that’s when it hit me. “Oh, fuck, it’s happened. I’ve become a dirty old man.” * * * I mentioned this revelation to GG and the ‘Nator in the lab. They were proud of me. Said I…
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Labor day Chicago trip
Some pictures I think I’ve been forgetting what I actually made this here blog thing for – jotting down all the stuff I do, people I hang out with, etc. So anyway…Chicago trip from Labor Day. It was a 10-4 week, so I got the friday off “for free”. The only decent flight I could…
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The Slimeball Shuffle
Today I received my VIP invitation to the Women’s Financial Conference. …uncomfortable pause… Right now, you’re probably wondering a few things. Like, “is there something you haven’t told me?”, or, “did the operation hurt?” No, I haven’t been in for a change of equipment. But at least I know where they got my name*. Fuckin’…
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One more thing finally off the project stack (for now)…
Terrarium for hot, humid, picky little plants Keeping my Boston-intolerant carnivores in cut-up 3-liter Coke bottles was a litte..um..ghetto, so I built this. The box It’s basically a regular off-the-shelf 10-gallon aquarium with a few extras thrown in. The lid is a seamless piece of Lexan from the hardware store. Lexan can be somewhat of…
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I Did Not Write This Firmware!
The parking lot at JR’s building is guarded by a formidible adversary, an automated parking system that doles out timestamped magnetic tickets. When ready to leave, you (hopefully get the ticket validated inside and) pop it into a machine along with your credit card*, and now feeding the magnetic ticket back in at the exit…
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Scotland pics
Ok, getting them online took a wee bit longer than expected. But there are sheep, castles, and McCondoms galore. The entire big photo album! Funny story: On our 2nd night in Stornoway, I ran into our driver*, F, having a smoke outside a pub. We went in, had a few drinks and met some people**,…
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Lad, I don’t know where ya been (but I see ya won first prize)
I’m disappearing this Friday for most of the month, with the rest of the family… My folks: “Hey, we’re going to Scotland, wanna come?” Me: “Hell yeah!” With any luck we’ll find our supposed pile o’ rocks castle, and many more just like it except more castle-shaped. As always, many pictures promised to anyone who…
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LSP-Fix utility open-sourced
I wrote this waaay back in college, while doing the webmaster / perl thing at the Power Transmission Products Company Who Shall Remain Nameless. It took maybe a couple evenings after work plus a weekend to code, and probably just as much time coming up with test cases to throw at it (not to mention…
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Rorschach door…am I nuts?
gunslinger gunslinger gunslinger gunslinger gunslinger butterfly
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Nope, not dead
Just busy. And doing a bunch of hanging out. Anyway, mini-update with purty pictures…* Lastlast saturday, Brazilian BBQ w/ Jane and Scott, and some wandering around by the big courthouse-building-with-a-jail-on-top. Mmmmm… protein craving satiated…and um…re-awakened. The jailbirds were all being quiet. Found the World’s Lamest Playground, consisting of metal steps, a (non-mobile, non-bouncy) metal bridge,…
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Sweet, my brain *does* work in 3D
I’ve been remembering segments of dreams the last couple weeks, which is highly unusual for me, and they’ve been…well, no “sleepwanking”* involved, but unusually amorous. The most recent one, however, was orgasmic for other reasons. I guess you could say it was a post-apocalyptic humans-vs-our-own-AI-run-amok story, vaguely reminiscent of The Matrix trilogy with a less…
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My old (pre-pay) cell phone, free to good home
I have a cell contract and a new phone, so I no longer have a use for this one. It’s big and the screen isn’t in color, but it still does what phones do best – taking pictures emailing text messages surfing the internet you know, making phone calls. Since it’s contractless and fully functional…
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Gr8…VZW ncuragz txt spk w/ msg xl8r
One of the guys at work wrote a LABVIEW module that will send someone a phone text message (via T-Mobile’s email-to-SMS gateway) if anything unusual happens with an unattended test rig in the lab before shutting down the test. That’s pretty cool (especially once I get together a list of valid SMS addresses and a…
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Mini-update that turned out to be not-so-mini
Meat & Greet So far, this has been shaping up to be the Summer Of Meat (with apologies to my one remaining LJ vegan). Since last(ish) post, there’s been a sweet housewarming/BBQ at DE’s*, a semi-literal sausage fest at GJM’s, and more raw fish than I can shake a chopstick at. The annual lamb roast…