Category: General

  • FFF

    (Um…4096-1?) Should have been hack-hack-hackin’ away on PV2 stuff (sorry guys!), but got a little tied up this weekend (ahem, figuratively speaking). New England Fetish Fair! With fetishy freaks J.R. and Iz*. And this girl Rac*, that Iz* knows. (Er…I didn’t figure out that she was a girl at first.) And discovered these wonderful things…

  • Rollyball

    Hah! Most cracked out. Game. Ever. Katamari Damancy. You see, We really did it. The King of All Cosmos has really done it. A sky full of stars… We broke it. Yes, We were naughty. Completely naughty. So, so very sorry. But just between you and Us, it felt quite good. Not that We can…

  • Chicago Thanksgiving

    Wow, there was no yelling, screaming or airborne thuddifying turkey this year. Typical scooty relatives, but that’s just a given. And I can understand being caught between multiple Thanksgiving dinner get-togethers across multiple families. I just realized, this entry marks something kinda sorta like the 1-year anniversary of this here bloggg. (All right, probably a…

  • You’re dsPICable!

    Ya, dodged work along with junior-senior-engineer(?) G* to attend a tech seminar on the dsPIC micro/DSP rolled into one. Getting paid to dodge work (w/ blessing) is nice. Not really much to write about this, so this is here mainly for the timestamp. All right, just one bit because it amused me. The dsPIC core…

  • Camping

    Woohoo! We’ve got to do this every year. Maybe a few times a year. This weekend myself and some guys from work went on a camping trip in NH (8 of us in total). Just for the hell of it, we (most of us – 2 wussies stayed behind) climbed to the top of Mt.…

  • Calling It

    Beep…Beep…Beeeeeeeeeeeeeee….. Time of death, 5:23pm. Officially declaring No* a write-off after flaking out on plans for the 3e+08th time without explanation. (“Friends don’t leave friends hanging consistently.”) My big decision now is whether I should just drop it cleanly, or failness it explicitly. Time to kill the cat and let this indeterminate state collapse into…

  • Halloweeny fun

    Went out for some ribs and drinks with The Sleepy Kitten and some of her NYC pals. Turns out the place we went offers “a Vodka-based drink” in a fishbowl, with about a dozen straws sticking out of it. Umm…our group had 2. After that, we tried to catch a bus and eventually ended up…

  • Duct Tape Man lives!

    Ha, my work celebrates Halloween. I mean, with a passion, constumes, a bit of a party and everything. So of course, being a natural Halloweener (er…hope none of you are using text-to-speech, or that could have sounded bad), I threw something semicreative and last-minute together in typical me fashion. Introducing… Duct Tape Man! QOTD: (after…

  • WTF?

    Err, I saw a guy get beat down with nightsticks today by Medford’s finest in the mall parking lot. Reasons unknown. QOTD: “When the going gets complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.” – Source unknown

  • Fronts – week of…this week

    Workness: Successfully clawed out from under every and all time-zapping obligations, deadlines and et cetera. Catching up on some much needed, beautiful zzZzzZzZZz… Project Stack: The Walking Man, my brother’s parting gift just before I peeled out of Chicagoland for the last time, exists only as a non-illuminated wallhanging, a (literal) shadow of his former…

  • Walk up pointing the field strength meter at them, scribble something in your clipboard, then mutter something ominous to yourself while walking away

    Met up with with No* again today for some food / movies / playing with computers. Or was this the “Let’s prowl around in my ghetto little lab” extravaganza? (I really should write this stuff down the day it happens. Meh.) Well, let’s just say that any girl that is heard to without-provocation utter the…

  • Geeks of the World

    Haha, I’m up at 7ish AM on a Sunday. Who, me? Yes, me. (Pause for horrified screams) Probably a good thing, after happening to wake up* just after 2PM (!) the day before. (A few days of in-the-lab-past-midnight-rigging-demos coupled with cloudcover the thickness of Homer Simpson’s skull will do that to ya, I guess. Oh,…

  • The endless network outage into the night, and the category 5 noose

    The internet done died again. Has been happening on and off the past couple days at the new place, which I had been attributing to crappy cablemodem service. One of the downstairs people was idly suspecting a conflict between our various routing and switching boxen, so we played with the settings a bit, restarted everything,…

  • Closedloop

    Anyway, as the days grow visibly shorter and that general blahness sets in, I’m sort of absentmindedly examining the entrails of my last relationship. (Ha, that even predates this bloggg. Wow, that’s been a while.) It’s all there. The external disturbances. The oscillatory impulse response. Pre-ringing just before the point of failure, the runaway condition,…

  • Moving day

    Hah…this bit o’ events I already explained in an email to someone, so… *big paste* (for those scratching their heads and going, “hey, this doesn’t sound like your usual blogggging voice”…) The lease on my 4BR apartment expires at the end of this month, and I just found out that all my roommates are moving…

  • Summer Vacation 2K+4

    Lots o’ rocks Won’t budge… Tree and sunset Dad on a rock Mt. Washington…check! Sunset in Bar Harbor (yay dispose-o-cam) Tim in his natural habitat (to all those who have asked me, “did you just crawl out from under a rock?”) A cool-looking hunk of dead tree Gotta love driving in New England Not entirely…

  • DNC

    We went out and watched the DNC tonight downtown. OK, actually, we hit the pubs and observed the whole mess from a respectable distance (onscreen!) – but were in the thick of gay marriage and miscellaneous other protesters, blaring their diatribes from bullhorns mounted on gaudily-painted vans (gotta love conditional noise ordinances). I was originally…

  • Ocean fishin’ with the work crew

    Loaded for bear First catch (a little one) (…the ones underneath…those are the bait!) Once you catch ’em, you have to catch ’em again…in the boat! Me hanging on for dear life (the boat, she was a rockin’) AJ chumming the waters, again (seasick much?) Hey, it worked! (After a couple hours of lax fish…

  • Homegoing at a glance or slightly more

    J* and E*: It’s like I was never gone at all. T*: Did we like, used to know each other or something? T*’s bitch: Still an asshole as ever. Immediately entered Turf Protection mode. (Incidentally, I come to find out I’ve been attaining sort of a bad reputation in my absence…) (Hey…um…I’m 23 and live…

  • Shaw’s: A little hilarity along the way

    Yeah, so I was in Shaw’s today (or Shah’s, as these New Englanders call it) picking up the usual assortment of random bachelor-chow, and had just deterministically selected the fastest checkout line (pick the line full of fellow bachelors with their purchases pre-staged for loading, cash and credit cards already in hand; not the one…