Month: November 2005
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Interesting
Experts: Introverted youth have deep roots for behavior
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Old dudes with too much freetime on their hands
I spent a good portion of the day Saturday chasing around with GJM on the “Tour de Chooch”, in which all these dudes in MA arrange to have an open-house all on the same weekend to show off their insanely elaborate model railroad setups in their basements. Kinda like the canonical “teenaged hackers in their…
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First remote Thanksgiving, or, my week on Marion St.
I celebrated this Thanksgiving in Boston, away from my family for…I think, the first time ever. Blame a lack of priorities or planning or pretty much anything else, but the end result is about the same. For some reason the major holidays, rather than being times of joy and togetherness, have always just kind of…
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Playlist Oracle memememememe
Instructions: Set music player to shuffle. Ask the following questions, and hit ‘next song’. The title of the song will be the answer to your question. Question: What do you think of me, playlist? Answer: Stabbing Westward- Save Yourself Question: Will I have a happy life? Answer: Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction – Elvis…
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More Xbox…!
This is the thread that never ends, it just goes on and on my friends… (for anyone who’s been living under a rock, the longest trail of backward references in the history of this bloggg begins here. This week I received 4 urgent(-looking) letters from Wells Fargo, saying in turn that a) the fraud investigation…
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Throw a rock
into a pond and the ripples you produce will carry all the way to the edge, regardless of its size. Some of the energy will dissipate into the distant shore, given away as heat and sound from a collision that is never perfectly inelastic, but what’s left of that ripple will reflect, interacting with itself,…
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This week
monday: Out of the blue “WTF?!” condition…not documenting publicly since it involves a good friend and some possibly private stuff. tuesday: “Need a valve actuator PID controller with 100ms settling time* for this project you’ve never heard of before, even though we’ve been working on it for $bignum time now, and have known we needed…
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Category: Things I could have believed more wholeheartedly last week
“Don’t sweat the small stuff. More than that – don’t even sweat the big stuff. Because life can only kill you once, and the fact that you’re still around to sweat stuff means it missed. So nyarrr.” -me “There is nothing more satisfying than having someone take a shot at you, and miss.” -Murphy
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Rain fade
Spending way too long this evening twiddling around with NetStumbler and my wifi antenna trying to (re-)pick up a signal from a neighbor’s house, maybe because it rained this evening, or maybe because the people who actually own those signals are walking around in their houses and inadvertently interfering with them, or…wait, it’s because our…
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Addendum to previous entry (more like a kick in the piel..)
I’m “with wheels” for two whole days and already having to do the Please Don’t Tow Me Shuffle. I just returned from leaving my car at work because tomorrow my area (or all of Medford?) is having a pop street sweeping; the notices appeared, as far as I know, sometime today. I first saw them…
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Piele and wiele, reunited at last
Woo, I have my car back. Note to self: Never get it fixed at the dealer again. Unless they’re making starters out of solid gold now, I just got a screwin’. What I’m thinking now…. Home Depot run! My shopping list is as follows: Large metal pins + cotter pins + plastic rolly apparatus (don’t…
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Pictures of p1r8ed plants…
Everyone does one of these totally annoying posts where they post some meaningless triviata of their life with (poorly-composed, blurry,) huge pictures that take forever to render. So…. The plants in my room / office, and where they came from :-) With very few exceptions, all of these are pirated from somewhere. I don’t know…
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It’s been said…
“A woman commits to a man hoping that he will change. A man commits to a woman hoping that she won’t.” If only it actually worked that way. QOTD: [11:11] K*: We talked on the phone and everything was going great, [11:11] K*: Then I told her about my work, and she said sure [11:12]…
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There’s no swimming in the heavy water, no singing in the acid rain… red alert, red alert
I think I figured out why I don’t drink the water at work much. It doesn’t taste like water. Actually, it doesn’t taste like anything. It’s diet water, if there is such a thing. Regular old municipal water, but run through a crazy reverse osmosis, oxygenating, ozonating contraption that brings the dissolved solids down to…
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Stuff… Apples, squirrels, ponies…
Saudi Arabian blog burning for bits ‘n giggles I should have been sleeping, and was probably intending to bloggg something or other Friday night, but ended up staying up way too late becoming an expert on XMLRPC vulnerabilities instead. Damn script kiddies. Sadly, every one of us who doesn’t devote his/her life to rolling their…
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Halloween pics @ work
Will document the weekend once I’m actually home, because that might take a little while. In the meantime… I still recall the taste of your tears… Me with the Osbournes Group photo of all my work-people All the pictures These (of all the work people) will only be online for a few days, so look…