Year: 2006

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…

Fuck. I think I’ve slept a total of 14h this entire week. Which is usually more than enough to keep me out of bizarre mental states, but in general, me + extreme sleep deprivation = unpleasant. Getting all my work shizzle together before my trip back to chicago this+next week. Today I have… Recoded the…

This Sunday I found myself at the MIT fields in the middle of a downpour, watching a bunch of older guys re-live their glory days with an all-out game of rugby, tackling the shit out of each other. The game was arranged for TvS’s very-belated 50th birthday…there was at least one guy out there who…

Overheard on LJ::Grammargasm Someone said, in response to the election results, “Bush is a sitting duck at this point.” They meant lame duck. But I think it’s funnier the first way. To which someone replied: […] And yeah, don’t call him a duck while Cheney’s around.

+5 Ward against Distraction For the next 24 hours, target ally is equipped with a Ward against Distractions while coding. While so equipped, target is immune from interruptions arising from social responsibilities and has a 50% chance to “block” LJ, instant messages and lengthy going-nowhere phone calls. A man can dream, can’t he? Anyway, I…

(In answer to the age-old question, “but can you run linux on it?”) Okay, there’s no linux kernel running inside the pumpkin, but there IS about 6 MIPS of CPU power in there :-P (6x PIC10F200s = 1 very lifelike, work-safe, flickering un-blow-out-able candle.)

To whoever it was that came up with Ranch with Bacon dressing… I could kiss you. Or pin a medal on you. Possibly both.

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…

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,…