Excuse me, have you seen my toupee? It was around here somewhere. . . . There was going to be a get-together Friday night. I was thinking about going, but at about 7:15pm (15 minutes before it started), I got a helpdesk ticket. I spent about an hour trying a bunch of different things to [...]

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Siamese cats can resemble snakes when viewed at the proper angle. Thursday night, it rained a lot in some areas of the greater Phoenix metro area. There were reports of 100mph winds at the airport, tons of downed trees, power outages, flooding, and even hail. I noticed it was raining some when I hit the [...]

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Fierce disapproval is what Patagonian Cavies are all about. Yay for the three-day weekend coming up! A whole bunch of people are going to be gone from the office tomorrow. I guess they wanted a four-day weekend. Really Lousy Error Reporting: Apparently, “Warning: NFS server cannot mount example.com:/stuff on /mnt/stuff : not owner” is secret [...]

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Most people who have worked with the general public would like to put a complaint procedure like this into effect. So since Steve is still in NYC right now, Juan and Zach and I decided to do something different on Wednesday night. We all went out to Shooter’s World after work and spent some time [...]

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I don’t know what this guy is outraged about, but it was evidently pretty bad. Trivia: We were leading when I left, but there were way too many sports questions. And we had a hard time thinking of a good team name. Been reading White Supremacy by George M. Fredrickson, a book that was published [...]

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Camouflage Cat has words of wisdom that should be followed. Well, unless you want to emulate a Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. One of my co-workers had a late meeting yesterday. She came back into the office at about 4:15pm, looked out the window, and said, “Oh wow, when did all the dark clouds show [...]

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About 8 years ago, I bought a knife similar to the one in the picture to the left, though mine didn’t have pliers, a saw, or scissors. Now I can’t find the bloody thing. I have a spare knife that doesn’t look quite as nice, but should still be usable. I guess that’s what I’ll [...]

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Yesterday, I filled out the early ballot that I’d requested through the Maricopa County Recorder’s office. OK, the ballot was for a primary election, not the real election that happens in November, but at least I’ve made my opinions known. I was troubled by one race; there were 2 candidates who both looked like they [...]

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Sometimes I think it’s a good thing that Fuzzball is short-haired.  A longhair like the one in the picture would shed so much it’d be impossible to keep hair off anything. Last night, Jean-Claude knocked on my door.  Apparently, the handle assembly on his toilet had broken.  He had bought a new handle assembly, but [...]

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This caption doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but who cares? BUNNIES!!1! I read a bizarre diatribe on one of the political stories in the local paper’s online section which said that Barack Obama was the Antichrist. I believe that people have been accusing their political opponents of being the Antichrist since the whole [...]

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