Caturday! When you leave cats alone, somehow they always seem to end up in dire straits. Relaxing day on Friday. In bad news, Google is leaving Tempe. I heard about 6 months ago that one of Google’s offices was looking to hire someone. The candidate had all the right skills, passed the long and grueling [...]

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Fuzzball with some text that I’m sure we’ve all felt like saying at some point. Also, matey, it be Talk Like A Pirate day! Scuttle the mizzenmast! Keelhaul the politicians! At work on Thursday, it seemed like I got a relatively constant stream of “Oh, can you do (small thing)?” requests. As a result, I [...]

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Back in the 1980s, in “Bloom County”, Oliver hacked into the NYSE and made all the boards display “Avast, ye scurvy dogs, Bank of America is about to go belly up!”  This touched off a worldwide financial panic.  I can’t find the image that shows this, though.  Dangit, life is not supposed to imitate comic [...]

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Sometimes, the lizards are happy. I am also happy, because I don’t have to go to work on Wednesday, and can spend the time planning the swift destruction of all my enemies seeing a matinee, reading, and stuff like that. Trivia: We were Trevor-less, and they’ve changed the contest format around quite a bit. We [...]

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So because I had to be awake for hours and hours during a time when most people are snoozing, I get to take Wednesday off. Yay!  In non-good news, they’ve raised the price of the cafeteria’s chili by about $0.30.  Well, it’s pretty good chili, so maybe they had to cover rising ingredient costs. A [...]

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A Farker’s son has a nasty form of brain cancer. They’re trying to raise money for treatment. Tons of details in the link in the previous sentence. The direct donation link (beware, has music embedded in some sort of Flash or MIDI thing. Get FlashBlock!). The posters on that topic are interestingly divided. My rough [...]

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The plan for Saturday night was to get everybody together at Nathan’s, eat potluck, then go bowling. I haven’t been bowling in ages. I think I can remember how. The wallpaper in the picture is hideous. Did anyone in the 1960s/70s think that was a good idea? Oh well, I’m sure that “Fashion Mistakes of [...]

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Writing this at 2:30am on Saturday while waiting for other people to get their stuff together during the disaster recovery test. Of course, not everything is working properly. In fact, as far as I can tell, a bunch of stuff is behaving about as stably as a stegosaurus on rocket-powered roller skates. DNS, networking, various [...]

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I guess owls can suffer from megalomania, just like evil geniuses. I’m almost done with Moby-Dick. Six people look at the doubloon nailed to the mast and see six different things. Of course, this is supposed to show something about the character of each of the six people. Briefly—Ahab: crazy. Starbuck: resigned. Stubb: cheerful. Flask: [...]

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Time. There just isn’t very much. I had to get up early Wednesday morning to try a semi-complicated thing with an important server, it failed miserably, so Thursday morning I’ll be getting up even earlier to try the same thing. Only this time, I’ll be armed with fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and an almost fanatical [...]

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