Connections are important. It was raining buckets when I left early Thursday morning. It was bad enough that I decided to drive in instead of waiting in the rain for 10 minutes for the bus. Of course, the rain slowed to a trickle when I got on the freeway, then stopped when I was halfway [...]

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This happens more often than you’d expect. When you create rules, you tend to create traps for yourself and/or others as well. Pretty normal Wednesday. Well, I went and gave blood, which wasn’t normal, but went fine. The cafeteria at work reopened, and they were giving out free samples of all kinds of things instead [...]

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WordPress 2.7 seems to have a flaky scheduling function. We’ll see how this works out in the future. Obviously, not all bluebirds are happy. For about the last 24 hours here in the Phoenix metro area, it’s been colder than usual (high 60 F), cloudy, and drizzling in a near-constant way. Seattle denizens say, “Business [...]

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Don’t upset the beavers. It was cold and cloudy on Monday, and it started raining at about 3:30pm. Two buses had broken down or something right next to my bus stop, and they had the police and the transit authority out there doing something. My bus was about 10 minutes late thanks to construction downtown, [...]

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Maybe “wretched excess” isn’t the right phrase, but things are piling up under the tree already. Not really anything to report.  Nothing really exciting happened on Sunday.  This is probably a good thing, actually.

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This is partially what this year’s Christmas tree looks like. (larger version) The new living room layout means there’s only one place it’ll fit. But in what will probably be a tradition now, there are a whole lot of penguin ornaments on the tree.  It’s a bit hard to see in this picture, but Fuzzball [...]

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Seriously, I can’t think of a thing to write. But they have burritos at this place called Maria’s Mexican Grill in downtown Phoenix that are seriously good, and that’s where we went on Friday. What else. . . gotta get the tree up, gotta wrap the presents, some of which have already started getting here. [...]

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The fine folks at Penny Arcade did a few comic strips on the elusive deep crow, how to hunt a deep crow down, and what hunting a deep crow might do for you. Most days, there are some people I see every morning while waiting for the bus. On Thursday morning, we were all talking [...]

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Somehow, I don’t think this cat will retain much of what he’s reading. Not a whole lot to report, actually. Finished reading Matter, and found that quite a lot of interesting stuff happens at the end.  The book is oddly paced—it’s really slow at the start, and then accelerates and accelerates until tons of things [...]

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College kids vs. undead Nazis. That is all. OK, it looks cheesy, but it could be fun. This captioned cat illustrates the dumb things that can happen in the name of security theatre. George Carlin’s “airport security” monologue is just as relevant today as it was when he first delivered it. Trivia: We were doing [...]

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