There are some Jane Austen novels that could be improved by adding the walking dead. I’ve read thousands of literary works by now, by authors as diverse as Gene Wolfe, Tad Williams, Herman Melville, Dostoevsky, Virgil, Homer, Herodotus, T.S. Eliot, Tom Robbins, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Dan Simmons, China Mieville, and Rebecca Ore. [...]

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What would a deity listen to? No one really knows for sure. I think that a deity would probably make room for Bach, Handel, Iron Maiden, White Zombie, Rush, The Who, the Dead Milkmen, Soundgarden, and the Foo Fighters. But that’s just me.
Not a whole lot to report. The only plans [...]

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Really stupid pie charts are everywhere. At least we can poke fun at them.
Not a whole lot happened yesterday. Steve had a family thing to go to, so we didn’t get to do the usual Wednesday night Rock Band/Linux thing. Called Brian and tried to get the Vegas plans straight. We [...]

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You’ve heard of pimping rides. To pig a ride, however, requires a high level of skill.
Tuesday was a bit hectic. Work was reasonably normal. Then, as the bus was weaving its detour-strewn way home, I got a phone call. From Marcus, whom I haven’t talked to since 2007. (He doesn’t [...]

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Fuzzball really likes to sit in my chair. I’m not sure why. Well, my old computer chair was wood, and this one is much softer.
Work was minor thing after minor thing Monday, in a never-ending stream. Well, at least most of it worked. I had to log in from home and [...]

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This is the revolver I bought yesterday. It shows some cosmetic wear, but the action works fine and the barrel’s good. I wanted something in .357 mostly because that will fire less expensive .38 special ammo as well as more expensive .357 Magnum. I downloaded the manual from Taurus’s website since pre-owned [...]

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Zach and I went to the gun show on Saturday. OK, I wasn’t looking for anything quite this large, but I did find a Taurus model 65 .357 Magnum revolver which I liked and I think will work out well. (Pictures of it tomorrow.) It should be fun to see how it [...]

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Something that should’ve been really simple took forever and involved at least 3 other people at work on Friday. Well, when you work for a larger company, there’s bound to be at least some level of stupid in there somewhere.
Also, thanks to road construction, the bus that takes me home now has to take [...]

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Yes, this is the king of Thailand. The eyes and mouth on the hat he’s wearing were photo shopped in so that it’d look like Domo-kun. (You can tell that it’s a shop from the pixels, and from seeing a number of shops in your time.)
Let’s see, not a whole lot to report [...]

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There are a lot of things you can do with English. This picture shows one of them.
I worked from home on Wed. because I had to take Fuzzball to the vet for her yearly checkup. She’s fine. Also went over to Steve’s for the usual Wed. night dinner and Rock Band thing. [...]

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