Historic inauguration, with a pretty good speech and a lousy poem. Seriously, they should’ve gotten someone who’d won at least one poetry slam in there for the poetry part of it. Or KRS-One or Chuck D. Ah well. I don’t think anybody got a lot of work done while the swearing in and the speech [...]

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This has to be a joke, right? I mean, the general idea doesn’t sound too horrible, but the description makes it sound like the textual equivalent of the picture above. Except much, much sillier. It’s like bad writing that’s trying really hard to be bad, which makes it less hilarious than bad writing that’s trying [...]

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Justice is one of those things that’s difficult to pin down. Fortunately, when the law system and courts fail, there are captioned cats working as costumed vigilantes. The big excitement on Sunday was the football game. The media pundits all said, “No way the Cardinals can win.” WRONG! Well, during the first half, the Eagles [...]

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Guinea pigs don’t usually care that much about birthdays, but this one seems to be having a good time. We all met at Trevor’s place yesterday, then had dinner at a nearby Nello’s (local pizza chain, which is surprisingly good.) We had a vegetarian who didn’t like salad and another vegetarian who will eat invertebrates [...]

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Friday, when I was riding the bus home, it rear-ended/sideswiped an SUV. I was reading a book, so I didn’t see exactly what happened, but it wasn’t really serious. The police showed up, asked a bunch of questions, and another bus came to pick us up. This took about 40 minutes. I felt bad for [...]

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Stealth fighter? Yeah, we’ve got that. There were a lot of little annoyances that I had to solve on Thursday. At least none of them involved getting up at 4:45am or staying late dealing with badly formatted, badly specified files containing important info. However, there are a large number of knobs, dials, levers, and settings [...]

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Sometimes, it’s like this. After the great database fiasco of this morning, I did ordinary work things until right before I was going to leave, when I had to stay late to fix a b0rken spreadsheet that somebody else had generated. At least I was able to verify that the data in the database was [...]

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The database stuff that I was supposed to do this morning took much longer than it should’ve, and annoyed a few users.  Who knew an obscure table in a disused database could totally hose everything if it was missing its .frm file?  More later, maybe, as I have to catch the bus.

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Somehow, I don’t think this really happened. Sheep are really not very good at rampaging. Not really a lot to report. Finished Spin State. It was a cut above the norm, if only because at one point, Cohen said, “We’re going to take the specs to (technological Macguffin) and open-source them! Then the government won’t [...]

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The big excitement on Sunday was having the CPU fan in my desktop fail miserably.  I had a spare, but it took a lot longer to get it fixed than it should’ve.  The 1.5 hour downtime on Sunday night is why this entry is so short.

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