Sunday didn’t contain a lot of interesting stuff. Went grocery shopping, played some video games, catered to Fuzzball, made dinner, talked on the phone, and finished reading War: the Lethal Custom by Gwynne Dyer. Even though that book was revised in 2005 or thereabouts, I believe it’s overly optimistic. The main bright [...]

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My Rock Band 2 DVD has been screwed up for months. I finally replaced it on Saturday. Then I spent 1.5 hours playing various songs, and found out that I’m out of practice on a lot of stuff. Ah well.
I also spent some time helping Jean-Claude replace his air filters. He [...]

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Caturday, and the cats are imitating dinosaurs.
Friday was notable mostly because it took way too long to get some stuff vetted and approved. Of course, the people who were supposed to vet and approve that stuff were either on vacation, in remote areas, or dealing with a 1-month-old baby, so that’s understandable.
Most of the [...]

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Shiva is sometimes depicted as doing many things at once. Thursday, I attempted to emulate Shiva, but with less slaying of evil demons and more tech support. Also, when you’re building a database that has people’s names in it, making 2 columns, one for “first name” and one for “last name” makes it [...]

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Viking Kitty demands his share of the Dane-Geld. And some tuna.
Didn’t do a whole lot yesterday, but returned old library books and got new ones. Then took a nap. It’s nice to have a day off in the middle of the week. I hope that there hasn’t been some sort of [...]

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Pharmaceuticals and snack food don’t usually go together, but what if they did?
Apparently, some of the mail we’re sending out is getting eaten by overly zealous spam filtering, and none of the people who are in charge of the spam filtering know anything about why it’s happening or how to fix it. And some [...]

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Moira loves to sit in this window when the sun’s out.
Monday was pretty normal, but two of the usual crew were on vacation or had to work from home because of transport problems. I spent what seemed like forever trying to solve somebody else’s problem with a database that had a bunch of HTML [...]

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Sunday had very little exciting happen. Grocery shopping, paying bills, cleaning house, and stuff like that. At least no machines fell over and no gruesome software bugs were reported.

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“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” —P.J. O’Rourke. Maybe we should give the car keys, money, and power to the bunny rabbits. They might do a better job, even though their legs are too short to reach the pedals.
Went with Nathan and Trevor [...]

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Caturday has been canceled. It’s Cavy Day!
The entire crew plus almost everyone from the 7th floor went out to lunch on Friday. No one had any idea where to go, so I suggested the Hero Factory on 1st Ave. Only a few of us had been there, so it was a new [...]

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