Everything is made cooler when you add lightsabers. Really. Even squirrels. The big excitement on Saturday was getting some rain. For about 2 hours in the morning, it rained off and on. This probably isn’t enough rain to make any difference, though. I also think I’ve finally got KDE 4 on my laptop working just [...]

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Friday didn’t have a whole lot going on. There weren’t any crises, and we couldn’t round up enough people at the same time to all go out for lunch. The whole department also got an e-mail saying that there was a free ticket to a sporting clays competition up for grabs. The people on my [...]

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There’s no telling what the artist who made this was thinking. However, it’s weird enough for a Friday. Thursday was pretty uneventful. Well, there was this one guy who did something stupid with moonshine and a loaded rifle, but that didn’t affect anything I did. The snowbirds have arrived in force; it took about 10 [...]

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Apparently, every kid in school and every government employee got Wednesday off. I don’t ever remember getting Veteran’s Day off when I was in grade/high school. This may be a new thing, or possibly an Arizona thing. But anyway, I was the only person riding the bus in the morning and afternoon. Saving money is [...]

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When we all went to trivia on Tuesday, there were a few problems. First, they were short-staffed, so we almost didn’t get a table before they started asking questions. Second, there was a mix-up with our orders and we got one too many beers. Trivia went well, though. We won (yay!) though it was fairly [...]

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This is what New York City might look like after all the humans vanished due to zombies or swine flu or atomic hamsters from Mars. Monday: Most of it was reasonably interesting while it was happening, but it makes a terrible story. I sent out a mail to everyone on the team, and one of [...]

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The rabbits heartily disapprove of silly pictures like this. Sunday didn’t have a lot going on. However, I recently heard that the workers at Fry’s and Safeway may go on strike next Friday, which would be pretty interesting. I’ve done almost all my grocery shopping at Fry’s for the last two years because A) they’re [...]

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Saturday, the big excitement was Code Camp. I got there a bit before 10am, when the first session I wanted to attend was. They had bagels and muffins sitting out, and there was no real access control—you didn’t have to sign in or get a badge or nametag or anything. I thought that was a [...]

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Short entry, mostly because Friday wasn’t really all that interesting. Bill apparently has no free time at all now, since he’s coaching a basketball team at the school his daughters go to. I’ve been fooling around with jQuery, since it can be used for a lot of interesting stuff, but I don’t have anything ready [...]

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There is no limit to the weird things that people come up with. Some artists with too much time on their hands have taken the old “My Little Pony” toys and turned them into all kinds of things from pop culture. There’s even a My Little Pony Cthulhu out there. Hm. Thursday wasn’t all that [...]

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