Usually, it’s a bad idea to mix explosives and agriculture. In a comic strip like the book of Biff, though, it can be amusing. Wednesday had some entirely predictable work things, an entirely unpredictable long head-scratching session caused by a dumb typo that I made, and Rock Band at Steve’s. We played the Impossible Bass [...]

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Pimping a ride requires skill. Pigging a ride requires great skill. And we’re all about skill here. Tuesday had more than the usual quota of work things. I think this is because nobody was in the office on Monday, so the Monday got condensed into Tuesday. No biggie. The vast majority of it was pretty [...]

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For years, the Nepalese Army has been investigating ways to enhance the mobility of its units in remote locations. Now, behold the ZK-3000 Rocket Yak! The enemies of Nepal will rue this day. Monday saw the whole bathtub drain problem get fixed. It’s amazing how getting the right part can solve everything. I also filed [...]

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Old video game history, as presented by the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats. Sunday, I tried to fix a plumbing problem (bad bathtub drain) by going to Home Despot and buying some parts. However, I got the size wrong, or the drain parts that are already installed are a weird size, and I’m going to need an additional [...]

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Mice, unite! Put your Viking helmets on and revolt against the unjust tyranny you live under! Or something like that. Saturday was pretty quiet. I read Stories of Your Life And Others by Ted Chiang. This is a collection of short sci-fi stories, some more interesting than others. “Understand” looked like it was going somewhere, [...]

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There’s really no way anything like this could make sense. Right? Right. Friday was fairly normal, even though there were fewer cars on the road than usual since many people have taken Friday off as President’s Day is next Monday. Figured out most of the stuff we’ll want to do with apache. It’s not going [...]

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We’re continuing with the “silly Snakes on a Plane references” theme here. However, I don’t think that camels would fit on most submarines. There’s just not a lot of spare room on submarines, after all. Thursday was pretty normal, minus some dumb things happening with the network, and a bad database query that caused a [...]

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The number of silly references to “Snakes on a Plane” available on the Internet defies description. Wednesday had an interesting problem. Another team’s init script was behaving oddly. They looked at it, and found that when it was called with “stop”, it didn’t actually do anything. When you call an init script with “stop”, it’s [...]

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Tuesday was pretty quiet. Well, it was quiet until after I’d gotten home from work and a runaway process or 7 ate all the disk space on an important box. I had to deal with that while eating dinner. It was relatively easy to make it so that things would work (mostly), but it took [...]

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A guinea pig, lying on a blanket, who is probably much more relaxed than most people were on Monday. Monday was actually relatively quiet, except for a brief period where an outside provider did something amazingly dumb which broke a bunch of stuff. Sunday, there were a couple of things that happened that I didn’t [...]

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