Thursday, I saw a message on a technical mailing list which said, “So you’re using a single gigabat NIC here. . . .” I do not know how fast a gigabat NIC would transmit data. I think there would be absolutely no mosquitoes in the server room where one was installed, though.
Work was [...]

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Recently, I got Resident Mad Scientist (comic where it starts) in the mail, but it wasn’t until Saturday that I got a chance to open it and read it. Yay! High-tech mercenary mayhem in the future, with talking poop and vast conspiracies. OK, this may not be to everyone’s taste, but I [...]

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Anyway, on Saturday, Stephanie and I went to the Cornish Pasty Company in Tempe. That was interesting. They have pasties, traditional Cornish mining food, with all sorts of non-traditional fillings like chicken pot pie, New Mexican chile beef, and bangers and mash. It was filling and not that expensive. We had [...]

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Bunny here reminds you to not to overindulge when you’re out celebrating.
Wednesday at work was relatively normal, though the main project I was doing for most of the day took longer than I thought it would. There’s always a detail or 3 that’s really important that crops up right before installation time, or something. [...]

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This picture is from a while back, but it kind of shows how everything went on Sunday.
Monday was a bit less eventful. Our staff meeting turned into a complaint session about all the construction that’s going on around the Valley. A trouble ticket that has nothing to do with us got routed to [...]

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Things didn’t turn out that well for the Suns in game 5, even though they played hard and had it tied up until the final 0.2 seconds. Sigh. I’ve been reading Herodotus recently, and it seems that in the real world, Xerxes and the Persians win more often than not. (This could [...]

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More pics from the Ren Fair. Here we see Dextre Tripp juggling stuff that could cause serious bodily harm if mishandled.
Work was pretty quiet on Thursday, which is always nice. Also finished reading To Your Scattered Bodies Go. The end didn’t resolve much of anything. There are far too many questions [...]

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Tuesday. Not a whole lot to say, really, though. We’re trying out an upgrade of an important piece of software at work. If it works out, I’ll put it on all the real boxes (and not just the test boxes) tomorrow. Yay, or something.
Been reading To Your Scattered Bodies Go by [...]

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Thursday had quite a lot of waiting around for other people to do stuff. Also, while on the way home, I got a phone call from Zach saying that he was in town and wanted to get dinner. Then right after I said I’d show up there, I saw that I’d received a [...]

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Tuesday was pretty normal at work, though I went out to lunch. Usually, that’s a Friday thing, but a couple of us hadn’t brought lunch.
Trivia: Everybody except Nathan was there. I gave John T a somewhat late birthday present, the über-cheesy fantasy novel The Mines of Behemoth by Michael Shea. Seriously, it’s [...]

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