So, they're re-coating the roof of our building at work. It's now well into week three of a one week process. This is, of course, accompanied by lots of pleasant smells, and the restriction of only being able to use the main entrance and the south breezeway entrance to enter and exit the building. Oh, and we also can't use the front row of ( Read more... )

But LJ isn't blocked at work anymore, so that's likely to change. I'm still posting on G+ frequently, since it's very easy and better at pictures, but I'll be doing more here, as well ( Read more... )

This is a rant about bureaucratic idiocy. Also typesetting. Also fonts ( Read more... )

Just look at them. Aren't they cute?

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I'm reviewing a document at work. It was obviously written by the Spanish speaking programmer, who obviously doesn't relish writing design description docs. This means that I have a LOT of comments on the document. *sigh* This is not one of the aspects of my job that makes me a happy camper ( Read more... )

I just finished dinner, and man, is it good. In that lethal kind of way.

I made Aloo Gobi, from this recipe, which turned out okay, but I think it would have benefited from being made in a slow cooker. I supplemented this with a batch of chili chicken, which is my own recipe. I cut up some chicken breasts into cubes, and marinated them in a ( Read more... )

Per the NYT, there is another week-long CR in place so that the idiots in Congress can write up a budget bill. Apparently they've agreed on something. Whether or not that something is a good thing remains to be seen. I still would like to see all of them take a good swift kick to the unmentionables, as well as pay a hefty fine for fucking around ( Read more... )

I've been in Nebraska this week for work, which took a lot more effort than was really necessary, what with the CR and our new travel processing people screwing things up right down the line. In any case, I'm here, and I got work done, and I got to sit in a bookstore today and have the resident cat (Dickens) knead my neck and purr at me while I ( Read more... )

So, on the way back to the hotel from my job site today, I discovered that my phone scolds me when it thinks I'm exceeding the speed limit. The problem is, it doesn't always know what the speed limit is. For example, it scolded me for doing 45 while driving past a "speed limit 45" sign, since it thought the prevailing speed limit was 35 ( Read more... )

If you use the word "utilize", I hate you. It's a meaningless word and only employed by people with poor vocabularies who desperately want to sound intelligent and technical. Die in a fire ( Read more... )