Having returned from London on Friday, I figured I would try to make sense of some of the things I learned while there:

• The American Hot - Apparently, this is somewhat widely recognized style of pizza, featuring pepperoni and sliced mild peppers. I’ve seen it offered as an option in every pizza place I’ve been in so far (and I’ve sampled a few ( Read more... )

I feel like I’ve blogged on this before, but… I don’t feel like losing the rest of my day to my blog/LJ archives, so I’ll just pretend it’s new. Well, it’s at least an ongoing problem so it’s always relevant.

Anyway, my problem is this: I use too many computers.

Part of that is occupational. I’m an IT guy after all, and it’s hard not to hear the ( Read more... )

So, here’s my little retrospective.

In February, I got a new job, replacing nearly four months of life on Unemployment. It’s a good job, one I’m pretty happy with, very challenging and so on. Not what I want to be doing forever, but it’s workable for the foreseeable future.

In May, I attended a novel workshop hosted by my friend Merrie Haskell ( Read more... )

I had half a day of vacation floating around in my account at work, so I’ve decided to take the afternoon off and go writing.

I’m pretty excited to be in a job that offers this much vacation time (as opposed to my last job which technically offered only 6 days of Personal Time Off-sick and vacation-for the year), and realizing I have the ( Read more... )

Hey look, it’s Friday! I love me some Friday.

The week has been a nice, if one that is slightly out of skew with my normal type weeks. Worked on a book production project, worked on revisions for a novel, and spent what seems to be an inordinate, but thoroughly enjoyable, amount of time hanging out with Mary Robinette Kowal. If you don’t know her ( Read more... )

Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching

Okay, so, this is a bit of a tricky one. I don’t talk much about TV shows with other people, so I have no idea what people are and are not watching, but I can guess that most of my American friends aren’t watching much in the way of British comedies, so I’ll go with The IT Crowd.

The premise ( Read more... )

Not much written. But that was because…

Much time spent with family. Especially extended family, where we discussed how nice it was that second cousins could hang out with one another and have a good time and keep a sense of family about us, even spread all over the place. Not everyone was able to come that we would have liked to see, but Sunday ( Read more... )

So, one thing I’ve noticed as I’ve gotten older is that I have actually gotten better with managing my time. I’m not 100% awesomely superb at it, but I’m honestly surprised that I’ve been able to just put away as many time sinks as I have the last few months, once the New Job started and my time started coming at more of a premium. Prior to re- ( Read more... )

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Dunno whether to be thankful, or not.

So, about 25 minutes ago I kicked off a ~20GB copy of files across the network. Right now the range for completion is anywhere from ... 40 37 minutes to ... 58? Seems like a mild dispersion right now. Ten minutes ago we were oscillating between 52 and 90. Mmmm, I love me some Windows.

Howard Tayler gave ( Read more... )