First they came for the muppets, then they came for computer animated figures, , and now they've come for the wookies.

The trend is clear. Blockade your homes!

No, I don't mind staying way past my normal working hours to eventually find out that the database I had been using went from ANSI-89 SQL to ANSI-92. Doesn't bother me at all to find code that I finally got around to checking (because it was stable and hadn't needed any work forever) was silently failing on me. Why should that bother me ( Read more... )

Samsung has upgraded the Android system on my tablet. Great, better-looking, but... the new browser (chrome) completely screws up my only web-based interface to my e-mail (squirrelmail). You'd almost think they were trying to drive me to gmail.

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I suppose a post about a miserable cold I'm having over Thanksgiving would be a yawner, so the best way to spice it up would be to claim that the lack of a cold cure is clearly the responsibility of the Atlantean Brotherhood conspiracy(Apparently people with Asperger's syndrome have a high degree of Atleantean DNA, and "The Mentalist" is an ( Read more... )

And a related topic came up elsewhere

The longest smoke break of Nicholas White’s life began at around eleven o’clock on a Friday night in October, 1999.

Video of the event (forty one hours compressed to under three minutes) here in a YouTube clip.

It has a theme.

All YouTube links:

A heartwarming message for an important book.
Pharmaceutical ad for Elder Sign.
Casting Call of Cthulhu.

Sixteen Across, Four Letters

I'm reading Word Freak, which makes this article all the more compelling.

But hey, it may be the only way to get any semblance of crosswords these days, as Douglas Quenqua reportsSlightly related: I subscribe to the Guardian Weekly, and one the features that I regularly looked at was the bridge and chess columns. ( Read more... )

After one week of use, the LAN card in my computer (apparently) died. High-speed home connection lost, which is why (in case you were wondering) I haven't been responding to e-mail.

(Dial-up is also unavailable, but for entirely different reasons that I won't get resolved until Tuesday).

Let's hear it for the local wifi cafe.

Still can't send out e-mail.

Can receive. Just can't send.

(Length of time between posts due to being out of town, not technical incompetence, although that excuse won't last long.)

I can no longer count the number of times I have been asked to join "Singlesnet" by someone who is member # 61onw.