Probably interesting to a number of folks I know (although in some cases perhaps a reaffirmation of long-held beliefs), "New AAP Report Stresses Play for Healthy Development". The interview on the radio ( Read more... )

I think I have fallen into one of the great traps of release engineering and/or site administration. It'd be almost comical if it wasn't... No, I take that back. I think it's pretty funny.
A little context (and since we're still in stealth-mode, it'll be very ( Read more... )

Things I learned today:

• The new (used) bike actually has the factory toolkit under the seat, unlike my previous bike.
• You need it to access the battery.
• There's a fine line between "Lock" and "Park," and it behooves one to check the setting before leaving the bike parked in the morning.
• While I did not learn whether the building's swing-shift ( Read more... )

In order to set the proper context for this evening's tale, I must point out that my cats are insane.
Vito, in particular, is constantly attempting to chase unseen phantoms ( Read more... )

eng: I have another change to push to production.
me: This fixes the problem you were working on earlier?
eng: Yeah.
me: You checked it into the current release branch?
eng: Yeah.
me: And you tested it?
eng: Yeah.
me: Why didn't this problem show up when you tested the earlier change?
eng: Oh, because I pushed the change into the ( Read more... )

A paraphrase of brief exchange from my distant past, in which I discovered something about VMS that has since been documented elsewhere, and that I still find amusing from time to time:
Me: You're making that up.
Don: No, I'm not. Here: Oscar!
Oscar: What?
Don: What unit of time is used to specify TIMEPROMPTWAIT in sysgen?
Oscar: [ ( Read more... )

Hi, my name is Midi, and I'm a fuckin' moron.
Yesterday afternoon, I attended wambold and M's wedding at casa de fruitylips. It was a simple ceremony, very sweet, and a good time was had by all. Thanks to the assistance and prodding of ishtart over the past few months, I had suitable clothes to ( Read more... )

So I've been working on this project at home, partly because I've been wanting the resulting data for some time, and partly as an excuse to learn ruby and rails. FWIW, since I've only ( Read more... )

A Chuck Jones moment in the networking world:
The NAT gateway at work sucks, so we bought a PIX to replace it with. I configured it a while back and installed it in parallel with our existing gateway 1, but haven't had time to test it so I could cut users over.
Today there was no choice. We're out of capacity on the old firewall 2. Work is ( Read more... )

Here's the meme:
Step 1: Put your iPod or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 20 [non-instrumental] songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Looking them ( Read more... )