I was performing some kind of experiment up in the Arctic. It was a comms/radio experiment much like the one we're doing down here in GA right now. For a while, we were all (30-50 people) working in one location, then we traveled to another location, and as we were returning to base (on a truck-pulled convoy of personal sleds [about 0.5m square) we ( Read more... )

I've been here for nearly a week now, and I feel I can make some pronouncements ( Read more... )

There is a guy out in front of our building today, protesting. He's across the street, on public sidewalks, so it's absolutely legit, but it's a little strange. He's wearing hunter's camo (i.e. screen printed pictures of trees and leaves, not the pixel camo or the patches camo that actually work), and has a sandwich board and a sign. He's been ( Read more... )

My coworkers are discussing various methods of avoiding getting raped, should they end up in jail. The amount of agreement with the sentiment that suicide is preferable to (forced) anal sex disturbs me. "Yeah, I'll be dead, but at least I'll be an ass-virgin."

They also all agree that I would not be able to defend myself in prison.

Crabbiness
Planning
Not sleeping (not insomnia, just lack of time spent in bed)
Walking around
Back pain
Moving
Getting married (soon)
Work slowness
Rain
Difficult decisions
Lists

I keep forgetting to mention that I defeated the poison ivy by the train near work. See, winter can be good!

So it appears that there is some major problem with the test I'm currently running at work, but the bigger problem is that while my coworkers were trying to debug the issue yesterday, they managed to trip the breaker for our bench's UPS, causing the whole thing to shut down. Now I have to bring the bench up from a cold boot, which is always fun. ( Read more... )

I'm not really sure what 'herm' is, nor why it might be on a disused Verizon cart ( Read more... )

A lovely piece commenting on and written on a SVA ad ( Read more... )

Below is a very happy sight. NJTransit turns off signal lights when there are no trains around. So it is very nice to see the lights come on at 1130, telling you that you're about to head home ( Read more... )