I need to relax. Badly. I have trouble doing that. The idea of a vacation is very appealing - don't most people relax on vacations? I've only heard rumors ( Read more... )

You just know you're in for an interesting day when you wake up to what I did this morning ( Read more... )

I've been promising myself for a couple weeks now that I'd do a "what's going on" post since I've been such a stranger around LJ this year, but still haven't gotten around to it due to busyness and suck.

However.

My boss sent me this link yesterday, and it's just... too awesome not to share. Leave a comment  2 

As so many of these posts often begin, I was having dinner with ikkarus01 last Friday. We had our usual dinner at Chili's over drinks. What was unusual this time was that we spent nearly two hours talking about work. We knew that we did roughly the same job in two different organizations, but were both amazed at the level to which the similarities extended ( Read more... )

We (as an organization) receive a lot of user feedback about our web site, much of it from an international audience. Most of the time, even when the user does not have a good grasp of the English language, it's still easy to get the meaning of their message. This one falls into that category, but the last sentence stumped all of us... we're not ( Read more... )

I hope you won't mind a break from my normal fare (griping about the state of my life or rambling on about my cat) for a brief minute of seriousitude ( Read more... )

I finally stumped my cat at trivia today. We've lived together for more than 18 months now and she almost always wins, but today when I got home from work I asked her if her music was more "oompa! oompa!" or "toodle-toodle". She just tilted her head and looked at me funny. I'm surprised... I thought it was rather an easy question ( Read more... )

For those who haven't played with a Nintendo Wii before, every player gets to create a little "Mii" avatar. They aren't terribly realistic, but you have enough control over features that you can actually recognize who they are supposed to be. If you have it so enabled, your Wii will receive Miis from your other friends who own a Wii. Many ( Read more... )

I'm not anti-"web 2.0" (god, I hate that phrase), but I don't believe in the lemmingesque (that should *so* be a word) behavior of simply joining all these sites and services just for the sake of it ( Read more... )

When I see a trailer for a movie that I have no intention of going to see in the theater, but there's *just* enough to catch my interest, I add it to my Netflix queue. "Definitely, Maybe" was one of those movies, and it languished at the bottom of my queue for the better part of a year before finally arriving last week ( Read more... )