I got bit by a ladybug ( Read more... )

If you find yourself spending a lot of time looking around you and worrying about who is doing the work of the terrorists, perhaps you should look in the mirror.

Excerpted from http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/08/what_the_terror.html

I'd ( Read more... )

this morning i sort of woke up and started to fumble for the snooze alarm... ...on the baby monitor.

hmm, babies do not have snooze alarms.

:-)

lots to do today in preparation for Teh Holidays, so... off to it.

Quick, name three kinds of berry. I'll wait ( Read more... )

Stolen from crustycurmudgeo:

This is horribly cute! My current high score is 169,970:

http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/bells.htm

Today was the first real snow of the season... hit just about the same time as morning rush hour. This made commuting insane. It took me four hours to get to work this morning. It took almost as long to drive 30 miles to the office as it took the folks from San Diego to fly across the country for today's meetings. Insane. We got 2-3 inches ( Read more... )

Whoever invented that stupid little flash image viewer that so many online catalog sites use to show you the "larger image" should be shot Its sole purpose in life is to constrain you to a 100-pixel window into the image, regardless of its size, forcing you to scroll around to see different parts of the item and prohibiting you from ever seeing the ( Read more... )

It's been a very long week... this was supposed to be an off-Friday, but I had to go to a parter site and work all day. So, 52 hours on my timecard this week, not that I will get any extra $ for my trouble. I was hoping to spend today in bed getting over my cold, but... no dice. Oof ( Read more... )

Our directv receiver locked up and we missed the last episode of Dancing With the Stars. Sigh. I had to unplug it from the wall to get it to respond to the remote and front panel buttons. Something else is recording now, so I don't even know yet if it's the interface between the ReplayTV and the receiver that caused it or if it was just a fluke ( Read more... )

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