"If you understand everything, you must be misinformed." -Japanese Proverb

"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination." -Mark Twain

Like I needed anyone to tell me this:

A host of new hormones have been discovered to govern appetite and satiety, and while the doldrums that follow lunch are still not completely understood, recent research strongly supports a brief nap to treat them.

I received several personality surveys today from various people, so I decided to spread the virus.  I did, however, pick one of the shorter surveys.

Enjoy.

I would just like to take a moment to say how I truly loathe having to finish someone's else's mini-project that was developed in Access 2003. Access's monkey-click wizards encourage some of the ugliest data models imaginable. Heaven help us if we ever have to scale this app up into something real...

But there is always my random xkcd of the day to ( Read more... )

First off, Happy Birthday to my oldest son.   Sooner or later I'm going to have to start feeling old for having a kid his age, but the Blue Man Group evening proved to me that I'm not quite there yet ( Read more... )

This was one of those weekends where I didn’t really do anything, yet somehow I was busy the entire time. No naps, didn’t really sleep late in the mornings…what happened to the weekend?

The one event of note was that my youngest brother put together a nice evening to celebrate my oldest son’s birthday, and we saw the Blue Man Group: How to be a ( Read more... )

So, I reached out to xkcd and clicked "random" for something to post.  I guess it's my high-tech I Ching for the day...


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I've written a few posts this week that never made the light of day because I get interrupted at work, and inevitably the browser where I'm writing the post gets hijacked by a clicked IM link, or accidentally closed while debugging a website problem. Oh, LJ's autosave kicks in at some point, but it ends up saving only the first section of the post ( Read more... )

Today is the day, so if you get a chance to grab some food today (and don't forget that there's To-Go!), stop by and fill your tummy and help out all at the same time. 

It's been a pretty long week at work, and I find myself out-of-gas with more work yet to do.  I am tempted to just leave for the day and work a little this weekend after I recharge a bit.  Too much work in too many areas...and the day looks soooo nice outside....