Despite any rumors to the contrary, I haven't fallen off the face of the planet... :-) I've actually been doing a fair amount of my online interaction on Facebook lately. I've been using it sort of as something that's half way between LJ and Twitter, a place to post "one-liners" about what I'm thinking or doing at the time (I always feel weird ( Read more... )

I managed to get my work laptop trojan'ed and rootkit'ed yesterday. What I did to cause this was stupid on many levels....

I was looking for the utility software for an old CompUSA 16MB USB thumb drive (yes, that's 16 megabytes). It had some utility software that could set up a separate partition with password protection. The software came on a ( Read more... )

So, I guess the problem with the toilet wasn't the Fluidmaster valve after all.

I posted this entry on Friday afternoon. On Friday evening, while I was still at the office, I got a panicked phone call from cajdb, wanting me to come home right away. No water in the bathroom at all - not in the toilet, nor in the sink, nor in the shower. The pipes had ( Read more... )

I finally got in to see the dentist this morning, to have him look at the tooth I broke last week (I called first thing Monday morning, this was the first appointment he had available ( Read more... )

cajdb just called me to let me know that the toilet is frozen, again. This is a repeat of a similar problem we had last month when it got really cold. I think what's actually getting frozen is the innards of the Fluidmaster fill valve, and if that's the case, it's probably not going to thaw out anytime in the next few days. It's not even going to get ( Read more... )

So, last night we had the coldest temperatures that we've had here in more than two years - in my neighborhood, it got down to -8 degrees last night ( Read more... )

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So, I come home tonight, having had to park my car three blocks away and walk down, and then up, hills of about a 28% grade, since there was enough snow on the ground that the car couldn't do it (the hills are so steep that it takes verey little snow to make them impassable ( Read more... )

From kylecassidy's journal ( Read more... )

cajdb and I went to the Carnegie Museum of Art yesterday. I particularly wanted to go to see the "Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes" exhibit (please excuse the fact that the exhibit's web site is possibly the most annoying wiki site you can possibly imagine - it'd be nice to be able to move the mouse without spontaneously jumping to another page ( Read more... )