I can't wait until Erik is old enough to cut the hair off all Helen's my little ponies ( Read more... )

Snow sucks. The only good thing about it is it makes driving practice on streets legal - I can take corners at the limit of traction without breaking the speed limit, practice hitting the apex right, throttle steer, and hitting the four wheel drift exit just right. The snow banks built up around the road also make a pretty soft guardrail ( Read more... )

Playing at the part today, Kris taught Helen how to put her thumbs in her ears, waggle her fingers and say in a sing-song voice, "Neener neener neener, Can't catch me!"

I see no way this could come back to haunt us.

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Helen's current favorite lullaby (lightly stolen from Mary Poppins and slowed to be lullaby-ish)

Chim chiminey ( Read more... )

Yup, flying business class is much nicer than economy. No shock there. But it doesn't make travel fun. Sorta like driving a car for six hours is a more comfortable way to travel than riding 6 hours in an horse drawn cart.

And there's the call for my Chennai connection. On to my next 8 hours...

OK, I'm fine with having to hang out in NYC for six hours between turning in my visa app and picking it up. No problem, I'll just take my laptop and switch Starbucks every hour - voila, mobile office. But wait - the consulate bans laptops from the premises and is quite explicit about having no short term ability to store them. So, I'm looking at ( Read more... )

On the off chance any of you all not only didn't see me post this on Facebook but also care in the slightest, what are the three most common programming snippets any coder ever learns? Make that the most common three other than "hello world"?

I need to schedule the next few weeks, but to do so I need to determine exactly when Beta Project will be delivered. Needing information on the future, I would like to harness the power of crowd sourced information markets, however Intrade has declined to open a contract on the subject. Fooey; I'm stuck with the meager haze of souls who wisp by on ( Read more... )

I hate being sewed upon, but have a deep appreciation of novacaine and an excuse to duck work today (I'm not suppose to talk while my little gum graft thingie settles down so I've plunked in bed with my laptop). Expect voluminous and esoteric postings from me today. Or nothing at all. Really depends on how the Vicoden hits me and whether that ( Read more... )