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green cheese
We’ve had fairly clear skies the last few nights with a waxing moon. I finally managed to get out and get pictures. Below is a picture taken tonight and one that I took last year. I think both are good pictures, for different reasons.
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and the monkey flips the switch
Tonight I spent one hundred seventy nine dollars and one cent on twelve light bulbs and six reflective flood covers.
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domain madness
As described in other posts, I spend my workdays logged into an chat room conducted on AOL’s instant messenger application. Marv, who is the link for almost everyone in the chat, expressed a desire to have an online spreadsheet for keeping track of some information about chat members. One of the best ways for a…
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nice rack!
In October of 2004 I undertook a semi-major project – turning part of our basement into a Network Operations Center. One section of the basement is a small room, about 6 feet by 15 feet, not counting the area under the stairs, which is only usable for storage of oddly-shaped things. The conduit that we…
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movie commentary – John Q
Tonight Kathy and I watched John Q, one of the movies we received from Blockbuster online. The lead role is portrayed by Denzel Washington. There are also a number of other big names in major roles – Robert Duvall, James Woods, Anne Heche, and Ray Liotta. The first scene of the movie reminded me of…
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this is a breathless silence, a moment out of time
Yesterday I attended a funeral. Marv’s father passed away earlier in the week. In February of last year, Marv moved to North Carolina to get a job at Cisco. Because of this, he wasn’t here when it happened, but was able to get on a flight back to SLC very quickly. I know Marv fairly…
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dressing up
Here are some pictures of me in the suit I wore to the funeral yesterday. My wife tells me that I clean up pretty well. Unfortunately, I ran out of time as I was getting ready, and was not able to shave properly.
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keepin’ up with the joneses
I’ve updated to WordPress 2.0, and managed to get my theme updated so my fancy header graphic is back. I’ve also updated my captcha plugin, which generates those funky codes you have to enter to post a comment.
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the hardest to learn was the least complicated
I found this article about the MPAA making illegal copies of a DVD very interesting. Ranks right up there with the Sony rootkit fiasco of recent months.
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now it is my intention to sit down and play video games for several hours
I saw a news article today, the first line of which says this: A space tourism group developing a suborbital rocket ship is now taking aim at orbital trips with a new spacecraft that doubles as a hypersonic glider. The article itself is pretty cool in its own right, but I have a followup question…
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and all my meals for free
On Monday I helped one of my friends fix a cgi execution problem with an Apache server. This sort of thing happens a lot, and afterwards I was greeted with a common side effect – a promise of a free meal, this time for me AND my wife. I’ve been promised a great many lunches…
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guy wouldn’t know majesty if it came up and bit him in the face
Most of the rooms in the house have Benjamin artwork on at least one wall, in everything from pencil to permanent marker. We have learned that the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser will remove most of it, but it takes a layer of paint with it. There are also several places where the walls get touched…
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it’s a shipwreck, it’s a job
Last month, my good friend Scott, who got me my current job, left the company for greener pastures. October 19th was his last day. Scott built the entire Cisco IP infrastructure here at the company, and aside from the firewall connecting everything, understands it better than anyone else on the planet. The last year has…
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rollin’ rollin’ rollin’
Knife of Dreams is taunting me, but I’m stuck on the Path of Daggers.
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ever since i was kidnapped by aliens 10 years ago, i’ve been dyin’ for some payback
With regard to the Doom movie line party thing this Friday, availability of key attendees and my own executive decision has placed the showtime we will attend as the 9:35 PM showing at Century 16. Please be responsible for purchasing your own tickets, which you can do from the link above or directly from the…
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and the florist says “White Lily”
This morning I walked out to my car to go to work, and found it covered in frost. At first I was grumbling about the extra five minutes it would take to get the car ready to go, until I got to the door and saw the top of the car. Click on the picture…
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i feel like sombody taped my lips to the tailpipe of a bus
Yesterday afternoon I went down to Game Stop and bought Doom 3 and its expansion pack. This is a very difficult game. I suspect that you have to be an excellent FPS player to do well at the game, but that doesn’t really describe me these days. I always did really really well at the…
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they always walk in single file, to hide their numbers
I’m convinced that the sidewalks in my neighborhood are broken in some subtle way that is invisible to me. They look perfectly fine to me, but maybe the concrete is inferior in some way, making it unable to support more than a flea or two. Perhaps the problem has been explained in church, where I…
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i order you to cease any and all supernatural activities and return forthwith to your place of origin or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension
I have learned that there’s a movie version of Doom coming out! Here’s a link to good version of the trailer: http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/doomqt.html I would like to organize a ‘guys night out’ to see this movie. Most wives or girlfriends will have no interest in seeing it. It would be perfect to see with friends, especially…
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you told me to go back to the beginning and so I have
My first computer (though it wasn’t really mine) was a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I, which my dad got in 1978, when I was 8 years old. It had a whopping 4K of RAM when we first got it. By the time we were done with it, my dad had that system fully tricked out.…