purg.atory – a personal blog by elyograg

Without asking Google, how many of you can tell me what any of the parameters in today’s blog title mean? If you’re at all familiar with it, you’ll be able to get at least three. I remembered five of them, myself. If you know all seven, you are a true old-school god. These days you…

I got some pictures of the fire up on Twin Peaks on September 5th, 2005:

As anyone who has been camping for more than a night or two can attest, keeping your food supplies refrigerated long-term is not very easy. Ice cubes are effective, but after a few days you end up with your food swimming in a large amount of dirty water. Reusable ice packs of the sort used…

Here are the answers to the movie quiz. I have also placed them in the gallery. 01 – o brother where art thou 02 – pirates of the carribean 03 – pump up the volume 04 – kill bill volume 1 05 – pretty in pink 06 – kate & leopold 07 – the breakfast…

I had a thought about Ollivander.

I received a short email from 1&1’s complaint department today. Thank you for your email. I just had a look into the matter. I am honestly not 100% sure as to why the invoice in question was raised in the first place. I just cancelled the invoice and told our billing people to clear the…

I called 1&1’s billing department. There was nothing the representative on the phone could do, but he did suggest I write to their complaints department. I have done so, directing them to this site for the story.

I own a number of Internet domains, which is not news to anyone who knows me. It is my exclusive right to brag about the following domains: elyograg.org, elyograg.com, elyograg.net, elyograg.info, atory.org, itory.org, lowerlights.com, and lowerlights.info. There are also a number of other people’s domains that my server handles. My wife has khimera.org. I handle…

If you haven’t read any of the Harry Potter books, in particular book six (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), you may wish to skip this entry.

Kathy and I have just finished watching the third season of Alias on DVD. We rented the first two seasons, and when it became clear that every Blockbuster in the area was only carrying the first three discs of season three and none of the Hollywood Video stores were carrying it, we went and bought…

Today is the day we celebrate our Independence Day. I haven’t been very excited about the holiday for the last few years, but when I was a kid, I *loved* July 4th. I’m a pyromaniac at heart. My parents always found some way to get us close to a fireworks show, usually the one at…

Last night Kathy shaved my head. The first time I ever did this, I was at the annual Dave & Dave (Morgan and Wilson) New Years Eve party in 1999, getting quite soused. Kathy happened to be at the same party, but dating wasn’t something we were even thinking about. DeeDee (a friend of mine…

I have been gathering a huge sleep debt lately. A combination of very long and strange hours at work combined with doing what I can to take care of my family is adding up. Monday morning, I was at work at 3:00 AM for a huge network change. We had a four hour window –…

Because of some massive changes at work, I will be spending a lot of late nights and weekends at work for the rest of this month, and working a lot of extra hours in July as well. I was at work this morning, and have to be at work tomorrow as well. On Saturday afternoon,…

On my way home, I have to make a couple of left turns. I sometimes find that the green arrow does not turn on, so I have to wait for all the oncoming traffic. During rush hour this often lasts for the entire duration of the signal. The underlying problem is that most of the…

On my way to work this morning, in my car without a functional radio, I was thinking about interesting words in the English language – specifically “pride” and its cousin “proud.” To quote Ron Stoppable, it’s a cornucopia of disturbing concepts. Pride has two major meanings that I’m concerned about … one has characteristics that…