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10 Years Ago
1. Spent summer working with mom and dad at the hotel2. Started my freshman year at CWRU3. Moved to Cleveland4. Had a double single.5. Watched the Indians winning! (wtf is happening!?!?!, again!?!?!)
5 Years Ago
1. Graduated from Case2. Was learning to fly for my first job out of college3. Quit my first job out […]

And just like that, I am now living in a rejected set design for the film Brazil.

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I’m slowly but surely getting my main home Gentoo box back in order after deciding to blow it away and reinstall last weekend. I had been running an amd64-native environment for about a year, and along the way I had gotten really tired of all the packages that weren’t available, didn’t work right, and […]

Were you a budding computer geek in the mid 1980’s? Deadly Hippos has an interview with Philip Bouchard, one of the designers of the immortal Apple II game Oregon Trail. Good stuff that really brings back memories… If you get similarly overcome with nostalgia, you can bust out the emulator and play […]

Like a lot of folks who run Linux, I often go months between reboots. Usually, that makes me feel all spiffy and great, but sometimes it means that I’ve forgotten something important along the way that will bite me when I least expect it to. Today, as you have probably guessed by now, […]

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The attic dude is here again this evening, so the cats are locked up for their safety and the overall cleanliness of the house–we don’t exactly want to find bits of insulation in strange feline gift zones. I figured I should at least […]

I don’t know why, but when I can’t sleep I google for wine stats. Found something that blew my mind. Article
About 6,500 wine brands compete in the US alone, the largest wine market in the world, where all the most aggressive wine-producing countries are well represented: France, Italy, Australia, Chile, and Spain, besides […]

For ages, I have pooh-poohed Joss Whedon’s “Firefly”, thinking it a silly trifle of network TV, the kind of thing that can’t stand up to “real” sci-fi. “It’s no ‘B5′,” said I, despite how my coworkers tried to change my mind. Then the trailer for the movie arrived, and I started to wonder […]

Cat’s going with us on our move to Italy have no quarantine period! They just need blood tests, updated rabies shot, microchipped and best of all pet passports.
There rules are good for all EU countries it looks like.
More information here and here.

Mood: curious

At least read the front page. Gives a very interesting perspective on how everything got screwed up last week.
How Bush Blew it

Mood: shocked