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Right now, Sci-Fi is showing a rerun of “Law & Order.”
Maybe I’m being a little slow here, but I’m having a hard time seeing how that fits with, you know, that whole “science fiction” thing.
Did they spin off a “Cylon Victims Unit” or something?

Mood:confused

Luckily, fortunately, thankfully, I’ve had a string of pretty good days lately.
Liz had to work for most of Saturday, so I used the time to knock a bunch of things off my to-do list, including a trip to the library to refresh my influx of new music, and a half-day of being able to work […]

I grew up watching “Dr. Who” on the PBS station out of Albuquerque, usually late at night, and in my earliest experiences, with my hands over my eyes to protect me from those damned terrifying Daleks. My inner four-year-old can still hear the cries of “EXTERMINATE!” echo in the darkness of my childhood bedroom. […]

I’ve spent most of the past year being completely pleased by the Harmony 688 that Santa brought for Christmas last year, delivering us from the tyranny of far, far too many remote controls. Consequently, when, just about forty-five minutes ago, it committed hara-kiri, it dropped me back into a world of pissed off and […]

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It’s funny how much better life is when you have cats pin you down in bed for several days on end. I’m feeling significantly better, and quite thankful to have shaken off the worst of what by all accounts is the Cold From […]

So on top of being stressed out about the huge project I’ve been working on that might or might not launch this week, which kept me in the office until 9:30 PM on Friday night, and Liz being gone for the week for her class, and being ignored by the cats, this week has decided […]

Crappy day at work, due largely to the inability of others to do simple things like notice that they need to do something, or read the painstakingly simple and clear instructions that I prepared for them, despite the use of several meetings, emails, tickets, face-to-face conversations, and the use of many asterisks and all-caps typing […]

Insert your favorite endless torrent of swearing here. And then multiply it by a factor of Denis Leary raised to the Sam Kinnison power.
So, things at work broke close to or right after I left. I don’t know why, but I have my suspicions (usually it has to do with letting our UI […]

I’ve been meaning to vent about this (admittedly utterly trivial event) since Tuesday, so here goes…
We preorder most of our Disney DVD’s through the Disney store, since there is usually a set of lithographs that go with whatever animated film they are about to release. Liz has been doing this for years; her litho […]

Been putting Gentoo on a refurb IBM ThinkPad T23 today… Overall, it’s pretty cool–even the lame-ass winmodem is supported. But the one thing I figured would be a pain in the ass is rewarding me with exactly my expectation–wireless.
Five years ago, my silly PCMCIA wireless card barely worked in Linux because it was too […]