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Sometimes, life utterly baffles me.
Sears somehow thinks that, while fully aware that I’m a 29-year-old white male, adverts for “Olga Panties” are something that they should include with my bill. Even the name scares me… I mean, seriously, even if I were the panty-buying type, “OLGA PANTIES” just screams of bad branding. But […]

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Two (maybe three?) weekends ago, we woke up to discover our mailbox was laying flat on the ground. We haven’t figured out exactly why this happened, though we narrow our eyes suspiciously every time we see high school kids hanging around in front […]

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 […]

Monday, 7/25:
Up early to go rafting on the Animas (full name: Rio de las Animas Perdidas; translation: River of Lost Souls). Great trip, lots of fun. Water was about 40-45 degrees F, so definitely an eye-opener. Mostly calm trip, but some great fun rapids around the foot of Smelter Mountain, with much […]

Thursday, 7/21:
Breakfast at the B&B; was vastly better than dinner, though perhaps perceived quality is related to the fact that the OJ pitcher turned out to be mimosas. (w00t!) Wandered Taos on foot, did a little shopping, then drove up to Durango. Stopped along the way to marvel at and fear […]

Popped out at lunch today to pick up the new NIN album, and the Return of the Sith soundtrack. NIN is pretty good. Haven’t listened to Sith yet–considering trying to keep at least a tiny bit of “prequel purity” before The Big Day comes, even though I already read the silly kids’ storybook […]

It was a long but exciting day at PyCon, with many interesting presentations and discussions. Some of them were relevant to my professional life (thus justifying sending me in the first place), and some were extremely useful for personal projects (I think I finally found a satisfactory way to do neat things with my […]

Apparently, today is the single day of the year that is in most dire need of listening to the Bangles’ “Manic Monday” until your head explodes with nostalgic, new-wave cheer. That’s right, today is officially the most depressing day of the year.
To cheer you all up, here’s a nice little follow-up to last time’s […]

Once upon a time (not quite a month ago), I was going to mention a few notable items from our Christmas loot, but then there was that whole tsunami thing, and I felt weird about bragging or something, and then I realized that it was silly to restrict myself like that, and then I got […]

Haven’t posted in a while–been busy chasing after the kittens, taking photos, and trying to sleep while they play on us at all hours of the night. Oh, yes, and there’s that silly work thing too. The good news is that I had a Day Without Meetings yesterday; coupled with an extreme case […]