Rants and musings, without care for substance.
Posted in life in general, outside, things i'd like to see on Sep 19th, 2010
The last two weeks have been absolutely gorgeous, a perfect example of the best weather Maryland has to offer.
It’s about letting the cool breeze flow through the house at night, without the need for a down comforter or heat. It’s the ability to wear shorts or jeans and being comfortable in either. There’s no humidity. [...]
Posted in complaints, technology, things i'd like to see, travel on Sep 13th, 2010
When the Verizon Wireless folks sold me a car charger for a phone that had a mini-USB plug, I expected it to work with any phone from Verizon that had a mini-USB jack. Not so, apparently; maybe the mini-USB standard doesn’t specify how much current is to be provided from each pin. I get the [...]
Posted in food, politics, things i'd like to see on Jun 29th, 2010
I’m not the most politically savvy individual. I try to avoid political discussions. I’m not educated on all the issues surrounding this country and the world. In many cases I don’t even know enough to form an opinion, let alone converse intelligently. But I am a citizen of the United States. I vote. I pay [...]
Posted in computing, things i'd like to see on May 9th, 2010
Vixie cron supports jitter, an extremely easy way to stagger cron jobs and prevent them all from starting at once. From the FreeBSD cron man page:
-j jitter
Enable time jitter. Prior to executing commands, cron will sleep a random number of seconds in the range [...]
Posted in things i'd like to see, travel on Mar 17th, 2010
For entirely geeky reasons, I am seriously tempted to fly to San Francisco at the end of June. The destination, it seems, is a large tree in the middle of Golden Gate Park.
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After the last time, how could it not be fun?
Even if it isn’t, it’s still San Francisco. Not a bad place [...]
Posted in things i'd like to see on Jan 19th, 2010
Was chatting with some coworkers last week in a group chat room. Having just described some awkward situation with regard to dating…
coworker: Is that from xkcd?
me: Nope. My life.
A few chuckles were had. Thus, an idea for a t-shirt was born. The front would read:
Is it xkcd?
The back:
Nope. My life.
It was more amusing at the [...]
Posted in office, things i'd like to see on Jan 11th, 2010
It astounds me how often my coworkers and I are treated like children.
Fact: My time card is due at the end of the week. While the specifics of when are presently point of contention, the general time frame has never changed.
Fact: A day before my time card is due, I receive an email reminding me [...]
Posted in humor, software, things i'd like to see on Sep 30th, 2009
As a budding software developer/engineer/guy, I enjoy seeing humorous errors and warnings. Especially in shipped products. It makes interacting with software a less blah experience.
-bash-3.2$ nmap -p 3389,3390,3391,3391 -P0 desire.this.org
Starting Nmap 4.11 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2009-09-30 10:55 GMT
WARNING: Duplicate port number(s) specified. Are you alert enough to be using Nmap? Have [...]
Posted in cars, life in general, money, things i'd like to see on Jun 26th, 2009
I owe a coworker a Diet Coke for his suggestion to follow up with the landscaping company. I owe a lunch to Sharon at Safelite for her reinforcement of that suggestion. Either I’m too cynical or I’ve had bad experiences in the past.
The landscaping company that maintains the property around the office paid for my [...]
Posted in politics, things i'd like to see on Jan 25th, 2009
I like that the White House has a blog. I like knowing what’s going on without having to watch hours of C-SPAN. Seriously, who has time for that? I really like that there’s an RSS feed for it. It would be a lot better if it were a full text feed, however.
So this morning I [...]
Posted in in the news, money, things i'd like to see on Dec 4th, 2008
The media has been reporting that all three CEOs of the top three U.S. car manufacturers offered to take $1 annual salaries. In light of the latest absurdity with regard to bailing out yet another industry at the expense of U.S. taxpayers, my thoughts on this are simple.
Big deal.
Alan Mulally is the CEO of Ford [...]
Posted in books, oddities, things i'd like to see on Aug 3rd, 2008
I like books. I like reading. My grandmother would be proud of me. She owned a lot of books. Tens of thousands of them. They filled an entire room, spilling over onto the stairs in her New Jersey home. She would routinely give books as presents as I was growing up. For decades she bought [...]
Posted in film, television, things i'd like to see on Jun 10th, 2008
Why hasn’t Doogie Howser, M.D. been made into a movie yet? With all of the other television shows that the studios have been making these days instead of coming up with new material, why not? It could be dubbed “The Later Years” (paying homage to Fred Savage) and depict Dr. Howser handling a few cases [...]
Posted in music, things i'd like to see, web sites on Mar 7th, 2008
I downloaded Ghosts I this evening and gave it a listen. I also listened to some of the tracks on the site itself (click “Listen”). Completely instrumental, I like the assortment. It doesn’t have the polish of Reznor’s typical studio album that you can only assume was the product of months in the studio mixing [...]
Posted in tech, things i'd like to see on Mar 3rd, 2008
As of early last week, all tickets for Rock ‘N Roll Revival XIX — which opens this Friday night — were sold out. That’s six shows seating around 1,000 people at $12/ticket, grossing over $70,000. That doesn’t include merchandise, concessions, flowers, or another of the other things that people will buy. Not too shabby for [...]
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