Now, maybe back in the early 90s you were aware of Paula Abdul — or even, god
forbid, LISTENED to her. And maybe you remember her video for “Opposites
Attract”, which featured a cartoon cat that did a little rap break in
the middle of the tune.
TWO WHOLE YEARS after that one tune, the record industry gave us
this.
(Thanks [...]
From an explanation of a connectivity problem at one of our
colo centres:
Cable intrusion maintenance by a third party telco vendor caused outages
on all backbone circuits [...]
“Cable intrusion maintenance” hereby supplants “overenthusiastic
deinstallation” as best NOC euphemism.
So having recently “met” the lovely and intriguing Ardently
after seeing her posts to Found_objects, I decided to browse
through the list of LJ users in Ottawa to see what other interest people
might be lurking about. While doing so, I found the community (which is not to be confused with the
Recordrunner user!), which is about/from [...]
Checking the weather forecast:
Saturday
Snow heavy at times becoming mixed with ice pellets near noon.
Accumulation 20 to 30 cm.
Wind east 40 gusting to 60 km/h becoming north 30 km/h late in the
day.
Reduced visibility in blowing snow.
High minus 2.
HI I HAVE A COMPLAINT THX!!1! What the hell? It’s April, and we’re [...]
I picked up the White Stripes’ Elephant tonight, and am listening
to it for the first time as I write this. Now, White Blood Cells
is one of my favorite albums, and the one that got me listening to,
well, whatever genre that is, and then got me rediscovering punk.
So I’m pretty fond of Jack and Meg to [...]
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