Merry Baunchmas!*
Made it through another Christmas. This was a good year for the buying
of presents; I was pretty happy with what I got for all of the adults
I buy for. (The kids are old enough, and “cool” is fleeting enough, that
they get gift cards.) It was a lot of fun buying for Candice,
too — I’m [...]
Apparently most of my group takes the days before Christmas off. Who
knew? Boy, it’s empty in here today.
Substitute drew my attention to this article
about obtaining quality via quantity. Interesting implications if it
scales, which I suspect it does.
From Erik Kuhnke, via the nanog mailing list, I give you
The Gallery of
Shameful Cabling.
This
is one of my favorites, if only because of the modems that are trying to
escape their fate, although I must admit that this
one is just plain odd.
Thanks to Rahaeli, we now have Shpxurnq.
UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT information
is ENCOURAGED.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas:
10-15 cm of snow overnight
A fully-decorated Christmas tree right behind me
A jar full of gingerbread cookies in the kitchen
The results of the latter can be found in this post of ’s.
Some of the decorating got a bit odd. In this picture you can see the man to the [...]
I wasn’t going to do this one, but then Candice did it based on Stimps’s, and that makes it interesting.
Here’s the deal:
1. Copy this whole list into your journal.
2. Bold the things that you have in common with me.
3. Whatever you don’t bold, replace with things about you.
01. I only have a handful of [...]
I and 19 other employees, chosen apparently randomly, have a breakfast
meeting with Mitel’s CEO tomorrow morning. This will be incredibly odd.
Today was spent fighting with Win2k, and then fighting more with Win2k,
followed by fighting with vmware, in which Win2k is running, followed
by fighting with Win2k. One of the problems of being able to avoid
running Windows [...]
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