It’s time to talk about Tuesday’s election. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking, and this has been boiling under the surface for a while. I’ve not been able to actually put it into words until (hopefully) now. Less than 40% of the country turned out to vote on Tuesday. That 40% changed the balance […]
My mom and little brother bought Max a $5 laptop last week with Windows 3.1 on it. It’s an ancient Texas Instruments with a floppy and clip-on trackball. Max loves it. It stays at mom’s house and Max plays with it when we come over. We were over there for dinner last night. We were […]
The network was down here at work for about half an hour. It’s amazing how connected I have to be in order to do my job. Everything I do here entails connecting to some external system, getting data, formatting it and then spitting it out somewhere else. When the connection is broken, there’s nothing to […]
Yet another reason if I were a woman, I would so want Jon Morris: Pirate Wisdom.
You know, if you have a Postgres database with over 500k records that you delete and reinsert on a weekly basis, that you should run vacuum and reindex on it frequently? See, I’m not a database administrator. I’m not even a system administrator, but I play one on TV. Sometimes, I’m such a user. I […]
“it’s like the bastard offspring of Enya and Radiohead” – See, I post something and the world goes crazy. Now, I can’t go five minutes without seeing something else about Sigur Ros.
As an addendum, Amazon is offering a free download of a couple of Sigur Ros’ songs off of Agaetis Byrjun. The title track is one of them, and it is gorgeous. They played it last night and it almost brought me to tears. They overdid the end of the song, but the first ten minutes […]
The story is more in the getting there and home than in the concert itself, but I’ll tell you about the concert first, since the trip took longer than the music lasted. The four of us, Jen, Heather, and Steve made the trek downtown for the show. For the uninitiated, Sigur Ros is an Icelandic […]
I’m thinking that I’ll put the rest of the Halloween pics up in the new Photo Log when it’s done (like I said, hopefully this weekend). Here’s a preview. Max had already finished trick or treating when his little friend, Sam came over to take some candy. He and his little brother had the best […]
So, someone’s build a beautiful photolog that’s pretty much exactly what I want to do but just haven’t had time to work on yet. Maybe this weekend… hahahahaha… sure. Sigur Ros concert report should be up around lunchtime.