Monthly Archives: April 2006

Two things I didn’t do at mind camp

Well, there are certainly more than two – but two that are sticking out now – a couple of hours later. The first is something that Ryan Davis noted in the feedback – there wasn’t anyone hacking on code at … Continue reading

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MindCamp 2.0 and the Seattle Geek Village

Karen and I just returned home from MindCamp 2.0, where we both had a pretty darn good time. Completely as a surprise, Karen decided to she wanted to stay through the night last night (who woulda’ thought? At 11:30pm, she’s … Continue reading

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Bonzai Bistro on 1st Ave – DONT GO THERE

I just ate an incredibly poor lunch. The service was atrocious, the unagi donburi I ordered was smothered in uncooked onions and mushrooms (if you aren’t familar unagi is a pretty light flavor). And finally, when I paid they didn’t … Continue reading

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“PowerShell”?

Oh come on guys, “PowerShell“? Monad was a perfectly reasonable name, and it had the benefit of not sounding all defensive and “yeah, we really, really, really are doing scripting this time! See!!!” PowerShell? It is just too over the … Continue reading

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PoPoLoCrois

Yeah, it’s all supposed to be smashed together like that. I found an RPG for the PSP. I stopped by GameStop this evening, and found a copy of PoPoLoCrois used for a pretty decent price, so I picked it up. … Continue reading

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You know, it may have been a a carefully architected succession plan as Sun calls it, but it was still a surprise to me. I like Schwartz (to listen to, I haven’t a clue what he’s like to work for) … Continue reading

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everything’s too warm

It dawned on my at the end of the evening that not everything was suddenly made hotter than usual today, but that I’ve worn down the skin on my fingers and they’re abnormally sensitive to heat. Sometimes, you know, they … Continue reading

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well, imagine that…

I’m all stiff and a little sore today. I wonder why.

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bushed

Karen and I have been beating the earth since 9:30am this morning. I’m bushed. (ha ha). I ripped out a hillside of sod, transplanted tribble-like grass bundles, transplanted a yellow-green cedar bush thingy, and dropped 4 or so trees into … Continue reading

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Gross grandstanding

It is gross grand standing, but none the less intriguing and somewhat amusing to watch HP fire bullets into a RAID array as a means of “proof” of their redundancy. I used to actually use the phrase “if the server … Continue reading

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