Tonight’s planned hotel blogging will not be happening due to a much longer than intended commute time today. Americans, rest assured that your Border Protection officers are doing an excellent job of preventing Canadians from sneaking into your county without a thorough examination. Also, they are very friendly, very interested in the intricacies of software architecture, and very detail-oriented in… Read more →
Month: July 2008
Cooking With Beer
It’s no Guinness floatSay it with me: “FRENCH Vanilla”., but here’s something I’ve had on the old hard disk for quite a few years …although I see that the Chimay people have it on their site now. I suspect I got it from a promotion of theirs, way back in the day–the file is dated from 1998. that’s always worked… Read more →
This week
I’m working on a post with a bunch of information about the various things I got up to this week while I was away from the Internets. In the interim, here’s one photo that captures the way most of the week went: So, yeah, it was a pretty good week. Read more →
Important Lessons For Life
Just because yours is smaller doesn’t make you less of a man. Unless we’re talking about your brain. Read more →
SF Writers Say Smart Things: Scalzi on Context
Whatever » From the “People This Lacking in Self-Awareness Really Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Speak in Public Ever Again” Files But, you know what, there’s “graduate from good schools and work hard in public service” elite, and then there’s “make millions in corporate America and marry into the family that owned the mortgage on Europe” elite. Those are two entirely… Read more →
Please rejoing us after this short hiatus
The next few days are about focusing on my family. Back on Thursday evening. Read more →
Urban Camouflage
This could easily have been the last item in that last link post, but I felt it was gloriously bizarre enough to merit a post all its own: Man found in WI basement covered in BBQ sauce APPLETON, Wisc. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – A couple telephoned police in the middle of the night after finding a man in their basement covered… Read more →
Things on the net that please me
The story about the classic “car on the roof” trick at Cambridge–my favourite bits are how they used skirt-hitching distractions, and the bit about the case of champagne the Dean sent. Dawn Tyler Watson & Paul Deslauriers performing Led Zeppelin’s classic Going To California. Make sure to click the “watch in high quality” link. There’s a new Negativland album coming… Read more →
It’s Real. It’s Here.
My copy of this finally arrived on Wednesday (shortly after copies hit Pitcairn’s Island)–and despite poker night followed by an hour of Australia work email very late at night, I still started into it. Thursday morning was… um… not ideal. The book though, is great. I only got through around a hundred pages that night before I had to give… Read more →
Twelve Million…
It’s been a crazy week at work, which is eating a lot into my personal time, but I don’t really write about the job here. That being said, apparently going to the weekly poker game with a lot of repressed anger fills in nicely for the “killer instinct” my poker play is usually lacking–since I dodecupled up tonight. Since work… Read more →
