Gah. It’s been a bad two years, pandemic aside. Here is a summary of what happened. I have wanted to write up blog posts to cover all of these things, but honestly it’s been too much. I’d start to write and just get overwhelmed by everything. It...
This is going to be short, because I just can’t write. Within one week, my sister lost two of her three children. My nephew died on Monday. My niece died on Wednesday. Mom and I flew out to be with my sister on Wednesday. Not going into...
I finally called the hotel in Banff to see if the package had arrived and if they had returned it to sender as requested. They had, so theoretically I’ll have it back in a few days. With the way the current system is going, it appears that...
I was searching on YouTube for the latest episode of Doctor Who, called “42.” I have been anxiously awaiting this new episode. Sometime this season Captain Jack Harkness apparently comes back. It’s been two weeks since the last episode aired on BBC. Withdrawl! (Yes, I have been...
A Student Press column in Hong Kong has caused calls for the Bible to be listed as “indecent” material and be made only available to people over the age of 18. From an an article in The Register: The Bible may be reclassified as “indecent” in Hong...
A friend of mine was at the WWW 2007 conference in Banff, Alberta. I sent a package via US postal server using the so-called priority mail option. The postman said that the package should arrive within 3-5 days. It was a Saturday, and my friend was supposed...
Forgive me for not being formally tagged with this, but it looked like way too much fun to pass up. 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the next three sentences in...
I guess someone had to make the link. This is just too funny. For the “web master” in your life: Spiderman Briefs Related Images:
Quote from a Slashdot reader commenting on a thread about writing open source documentation: Documentation is like sex, when its good, its very very good, and when its bad its better than nothing. Related Images:
Imagine the surprise of finding a horse in an automated teller booth. A customer at a bank in Berlin, Germany, arrived in the early morning to find a horse (looks like a Belgian from the picture) in the teller stall with the drunk rider asleep on the...
I love my house. Most of the time. Except for some of the creative home improvement I’ve had to correct. Lots of things to learn to love, and to hate. Like bugs. When I moved in, I found cockroaches, ants, box elder bugs, silverfish, and a slew...
These are justy too cool not to post. Little curling horns made out of candle wax that you can have in your hair. (Not burning candles. ;)) Hair Candies by Xyn Related Images:
One of my clients today pointed out that I’ve been overbooked. It hit hard, and also made me realize how much stuff I’m involved in that is not important. The last two to three weeks have been consumed with computer issues and trying like mad to finish...
BBC News is reporting the results of a survey asking what the move popular science fiction movie of all time is. The winner was a surprise — Serenity, the movie based off of the single-season Firefly, beat out Star Wars, The Matrix, Blade Runner, Alien, and 2001:...
My sister called. She will be arriving late today. Thank goodness! Otherwise, I have no idea how I’d be able to completed all of the stuff to do… The closet took way too long last night. My friend was a great help. Boy was I thankful to...
Okay, so it’s my birthday today. My sister is due here with her family in about 36 hours. I’ve been spending most of my evenings getting things around the house finished. The back door locke have been repaired (finally), vaccuuming is done, front yard is weeded and...
