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August 2006
Opening Mouth
Wednesday, 30 August 2006 6:11 A GMT-05
This week Bush has been determined to polish up his tarnished image by going to visit the devastation he tried to ignore unsuccessfully a year ago. He is briefly touring the still unoccupied areas and stopping at the rebuilt places and making e
Rubbing Two Sticks Together
Tuesday, 29 August 2006 6:07 A GMT-05
I don't expect the people who are not in IT to be experts or anything. After all, they're the reason I have a job. But computers are not the geek toys they once were and most of these people, even though they are not experts in computer t
In Comes the Cold
Monday, 28 August 2006 6:00 A GMT-05
In case this weekend left any room for doubt: autumn is coming.
It didn't help that the sun never came out, so the whole weekend was a uniform dreary gray. But on Sunday it started out unseasonably cold and steadily dropped through the afterno
Planetary Explosions
Friday, 25 August 2006 5:56 A GMT-05
Scientists. Who can trust them?
After all that talk of brotherly planetary love, setting us all up for many more planets than we ever had before, the whacko Pluto-hating activist fringe of the International Astronomers Union up and decided to
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Dangerosity
Thursday, 24 August 2006 6:06 A GMT-05
The other day the Network Administrator had gone to the bank and came back to inform us that we could get a free motorcycle at the bank. It was sitting in the lobby with no accompanying explanation, so he made the only logical assumption.
Simple Genius
Wednesday, 23 August 2006 5:50 A GMT-05
Most of life's most vexing problems have simple solutions. Take for instance:
A user calls in complaining that her monitor is wavering and it's really bad and giving her a headache. Solution: turn off the little portable fan you have cli
Season Finale
Tuesday, 22 August 2006 5:57 A GMT-05
(Everybody sing now) We are the Champions! WE are the Champions! .....alright that's enough.
We lost the first game 7-6 which doomed us to play again, since it was a double elimination tournament and we hadn't lost twice yet. So onward we play
Hurry up and Wait
Monday, 21 August 2006 5:45 A GMT-05
First the Good News: my softball team has made it into the championship for the final league tournament.
Yay!
Now for the Bad News: Saturday started out okay. It was a nice day, a little humid but not bad, threatening rain in the afternoon bu
The President Breaks a Law
Friday, 18 August 2006 6:03 A GMT-05
In what the Bush Administration calls a "blow to the war on Terrorism" and what concerned citizens call the only obvious conclusion, a federal judge yesterday struck down the controversial NSA domestic spying program as unconstitutional. An
Neat Freaks
Thursday, 17 August 2006 6:10 A GMT-05
"I like things to be neat," a co-worker explained, as she was furiously wiping the counter down in the cafeteria kitchen.
"Me too," I said, "I like things to be neat. I just don't enjoy making them neat."
T
The Rights of Planets to Exist
Wednesday, 16 August 2006 5:56 A GMT-05
One of the more memorable lessons of general science I had in elementary school was in the area of astronomy. Specifically we were studying the solar system and it's nine undisputed planets. The last, most distant and cold planet, Pluto,
Rounding up the Suspects
Tuesday, 15 August 2006 6:01 A GMT-05
The FBI has finally admitted that owning multiple cell phones, albeit a ridiculously large number of cell phones, is not a crime. The state of Michigan still isn't so sure. After all, the three men in custody have already committed the bi
Double Trouble
Monday, 14 August 2006 5:52 A GMT-05
There's more work than hours in the day to be done outside, so we'd planned our weekend full of fun activities, such as weeding the garden, scraping back the rest of the dirt from our excavation project, mowing what's left of the lawn, and that
Yawns for Terror
Friday, 11 August 2006 5:43 A GMT-05
Ho-Hum... it's another foiled terror plot. Change the channel, honey.
Aside from the odd coincidence of a major terror plot being uncovered just after a new poll has come out which shows the 60% of Americans are now against the war in Ira
Stealing Plates
Thursday, 10 August 2006 6:06 A GMT-05
Our softball game went into extra innings last night. We were the home team, it was the 9th inning, and I had had enough. Fortunately I was also first up.
We use the International Tie-Breaker rule which places a person on second base bef
Random Scheduled Maintenance
Wednesday, 9 August 2006 8:37 A GMT-05
Wrote an excellent blog entry this morning. It was brilliant, I tell you. Then I went to hit "publish" and came back with a 404- URL not found.
Given that I had just been there, typing happily away, I found it hard to believe. So I went to
Nothing in Moderation
Tuesday, 8 August 2006 6:07 A GMT-05
μέτρον άριστον: Everything in moderation.
This has been a guiding principle ever since it was carved into the rocks at Delphi, a nice idea to live by. A way towards peace where everyone moder
Drainage Ditch
Monday, 7 August 2006 5:56 A GMT-05
There's nothing quite like August. The weekend was glorious, complete with dry, warm sunny days, heavy dew on the grass in the mornings, just a hint of fall in the air, and the hum of an excavator.
All the rain last year and this year has conv
Bug Bites
Friday, 4 August 2006 6:01 A GMT-05
Once again the media has latched on to the West Nile Virus scare and implored us all to wear DEET, stay inside, get rid of all standing water, and, if we can, petition our towns to get rid of the animal which carries it, the infamous and annoying mos
Hot Dog
Thursday, 3 August 2006 5:58 A GMT-05
So far we've all survived the hot, sultry weather and now we're coming back for more. Today isn't supposed to be as bad, but bad is relative to what you are trying to do; I have a softball game tonight. They're also calling for thundersto
Fact by Majority
Wednesday, 2 August 2006 5:57 A GMT-05
Recently the intelligent design mood of Kansas got tested in the polls, and it appears that a majority of Kansans are pro-evolution. The theory of evolution has so much basis in actual observable phenomena that it's hard to see why anyone
In the News
Tuesday, 1 August 2006 5:49 A GMT-05
This just in: I have just poured cold cereal down my neck. O-o-ho-ho-oh, that milk is cold.
In other news, here's another DIY project that is really better left to the professionals.
And here's some fascinating news on Boy George. I kno