…for the past two weeks, I’m sorry. I was taking something of a sabbatical from everything except the most pressing things in my email inbox. I used a very very conservative definition of “most pressing.” I’m catching up to the backlog now.
What’s amazing is how much just having to do my day job every day [...]
So I intended grand things in home improvement this weekend. Saturday I had to go to work, because when you have to shut down major computer clusters, you do it on the weekend in order to not disturb folks. So I went in, and started to copy a terabyte of data from a storage array [...]
100% grass fed beef really does taste a lot better than the ordinary, unhealthy cornfed variety. Props to Ian and King Corn for that revelation.
Holidays are nice and restful usually, which is the point after all. But then I went and threw a seven person dinner party today with no corn in the meal. As [...]
The eves are better than the days themselves. The holidays are full of mandatory things, and mandatory things are only sometimes pleasant. They often boil down to a meal and a conversation and an ending, and that’s about it. It’s grown even more stilted now, as the family has grown unstable and [...]
The best Halloween costume for 2007 was an 11 year old boy dressed up as Alex Rodriguez in a Red Sox uniform.
“It was the scariest thing I could think of.”