Archive for April, 2007
- 04.23.07 Hiro from “Heroes” is the only true hero. posted in geekery, personal
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04.23.07
SETI@Home again posted in geekery, personal
Their records show that I’ve been with SETI@home since May 13th, 2002.
I joined SETI@Home during my first job out of college. It was the first time that I had administrator privelages on a powerful machine, and I used those privelages to search for aliens. From then on, I had some version of S@H running on one of my home or work machines. There was a silent contest amongs the employees to see who could get the most results the fastest. Of course, nobody ever beat Bryan. He was the reason half the office even got started with S@H.
At any rate, I stopped fetching results a few months ago. I left my job with the paper January 1st to become a stay-at-home dad and part-time freelancer. At the same time, I traded in my old PowerBook for one of the new Intel iMacs. Amidst the shuffle, I never bothered to install S@H on the new machine. That is, untill they sent me an email the other day.
So, after nearly 5 months of inactivity, I have once again started to log results for the project. Surprisingly, I am still in the top 10 for total credit with the Michigan Tech team. Maybe I can move from 8 to 7, now.
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04.18.07
Smoky Scotch Tabasco posted in food, personal
You know how your bottle of ‘basco accumulates the dried residue of sauce gone by? For a split second today, I was tempted to pour a little scotch into my bottle of smoked ‘basco and use it as a loosening agent for all that hard-to-get flavor. In the end, I chickened out and used plain old water. But next time… yeah… next time.
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04.13.07
“Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind…” posted in personal
Ah lilacs….
The huge, old lilac bush growing on the border of our property was one of the best things about our Helena home. Lilacs are my favorite flower, and its billowy branches provided great shade whilst laying in our hammock or playing with the cats in the yard.
Well, now it’s gone. Our “neighbor” (I use that term lightly) claims the roots were clogging a sewer line….and he chopped it down. All of it. Chopped. It. Down.
Technically, it’s on their property, so they can do what they want, but dammit! I’m so upset.
Now everyone and their neighbor can watch us whenever we step outside and the birds have lost their perching place and feeding grounds.
It’s just not the same. Not the same at all. A tragedy, I say, and a good reason to move forward with relocation.
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04.13.07
Craft Survey posted in friends
Our good friend Monica is going for her Ph.D. in fashion. How cool is that?
She’s currently in the research phase of a term paper about the culture of crafting, and she wants you (yes, you) to help her out. She’s prepared a bunch of questions and I’ve coded them all pretty-like. So, if you spend your free time crafting your own stugg, then maybe you could take a little survey?
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04.09.07
I’m Chevy Chase? posted in comedy, personal, photes, the peculiar
And you’re not.
This weekend, Sarah and I visited the local grocery store. A place I visit at least twice a week with Nora. On this particular day, an older woman was our cashier. As I bagged our wares at the far end of the checkout, Sarah and the cashier exchanged some words and some chuckles. Later, in the car, Sarah tells me that the older woman had made a peculiar observation/comment concerning me. In a rough paraphrase, the cashier said “Every time your husband comes into the store, he reminds me of a young Chevy Chase.”
Well? You be the judge.
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04.08.07
Easter posted in nora, personal, photes
Today was Easter. And Easter means bunnies and eggs. In Helena, it means there is a giant Easter-egg “hunt” on the lawn of the Capitol. It’s not so much a hunt as it is a lawn full of uncovered easter-eggs. Children by the masses line up at the lawn’s edge and wait for the announcer to say “Go!” Then there’s a mad dash of children and their helpful parents shoving other children and parents out of the way. It seems that a few eggs are marked with dollar amounts and can be redeemed for cash. It’s a good thing, too… because I can’t imagine any self-respecting 3-year-old going hog wild for a basket full of hard-boiled eggs. Plastic eggs filled with candy? Sure. But not hard-boiled eggs. Unless of course some young boy is aspiring to be the next Cool Hand Luke.
At any rate, we took Nora over to observe the craziness. She had never seen so many children gathered in one place. Her little head was a flurry of movement looking from left to right trying to take it all in. When everyone started dashing for the eggs, Nora started screeching with glee. I carried her into the fray and she was a constant flow of laughter. She may not have gotten an egg, but she surely had a good time.
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04.04.07
The Rude Awakening of Optimus Prime posted in comedy, geekery, www
On a whim, I decided to search YouTube today to see if there were any amusing Transformers parody vids. I found one that was able to give me a few chuckles.
