Posted in miscellany, nerd on May 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well. Today I start my new gig, which is going to be generally based here at home. I have an office, but no gear yet. I’m told it will show up some time today. I’m already booked on a there-and-back-again trip to Atlanta tomorrow, and my account executive has the next week pretty well planned [...]
Posted in nerd on April 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Our venerable ol’ x86 machine croaked last weekend so we bought an iMac. I’ve been playing around with it all week and, frankly, it’s every bit as good as I remember from my time in college when I first fell in love with Apples. All of the writing labs in the J-school were full of [...]
Posted in movies, nerd on March 31, 2008 | No Comments »
Saturday was gloomy and rainy, so many of us spent the day watching Disney’s The Sword in the Stone, napping or playing around with the BackTrack security/penetration testing livecd. Lots of interesting tools on the livecd, by the way. I’m by no means a security professional, but…I play one at home, and maintain an interest [...]
Posted in nerd on March 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Nerd alert.
I am, professionally, a Unix systems administrator in recovery. By which I mean that I’ve gotten away from day-to-day operational support and have moved (upwards, I hope) into various management roles which are nevertheless still firmly rooted in the technical world. This was a conscious decision, made after the last holiday had been [...]
Posted in food, nerd on March 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Did you know that many, if not most, blenders can be used with a standard mason jar, or wide-mouthed mason jar?
Tip: Blender and Mason Jar at Simply Recipes, via lifehacker
Posted in nerd on February 25, 2008 | No Comments »
The thing that makes me most happy doing this work is being able to help people with their worries and unhappiness, thanks to fountain pens. Nearly all of my repair jobs come to me with a letter attached. I once made a pen nib for a junior high school girl. She was a quiet, unhappy [...]
Posted in aquarium, family, miscellany, nerd on February 25, 2008 | No Comments »
A landmark weekend at the Maison du Hobnottle: we’ve begun acquiring our camping stuff. Annual bonuses finally landed at work, and gearing up for family camping trips has been near the top of the to-do list for a little while now. So far we’ve acquired two (2) 6-8 man tents, dual-fuel stove and lantern, sleeping [...]
Posted in nerd on January 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I just learned that our two-year old isn’t intentionally trying to drive us crazy. He’s actually a finely-tuned root-cause analyst. I should probably start actually answering him, rather than freestyling with made-up/nonsensical retorts.
Posted in aquarium, family, food, nerd on January 18, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Warning: aquarium nerdspeak ahead.
I happen to glance to the right and notice that today’s saint is St. Ammonius. How apropos.
It’s been probably 20 years or more since I regularly kept an aquarium, and while I thought it would just all come back to me, I seem to have forgotten that it can take weeks rather [...]
Posted in nerd on January 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Stan Lee Tribute Artwork, via MeFi. This will probably be of interest only to comic geeks (and only the Marvel ones, at that).
Today's Saint Readings Universalis
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