Note: I started writing this six months ago until I became distracted by a tasty looking squirrel. I am no longer feeling either curmudgeonly or pedantic, but I am feeling like my blog hasn’t been updated in WAY too long. So here goes. A few days ago I stumbled across a motivational page for...
Read more →That’s right. I’m running a wordpress install that gets a handful of visitors per day (seldom more than 20), a photo gallery that no one but le Goog ever visits, and a home grown front-end that receives perhaps a hundred hits per day and *barely* uses a MySQL database. And this activity is so...
Read more →I’m sorry to say that I’ve learned to approach Woody Allen’s work of the last two decades with more than small dose of caution. When it’s good it’s very good, but when it’s not good it tends to remind me a lot of an awkward social situation where you have to restrain yourself from...
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In preparation for moving gracefully into a future with more and different types of code in it, I finally upgraded my tired old computer with a decent ASUS mobo, a core i5 3570k, 16GB of RAM, and a modestly sized but speedy Crucial SSD. Size, it turns out, does actually matter. Nevertheless my new...
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I just peeked in the mirror and was astonished to see how far the wrinkles around my eyes have spread (I understand these are referred to as periorbital wrinkles. They can be “addressed” by any number of surgical procedures or chemical treatments, or simply by avoiding actually focusing on things much, but that hardly...
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Winter’s wet, creeping onset has evidently put me into a poetical frame of thought — because somehow or other I stumbled across a collection of winter-themed haiku by Charles de Lint. This one in particular leaped out at me: Shadow of a crow upon the snow is as black as the bird above Lovely,...
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When I woke up, my hair was like this: When I am done buzz-cutting it tomorrow night, it will look like this: My thoughts require ventilation and fresh air. Because right now, I’m thinking that if a work week exceeds the seven days of the Roman week, there should be a name for every...
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Okay, so I’m morbid. Big deal. In addition to Hurricane Sandy’s brutality to the east coast (very prosaic by Day after Tomorrow standards, and yes, I did watch the movie to put things into perspective), the last week’s headlines have included two shark attacks, a three year old boy killed by a pack of...
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