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    Ouch

    by  • May 7, 2008 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments

    (10:34:44 AM) (Dude): we’ve been getting much feedback on this, i can get it to work sometimes but others not (10:34:49 AM) (Dude): with any luck it’s something simple, eh? (10:35:23 AM) Zero: I have learned not to hope for good luck (10:36:11 AM) (Dude): hehe (10:36:19 AM) (Dude): spoken like a true corporate...

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    Cats + Geeks = An Engineer’s Guide to Cats

    by  • April 22, 2008 • Uncategorized • 1 Comment

    Ah, this made me happy. Especially the “cat yodeling” application. The “corporal cuddling” methodology is actually one we have used, with a great deal of success, with Ralph — in fact, after repeated use, his middle-of-the-night berserker rages are a thing of the past. In comparing myself to geek archetypes such as those depicted...

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    Surrealism and Daily Life

    by  • April 22, 2008 • Uncategorized • 1 Comment

    (11:07:47 AM) Zero: google is a horse of many colors (11:08:05 AM) Castle: the man wears white shirts in may. (11:08:24 AM) Zero: the horse has a broad yellow streak from its anus to its belly button (11:08:54 AM) Castle: ______ loves horses and leaves pus trails. (11:09:22 AM) Zero: ______ has been squeezed...

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    Summer is Coming

    by  • April 2, 2008 • Uncategorized • 4 Comments

    Yesterday on my way home I saw a couple of fuzzy, long haired hippy types out playing curbside croquet golf. The improvised, obstacle laden course made me think of the peculiar variant of croquet my sister and cousins and I played during yesteryear summers. We’d start at one end of the yard and end...

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    Lessons Learned

    by  • March 19, 2008 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments

    I’m not an aggressive or overly assertive person. However, I have learned that a sense of certainty should always be a warning sign. What follows is a transcription of a classic tactical error. (10:03:11 AM) Boss Man: You’ll bet your life that the statusID code is only set to 4 once it goes live...

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    Sweet Tooth

    by  • March 18, 2008 • Uncategorized • 1 Comment

    Damn — what an ugly, ugly, ugly week and a half it’s been: yet another round of instability and turbulence at work, a mexican soap opera with real estate agents, and my friends John and Noella picking up camp and moving to California. Plus: cats with contagious insomnia, plague, pox, and a tragic recurrence...

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