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Posted in life on Jun 28th, 2007
Recently a friend sent me one of those joke emails containing a list of politically incorrect “laws” that govern a gender. In this case they were “man laws,” and one dealt with the men’s room. To whit: Never talk to a man in a bathroom unless you are on equal footing (i.e., both urinating, both [...]
Posted in nerdliness, random on Jun 22nd, 2007
I was hoping to write today about finding a cure for my Yahoo Messenger ills. The latest and greatest instant messenger client from Y! refuses to stay connected for more than about 10 minutes. It drops connectivity in the middle of chats, file transfers, and when it is just idle. Repeated forays into the support [...]
Posted in life on Jun 21st, 2007
The cubical I occupy at work is fairly nice as cubes go, it even comes with a small built-in whiteboard. The whiteboard is maybe 18 inches tall and 40 inches long. I had to request a set of dry erase markers and an eraser, but that was easily accomplished in a couple of days. The [...]
Posted in random on Jun 19th, 2007
Auto Flush Overnight, one night last week, all the toilets in the men’s rooms in the building where I work were converted from manual flush to automatic flush through the installation of some overly sensitive infrared sensors. I discovered both of these facts simultaneously when I shifted a bit while seated. The flush mechanism makes [...]
Posted in random on Jun 18th, 2007
Over the weekend I added international calling to my phone. This seemingly simple goal was made overly complicated by the “customer service” paradigm employed by AT&T. Online Ordering Repeated attempts to access my account in order to add the new service via AT&T web account manager failed. The error message displayed was ambiguous as to [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Jun 15th, 2007
Posted in health on Jun 14th, 2007
Just over a year ago, on June 12th, I bought a bathroom scale and started tracking my weight. I weighted 250 pounds on any given day, and I wanted to weigh less. A lot less. I had seen a blog entry about something loosely referred to as the “hacker’s diet.” Not really a diet but [...]
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Posted in life on Jun 10th, 2007