Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
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9:43 am - Washington Polls (for those who care)
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http://www.washingtonpoll.org/results.html
Highlights:
71 is ahead 55/45 amongst those who have already voted, 57/38 amongst likely.
1033 is down 56/44 amongst already, 49/40 amongst likely.
Constantine is leading Hutchinson 47/34 amongst likely voters (although 19% are still undecided.)
Lowlights:
Mallahan is leading McGinn by a decent margin (44/36 likely voters). (Again, 19% are still undecided.)
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
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10:36 pm - Defund Lockheed Martin!
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
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4:56 pm - I've made a difference!
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[16:43:20] one of the guys in the office did the best impression of you i've ever seen jim
[16:43:42] he was all "oh yeah, lanward taught me a lot of what i know"
[16:44:19] "i'd walk up, ask him a question... and he'd put his hands on his head, sigh really loud, and answer my question with such a level of disdain, i never forgot the answer."
I'm oddly touched by this. (and, oh yeah, I used to go by Lanward when I was married.)
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
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3:31 pm - Remember this winter?
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Dear Jackasses:
This letter is addressed to all the people who cracked jokes during the fairly nasty bits of this last winter. You know who you are... you're the people who tried to joke that "this doesn't feel like global warming to me!"
Al Gore would like a written apology from every sweaty-assed one of you.
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
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7:57 am - Birthday weekend
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Thanks to everyone who came out/took part/sent wishes etc! I had an awesome weekend and I believe the Gwen did too.
And we get a 4-day work week this week! It's the time of year that just doesn't stop giving.
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
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2:09 pm
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Remember: the swine flu isn't a _real_ problem until Madagascar closes its ports. That's when we know that we have a true pandemic on our hands.
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
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4:16 pm
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
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12:19 pm
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After, what, going on 20 years of dinking around with all sorts of instruments, finally decided to go ahead and buy a cheap 8-track recording unit yesterday. Now I just need to clear out enough room to be able to get to instruments when I want them.
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
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1:55 pm - RIP Krevlornswath
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
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6:22 pm
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Just met with the new boss. Turns out, my job changes not a whit.
Dammit!
I was kind of looking forward to my demotion.
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10:48 am
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From http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2009/03/ephemera-2009-7.html:
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
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12:01 am - And in case anyone finds my opinion worthwhile...
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Watchmen kicked my ass. At best I had minor quibbles with it, and to discuss them here would be to spoil the moment. So... yeah. It was awesometastic. I give it ten giant blue glowing cocks out of ten.
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
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5:57 pm - random memory (another Pandora entry)
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As most of y'all know, I was married for a few years back when. I inherited a not-insubstantial piece of my current taste in music from that ex-. (My previous tastes were much, much worse.) It's funny, though, that apparently I didn't pick up enough of them. One of her albums stuck out in her collection for its hideous cover art -- pink with a badly-sketched money bag on the front. Years later I still remember that god-awful album cover from each time I had to move.
Pandora says that the band in question is "Teenage Fanclub", the album was called "Bandwagonesque", and... it's actually pretty good. I'm kinda wishing I could remember some of the rest of her albums that I scoffed at at the time, now...
current music: Teenage Fanclub -- "Alcoholiday"
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9:41 am - Tonight, WE watch the watchmen.
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(obligatory Snyder references: Also, tonight we dine in hell, and fight in the shade.)
Pretty excited about this, many negative reviews aside. Of course it's not going to be as good as the graphic novel. The graphic novel was all about structure and interweaving, and if you filmed every bit of it, I'd go so far as to say it would be boring as hell. I know every time I read the story, I find myself glossing over certain details, because this time I was taken in by X theme or Y storyline and I'm not paying full attention to the rest.
But still... tonight, Rorshach's going to teach a jail that they are locked up with him, and not vice versa. That oughta be worth a big ol' smile at least.
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
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12:23 pm - credit == death
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Years ago I got a credit card. It had a tiny little limit, and I used it very little. I was terrible about paying it, but since it never carried much of a balance, even the sick-penalty-pricing interest rate didn't concern me much. 30% interest on a $300 balance is still not _that_ bad. At this time, the bank was not charging late fees, or I was somehow never late enough to trigger them.
I moved a lot, and at some point they didn't get the forwarding info. I chucked as much as I thought I owed at the card and forgot about it. This was... three years ago?
Just got a call from the bank. Apparently they started instituting late fees, started charging them to the card, and _just now_ managed to get hold of me about it. They now claim I owe them... $2200? On an outstanding balance of about $100.
This is going to be fun. Sadly, I can't think of anything particular punitive I can do to BoA about it.
current mood: broker than I thought
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
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9:54 am
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Trying something new -- going to actually leave the office at a realistic hour today, and then try and force myself to log on from home for a bit to handle all the stuff I normally would stay til 9 doing.
Wish me luck.
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
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6:23 pm - Wherein I am a crotchety old man.
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I am not hip to new media, apparently. I log into Facebook, and I see:
1 friend suggestion, 7 friend requests, 3 group invitations...
OK... so far, fine. I understand these. Also:
1 pet society invitation, 1 superpoke! invitation, 16 (lil) green patch requests, 1 mob wars invitation, 2 elven blood invitations, 1 which cullen are you? invitation, 5 star wars figures requests, etc...
What the fuck are these? What purpose do they serve? Am I missing something? Also... get off my lawn!
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009
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12:08 pm
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That Coraline movie that's in theatres... it's pretty good. You should go see it. If you like movies. Or good things.
Unless you are a koumpounophobe, in which case stay the hell away and hide under your covers.
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Monday, February 2nd, 2009
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4:43 pm - Take your kicks where you can
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As my job creeps slowly away from tech and towards management, I find that there's really only one facet of it that I still take great relish in.
Every once in a while, someone in some organization will try to say something indefensible, probably counting on their position to try and shield them from consequences. Things like "although we, as a company, have not published anything to this effect, that workflow is not supported."
Then I get to quote their email, and expose that comment to anyone I can think of who might be a stakeholder, and basically tear their position to shreds in public. It's something I'm quite good at... usually the person torn to shreds even comes and offers an apology afterwards.
It's not much, but it's something.
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
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1:07 pm
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Hmmm... at what point as a manager do you grow the scab over your soul that allows you to see someone who already appears to have a full plate and callously pile more work on top of it?
Everyone above me already appears to have figured that one out, but I don't have it yet.
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