Disaster Recovery

• Finally got kids down. Wife calls with more tasks she needs me to do. I am…somewhat less than enthusiastic. #
• Need to get to bed at a reasonable hour tonight. Sleep dep is gonna kill me. #
• I’d make a snarky tweet about the spam email I recieved, but there are nice grandmas who read this stuff. #
• Internet reviews of cat foods seem to be all over the map. Same food will get “this stuff is great” and “this stuff killed fluffy!” #
• @frspike Sarah Palin put the empty ice cream container back into the freezer. #
• @johnhalton I find your biting sarcasm to be hurtful. I don’t feel at home on this thing anymore. #
• @frspike shoulda posted this before it was too late: http://www.lifeboat.com/images/memetic.hazard.warning.jpg #
• Yessss precious, we wants it. Yes we does. http://tinyurl.com/6nxo63 #
• @livyanne for what I’d want it for (coding, email, occasional web browsing, chat), it’d probably be more than fast enough #
• @revmhj I thought Apple users /liked/ to be told what they should use #

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• 11:06 Figured out why this page was loading so slow - it wasn't the server, it was my browser taking 45+ seconds to render. #
• 15:40 It's strange to see your name in code that predates your arrival by six years. #
• 17:19 People are praying (maybe even planning) for McCain to be killed after he wins. SAVE A LIFE: VOTE OBAMA #
• 17:39 @minute Say hi to old Wilfred for me! #

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• @vphill Fo’ sheezy? Where at? #
• @strawfoot after that, a man has to fall back on beer #
• guh…it is rather tricky not to get messed up when coding Lua after spending the day in Python #
• @livyanne Whoo, congrats! #
• I came back as a bag of groceries accidentally taken off the shelf before the expiration date #
• Whoo, it’s the Axel F theme from Beverly Hills Cop. The triumph of the synthesizer! #
• @strawfoot you’re the second person to ask me that #
• @pwinn that model can probably apply to a lot of situations #
• Hahah, these are great…warning signs for tomorrow (if we get there!) http://lifeboat.com/ex/warning.signs.for.tomorrow #
• Grrrr…I think the firewall here is blocking flickr uploads…they need an sftp dropbox option #
• @frspike they don’t even let ssh through the firewall? That’s straight up draconian #
• @johnhalton unskippable parts of DVDs make me want to hurt somebody #
• @livyanne Is there a correlation? #
• DDR was an utter failure with the kids today. Both incredibly cranky and the whole thing ended in angry howling from them both. Grrr. #

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• 07:32 Don LaFontaine, the Voice Over Guy died yesterday. It's a shame. He was talented and had a great sense of humor about himself. #
• 16:13 Note to self: don't Google search for "ordo" again at work, even if it was work related. #
• 16:53 Hmm. @nosredna appears not to be the real Nosredna. How confusing. #
• 17:10 Wondering if I need heavy water for this Green and White Fusion tea. #

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• Playing DDR with a 2 year old and 3 year old is…interesting. Especially when the 2 year old wants to be held when it isn’t his turn. Oi. #
• Somebody at my ISP must have fallen asleep on the “suck” lever. #
• @livyanne I don’t ever wanna hear my mom talk about sex. As far as I’m concerned, my parents are asexual. #
• @scottythebody Guess you gotta find pleasure in your job where you can. Hope they were wearing gloves. #
• Dear Microsoft. Your Office suite is bloated, slow and it sucks. I hate you for the few times a week I have to use it. #
• @TheClingingVine On the other hand, she’s keeping his campaign in the headlines…something McCain seems to have trouble with #
• Sending docs to my Linux box for printing cuz the add printer dialog keeps freezing in Windows. Did I mention this is on a Windows network? #
• @frspike gotta love it when the straw men get hauled out in the abortion debates. #
• Feeling under the weather, so I’m begging off Judo tonight. I hope nobody was looking forward to tossing me around. #
• @revmhj nice…if I wasn’t running Linux, I might be tempted to buy a few songs. #

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This happened like, over a month ago, but I never recorded it, and it’s too long to tweet, so…looks like I’ll have to do a blog entry.

So, we’re heading home from church one Sunday afternoon, and we pass this fruit stand that we’d heard good things about, so we pull over, and I wait in the car with the kids while Amanda goes to check it out. She elects to leave her purse in the car, so in case she decides she doesn’t like the fruit, she can truthfully say that she doesn’t have any cash on her.

A few minutes later, she comes back with a large slice of an extremely juicy looking peach. You know how it goes…the first one’s always free, right?

I say something to the effect of “Aha, so they gave you some crack, huh?” And Amanda is like “Yeah, give me my purse.” So I pass it to her and she gives me what’s left of the peach slice and goes to buy a bag of said peaches (they were expensive, but extremely good). Meanwhile, Kat, who is 3, asks me “What did mommy give you, daddy?” And I say “Mommy gave me some peach, Kat.” To which Kat replies, “No she didn’t, Daddy, Mommy gave you some crack!”

Oops.

Gotta watch what we say around these kids…

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I'm increasingly wishing I'd taken the trip up to PAX after hearing of all the shenanigans. And JoCo!

Called (OK, e-mailed) in sick today, then went immediately back to bed and had a fever dream wherein I accidentally showed up at work in to work in a confused state and fuddled through the day. Then I woke up again.

• 00:03 I don't feel like death warmed over, but I suspect I will in the morning. #

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Well folks, here it is. My definitive list of favorite music videos. Actually, it's pretty far from definitive, because I could probably come up with a lot more, given the time. Nonetheless, these here are pretty high in my personal rankings regardless of how you slice it.

I've tried to embed as many as possible, but some of them had embedding disabled, so you'll just have to follow the links. Also, I was lazy, so I didn't link the "honorable mention" videos, but you know how to use the search box on Youtube. See? You're smart!

A lot of 'em are from the 80's, and that's not a coincidence. They knew how to make music videos back then. Today, not so much. I am still angry with my parents for banning me from watching MTV...back in the day when they still played music.

Anyhow...without further ado...

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• 13:43 @joshphotos Lots of people are being killed everywhere. But yeah, you do have it easy in the US. #
• 14:50 Oops. Just put my lenscap through an entire cycle of laundry, and it dropped out with the warm clothes. Still seems OK. #
• 17:04 Oh dear. Now I can order old Doctor Who episodes through my AppleTV. #

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• 12:40 Carting around more Go equipment -- this time for Kumoricon. #

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Worried about putting a small-town mayor in the White House? Not to worry - she'll learn on the job!

“She’s going to learn national security at the foot of the master for the next four years, and most doctors think that he’ll be around at least that long,” said Charlie Black, one of Mr. McCain’s top advisers, making light of concerns about Mr. McCain’s health, which Mr. McCain’s doctors reported as excellent in May.

Probably for a full four years!

• 09:42 @jawboneradio I'm going to be teaching Go at Kumoricon. Also washing dishes. #
• 17:07 Little known fact: Sarah Palin makes Chuck Norris a little uneasy. #
• 20:00 @cwage That is just scary. #

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I have a fever.

The last time I remember having a fever was my juniour year in high school when I had strep throat.

Other than that, I only remember one other time running a fever and I don't remember specifically when, just that I did. I probably ran some when I was child and had lots of ear infections. Other than that, I can count on one hand the time I've run fevers.

He** is probably about to freeze over.

My dragons are going to die because I just don't feel like sitting at the computer for more than a couple of minutes at a time and am not up to clicking others. *wah*

I am sick. Got sick last night, still sick this morning.

I hate being sick.