Brain Needed Space

I made a “raclette” as a side dish that sent my step-daughter into spasms of joy. This will have to be a blog post recipe since she included “potatoes and melted cheese” in her nightly prayers. The iMac’s video card cost $330 to replace, then it broke again. Thankfully, the card was still under its [...]

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“Go to the other lab and test the ABC Kit.” And she went back to munching breakfast popcorn. Grabbed my computer, iPhone, headsets, iPhone charging cable, computer bag, and strutted like Saturday Night Fever out of the magoogleplex to my car. WoohoohooHOO!! Private-property speed limits enforced by rent-a-cops? Please. Arrived at the other lab. The [...]

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I hate polo shirts. Hate. I don’t use that word often, because it’s been devalued by society. But I truly loathe, despise, and hate with the intensity of one thousand burning suns, polo shirts. They suck. Now, wearing a suit to work every day, that’s not going to happen for me. I work in tech, [...]

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All my documents, everywhere I go. Automatic syncing. Works on Mac, PC, and iPhone. Makes a shared drive icon so I don’t have to FTP or HTTP or EIEIO. AND! Puts my music where I want it. Shared my documents with whomever I want, anywhere they are, and they only have to click. Simple photo [...]

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Daniel: Where the {triple explicative} is Cygwin on your laptop? Totally unimportant person: Oh, I hide all my icons. What do you mean, you hide all your icons? I don’t like a messy computer. You have a messy computer if you can’t find your icons. No, I like to see the picture. But if you [...]

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Wake up, Brain! “Wha? I was thinking about plastic switchblades and large Swedish TSA agents. What do you need, Daniel?” Need your help in doing some research. Trying to install this Oracle patch and it’s failing because it cannot find Java. “Java?” Yes. The Oracle patch cannot find the Java development kit. “Is that a [...]

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One of the great joys of this process is the division of assets. Hurray, right? Nothing more fun that putting stuff in His and Hers piles. So my old 401k is being divided into two and I have choices of what I want to do with My Half: Leave it where it is and let [...]

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“Daniel, I want you to go over to the lab and run some test cases. Make sure they work.” I wrote them. Of course they work. “We’ve changed all the software.” Oh really? “And all the IP addresses are now static.” Static? “And we’ve split the services among three blades.” When did we get blade [...]

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/lunch time driving to the test facility, 300hp 350z under my foot, a good night’s sleep behind me, windows down, and tunes blaring. “WHETHER YOURE A BROTHA OR WHETHER A MOTHA YOURE JUST STAYIN ALIVE, STAYIN ALIVE!!” /takes blind turn, ever so slightly tries to let the rear fishtail, fails due to lack of speed [...]

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A big thanks to MMO-Champion for their extreme data-mining expertise and this screenshot, (click the pic to see it full-sized.) It has a scope! It has a few shiny things, a very nice sight, and it’s Alliance-only. Today, I’m a happy ex-WoW hunter. Share on Facebook

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