Author: Karel Kerezman

  • A quick note to all the crazies out there.

    All you crazies out there, please note: The full moon was last week, not today. Please put the craziness on hold for a few more weeks.

    Thank you.

  • I’m ready for my days off, Mr. DeMille.

    I’m taking Friday and Monday off from work while Dawn’s in town. The thinly-veiled pretext is that we’re celebrating my birthday the weekend before, but really we just want to get together, ‘cause we haven’t seen each other since mid-January.

    I’ll try to post while she’s here, ‘cause I want to keep my ratios up (see percentages in the left column), but it may not be anything particularly in-depth or pithy. You’ve been warned.

    Here’s hoping work can survive without me for a couple of days, eh?

  • Bus Troubleshooting 101

    Riding to work this morning, I noticed (through the vibrant strains of anime and j-pop music coming from my wonderful Neuros) that the bus I was on had a bit of trouble with the back door, the one most riders use to exit the vehicle. The driver tried toggling the switch a few times to no avail, so the passengers ended up leaving via the front door instead. What raised my eyebrows was what the driver did to solve the problem.

    He rebooted the bus.

    I kid you not. He turned off the engine, waited a minute, then started the bus back up again. At the next stop, the rear door worked perfectly.

    I wonder if he owns a home computer.

  • The Name (Graphing) Game

    Found at Collision Detection, the following naming-popularity graph. Type in the start of a name at the top, watch the pretty graphs grow into place. Be amused, or some-such…

    Oh, and save yourself the trouble: “Karel” doesn’t show up anywhere in there. Yes, I looked.

    NameVoyager

  • I use words good.

    According to the Commonly Confused Words test…

    Advanced

    You scored 100% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 66% Expert!

    You have an extremly good understanding of beginner, intermediate, and advanced level commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of each of these three levels’s questions correct. This is an exceptional score. Remember, these are commonly confused English words, which means most people don’t use them properly. You got an extremely respectable score.

    Not bad, all things considered. Go ahead and try your hand at it, won’t you?

    (Got this one from Lisa.)

  • R.I.P., ENTPORMS1

    It took me a solid week, minus the weekend I wasn’t allowed to work. There were major and minor hitches along the way. But as of a few short minutes ago, I’m done with the old machine, having migrated the last account.

    The email server’s dead. Long live the email server.

    I’ve been dealing with almost nothing but email for the last month or so, and it’s taken up at least half of my working time for the last year. I still have one bit of work to do (setting up quotas) but after that I can actually… gods forbid… concentrate on other parts of my job! I know, it’s almost too radical a concept to grasp. Wow.

    Now all I need to do is wait 45 minutes for the next bus out of here…