Author: Karel Kerezman

  • Taking Up Residence

    Yesterday morning Mari picked me up along with my luggage so I could begin my stay at her apartment. I’m minding the place while she and Doug are vacationing with her folks in California, you see. It shouldn’t be too strenuous a job: make sure the cat is fed, that sort of thing.

    The afternoon and evening were spent hanging out and watching movies with the likes of Celina and Kirsten, making it a real #KNRK chat channel get-together. Until last night I’d never seen Fight Club, by the way. It’s an interesting movie, but I probably won’t go out of my way to watch it again. Not my style, you know?

    I’ll probably update rather infrequently, for various reasons. It’s a holiday week for starters. And then there’s those video games to waste time with… who needs the Internet?

    Right. Like I was updating all that frequently to begin with. I know. Well, be good humans. I’ll post as I get the urge…

  • Past, Present, Future – Round Forty

    PAST: Trebuchet or battering ram?

    PRESENT: Stealth bomber or cruise missile?

    FUTURE: Mass driver or particle beam?

    The seed idea this week is “seige weaponry,” brought to you by an evening spent playing Age of Mythology. (Ah, I love the Age games.) I admit it’s sort of an odd choice, but I’m in an odd mood tonight… so you’ll just have to deal with it. You are, as always, encouraged to have fun with your answers. Thank you for playing, and don’t forget to comment so we know you were here!
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  • Compatibility In A Can

    Since I got this from her site, the results naturally relate to my compatibility with Lilith:

    SimilarMinds.com Compatibility Test
    Your match with Lilith
    you are 87% similar
    you are 73% complementary

    How Compatible are You with me?

    Go on, you know you want to. Or perhaps you’d rather go see how compatible you are with Lil’ instead…
    Compatibility with Friends?

  • It’s so ME!

    Last week’s Onion horoscope for Pisces, quoted here before I lose it forever to a new AvantGo sync on my palm/phone:

    Pisces — You’ve always had trouble controlling your base impulses, but they do lead you to have fun and experience cool things.

    Nuff said, eh?

  • Let it slush, let it slush, let it slush…

    ‘Twas a bit damp out this morning on the way to work. What started out as cold rain with some white stuff mixed into it quickly became a slush storm. In fact, you could call it…

    The Great Slush Storm of 2003!

    That is, if you were thinking like a local news organization. Which I don’t advise, personally.

    Anyway, I was walking to work from the bus stop and as I walked underneath the Ross Island Bridge I realized that it was a perfect place from which to snap pictures:

    Neat, huh? Mind you, it made the walk to work sort of interesting. See, I didn’t think to put on my “bad weather” shoes. Whoops. I didn’t fall, but I did slip a few times.

    Nevermind that my umbrella kept getting heavier and heavier. At one point I thought, “Why is my arm getting so tired?”

    “Oh yeah. Duh.”

    So, what’s the weather like in your neck of the woods, eh? I bet it’s not as much fun as this today!

  • Have I mentioned that I hate printers?

    It’s just about 7:00 in the evening, and I’m taking a dinner break before diving headlong into tonight’s project: Going from computer to computer in the building to remove the printer objects for the now-removed Savin copier/printers, and replacing them with properly-configured printer objects for the new Toshibas.

    That’s right, today at noon the new copier/printer devices arrived. My entire afternoon and evening has been spent dealing with them… installing, testing, configuring, more testing, tinkering, more configuring, more testing.

    Well, except for that fun hour when the corporate WAN went down. Thanks, Worldcom! I needed some more excitement!

    Not being able to efficiently “push” the printers out to the network clients means a long night spent manually installing both machines onto each of some 60 computers around the building. Sometimes being a “Department Of One” really blows, you know?

    See you in the morning, folks.