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Month: May 2002

  • Snip. Snip.

    I’ve put it off long enough. With all the stupid things I’m willing to talk about on this site, it’s kind of crazy that I waited until now for this topic.

    Tomorrow morning at about 7:30, I’m due for a bilateral vasectomy. That’s right, we’re taking the last step towards having no more children. How do I feel about this? Before this morning I was completely fine, no worries. Today I’m stressing out like crazy. It’s probably a delayed reaction.

    By this time tomorrow, of course, I won’t have to be stressed anymore. The procedure is very quick and simple, so I’ll be spending most of my day relaxing (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) at home. Hey, I might even be online. Stranger things have happened.

    I’m also taking this as an excuse for a four-day weekend. I could probably return to work Monday without problems, but why not turn a chore into an opportunity? Sometimes you have to create your own silver linings.

  • You want bad? This is bad.

    Stumbling around the Internet this afternoon, I came across the Internet Archive. While they don’t seem to have any copies of my very first Europa-hosted pages (let us all get down on our bony little knees right now and thank whatever gods granted us THAT particular blessing), they do have a copy of an early KGON site design that I was, sad to say, completely responsible for.

    I was really proud of that thing at the time. Be thankful that the Archive doesn’t have any of my earlier attempts. Be very thankful.

    Update: Correction. While they only have my most-recent style of the old Europa location (the Rael ’99 design) if you search for http://www.europa.com/~rael, when you add /index.html to the search you find this little gem. It’s not the oldest version of my site, oddly enough, but it’s old enough to be designed for IE 3.01 . *shudder* Yeah, I was a shill for Microsoft back in those days. Live and learn, I guess.

  • Art for Awareness

    Captain Rooba linked to it, I’m linking to it, maybe you should link to it too. It gets a big thumbs-up from this little grey duck. Food for thought, and all that.

  • My Poem Tag

    When I saw that Jessy had made one, and done such a nice job of it, I was compelled to create my own Poem Tag:

  • More Email Goodness, er, Badness

    Here’s one I’ve never seen before: A Groupwise server in our Madison cluster is flooding the network with replica change requests to the point where our server’s MTA is effectively disabled. I’ve had to turn off voicemail and fax synchronization for the time being, and attempts to restart the MTA gracefully have been unsuccessful. Right now Entercom Portland isn’t sending or receiving mail outside our local email server.

    The Novell consultant at Corporate is working on the problem in Madison, then is supposed to call me to see about getting our machine back online once more. It may be a really, really long day. I won’t be too bored, of course, since I have a computer to rebuild at 4:30. Ah yes, we can’t forget about the fun I’ll have answering questions like “Is email not working?” every ten minutes until closing time.

  • The web survey to end all web surveys

    Well, it was bound to happen. It’s the “Web Test Taker Analysis.”

    Web Test Taker Analysis
    Karel is a menace with a bit too much free time

    You use web tests to annoy people on regular basis. Medication might help.
    Take the test yourself, or not.

    Note that posting the results on a web page may invalidate the results, and require retesting.

    Bonus Detailed Personality Analysis:

    Some of your aspirations tend to be pretty unrealistic. At times you are extroverted, affable, sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary and reserved. You have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others. You pride yourself on being an independent thinker and do not accept others’ opinions without satisfactory proof. You prefer a certain amount of change and variety, and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. Disciplined and controlled on the outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure on the inside.

    Your sexual adjustment has presented some problems for you. While you have some personality weaknesses, you are generally able to compensate for them. You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to your advantage. You have a tendency to be critical of yourself. You have a strong need for other people to like you and for them to admire you.

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