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Month: September 2009

  • She’s HOW old?

    The daughter turned sixteen yesterday, so we threw her a big silly party. (Well, okay. The Lloyd Center skating rink people threw her a big silly party. We just paid for the thing. Heh.)

    Near as I can tell, she and the half-dozen friends who showed up all had a good time, and she was delighted by the party and the presents and especially the chance to go ice skating. (She’s only been asking to do so since she was, oh, maybe six years old?) I may not understand the big deal about a girl’s sixteenth birthday, but I’m not enough of a brainless lump to let said birthday slide on by without at least trying to make a decent event out of it.

    So: Happy Birthday, kiddo!

  • Hearing Red

    As I slowly work my way through tagging my digital music library with ratings marks to ease the process of making random playback of excellent music possible on any given PC, I’ve noticed that only two albums in my collection start with the word “red”, and they’re both by Midnight Oil: “Red Sails In The Sunset” and “Redneck Wonderland.”

    It occurs to me, in fact, that these are among the Oils’ strongest records, leaving aside the landmark smash-hit “Diesel & Dust.” So… what do you think? Am I nuts, or am I right?

  • Autumnal WHAT?

    I wonder: Why do we devote two days of the year to talking about a half-horse, half-bovine creature?

    You know… the equine ox.

    (As George Carlin quipped, “These are the thoughts that kept me out of the really good schools.”)

  • Here’s a “WWW” I can get behind.

    Prepare to lose hours of your life, at least if you’re anything like me: Visit World Wide Words.

    Maybe not as bad as TV Tropes, but…

  • “Your Service” Sold Separately

    I’m not all that fond of the overly-clever, obnoxious malware. However, I’ve found that the malware field contains idiots along with the innovators… hence this bit of nonsense I found on a client’s machine along with Seekeen and some other ancillary infections (click the thumbnail to see the whole thing):

    Is that the best they could come up with? Or is that the “default” setting from the Malware Builder Toolkit? Either way… idiocy.

  • Look! Up In The Sky!

    So, on the heels of my somewhat-down little posting yesterday, I offer what I consider to be one of the most beautiful skies I’ve seen in a long time:

    Most folks, I suppose, prefer a pristine blue, or maybe mostly-blue with an occasional white puffy cloud. Me? I want a lot of different shapes and shades of clouds as far as the eye can see. No, I’m no more fond of the solid mass of flat gray than most people, but this? This is lovely. Truly.

    Cheered me up, this morning, it did.

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