Vacation - Day Two...

• May 15, 2007

Remember all that crap about “I will manage my vacation so that it won’t become Project Management?“ Remind me that if I have to walk into any other store again, it damned well better be on my terms and I’m only getting something I really, really want. Blech. Coffee’s on, I’m waiting for an hour or so to start up the lawn mower, and I get to my plan of Suburban Domestic Bliss or else, damn it! Read More

Vacation - Day One...

• May 14, 2007

So this is officially a vacation, eh? I’m a little underwhelmed. It turned out to be a regular day of chasing about, trying to cram a full 28 hours into the standard Earthling-sized day. Bah! Mere mortals! I dropped the kids off for Mother’s Day, the dog and I did a little cruise about the country side going hither and thither, and I still managed to get home in time to watch the Formula 1 race. Read More

Today's fortunes

• May 7, 2007

Dad: Your respect for others will be your ticket to success. Rebekk: You shall soon make a long, overdue personal decision. KA: A movie you watch will make you reach for the stars. Lady-Love: Your every day will be filled by love, adoration and a furry face looking to mooch popcorn. Read More

Ce soir...

• May 3, 2007

Mesdames et messieurs,  For dinner tonight, Chef Zaugg has prepared a sirloin tip sauteed gently in a poivre Cajun sauce avec onion et mushrooms tossed in a crisp et dry oak-aged Chardonnay. It shall be accentué together with riz brun et riz sauvage avec garlic roti and thinly sliced avocat.  After dining, you shall be graced with strawberries et pitaya (dragon fruit).  Please enjoy ce soir’s gastronomic experience. Read More

Just how cool is THIS?

• April 27, 2007

Stephen Hawking, a paragon of geeky coolness, and I hear he’s pretty smart to boot, just went for a ride on the Vomit Comet. Add a parabolic flight to my wish list. Go Zero G has Professor Hawking’s flight covered on the front page. Here’s a link to The Age’s coverage where I discovered it first thing this morning. I really admire Professor Hawking. He turned hard concepts simple and popularized common sense ideas for the long term existance of humanity at large. Read More

Enter our hero into the Reality Distortion Field...

• April 24, 2007

I’m sad to say, but I have begun that long, distressing entry into that state known as the Friendly Happy People. Living in the Reality Distortion Field. Where everything is fine and dandy, we do everything with a single button, and the pablum is force fed to us through a tube. In this case, I finally got around to getting an iPod. Do I want an iPod? I’m still not entirely sure. Read More

Two thought Johnny.

• April 20, 2007

Man, if there’s anything I hate… I hate SPAM. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. One of the things I do at work is to go through the damned spam filter and look for false positives. I detest the utter waste of resources, I cannot stand the constant push of filth I do not want to see, I hate to think of the shady products from shadier hawksters, and I absolutely loathe and detest the scum that prey on - well, let’s be blunt, shall we - the utter morons who waste their money supporting unscrupulous on-line behaviour. Read More

"You took the weekend off!"

• April 17, 2007

Uh-oh. I thought I already said this wasn’t supposed to be a Sunday Night Entry Only sort of thing. If I get up at 6:00 AM on a Tuesday to let the dog out and feel like writing a blog entry, well, so be it. That and my Sunday night was filled between bouncing between Formula 1, hockey playoffs, andHolmes on Homes. Saturday night I saw Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies. Read More

Grampa and me and TV makes three.

• April 9, 2007

There’s a couple of things I really enjoy about writing a blog. It’s not that I have a thousand people hanging on my every word. Hopefully the world has more sense than that by now. It’s not that I have great insight. I’m fumbling through life just like most people out there. I’m good at a few things, great at being a Dad and a smart ass come to mind (I think the two may be related) and I pretty much fake everything else as I go. Read More

Technolust

• April 4, 2007

I’m not quite sure how to set this up. I’m a system administrator / network administrator / database administrator. I fix problems with computers - usually on Microsoft’s Windows. Yeah, I’ve been around a lot of years. I started on the Commodore PET back in - oh my - 1978. ACK! That’s almost 30 years on computers. Mr. Reil took me to the high school where he taught and showed me these really cool things he set up, taught me pretty much all the programming I know today (grin) and started me off on this wild adventure of fun and frivolity I call a life of hell. Read More