Overheard
In the bathroom at work today: heavy snoring from one of the stalls. I LOL’ed
Addiction
The degree to which my morning commute is structured around the likelihood of scoring Spitz Cracked Pepper sunflower seeds is approaching silly. Even sillier? It’s been three days and I haven’t found any in the usual spots. I’ve been reduced to Giants’ inferior product.
A close approximation
The mighty M-981 available as a 1:35 plastic model: http://www.scalemates.com/products/product.php?id=107510. Notable features: Two realistic crew figures Plentiful accessories For the sake of realism I hope those plentiful accessories include cans of beer, pr0n magazines, tins of smoked oysters and other potted meats, and goth chicks to provide entertainments on the weekends. Additional models not shown:…
Burning question
Which is worse, a douchebag or douchenozzle? Questions that become important as the war room stretches into its ninth hour.
Metadata and social network analysis
Remember the furor a month or two ago when it came to the national attention that the United States government was conducting analysis of phone records? How the claim was that they weren’t using the contents of our phone conversations and SMS messaging, merely looking at the metadata these records could provide? One of the…
The new phonebooks are here!
To say I’ve enjoyed the Wool1 saga by Hugh Howey is an understatement. It’s probably the best long-arc dystopian fiction I’ve ever read. For a kid coming of age in Reagan’s America, I had nightmares of how living in fallout shelters might work. The numbers of generations needed to outlive the half life of nuclear…
And you think my statuses are impenatrable
Doing my weekly tour of WriteIIsConfig FAILED Google search results I came across something in the Microsoft KnowledgeBase with this heading: You receive error code 0x80071a90 during Standalone or Configuration Manager Integration setup of MBAM 2.0. <DanHudson>WWWHHHHAAAAAAT?!</DanHudson>
Catnap
Being held down by the man…kitty.
ESPN on Sunday
Is it the case that the Yankees and Red Sox play every Sunday night or does ESPN show reruns of past games when they don’t? Because these two teams are on every time I try to watch Sunday night baseball and frankly wouldn’t mind if the ball field opened up and swallowed both teams into…
Caught in the crossfire
In which Directioners take on my parents’ younger siblings’ generation’s band, The Who. Read more at: http://www.avclub.com/articles/one-direction-fans-bravely-vanquish-some-old-band,101691/