Important advances
The latest in the field of fart sciences! [1] Going to add that I speak fluent herring to my cv stat. [1]http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/seriouslyscience/2014/05/19/pop-quiz-animal-might-communicate-farting/
A two-fer
A banner day for overhearing in the cube farm: [That guy] must get offended at the very idea of a functioning system In re the Winter Classic Next year they need to go the next step and play that on an actual pond I think watching two NHL teams battle it out that way would…
Canadian Legal
Not all legal opinions are dry and boring. For example this opinion [1] issued in re a neighborhood civil case gone wild. Sure, it’s still pretty dry, but for a legal document this is frickin’ nuts. [1] http://www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/doc/2014/2014onsc3061/2014onsc3061.html
Better than this
The Five Stages of Inebriation [1] as photographed by Charles Percy Pickering. I’m better than that. Except, maybe, on St. Patrick’s Day. [1] http://www.retronaut.com/2014/03/the-five-stages-of-inebriation-by-charles-percy-pickering/
Skeeters
Random cool thing found on the Internet: Emerging Mosquito Photography [1] [1] http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/compound-eye/2014/05/19/recipe-for-a-photograph-4-the-emerging-mosquito/
Funner than it looks
A thing I’m working on is supposed to interact with a Scheduled Task [1] if it exists. Instead of writing out my own parser for this backwater of the Windows operating system I found something lying about at CodePlex [2]. As far as documentation goes, this one is pretty decent [3]…for a CodePlex project. Then…
Therapeutic
My first stint of four weeks between INR readings turned out to be flawless. Despite my inconsistent diet and periodic consumption of alcohol my levels have stayed within the therapeutic range ever since the Great Blood Clot and Pulmonary Embolism Fest of 2014. Best news: I get another four week reprieve before visiting the bloodsuckers…
Inches and miles
They‘re forcing you to virtualize your production SVN server. Your physical server has eight physical cores that can act as sixteen thanks to hyper-threading. The virtual machine they give you has two cores. You ask for sixteen. They hold at two. You make the switch-over and go live and the new virtual machine tanks. You…
Witty
Best quote so far of the 2014 Giant Repository Tools Relocation Effort: Powershell is very powerful, but incredibly broken as a language.
Missed connections
I really like this. If Craigslist could make this an actual sub-site I would be an avid contributor. Missed Connections for A-holes [1]. [1] http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2014/05/missed-connections-for-a-holes.html