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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
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7:27 am
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I'm ashamed to admit that I've finally succumbed to the dual monitor work station here at work. After mocking it for years, laughing at numbnuts who've used it, I finally broke down and had a second one installed. Why? I've been developing this large scale project, and it occured to me when I'm debugging code, it may actually go faster if I had two monitors side by each to compare.
Note: this is not an appology to all the numbnuts out there who have a web browser open in one, and their email open in another.
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| Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
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9:13 am
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A conversation with big O last night:
BO: Wait, why do geniuses take drugs again?
BB: Well, not all geniuses, but it seems like a lot of artistic geniuses do.
BO: Why?!
BB: Artists, especially great ones tend to see the world the way the want it to be, not necessarily the way it is... Taking drugs can make it possible to be happy if the world doen't necessarily live up to your expectations. The downside, of course is that over time, drugs can make you completely bat-poopy crazy.
BO: But is it the drugs that make them crazy, or the way they have gone crazy anyway?
BB: Drugs, boy, it's definately the drugs.
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| Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
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12:57 pm
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So this roman polanski thing...
Is he being persecuted for being famous, or is he getting a pass for being famous?
What, exactly is the point of a statute of limitations? What is the point of justice in the context of criminal detention?
Personally, I think the dude is a pig. But it isn't like he skulked off to vietnam to kill himself with the buying 13 year old sexslaves... By all accounts, it began and ended with that one 13 year old. What purpose would be served by throwing him in jail for the rest of his life? He's clearly been rehabilitated... he's clearly no longer a threat to CA... what's the problem? I'd like to see the stats on how many other seriously twisted asshats who've walked on statutory rape charges don't have this much effort made to bring them in...
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| Friday, September 18th, 2009
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8:07 am - I hate people when they're not polite...
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| Thursday, September 10th, 2009
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1:55 pm
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| Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
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8:37 am
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8:09 am
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| Friday, August 21st, 2009
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11:06 am
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things done in august:
week 1) watched the boys while H was doing her mission trip in TN. This was non-trival as O was taking that math geek summer camp at hopkins... worked from home that week.
week 2) H was home for one day, then we drove to OH for her father's birthday... Not too shabby, but I was left sleeping on a sofa... no real intense family drama.
week 3) Took the boys to AZ, left H at home (she had to work)... Wasn't actually a week, closer to four days (Sunday-Thursday). Sort of a miserable trip. My family (in AZ) are pathologically anti-kids, so it was nerve wracking to keep them from trashing really expensive art, or not destroying the interior of really expensive cars...
Back now and looking forward to a little more normalcy. O starts school Monday, U starts Kindergarten (with regularity) next week.
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| Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
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8:42 pm
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For the third time in my life I'm making a serious attempt of getting off the bean (i.e. caffeine). I managed it once in graduate school at MN, then again in graduate school at OSU. I went back the first time (at OSU), because the grind is just too great, you really need to stay awake. I went back the second time because H was in labor for 22 hours, and I needed to stay awake.
My motivation both previous times (as well as this time) was to just detox... While I don't consume MASSIVE quantities of caffeine, it's enough that I notice myself becoming absurdly distracted... not able to focus, even prone to anxiety attacks. In both previous cessations I became extraordinarily calm, much more able to focus after I punched through the withdraw... The headaches are the worst, they're blinding... and the constant need for napping really takes a toll, but after a time, you start getting into a rhythm of more sleep, less stress... Right now, all I've got are blinding headaches.
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| Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
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5:43 pm - Last night...
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while helping O work on his CTY homework, he got the following sequence and was asked to do the next three:
1,3,8,18,32,...
I tried for a few minutes, thinking, pounding my head trying to formulate some strategy to do it, as O rarely takes notes, and there was no supporting instruction... Just before I gave up, O looked over my shoulder thought for a minute or so, had his 'ah-ha' moment and wrote them down. After he explained it to me, I'm pretty sure I never, ever would have gotten it.
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| Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
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3:59 pm
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ASUS EEE PC, or netbooks in general... I'm thinking of getting one for O to take some on-line classes with. Comments? Suggestions?
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| Monday, July 20th, 2009
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11:48 am - 7/20/69...
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I have only a vague memory of the moon landing. I was only three at the time (due to turn 4 on 8/8/69). My family, fearing the adoption would not actually happen had taken a suddent trip to disney world. We'd flown to florida, then rented a car and drove to a holiday in near Disney... it was really late at night, when my family made a big stink to watch the pictures on the TV the management had dragged into the lobby. I had no idea what the hell was going on, and just wanted to go to bed.
I do remember watching other moon/space flights... I remember my grandmother being glued to the TV while she was staying over to babysit while the apollo 13 business happened.
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| Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
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5:40 pm
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Jacks Told Interrogators She Expected Girls' Resurrection
I'm no shrink, but I think it's pretty clear the woman was completely bat-shit crazy... I don't even know why they're going through this nonsense. I remember going on a field trip with O around the time that it happened, and mentioned to a couple of mothers that if there was ever a case of inocent by reason of insanity, this was it... they looked at me like I'd torn off my son's arm and offered it as an snack.
WTF is wrong with people?
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| Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
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5:56 pm
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I've felt like crap all day. I think I'm getting H, U's flu bug.
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| Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
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3:50 pm
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Oh my God... it's anotherone... it's breaking the 'come in threes rule... aaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiigggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
Surely it's got something to do with those Godless socialists running the !@#$ing whitehouse.
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| Monday, June 29th, 2009
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10:12 am
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It's sort of amazing, the trasition of my friends list. back in the day, there'd be 20-30 posts from you people a day... now a good day has maybe four. Now granted I haven't been active, and I haven't been replacing people who fade out (as I myself am fading out due to time constraints of fatherhood), but I'm just curious how many of you are gone, or just started using FB because you cold easier keep in touch with people you actually know (as I have to some extent)?
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| Friday, June 26th, 2009
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7:38 pm
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For the record, I do not think the lovely and talented marieroumania is a moron, or in any way inept, stupid or incompetent... Quite the contrary, actually, please make a note of it.
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3:59 am
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Inspired by the lovely and talented marieroumania's theories on Iran, I'm convinced that MJ was at the nexus of a plot by the GOP to take the heat off for Sanford's dalliances. I mean the dude was only fifty, and skinny and he dies of a HEART ATTACK?! I mean how fishy is that? As for his motive, the dude always wanted to be white, I'm guessing the GOP offered him a piece of legislation when they return to power to 'make' him finally be a honky... If it wasn't that, then he was in league with Obama (you know how all those people of color stick together), to distract the media while he cracks some skulls on the energy bill, or health care...
Whichever it is, it can't be the simplest explanation that the dude just dropped dead, there's GOT to be a reason.
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| Friday, June 5th, 2009
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11:20 am
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I don't want to sound like an ungrateful ass, give how close we've been to having an actual drought the last few years, but I've had it up to here with the !@#$ing rain...
I mean it's the perfect kind: 1" over three days, long soakers, with an occasional spot of sun or torrential downpour... But honestly enough is enough.
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