Ugh
Historic day. My first afternoon off sick.
Alison Hawke
Kiss of death
I have deleted all the files from the SourceForge page for Chronicle. I am going to finish the project, but there won't be any releases until it's actually functional. SourceForge is littered with good project ideas that never get past the planning stage, it is a
BOFH Excuses
The BOFH is one of my favourite geek creations. He is the B*****d Operator From Hell who rules the network with an iron hand, several hundred volts of electricity, and the Halon fire prevention system.
I downloaded a whole pile of BOFH excuses for why the computer/network/system/
Driving stress
Emily E sent this to me a while back (it seems a homegroup at my church is not complete without at least one Emily. I did go to a group with two in, happily they both left to start another group, and Emily E started coming.)
A Visitor's
Psalms
From RBC's Bible in a year plan for today, Psalms 28-30 (also in Our Daily Bread), Psalm 30 stood out:
Psalm 30I will exalt you, O LORD, for you lifted me out of the depths
and did not let my enemies gloat over me.
O LORD my God,
Ephesians and cartoons
Looking through RBC's Our
Daily Bread
, this caught my eye:
Ephesians 4:29-32Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is
helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. And do not grieve the
Myths and Legends
Picked up Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by Helene Guerber yesterday, great reading so far. More about it later.
Observation
It's easier to put a cover on a futon than a duvet (quilt).
Loose paper breeds rapidly.
Objects can move from box to box by quantum tunnelling, disappearing from the box you left them in, and appearing in the box you just searched.
If one person brings bagels
Snippets
I left my first ever Tour of
Creve Coeur multi-cache on April 27th. Coco was picked up yesterday and is
heading for Chicago. Hopefully from there he could leave the country and fulfill his mission of visiting New Zealand and the UK.
The cat-on-a-leash experiment has concluded successfully, with one
Word play
Eternal thanks to Fred of Fragments from Floyd for the link to Wordspy:
Welcome to the home of the Word Spy! This Web site and its associated mailing list are devoted to recently coined words and phrases, old words that are being used in new ways, and existing words that