| Iron Man II Trailer |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|09:10 pm] |
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Available here in Quicktime
Available here in not (though I don't know for how long).
I can haz Mai naow? |
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| Bleary Wednesday Thoughts |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|11:52 am] |
I'm really dragging today. The game ran a little late (but was totally worth it, as much awesomeness happened) and I didn't get to sleep at a decent hour, so this morning started far too soon.
Today finds me putting various software installers on USB drives for merger weekend. I'm starting to worry about whether or not Microsoft is going to give us the License Key for our server software in time for me to get it all set up, but then I remind myself we've still got two weeks and change to go.
I really want to go to Smashburger for lunch, but it's inconveniently far from the funnybook store, and I'd rather get funnybooks. Or do I? Dilemma.
Tonight is C-Monster's school holiday program, which means leaving a little early to make sure he's fed and dressed in time.
Tomorrow, he turns ten. I'm trying to blot that fact out and failing miserably. |
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| An Afternoon Pondering |
[Dec. 15th, 2009|02:56 pm] |
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Am I the only one who mentally conflates "30 Rock" and "Third Rock From The Sun"? It's probably because I've never seen the former, while I watched the latter religiously. |
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| For The Record |
[Dec. 15th, 2009|09:34 am] |
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I cannot recommend Discount Tires highly enough. Top notch service, and their road hazard warranty is totally worth the extra twenty bucks or so per tire I spent when I last replaced them. I was in and out in half an hour at no cost. |
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| Yeah, I Really Spoke Too Soon |
[Dec. 14th, 2009|07:16 pm] |
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As I didn't eat lunch until after 2, I wasn't hungry when I left work and called Jane so she and C-Monster could make a decision about what they wanted for dinner. Pizza. OK, that's easy enough, just stop in at HEB and pick up a couple of the good frozen ones (they exist, really!). I get out to the car, start it up and...
Something's wrong. It feels wrong. I pull into a space and get out.
The right rear tire's gone flat. Fuck.
It's not quite raining out, but it's not quite not raining out if you get my meaning. Thankfully, it only took me about fifteen minutes to get the novelty tire on. But my left knee feels like ground chuck from being down on it in the wet. |
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| I Spoke Too Soon |
[Dec. 14th, 2009|03:23 pm] |
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About half an hour after my earlier post, everything went to hell. Our phone system could not call out or dial in. Some users were mysteriously without internet while others were fine. Ditto for accessing the patient management system, email, and other network assets.
I'll spare you the pains we went through trying to diagnose the problem. Suffice to say, they were many and it took us the better part of two hours to find the culprit. As it turned out, one of my (l)users attempted to plug an IP phone in a different location. In the process, she not only managed to unplug another user's computer and phone, she also managed to plug a subswitch into itself, which created the feedback loop that took the entire network down.
All of that because this person didn't want to bother IT Support over her moving to a new workstation. |
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| Monday Meh |
[Dec. 14th, 2009|10:42 am] |
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Today, I'm burning XP Install Disks. One after another. My target is fifteen, or one for every two new machines.
The weekend was extraordinarily dull. Jane re-re-re-injured her hip at dance class Saturday AM, and I was so tired and unmotivated that I pretty much spent the entire time either slouched in front of the computer doing nothing or watching TV. Somehow, we managed to get the tree up and decorated and the laundry done, so I guess that counts for something.
Reading-wise, I'm bouncing between three very different novels and not making a lot of progress on any of them. Writing-wise, I'm still mulling over November's efforts and trying to decide whether to go straight back and re-write it with an actual ending now, or play around with some other ideas that have bubbled up. |
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| Wherein I Praise My Jane To The Highest |
[Dec. 11th, 2009|07:18 pm] |
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Last week, I spotted something on eBay I wanted. Something I've wanted for a long freaking time. Something I've rarely seen offered online. In my size. I mentioned it to her in a "Heh heh, if you want to get me this for xmas, I'd be ever so grateful" way.
She was non-committal.
Tonight, she was in a bit of a stew over dinner and informed me she'd been bidding on it and the auction was closing in under an hour and there was a serious competitor.
She lost. But she cost the winner a pretty penny.
It would have been nice if she'd won it, but it really IS the thought that counts. |
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| And Speaking Of Batman |
[Dec. 10th, 2009|08:43 pm] |
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I found the 1949 "Batman and Robin" serials on DVD at Kroger for ten bucks. It's whacky! |
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| (A Bit of a Long Shot) Calling My Local Gamers |
[Dec. 10th, 2009|03:00 pm] |
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Anyone want to help me playtest a rules-light (but far from rules-less) set of Superhero rules this Saturday afternoon? One way or another, I'm going to test them out, but I wouldn't mind some more eyes and brains in on the process. |
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| Last Night Ended Poorly, This Morning Continues The Trend |
[Dec. 7th, 2009|09:13 am] |
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Ugh. Stayed up too late because I realized Cartoon Network was playing their Sunday night line-up about 8 minutes late due to cutesy "Buy Adult Swim" crap spots. Which meant if I was going to catch Venture Brothers in its entirety, I had to stay up and manually record the last few minutes.
At 6:30 or so, just after the alarm went off, the power went out. But, as it turned out, only in parts of the house, specifically the upstairs parts of the house. I assumed we'd blown a fuse and went trudging out into the swamp that is now our backyard in the dark only to find the breakers were fine. Nothing tripped. Shit.
Jane called her brother who knows electricity and household repairs and asked him to come look at it. In the meantime, discovered/remembered that when the upstairs is out, most of the downstairs wall outlets are out as well. Since I didn't know if this problem was on our end or what and how long it might take to fix, this realization meant wrestling the refrigerator out of its nook so I could plug it in to a working outlet.
As it turns out, the problem's not on our end. Apparently, houses have two 110v "legs" going into them, and the power on one of the two has dropped. When B-I-L called it in to Centerpoint (the electric folks) they said they already knew about the outage, so I guess it'll all be copacetic when we get home this evening.
The drive in was no picnic either. Anyone got a spare do-over they can loan me? |
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| Grumblecry |
[Dec. 5th, 2009|12:11 pm] |
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C-Monster is supposed to do the majority of his homework after school. They have a designated room set up with teachers to help the kids. This guarantees he doesn't bring his workbooks home and leave them here.
Last week, he did not do this. As a result, he is grounded from TV and video games this weekend and, unlike most Saturdays, I have to be the Homework Fascist this morning. This isn't so bad in and of itself except that I've also got a migraine going on. A migraine I'm pretty sure was triggered by him waking me up at FIVE FORTY FIVE in the goddamned morning because he was already downstairs playing and making noise.
This is the same child who has to be dragged kicking and screaming out of bed at seven on a school day. |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 4th, 2009|03:29 pm] |
Home now. Boy secured from school. Still snowing, though not as hard at the moment. But more may yet fall.
I'm considering a lengthy post analyzing the World Cup pairings for this summer, but I suspect it will be of limited interest to the readership. Until I decide what to do about that, I think I'll read some of my DVD funnybook collections. |
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| To Paraphrase Ray |
[Dec. 4th, 2009|11:47 am] |
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It's snowing and I want to go home.
This is not code language.
Nothing else I could say would make more sense given what it's doing outside and how I feel at this moment.
ETA: I've just gotten word we're closing at 2. I'm going to go get a sammich to tide me over. If I don't come back, dispatch the St. Bernards. |
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| Another Largely Self-Amusement Post |
[Dec. 2nd, 2009|09:53 am] |
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Context:
The most awesome thing about rugby.
(There are some cooler Haka videos out there, but this one explains it well.) |
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