For the Monday programmers meeting, the usual facilitator usually randomly picks a word and then has a definition. This week’s word was “nugatory”, which means “Of little or no consequence, having no force” He then went on to mention that he had recently heard that word used on TV, which made him feel rather . . . → Read More: A nugatory use of the word “nugatory”
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Yesterday, I was trying to play around with the function in the beta of Trillian to shorten URLs when I post an article to the Erie Gay News site. Whenever I post an article, I try to come up with a for the Erie Gay News account on Twitter so that folks know that . . . → Read More: Found routine to create short URLs I had been planning to upgrade my PC to Windows 7 this weekend, since it was far enough away from newsletter layout time. I spent a good portion of Friday trying a few things, but it seemed to get to a certain point and then it locked up. My mom called to let me . . . → Read More: PC rebuilt. Again. Also some social stuff I had an absolutely wonderful time at my mom’s for Thanksgiving. I picked up my brother’s friend Karen, and brought my 2 dogs along. Mom had also invited her neighbor Laura. My brother Steve had to work, so he arrived later. My stepfather Carl was also there. I spent a fair amount of time . . . → Read More: Thanksgiving at Mom’s Wow! What happy news! My cousin Tom is getting married this afternoon to his partner, Robert. They became the proud papas of an adorable son, Mickey, a few years ago, when they were living in New York City. (Mickey had come from a not so great situation, so his life will be much better . . . → Read More: Break out the confetti! My cousin Tom is getting married! My friend Erin mentioned that she wouldn’t be able to make it to folding tonight, since it was the only night that she could get for a hair appointment. I figured that she wanted to be looking spruced up for the holidays, so very much understandable. However, it wasn’t about looking smart or stylish, . . . → Read More: I am proud of my friend Erin Sigh. Now I am slightly confused. When I was at the print shop picking up the newsletter, the person I usually deal with when picking it up ran the pricing through the cash register as if he was ringing it up, and we checked what the cost would be if we were 3, 4 . . . → Read More: Back to being semi-tense Okay, I am not freaking out quite as much as I had been. When I stopped at the print shop to pick up this month’s issue of Erie Gay News, it turns out that the printing cost is not going up nearly as much as I thought. Actually, if we go to doing a . . . → Read More: Calming down a bit I just had a call from our printer. After the issue of Erie Gay News that I am picking up tonight, our printing costs will go up rather dramatically. This has me feeling pretty scared. We need to find some volunteers and help. Doing the newsletter has been a passion for Deb and myself . . . → Read More: Erie Gay News needs help! We had our weekly programmers’ meeting today. Apparently, one of our staff was researching something from a company named Leatherstocking. I sort of smirked, and asked if it was stocking as in a leg covering (and muttering to myself “DON’T think about chaps”) or stalking as in hiding behind a tree. We all thought . . . → Read More: Tangential kink references with the geeks |
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