It may be a silly tradition, but it’s mine, darn it! Every year, I tape the holiday cards that I get to the fireplace and then take a photo. I was bad this year – money was kind of tight, so I skipped sending cards out this time. Hopefully, next year things will . . . → Read More: The annual holiday cards on the fireplace photo
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Who says that I am not an irrepressible madcap? The next big geek project that I wanted to get done over vacation was a secure contest tracking web site for Erie Gay News. We have been averaging about a contest or 2 every week, and I wanted to have a way for the contest . . . → Read More: Next geek project done: Contesting tracking 10 years go:: I ended up spending a quiet night at home for New Year’s Eve. It might very well be close to the same this year, although I might also go out. Actually, 10 years ago wasn’t so bad in comparison to the 2 succeeding New Years. 9 years ago, on New Year’s . . . → Read More: 10 years ago I had resolved that I would try to get a few things done whilst I am off on vacation. Yesterday, I did a fair amount of cleaning (the refrigerator – which badly needed it), and I even vacuumed the corners of the rooms, which I couldn’t help but think of as “domestic detailing”, like . . . → Read More: Assorted task completion stuff Earlier this evening, I was in the chat room at gay.com after I had finished the rest of keying the 2009 GLBT history events and posting them as articles. A guy IM’ed me and asked if I was interested in getting together. I didn’t feel particularly interested, and I said that I was catching . . . → Read More: Some people seem to not be very well tuned in Although I don’t observe Christmas a a religious holiday, I very much enjoy spending it with family. I spent a fair amount of the day before heading over to Mom’s keying 2009 entries into the Erie Gay News section for local history. Yeah, I am kind of wild and crazy guy, I guess. . . . → Read More: A very nice holiday with the family As of Thursday afternoon, I am off through the end of the year. Folding for Erie Gay News went rather well on Wednesday, and I figured that I would drop off the Jamestown copies, since I had time and I might save a bit on postage. So, GPS in hand (or rather, on the . . . → Read More: A trip to Jamestown We have an intern now who is working on some projects The main programmer dealing with her made some kind of reference to Y2K, and the interned looked at him blankly. When he asked what she had studied in school, she said something like “well, not history.” (Possibly, she was just trying to get . . . → Read More: Y2K is apparently ancient I usually try to be reciprocal about holiday greetings. If someone wishes me a Merry Christmas, I usually respond by wishing them either Happy Holidays or a Happy Solstice/Yule. I am certainly not offended at all when someone greets me with symbolism or names particular to their religion, as I just try to take . . . → Read More: A holiday conundrum Jim, one of the other programmers just asked me a “point of geek”: when James Kirk beat the Kobiyashi Maru test, did he beat the test or cheat? I opined that since the test was designed to measure how someone reacted to an insoluble problem and since Kirk won by changing the rules, it . . . → Read More: Quite possibly the nerdiest office debate ever |
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