I found this quote on the web and nearly fell out of my chair laughing.

Unfortunately, it’s a little wordy to go on a t-shirt, but it’s still very funny.

Here’s an odd bit in last night’s State of the Union speech.

I was fascinated that this topic got an entire paragraph. It just seems strange to me. I’m not for steroids in sports, but it seems an odd thing to draw attention to in a nationally televised speech. Personally, I would have added talk show hosts to my list of people who shouldn’t be using drugs as well.

I am in my 4th hour of conference call now. It happens about once every month or so. It drives me ape. I work on teams that are fairly geographically distributed so sometimes it’s the only way to move forward, but man does it drive me crazy at times. Today was horrible in that the call was punctuated with eardrum shredding static a couple of times.

I thought I would share a few of my favorite UNIX aliases.

cd cd !*; pwd
cl  clear
ll  /bin/ls -al | sort -k 5,5 -nr | more
tenlet  telnet

I was contacted today by David Griffith a fellow alumni from my high school, Hamilton High School in Milwaukee. They are considering having a 15 year reunion. That’s good news as there was no ten year reunion. I am not sure whether there was a five year reunion or not.

I sure think it would be interesting to see the classmates now. Of course, now I suppose there will probably be children to consider as I expect some of the classmates have reproduced by this point, if the Class of 1988 can be used as a guide.

One utility I don’t use nearly often enough. Screen, it’s a funny little tool for detaching and re-attaching terminals in Linux. It’s very cool. I can start a process at work, VPN back in an re-attach, picking up right where I left off.

I was reading a novel by Ellen Ullman called “The Bug” and I came across
a quote that made me think of you.

If you see me hands bent over the keyboard, clacking away, with the
door closed, likely I am bugging. However, I’ll keep the term “bugger”
off of my business cards and resume for the time being.

At a certain point in the winter I start to forget what it was like to be warm outside. I decided I would post a few photos from the early fall, when it was still warm. Check it out.

Here is my trail log from my Yosemite trip. I still haven’t really cleaned this account up yet, so beware of faulty spelling and loose grammar.

Yosemite 2003

Wednesday:

I flew out of Minneapolis around 5:30, got to San Jose around 7:40. It
was not a memorable flight. The food was incredibly skimpy with a postage stamp
sized “submarine” sandwich. Then the lady sitting by the window had to pee
twice. Each time she did, all three passengers in that row, including me, would
get up and and go to the restroom in synchronized fashion. At the curbside
check in the man who weighed my luggage noted that it weighed 48 pounds, which
is far more than normal. I had packed one bag with my backpack and my
camping paraphernalia while the other held normal stuff.

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Ever have a day where there is no motivation to do anything? I am having a string of these days. Once I get started I am fine, but starting is the problem. Uggh. I am off to have sushi for lunch. Nothing picks me up like a little raw fish.