In which our hero stayed home to be with his sick 3yo son, who (sorta/kinda) watched the Teen-Age Mutant Ninja Turtles, Baby Einstein, They Might Be Giants, and The Little Mermaid Prequel thing. Considering how I remember movies when I was a kid, I’ll be surprised if he doesn’t grow up thinking Singing Sea Turtle SockPuppets once taught him to read.
Was at home during a slightly scary mail server thing at work, am totally proud of my co-worker for not freaking out at all during the whole process. It’s an American long weekend, so the product that caused the explosion in our mail queues was not supported today. Whoopsie. Oh, and our boss (both technically and literally speaking) was out of town, so it was just the two of us, and I wasn’t even on-site. The two of us flipped things on and off, Googled around, and did stuff to whatever, and managed to get it going again. He was 99.999% there already, and there was one little glitch that Microsoft let us do, that didn’t work, because while we were allowed to do it, it didn’t work once we’d done it. Co-Worker totally held the fort though, and I’m proud of him. Woot!
You know how they say strangers are friends you just haven’t met yet? J. Smooth from Ill Doctrine is the guy you wanna get jacked up on coffee and then talk to about what went wrong with rap in the mid-90s. But until I meet him, you’ll just have to watch this for a few minutes about how winning an election is just the very first thing you do to make change happen.
As more and more people see my moustache (rather, as it bcomes obvious I didn’t just miss a spot shaving), I’m starting to get comparisons to famous people. So far I’ve got Burt Reynolds, Earl from “My Name Is…”, Chuck Norris, and Robert Dayton (and no, I dunno who that is).
(I really will get to the post about email administration some time, ’cause I think it needs to be written about).
I need to clean out the two cabinet things I have here that’re both full of computer and audio stuff. It’s getting outta control again. I don’t even know what’s IN there, much less WHERE it is. There’s cables, video cards, hard drives, a little LCD TV, a DVD/VCR player, headphones, webcams (I seem to collect them), a bunch of Dreamcasts, and then some assorted weirdness. Just stuff. Techie things. Enough bits and pieces to build a real Transformer (that a cat could drive, maybe).
Maybe I could turn it into an art piece, like this:
I suggest you press log in, hit play, and then RUN AWAY!
I mean, how much fun would that be? (If you’re me? A LOT).
Finally, just because people seem to be in a bit of a funk heading out of November, maybe you know about LOLCats, and maybe you also know about FailBlog, but have any of your run across the red-headed stepchild of the two? OmNomNomNom? Stupid? Very. Funny. Occasionally. When it’s funny, it’s funny. But it does make me look at architecture in a slightly bent way. For non-bent pure “oh wow” architecture, check out BLDGBLOG.
Tonight had a 30-Rock marathon on one channel, and The Office marathon on the other. Not the usual “omigod Thursdays RULE” lineup, but pretty darned good.
