Today I:
Got up with the kids (why can’t four year olds sleep in on Saturdays?).
Watched some tv (see the above).
Went back to bed for an hour (hooray for French class)
Bumbered around, not really connecting my brain to anything.
Bought some new jeans at The Gap.
Watched the IMAX Galapagos DVD with Ripley
Played a whole bunch of Mario Kart on the Nintendo DS(es) with Ripley (and then with Arwen).
Saw Shitoshi for a few minutes while we walked through Supervalu (sic).
Ate some killer natchos.
Put Tate to bed.
Uploaded Tate scooting around to YouTube.
Surfed around on the following things (a tiny sampling):
My friends on LiveJournal
My friends on Vox
Circuit Bending
Breakdancing
Furby modification
Turntable modification with optical mice
The domain that bears my full name, which has this to say about me:
ACCUMULATES cases without pressure build-up (someone tell my work-self)
ELIMINATES “jack-knifing” without dependence on start-stop controls (is it something to do with getting outta bed?)
TURNS CORNERS, rises, descends-with only one motor and drive! (imagine if I had TWO?)
NO GRAVITY HANG-UPS on corners … cases are powered over every foot of travel (Positive Action!)
FOLLOWS virtually any layout – around columns, over aisles, up and down; floor level or overhead – with
off-the-shelf components (I like the mental image I get on “or overhead”)
EASY MAINTENANCE -continuously, automatically lubricated; no belts to stretch or replace; no rollers to maintain; easily adjustable to new cases (Not true – I do have a belt).
CONTROLS pressure of cases infeeding to palletizer or shrink wrap machine (Kinky!)
COSTS LESS due to design simplicity. Saves installation time – modules bolt together (that’s me – design simplicity)
Things I didn’t do (but keep wanting to have already done):
Make some music.
Write something (Arwen’s doing a NaNoWriMo, but I’m more likely to complete a paragraph in a week, at the rate I’m going).
Reorganize all of my music on my server after really hooping myself with this program that moved everything into folders by GENRE (what the hell was *I* thinking?)
Brainfart Section:
The Retroencabulator site is a fun little read. I dropped off the document on a co-worker’s desk, with a post-it note attached that said simply “We have to install one of these by end of Quarter, please discuss with me.” (See also: The Video).
Been singing/humming a lot of music back and forth with my co-worker, Dr. Device. Between random technical questions (mostly me asking), he and I quote things back and forth. We quickly moved beyond the handshake Monty Python stuff into the slightly more obscure Little Britain, and now we’re mostly into seeing who can stump the other with the shortest impression or snippet of theme song. This one came up the other day, and I think we’re almost the only two in the department who’re the right age/mindset to enjoy it. Something about the vibe of Barney Miller seems to suit our brains when we’re working in Nerf-chucking proximity.
