Hi. Been eleven months. Any of you still out there? I occasionally post on Twitter now, and maybe post a little more often on Facebook, but mostly I just. I just what? I work. I cycle. I sleep. I surf. I make stupid jokes at my lovely wife, the doula/writer/teacher/mom, and watch my kids get…
Category: randomness
No, not really.
Didn’t have time to pull the ripcord on the datamine I had been building for the team, Which will probably be a bit of a puzzler for some security folks at some point – leave them wondering why the safe they just spent a week trying to crack was empty (but angrily, huffily, locked.) I…
NaBloPoMovember: Day 13
Oh hi. Just got in the door from an afternoon at Arwen’s mom’s place, and we’re sitting here in utter silence. Â The kids are asleep, the cat is ignoring us, and the late night planes haven’t started coming in yet (their takeoffs and landings are actually pretty spectacular in the summer, when they really get…
NaBloPoMovember Day 2: Boudclusting.
November is a dark and dreary month here in Raincouver on Canada’s Wet Coast, and the first two days have certainly been, uh… wobbly. Â Yesterday was dim and dark, but today was only foggy (like, Londonesque) and then suddenly freakishly nice out. Â It’s waffling. Â Nice breezes. Â Good sweater weather. Â Not weather that’s good for sweaters,…
Chatting with a Virus Bot
Guy I used to work with suddenly started talking to me after about a year and a half of nothing. Looks like he got hit by what we at EA used to call an “MSN IQ Test.” Gotta give them credit for incorporating that INTO the bot itself. Remember kids, just ’cause someone you know…
Lens Flare: Movies Kicking You Out of the Movie
Was watching a commercial tonight for Disney, and it opens with two Dumbo cart things flying through the city. As they swing past us in that opening flight shot, there’s a lens flare, and… …and I start thinking about lens flare, and I was thinking that Ripley and Tate don’t know what lens flare is,…
Two(ish) things.
HelLO, and welcome to another episode of “I’ve Reflanged the Barkolounger” with your host, Rupture Q. Throngboggle PhD, PTSD, NPC. Tonight to change thing up not at all, I’m going to tell you about some surfing I did. One of those things I do all the time is try to figure out how to get…
My Brain Hurts
I got nothing for ya today folks, so I’ll just say a couple really quick things: My half brother in law is back in hospital – think happy thoughts. My dad’s in Mexico so I ended up doing a long distance support call Last month, I did the same thing (remote connect) for my mom,…
I dunno, where do YOU find them?
This evening I was bombing around Hintertubes looking for clues about a new album by Burial, and was reminded of how I found this weird little bubble of sound in the first place. Rather, I was reminded how I did NOT find this artist. I didn’t find them on the radio, or a magazine, or…
Bluesy Monday, That’s the One Day…
Oh man, I just sneezed, and now I instantly have a headache AND feel like I have a cold. Yaaaaay. Wow, today was a hardcore Vancouver rainy crapfest. Welcome to Winter. Last week was Fall, this week is Winter. The way Vancouver works though, next week will be Spring, after our obligatory three days of…