{"id":87614382,"date":"2008-11-27T22:56:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T06:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614382"},"modified":"2008-11-27T22:56:32","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T06:56:32","slug":"27-then-thursday-happened-pseudorandomly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614382","title":{"rendered":"27: Then Thursday Happened, Pseudorandomly."},"content":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0 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<\/strong> once taught him to read<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 It’s an American long weekend, so the product that caused the explosion in our mail queues was not supported today.\u00a0 Whoopsie.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 The two of us flipped things on and off, Googled around, and did stuff to whatever, and managed to get it going again.\u00a0 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<\/em> to do it, it didn’t work<\/em> once we’d done it.\u00a0 Co-Worker totally held the fort though, and I’m proud of him.\u00a0 Woot!<\/em><\/p>\n

You know how they say strangers are friends you just haven’t met yet?\u00a0 J. Smooth from Ill Doctrine<\/a> is the guy you wanna get jacked up on coffee and then talk to about what went wrong with rap in the mid-90s.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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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.\u00a0 So far I’ve got Burt Reynolds, Earl from “My Name Is…”, Chuck Norris, and Robert Dayton (and no, I dunno who that is).<\/p>\n

(I really will get to the post about email administration some time, ’cause I think it needs to be written about).<\/p>\n

I need to clean out the two cabinet things I have here that’re both full of computer and audio stuff.\u00a0 It’s getting outta control again.\u00a0 I don’t even know what’s IN there, much less WHERE it is.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Just stuff<\/em>.\u00a0 Techie things.\u00a0 Enough bits and pieces to build a real Transformer (that a cat could drive, maybe).<\/p>\n

Maybe I could turn it into an art piece, like this:<\/p>\n

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I suggest you press log in, hit play, and then RUN AWAY!<\/p><\/div>\n

I mean, how much fun would that<\/em> be?\u00a0 (If you’re me?\u00a0 A LOT<\/em><\/strong>).<\/p>\n

Finally, just because people seem to be in a bit of a funk heading out of November, maybe you know about LOLCats<\/a>, and maybe you also know about FailBlog, but have any of your run across the red-headed stepchild of the two?\u00a0 OmNomNomNom<\/a>?\u00a0 Stupid?\u00a0 Very.\u00a0 Funny.\u00a0 Occasionally<\/em>.\u00a0 When it’s funny, it’s funny.\u00a0 But it does make me look at architecture in a slightly bent way.\u00a0 For non-bent pure “oh wow” architecture, check out BLDGBLOG<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tonight had a 30-Rock marathon on one channel, and The Office marathon on the other.\u00a0 Not the usual “omigod Thursdays RULE<\/em><\/strong>” lineup, but pretty darned good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0 Considering how I remember movies when I was a kid, I’ll be surprised if he doesn’t grow up thinking Singing Sea Turtle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87614382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87614382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87614385,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614382\/revisions\/87614385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87614382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87614382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87614382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}