a113n’s daily dose

So tonight I got some pizza from Mother Bear’s, bought pen styli to replace the one Mama Bear lost, and got a movie to watch, King of Kong. When I went to to pick up the movie, there were a couple of store clerks (and one of their friends) standing around discussing the movie and its taglines. Evidently we’re in for a good treat. Speaking of treats, I picked up some Starburst and Laffy Taffy. I LOVE Laffy Taffy. In the recent copy of MakeZine, I learned how to build a crude yet effective taffy pulling machine. This one I really want to follow through with, because it’s easy to build and a great way to make homemade taffy. The hard part is just picking my first recipe.

It’s funny how the really simple things make a difference between a boring night and a really fun night. Mama Bear & I don’t have to go out and spend lots of money to have a good time, we enjoy a cup of tea and a game of Tiger Woods at home. I think that’s one of the reasons I love being around her so much, I can really be the closest to the “real” me as it’s going to get. Speaking of which, great xkcd comic that is hilarious and so very true. That site is possibly the best comic on the net, nuff said.

This night is just what I need after a day like today. I spent 3 hours in a courtroom for my 30 seconds in front of the judge where I was told to return two months later. I get back to the office to deal with a crashing email issue on our server and then try to get various other websites and email clients migrated. It just seemed like one slap after another today where I try to get something productive done only to be held back by a single minute detail, derailing my whole plan. I do so much impromptu work, it just isn’t funny, but as a plus I really pushed myself to get on with the PowerShell stuff. I am currently uploading our copy of VS to the server for installation, then I can do some new, exciting code-work. Interesting enough, these VS templates I found for PowerShell require the Vista SDK, which is a multi-gigabyte download. If this SDK is needed on Vista/Server 2008, skip the DVD download and use the web-based install because its less of a network-hog & using that link you can bypass MS genuine crap. I have valid copies of my OSs, but the genuine validation process for Firefox users (of which you should be one) is far too complicated even with my tricks to shorten the process.

So come to me sweet relaxation, for this weekend is DTS catchup time (with some makeout time for Mama Bear and play time for Baby Bear thrown in).

• Current Location: Living Room
  
• Website: http://www.xkcd.com
  
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Nothing better than
perusing Slashdot with a Killian’s in hand–that’s real relaxin’. And a good source for blog material. For instance,
check out this story about a software developer who went href="http://mosnews.com/news/2006/03/23/beatpirate.shtml">head-to-head against a software pirate, with the developer
coming out on top, thought not with a TKO. Now that’s the way we these kinds of legal disputes would have been settled a
century ago, but nowadays everything is wrapped up in legal mumbo jumbo, with the lawyers coming out on top. This of course
leads right into a slew of lawyer jokes, such
as

“What’s the difference between a hooker and a lawyer?
A hooker will stop screwing you after you are
dead.”

or the classic

“What do you call 5000 dead lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A
good start!”

I think I need to add to my custom fields plugin, creating a new section for /. articles–one a
day or something like that. Though, I must admit, sometimes /. doesn’t offer anything appealing to my news taste, but then
I don’t really make posts every day either.

• Current Location: Couch
  

href="http://www.pagetutor.com/idiot/idiot.html">http://www.pagetutor.com/idiot/idiot.html is an interesting page that I
have to wonder how many people spend a lot of time on, and how many just give up saying it’s impossible. People,
particularly laymen computer users, are instinctively focused on the mouse and never give thought one to how the keyboard
can save a lot of time and frustration.

• Quote of the Day:
  
  
  color="blue">Jason (9:13:29 AM): [NAME DELETED TO PROTECT THE CLUELESS] was complaining this morning that his
  
  username and password on his e-mail didn't automatically come up
  
  Jason (9:13:51 AM): he also
  
  thought that he should be able to decide the password each time he logs on
  
  Me (9:14:15 AM):
  
  what?
  
  Me (9:14:18 AM): that makes no sense
  
  Jason (9:14:23 AM): I
  
  know!
  
  Jason (9:14:43 AM): he's having a senior moment
  
  

I received an email for an
unsolicited interview. So I reply to the email, requesting more info.

smtp1.ExpressPersonnel.com[63.170.35.62] said: 550 Denied by policy. (in
reply to end of DATA
command)

• Quote of the Day:
  Barb: "With
  that attitude, you'll be bending over by the end of the day"
  Jason: "I think I was just sexually harassed in the
  workplace"
  
• Current Location: neoteric
  
• Website: http://www.playingwithtime.org/cgi-bin/browser/gallerybrowser.pl?page=1&sort=clipTimeCode&searchCriteria=
  
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  effect of various events.