Leap day

Today is my ninth leap day (1972 was a leap year, but I was born after February 29 so I don’t count that one. Leap day always makes me think of the history of leap day, which in turn gets me thinking about the intricacies of calendars and of keeping time in general. Man, the [...]

Busy!

The last two days at work have been really busy. In fact, I took work home with me this evening again, and just finished up (having spent 2 hours straight trying to get SQL server to talk to Oracle via linked servers. Stupid TNSNAMES!) I was at Kelly’s last night. We had planned on making [...]

Speak English, willya! (Ugh!)

I was annoyed the other night while waiting at my local sandwich shop for the club sandwich I’d ordered. There were some regulars there and a couple of people came in and ordered in Spanish. The cook at the sandwich shop spoke Spanish and so he translated for the cashier. Meanwhile, the “regulars” sitting at [...]

Car is fixed!

$712 $718 later, my car is fixed. About $200 of that was routine maintenance; I asked that it be done at the same time because (a) it’s about due and (b) it saves me a future trip. My “Service Engine Soon” light came on for 3 reasons. It detected problems with the spark plug and [...]

Happy Birthday, mabfan!

A big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to mabfan today. Hope you have a super birthday.

Service Engine Soon

When I started my car at the metro station this evening, the Service Engine Soon light came on. This is the second time I can recall seeing this light in the 12 years that I’ve had the car. There is no noticeable problem–no strange noise or behavior. It’s even possible that there is a malfunction [...]

Website and reading list updates!

I’ve spend the last couple of nights revamping my website and my reading list pages. They are finally at a point where I have once again made them public. So what has changed? Website Transformed to simple HTML Reorganized content Brought content up-to-date Reading List Complete rewrite using PHP and MySQL Simple HTML Dynamic queries [...]

Paper thin

I’m not complaining about the thinness of the walls in my office at work. At least I have an office (and a nice one at that). But sometimes, it borders on silly. Thus, the following from 2 minutes ago: Me (typing away on my computer): , , . Phone rings. Me: This is Jamie. Todd [...]

Happy birthday, Dan!

A big happy birthday goes out to Dan today! One of my few friends who is actually older than me (though only by about a month). Happy birthday, buddy. I hope you can manage to get in some good surfing today!

Rumors of my near photographic memory are, in fact, true

Yesterday, we spent the afternoon with AJ and Denisse. We went into Georgetown for a late lunch at an Indian food place. In fact, we got in just before they closed the kitchen, but the food was outstanding. We lingered over the meal for a while and the folks in the restaurant were patient, but [...]

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Does anyone know this story?

This has been driving me crazy. Ten or twelve years ago, I posted to rec.art.sf.written asking about this story and someone identified it. I can’t for the life of me remember the name or author, now that a decade has passed. I think it might have been a Poul Anderson story. I looked back through [...]

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