November 2009
8 posts
Joining Modern Society for a Brief Moment
I always said I’d hold on to my old CRT TV until it went because HDTV was a mess of ideas and differing cables and whatnot that I really didn’t want to get in the middle of while a transition was taking place. Whelp, the front panel board in the old TV started to give way some years ago with the remote sensor dying and recently Leah claims it was turning on and off randomly (though, I...
Nov 28th
It felt warm.
A: What's that smell?
L: Nothing.
A: What spilled?
L: Nothing?
A: What burned?
L: It's not burning anymore.
A: What was it?
L: It might have been a dishcloth...
A: What?!
L: It felt warm and then I was, "Oh, it's on fire." But it's not anymore.
Nov 25th
ListenIf it weren’t for captions, I would have...
Nov 23rd
“God, it’s so hard to find information on nuns in the 17th century in...”
– Leah
Nov 19th
I have the office all to myself today. Time to bring out the embarassing playlists and jam out. Looks like everyone will miss me singing along to Starship and acting like a fool. Well, “miss” might be a strong word.
Nov 17th
So, what's a good URL scheme look like?
I’m writing up a CMS for myself and I’ve been thinking about this for a while and can’t come to a good conclusion. I’d like the URLs to be functional, but also not include needless information. The old standard for a blog is /YYYY/MM/DD/TITLE. That has some nice qualities to it. It lets people know when something was posted as well as lets people chop off the end and...
Nov 8th
I looked at the analog clock on the wall in my office and realized that the time was oddly correct, given that DST just started. I then realized it had been an hour off most of the year. Which means, of course, I never updated it for leaving DST in the first place and now it’s come around to being correct again. Lazy wins.
Nov 4th
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Nov 4th