Archive - Oct 2003
Have fun experimenting your carving skills with the Pumpkin Carving Simultar (2003)(new window - requires flash)
Taurus (April 20 - May 20)
It’s a relatively quiet day on the home front for you Bulls, but your attention may be drawn more toward work issues. You are needed by others, but it’s not like you’re going to solve any unsolvable situations. The best you can do now is to be yourself, whether it helps or not.
It’s a relatively quiet day on the home front for you Bulls, but your attention may be drawn more toward work issues.
Google cracked me up today. This is one of their better holiday graphics.
Have a scary Halloween everyone. I'm of to see the re-released Alien on the Big Screen this evening. I've never seen any of the Alien films on the big screen. Should be impressive.
I regret to say that I've never read any of his work. Perhaps this is a suitable time to remedy that failing.
Harry Stubbs, better known to science fiction readers as Hal Clement, passed away in his sleep last night.
Hal Clement (1922-2003)(new window)
Taurus (April 20 - May 20)
Your stamina is good now, like you are at the top of your game. And you probably are. But something may be happening now in your life that you don’t quite understand. Be careful as you move into gray areas. Try to stick with the concrete facts, for if you do, you can effectively steer clear of the negativity or confusion that uncertainty brings.
I had been hoping to go see Verdi's AIDA at the Adam Smith Theatre, back in my home town of Kirkcaldy. But it is on on Wednesday. I've got some one-to-one coaching arranged with the Director of The Lion In Winter for that night. Arghhh!
I'm subscribed to the Unix Guru Universe's Unix Hot Tips mailing list. The tips are often quite dated, and have been replaced with better methods, but the odd gem still turns up:
One of the best things an admin can do
is to have good public relations with
the user community.
Don't just be there when problems arise.
Go out to the user community when things are
working. High visibility is the key.
If the users see you around and there are no
problems they will believe that you care to
take the time for them.
Try not to let the users always go come to you.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
-- Carl Gustav Jung, 1875 - 1961
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield
A diplomatic husband said to his wife, "How do you expect me to remember your birthday when you never look any older?"
A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.
-- Don Quinn
I did a silly thing last night. I don't feel too well. 50g of garlic paste on a 9" pizza base. Waaayyy too much garlic.
Knock Knock... (who's there?) Ether! (ether who?) Ether Bunny... Yea!
Yeay!
Stay on the Happy side, always on the happy side,
Stay on the Happy side of life!
Bum bum bum bum bum bum
You will feel no pain, as we drive you insane,
So Stay on the Happy Side of life!
Knock Knock... (who's there?) Anna! (anna who?)
An another ether bunny...
Yeay!
