Our first Winter storm of the season will be hitting us sometime tomorrow afternoon. NOAA has issued a hazardous weather outlook, a winter storm warning, and a winter storm watch for our area. I guess I’d better panic, run to the store, buy $500 worth of milk and bread, board up the windows, and create […]

One of the steam return pipes on our oil burner rusted through and blew up tonight. Feh. We have heat, but at low pressure. Hopefully the repair guys will show up early tomorrow and apply some pipe wrap to limp us through until we do a full system replacement. I’m assuming we’re looking at upwards […]

Disclaimer for the easily-offended OS zealots: Let me start out by saying that this is not a dig against Windows or Windows users. I’ve got Windows XP and Windows 2000 on my desk, in addition to Mac OS X, OpenBSD, and Linux. I’m simply pointing out an observation that I made with Apple’s latest ad […]

“After the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln and Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of the major women’s magazine in the 19th century, were desperately seeking a holiday that would bring the nation together. Thanksgiving had been a local holiday in some places in New England,” explained Dr. Abrahams. “Lincoln declared it a national holiday two centuries after […]

Grass Cowboy has released Treason. Click. Buy. Listen. August, 1996…four engineers and a doctor of Pharmacology from Dublin are trapped in a basement studio in Watertown, MA with nothing but beer, smokes, and a thirst to rock. Weeks later, out crawled Grass Cowboy, lean and mean, and ready to inflict songs of hope and desperation […]

I’m selling a few copies of Subaru WRC 2001 Review – The Road to Victory. You know you want it! Bid now! Bid often! Heck, just bid once. I’m cleaning out the office and don’t want my extra copies to go back into storage…I’ll basically let go of them for the cost of mailing. You […]

And I’ve been outed! There’s a reason I don’t own a Playstation 2 or a Windows PC capable of actually playing the latest breed of 3D multiplayer games. I’d get absolutely lost in them. I’d get addicted to them. I wouldn’t leave the house. Or bathe. Or go to work. I’m at a LAN party […]

We’re half an hour late for our Friday 4:00 PM all-hands meeting. Why? No beer. Out of Guinness. One of our guys needed to do a beer run before we could kick off the meeting. I love my job.