The system is *still* down. Tasha and I got our hair cut tonight since my sister was available, then we made our first attempt at cracking Famous Dave’s corn muffin recipe. They are very good, but we have two and a half dozen of them. They will be accompanying me to work tomorrow if I […]

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Wow. The Shark Storage just went down AGAIN. We’re going on 29 hours of outage here… I’m going to stay up a few hours more before I try to sleep a little, but damn… IBM had better get their shit together soon. UPDATE: OK, its getting close to 1 am. The current update says that […]

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When I was transitioning between Supernerd and regular old mild mannered Josh Dalcher tonight, I noticed that my blue pants have a 2″ long threadbare spot on them under the left back pocket! I can’t remember the last time I wore out a pair of pants! I guess I’ll need to make a trip to […]

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Today was a near complete waste at the office. The system remained down all day long, relegating us to futzing around with our QA environment code and wishing we didn’t have to be at work. We’re being told the system could come back up soon, however once that happens it starts the long dark of […]

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This is completely work-safe, although you may get a few funny looks this Hallowe’en. The credit for this goes to Family Guy and American Dad, for having two references across both shows a few weeks back. Don’t know why it stuck in my head, but I had to dig around on the Internet because I […]

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Well, the plan for tonight was as follows: leave work slightly later than normal, which was accomplished. Eat dinner with Tasha before she left for Gibson City, also accomplished. Relax for a little bit by watching some TV, partially accomplished. Connect back into work and spend some additional time working on the billing project that […]

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When I was a kid (and into my teenage years) I was somewhat obsessed with myths, legends, and natural oddities. My inner child was freaking out (making monkey noises, in Dukesian parlance) to see pictures of a real, live giant squid. Somewhere, Jules Verne is smiling.

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I’m going to keep this brief, because pictures will likely tell the tale later… it went well, and did an awesome job, and the important people from the office showed up so I was really thrilled about that. And I scored with a freakin’ sweet hook kick. Then Matt got me with a freakin’ sweet […]

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Word has reached me that my childhood idol Don Adams died. Go go Gadget coffin. 🙁

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I took my ailing 20G iPod back to Best Buy tonight, all cables and peripheral chargers included. The fledgling nerd behind the counter listened to my complaint and gave me a slightly knowitall-ish line about “usually the batteries just stop working in these things or last forever, its rare that they lose their charge that […]

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