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06:41:24 PM,
Friday 10 February 2006
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Pack Ice
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06:39:55 PM,
Friday 10 February 2006
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Bobber
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06:38:48 PM,
Friday 10 February 2006
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Pink Mergansers
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02:58:09 PM,
Friday 10 February 2006
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Sparrows of Mystery
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02:56:31 PM,
Friday 10 February 2006
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Lyrics are too often an obstacle to be overcome to the proper enjoyment of the pop song. So why don't I listen to more instrumental music? What happened to instrumental pop, anyway? Telstar, Axel F... It isn't impossible. You'd think with globalization it would be flourishing. (This thought brought on by David Gilmour)
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12:53:50 PM,
Friday 10 February 2006
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Monetary recognition better than verbal recognition, not simply because it's valuable, but also because it's expensive, and less subject to inflation. However, it is also more easily subjected to cost benefit analysis: You can work out precisely how much of the unpaid overtime it justifies.
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12:23:52 PM,
Friday 10 February 2006
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I need a balaclava. Then I will be entirely without exposed skin, and look even sillier.
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09:28:31 AM,
Friday 10 February 2006
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We have KT Tunstall tickets. I first heard Black Horse and the Cherry Tree over thanksgiving, in Ontario, and wrote down the title of the song. Just last weekend they had her on NPR. This means that I do in fact have NPR taste, a terrible thing to contemplate.
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04:59:43 PM,
Wednesday 8 February 2006
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On House:
First off, they use the beginning of Teardrop on Fire by Massive Attack as the theme, which I found disorienting, since it's on a tape or something I listen to quite often. On the positive side, it has Hugh Laurie, who can sell any line. The trouble is, he had to. I found his fake accent distacting, and it stifles his range a bit. He's playing the same part that he did in Sense and Sensibility crossed with Frasier's father. Unlike Archie Bunker, who brayed the offensive lines, he undersells them, so you don't realize he's been offensive for a few beats, which is a neat trick. He made me laugh several times, despite the script. The show itself is a perfectly decent mystery show for the hypocondriac set. Unfortunately, he is surrounded by an entirely generic soap opera cast without a single acceptable comic actor in the lot. I kept thinking that there seemed to be a lot of commercials, but then I realized that my mind was registering the scenes without House as commercials, probably for skin cream, toyotas or tinted contact lenses. I might watch it again.
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10:58:41 AM,
Wednesday 8 February 2006
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This little bit of corrupt data someone found last week? That I blithely assumed was a data issue? Turns out it's random chunks of our data getting overwritten. All over the place. After the database was built. Wherever I look, little chunks of data have been replaced with garbage. A whole database full of very slightly unreliable data. Months of work for several people into the trashbin because of glitchy hardware, a virus or something. And the damned thing? Only you, me and the spambots know. It's like being at the top of a rollercoaster. Tomorrow morning perfectly decent sysadmins with no more than their standard sysadmin allotment of spite and muleishness are going to have really bad days at work. I hate rollercoasters. Why is it my problem? I didn't find it. Mmumph found it. and Mmumph makes lots more than I do. But who ends up troubleshooting it? Me. Which means I have to be in the meeting with all the broken-hearted, spiteful, mulish sysadmins, explaining patiently that it's their problem, that they can't scrape this one off on the subcontractor, despite all their mulish talent for blameshifting. Probably the meetings with the worried analysts too. I'm running one last test, to put the final touches on my internal email laying out the full extent of the catastrophe.
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07:45:42 PM,
Tuesday 7 February 2006
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Not to gloat, but I just found a capital O that should have been an zero in 5 minutes flat, in code I didn't know, that I couldn't test, armed with nothing but an error log with a completely misleading message in it.
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06:58:17 PM,
Tuesday 7 February 2006
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