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Monthly Archive for July, 2003

Laziness is a Virtue

According to Streets and Trips, my temporary housing assignment is 262 yards away from work. I think I’ll walk.

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Viva, Las Vegas!

I’m off to Las Vegas with Margot. Here’s hoping that I don’t burn up to a crisp in the dessert sun - for reference, here’s the latest weather:

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Things I Learned This 4th of July

Cooking Pecans at 350 degrees for 5 minutes causes lots of smoke and fire alarms.
The bumpers of Ford Mustangs come off very easily.

Hope everyone had a happy, safe, 4th of July!

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Santa Claus is Coming, to $SHELL…

Found this on fortune on OpenBSD 3.3:
better !pout !cry
better watchout
lpr why
santa claus < north pole > town

cat /etc/passwd > list
ncheck list
ncheck list
cat list | grep naughty > nogiftlist
cat list | grep nice > giftlist
santa claus < north pole > town

who | grep sleeping
who | grep awake
who | egrep ‘bad|good’
for (goodness sake) {
[...]

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Puzzles

It’s been about 10 years since I last did a puzzle - you know, the picture that gets cut up into 500, 1000, or even 1500 pieces that you have to piece together by hand? In today’s age of ultra-realistic 3-D computer games, I get this feeling that standard puzzles are a dying breed - [...]

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