Let’s face it, System Administrators get no respect 364 days a year. This is the day that all fellow System Administrators across the globe, will be showered with expensive sports cars and large piles of cash in appreciation of their diligent work. But seriously, we are asking for a nice token gift and some public [...]
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Pac Man turns 30
Wow, Pac Man is 30 years old. To celebrate, Google put up a logo Doodle that was an actual playable Pac Man game, sound effects and all! What a blast from the past … I sank quite a few quarters (or tokens) into Pac Man machines back in the day. I also had the Pac [...]
Maybe we should have played P-I-G
My daughter’s basketball practice was canceled this evening so we drove over to the local park to shoot some hoops so she could still get some “practice” in. After some warm-ups and basic practice, the three of us decided to play H-O-R-S-E. Needless to say with my daughter being relatively new to basketball, she quickly [...]
Running with Toadies
While driving home from work this evening I had my iPhone on a random playlist and these two songs played back-to-back: “Pretty Fly for a Rabbi” by Weird Al Yankovic and “Possum Kingdom” by the Toadies. Ok, yes, an interesting combination but that’s to be expected in a random playlist. What caught my eye was [...]
Cleveland is finally #1!
My hometown of Cleveland, OH is finally a winner … a recent Forbes article named it the number one most miserable city, edging out last year’s reining champion, Stockton, CA. Hoping to continue Cleveland’s championship year in 2010, the Cavaliers traded local favorite Zydrunas Ilgauskas (who’s spent his entire 12-year career with the Cavs) to [...]
Calvin’s Cleveland connection
How, after all these years of being a “Calvin & Hobbes” fan, did I never realize Bill Watterson is from Cleveland!? The Plain Dealer posted a brief interview with the cartoonist, thought to be his first since 1989. A C&H stamp will be issued by the post office later this year. I loved reading “Calvin [...]
Crash!
The hard drive in my server crashed! I’ve been having problems over the past few days where Ubuntu was just locked up and the server was unpingable. I’m trying to make a backup image of the drive before it completely dies, but for now I’ve got some of the site back up and running with [...]
Happy New Year! A new decade begins …
Wow, 2010. Hard to believe that 10 years ago we were worried about Y2K! For New Year’s Eve we did our family tradition of fondue for dinner (we went out to The Melting Pot this year instead of cooking it ourselves). Then we headed over to First Night in downtown St. Petersburg, which we had [...]
Now on my iPod: Nerdcore hip hop
Ever since I started playing Kingdom of Loathing a few months ago, I’ve been listening to the “120 Minutes of Jick and Mr. Skullhead” podcast/radio show. Through them, I was introduced to Nerdcore hip hop since the Asymmetic crew are friends with MC Frontalot, the artist who coined the term. I’m not actually new to [...]
Binary birthdays
My little sister will turn 30 next year on 10/10/10, which is pretty cool on a number (no pun intended) of levels, mainly 10 + 10 + 10 = 30. This got me to thinking that being born on the first day of October, I’ve never really had one of those cool birthdays like 01/02/03, [...]
