flickr
Here’s some stuff that I’ve been working on at home lately, mainly to keep myself busy enough so that I don’t have to study for my next MCSE test. (I’m avoiding the “design” test like the plague — I’m burned out on Microsoft tests big-time.)
I spent the better part of Sunday afternoon/evening trying to [...]
Over the last few weeks I’ve been cleaning out my paper files — mounds of paper which I have been accumulating for the past 5 years. I started doing this after I realized that, from a physics perspective, it was easier for a tornado to run a piece of straw through a telephone pole [...]
The other day I remembered something that happened to me while I was living in Fargo, North Dakota. I worked and lived in Fargo’s downtown, which was cool because I was able to walk to work almost every day. One evening I as walking home from work, following my usual route down Broadway. Like [...]
“…Accidents, closed roads, broke tree limbs and gridlocked rush-hour traffic - a veritable grab bag of head-shaking frustrations.”
“There were 236 accidents, spinouts and other weather-related mishaps on the roadways from midnight to 6 p.m.”
– The Union Tribune 11/9/02
If you listened to the radio yesterday you would have thought you were in Minneapolis after 2 [...]
About a year ago someone at work e-mailed the following joke to our team:
There are 10 types of people in the world…. Those that understand binary and those that don’t.
I’ve actually been thinking about writing a little tutorial on how to count binary and possibly hexadecimal. (I can’t believe [...]