After a week of playing with Chrome as my main browser, I’m back to Firefox. Chrome’s fast, but sometimes too much like Breathe-o-Smart.
Asides
Twitter is never having to say TL;DR
Twitter is never having to say TL;DR
Wow. Saturday tickets for Comic-Con International (San Diego) are 95% sold.
Wow. Saturday tickets for Comic-Con International (San Diego) are 95% sold. If you want to go Saturday but don’t have tickets yet, you’d better hurry!
Doing my part to confuse Goldstar. The last ticket I bought through them: Equivocation, a…
Doing my part to confuse Goldstar. The last ticket I bought through them: Equivocation, a serious policital thriller about Shakespeare and terrorism. This time: Xanadu, a musical comedy on roller skates based on an 80s movie.
It’s almost 2010. Why do OK/Cancel boxes STILL pop up while I’m typing & accept my “input”? I’m not sure what I just confirmed. Or canceled.
It’s almost 2010. Why do OK/Cancel boxes STILL pop up while I’m typing & accept my “input”? I’m not sure what I just confirmed. Or canceled.
Co-workers arguing over how the circuit breaker in the lunch room is set up. I…
Co-workers arguing over how the circuit breaker in the lunch room is set up. I asked the critical question: “Is it still out now?”…and turned the coffee pot on. C’mon, priorities, here!
Computer needed for project X: I’m going to lock up today!
Me: I’m going to focus on project X today! Computer needed for project X: I’m going to lock up today! Me: Argh!
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OK, after 3½ hours stuck at 74%, I think I can assume chkdsk is stalled. *grumble*
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Chkdsk round 3 is at 55% on Stage 5 of 5. Going to call it a night & hope my PC runs tomorrow.
I have been at the mall for 20 minutes and I’m already overwhelmed. The children’s choir singing “Holly Jolly Christmas” isn’t helping.
I have been at the mall for 20 minutes and I’m already overwhelmed. The children’s choir singing “Holly Jolly Christmas” isn’t helping.
I’m not sure light drizzle counts as “wind and rain,” but since I’d like to have water next year, I’ll take what I can get.
I’m not sure light drizzle counts as “wind and rain,” but since I’d like to have water next year, I’ll take what I can get.
I’m getting word salad spam comments on my blog. It’s entertaining to read them in the vocal style of a Cylon hybrid.
I’m getting word salad spam comments on my blog. It’s entertaining to read them in the vocal style of a Cylon hybrid.
Finally got my H1N1 flu shot. Doctor managed to get 5 – yes, 5 – doses. Distribution on this has been abyssmal.
Finally got my H1N1 flu shot. Doctor managed to get 5 – yes, 5 – doses. Distribution on this has been abyssmal.
Very impressed w/Best Buy’s mobile website. Easy to find the item, choose store pickup, reset password & update address all from my phone.
Very impressed w/Best Buy’s mobile website. Easy to find the item, choose store pickup, reset password & update address all from my phone.
My internet connection is acting kind of flaky. Actually the connection is fine, but it…
My internet connection is acting kind of flaky. Actually the connection is fine, but it isn't talking to some content delivery network, so all the small-time websites load perfectly, but Facebook takes 20 minutes to load a 16×16 “share link” button, and I have yet to see more than the title on PayPal. *grumble*
Whenever my site gets hits from Google’s Italian site, my brain insists on reading it as “Google It!”
Whenever my site gets hits from Google’s Italian site, my brain insists on reading it as “Google It!”
Weird. I just read a comment where someone claimed that conservatives hate liberals for their…
Weird. I just read a comment where someone claimed that conservatives hate liberals for their “no reasonable person can disagree with me attitude.” In my experience, it's at least as likely to be the other way around.
In a brilliant move, I have just twisted my shoulder funny 5 minutes before driving home. At least it’s the left shoulder. Still: Ow!
In a brilliant move, I have just twisted my shoulder funny 5 minutes before driving home. At least it’s the left shoulder. Still: Ow!
…1 day later…
Right shoulder seems OK. Left shoulder still recovering from whatever the heck I did to it yesterday. The dangers of…office chairs?
WTF? I just tweaked my *other* shoulder doing nothing more exciting than reaching for my mouse. Nowhere near as badly, at least!
WTF? 4-day passes have ACTUALLY SOLD OUT already! I was starting to think December…
WTF? 4-day passes have ACTUALLY SOLD OUT already! I was starting to think December maybe, but the first week of November? I'm glad we finally bought ours a few days ago!
Dark One’s Roast
A couple of nights ago, I dreamed I was Rand, inspecting a military camp and learning that the Dark One’s touch had destroyed all the coffee. ALL the coffee. And I/Rand immediately decided, “That’s it! We’re ending this NOW! Last Battle, here we come!”
One difference: the seasonal flu vaccine is based on…
One difference: the seasonal flu vaccine is based on predicting ahead of time which strains of flu are likely to circulate during the upcoming flu season and targeting those strains. Sometimes the predictions are accurate, sometimes they’re not. The H1N1 vaccine targets a specific strain that we know is circulating.
In RFC terms:
A seasonal flu vaccine MAY protect you from seasonal flu.
An H1N1 flu vaccine SHOULD protect you from H1N1 flu.
iPod train wreck of the morning was the Cardcaptor Sakura theme followed by Garbage’s Supervixen.
iPod train wreck of the morning was the Cardcaptor Sakura theme followed by Garbage’s Supervixen.