that’s whacked

bones, and more bones

Wednesday, Mar 30. 2005  –  Category: Pets

I’m working from home today, and to keep Isis from bugging me too much I tossed her a rawhide bone. She’s now spent the last 20 minutes running around the study trying to find an appropriate place to bury it.

Nope. Not there.

This looks like a promising spot.

The funny part is, while she was digging around in that second bedsheet on the floor, she found a bone she had buried two weeks ago. When she found it, she just stopped in amazement. Now she has TWO bones to bury.

Ah…the dilemmas of a dog’s life.

driving home from BART

Monday, Mar 28. 2005  –  Category: Musings

this is, more or less, the short driving part of my daily commute:

This is my drive home from the Fruitvale BART station, all the way north up Fruitvale Ave. to my house.

It’s chaotic. It’s insane. It’s like driving in NASCAR… except with crack addicts instead of professional drivers.

MI-5

Sunday, Mar 27. 2005  –  Category: Movies&TV

wow

at chester’s recommendation, i finally got around to watching all my TiVo’d episodes of MI-5.

WOW

it’s awesome. i don’t know how to describe it. it’s like Alias, except good. (don’t flame me, i love Alias… i watch it every week…but wow, MI-5 is great)

mmm….dogs…

Friday, Mar 25. 2005  –  Category: Food

It’s not often you get to combine 3 of your all time favourite foods into one hearty edible meal item.

I just had lunch at DogZilla Cafe, just a block down Howard from the San Francisco Sun building… more specifically, I had The BB&B, baked beans & bacon dog.

I love baked beans. I love bacon. And everyone who has been with me at Costco during lunchtime, or gone with me to Top Dog, knows that I love a good hotdog/sausage. It never occured to me to combine the 3. It’s like the BB&B was destined for me.

Anyway, the icing on the cake was when I went up afterwards to buy a bag of chips and was digging around in my pocket for 63 cents. I gave him two quarters, and was fishing through all my dimes/nickels/cents when the guy said “dude. save your quarters for when you need ‘em…unload all your small change on me”

lent

Friday, Mar 25. 2005  –  Category: Musings

I always thought it would be interesting for a Catholic to give up Catholicism for Lent.

I’m sure the moment I exit the Sun building today I’ll be struck down by lightning.

mmm…bacon

Thursday, Mar 24. 2005  –  Category: Food

oh, by the way - for anyone coming into my office today. i apologise in advance for the strong smell of bacon.

wha?!?!? there’s BACON IN HERE?!?!?!?!

Thursday, Mar 24. 2005  –  Category: Pets

i have this rawhide bone looking thing that’s stuffed with bacon/meat/other goodies that i bought for Mia last time we dog-sat her for Bernie. anyway, when i brought Isis into work, i tossed it her way - and she went onto ignore it completely for two weeks.

about 10 minutes ago, in a state of boredom undoubtedly, she nudged it with her nose - and suddenly realised “wtf?!?!? there’s BACON IN THERE.” and now she’s doing her best to devour the thing.

ah…it cracks me up.

though, to be honest - i’m the same way. give me a sandwich and sure, i’ll get around to eating it. but put some BACON in there, and i’ll devour it in 5 minutes.

i’ve not yet met a food item that didn’t taste better with bacon. mmm…bacon…the garnish of the GODS.

usb2 host adapter card

Wednesday, Mar 23. 2005  –  Category: Musings

If anyone sees a good deal for a free (after rebate) or cheap (< $10) USB2 host adapter card (PCI), please let me know. I'd like to get one for grommit so I can do quicker backups. I'm going to be installing the new 160gb drive as an internal backup drive (w00t goes out to chester, thanks!), and taking out one of the 60gb drives to use as an external backup drive. Right now I'm doing external backups via USB 1.1 ... which means leaving the colocation facility to go get dinner and some boba before coming back. It'd be nice to up the speed a bit. :)

new hd for grommit

Monday, Mar 21. 2005  –  Category: Computers

attn all grommit users. be sure to say a big thank you to chester (or at the very least, buy him a beer next time you see him). why? because he just bought grommit a 160gb hard drive so we can have full nightly system backups again.

cheers chester!

supersizeing social security

Thursday, Mar 17. 2005  –  Category: Musings

Technology News: News: Scientists Say Life Expectancy To Drop

“One of the consequences of our prediction is that Social Security does not appear to be in nearly as bad a shape as we think,” Olshansky said.

They noted obesity actually could help keep Social Security solvent because people will die younger.

wow. maybe that’s what McDonald’s means by extra value meals. your extra value is the extra social security you’re freeing up each time you eat one of those things.