Recent [Funk Babblings]

16:27 enjoyed the nice weather (last night: friends, grill, fire, stars) up until allergies hit. At least I assume that's what this is. #
16:36 wondering how many times in my life I've bought, then later lost, this same type of cable. is.gd/uJAM I should just stock up. #
20:38 Trying to get MythTV auto-start to work, I killed video and net in one fell swoop. Maybe a sign to go to bed early? #

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14:20 trying to figure out how best to combine/schedule the things I *should* do this afternoon with the things I *want* to do this afternoon. #
16:06 Rode the bike 4.4 miles. If I must be unemployed this is the day for it. Might be nice not to live at the top of a hill tho. (pant pant) #
19:59 Lola and Patti Smith lead to Marlene Dietrich... Then to Frida. #
21:13 Finally cooking dinner. Taco Time! #

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14:09 thinking maybe this would be a bad day to try to download Ubuntu updates. #

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10:46 sigh, power out again. #
17:17 Back home, with electricity. But that formerly-loud computer is loud again due to a different fan. Argh. #
17:47 Disconnected power from a super-noisy disk-cooling fan. Quiet again, but probably a good time to make sure I have recent backups... #

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08:12 Eek, Oracle buying Sun! This can't be good for MySQL (which Sun owns). Time to learn PostgreSQL, I guess. #
09:16 Thanks to Oracle, looking into MySQL forks like Drizzle and MariaDB. #
18:52 Sitting at a Columbus Ruby group meeting, in a loud office building that reminds me of being in an airplane. Need noise-canceling... #
19:13 Again reminded that Java (& Design Patterns) has become lingua franca even among programmers not actually using Java. Must keep learning. #

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11:39 Has heat again... just in time for 70-degree weather. #
12:06 had forgotten just how much vestigial C remains in Java syntax. Old languages don't die, they just get new keywords added. #

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11:24 chilling at home. (Maybe I should call in someone to restart the furnace.) #
19:22 got caught up on Lost & Dollhouse (w/ new MythTV remote) and made the computer quiet again (tho a little warmer on one CPU than the other). #

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09:11 was pulled out of bed for a heating oil refill. Should figure out soon how to make that oil start burning again. #

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12:22 thinking it's a good day to do taxes. #
17:05 reminded every year that the Feds have the tax instructions down pat, despite complexity. State not quite so much. Locals flail completely. #
19:29 finally joined the digital age: filed fed & state taxes online. Whee! Next, try to get money back from a suburb where I didn't live in 2008. #

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16:10 Best article yet about #amazonfail: tinyurl.com/cscrvn #
17:26 #amazonfail explanations remind me of Steve Yegge's mentions of over-complexity and high stress inside Amazon, e.g. is.gd/rz4j #
21:26 Must stop singing the sad-Roomba song. #

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