gods wear hats

I shaved on November 2nd, so I’m a day behind

It’s only somewhat mo-like at the moment, primarily because I haven’t decided exactly what I’m going to do with it.

I’ve decided to grow some sideburns, and dress up as Wolverine at Hallowe’en. I figure it’ll probably take three months to get them full-on enough. And I get to buy a cool leather jacket
Update: I discovered after three days that I no longer like having facial hair. After shaving pretty [...]

After a year of working at my current job, I have received 15,000 emails. This doesn’t include any automated ones (which I delete), spam, etc. I don’t feel like I get a lot of email, so I worked it out:
365 – (2*52) – 10 = 251 working days per annum
15000 mails / 251 [...]

Note: accidentally published this as a page instead of a post on my site. This is from December of last year.
I re-read Zapp again tonight. I’ve developed a love-hate relationship with that book over the years. I love the observations made in it, but I hate the mirror it holds up to [...]

Our kids woke up to find that the Easter Bunny had left a big maze of wool around the house that they had to follow in order to find their Easter treats. Once that had been unwound (one color for each kid), we sat down to breakfast (boiled eggs, omelet), then painted some hard-boiled [...]

A few weeks ago, I ordered a side of beef. It came with many kilos of pork, chicken, sausage, fish, pasta, sauces, soup and various other bits and bobs. Half of this veritable mountain of food arrived today and has now completely filled our deep freeze (chest freezer) and our food storage in [...]

Took me forever (well, five months) to do it, but I finally signed up for an iTunes account today. Now I’ll be able to put some apps on my iPhone (apart from ones that I wrote myself).

I got promoted to CTO today. Exciting stuff.

The month of Movember is drawing to a close. I’ve spent this month growing a moustache in order to raise money for prostate cancer research, and I’ve been kept in good company by roughly two dozen of my colleagues.
I thought I’d post a photo of my “progress” along with a link for donations, for [...]

[Garak takes a drink of root beer]
Quark: What do you think?
Garak: It’s vile.
Quark: I know. It’s so bubbly and cloying and happy.
Garak: Just like the Federation.
Quark: And you know what’s really frightening? If you drink enough of it, you begin to like it.
Garak: It’s insidious.
Quark: Just like the Federation.

- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – [...]