Turtle chases tomato
Here I am on Labour Day (that’s right, check that extra U!), slaving away at some code rather than playing on the blogosphere. I mean, sure, it’s FUN to program, but I’m still neglecting my...
View ArticleIn which I grow a pair … of ovaries
It’s been possibly two years since I last did a guest post for my dear husband. I think it was a drunken rant. You’ll just have to pretend this one is drunken too as I forgot to drink. After running...
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Too many things.
Too many things. Too many irons in the fire, too many arguments on the go. Too many family matters to attend to. Too many things that need my attention. Far too little time. I feel like this right now.
View ArticleBack from vacation. Need a vacation.
I’d been trying to maintain a post-a-day schedule for a few weeks now despite trying to suck the marrow out of a precious oasis of respite from a job that has, as late, challenged me to exceed what...
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Pet turtle digs in and lives 30 years in family’s junk room
Manuela on some junkPhotograph by: Perla Rodrigues , TV Globo While I’m slightly skeptical about the “just so” nature of this story, it’s still an adorable story, and I don’t see any aspects of it that...
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Ram Truck Superb Owl Farmer Wrongness
Jodi Thibeault is a skeptic, a feminist, an atheist, and most importantly, a human being. Her vocation is ass-kickery; her hobby is vineyard management. This is so so so wrong and so many people are...
View ArticleZe Frank’s true facts about sloths
Whatever you’re doing. stop doing that thing. Thereafter, do this thing instead: press play on the below video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrUM8m2rnP0 If I typed as quickly as a sloth, this would...
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I am now a Bachelor!
No, not that kind of bachelor. My dance card is still full. (Sorry, interested party(ies).) In the Spring of 2001, I completed my last courses and, prior to leaving my university and entering the...
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Linux+ Certified!
Hooray! I passed my CompTIA Linux+ certification today. Sorry I’ve been neglecting you folks over the last little bit, but see, I’ve been studying from an old exam study guide from 2010, stolen from...
View ArticleMy life in upheaval, but in a good way
In February 2010, Jodi and I got married. In June, we spent our honeymoon in Minnesota, going to CONvergence in Minneapolis. (My wife is every bit as much a geek as me.) Little did I know that that...
View ArticleChronicles of a Canadian abroad
Well, as “abroad” as a Canadian living in the unofficial-Canada-adjunct that is Minneapolis gets, I suppose. My first week in the Twin Cities was, as expected, a ridiculous flurry of activity. I think...
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#FtBCon: Mission Creep (with text)
My talk for FtBConscience! Hooray! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuAsPp_LqIw Comments are disabled there, but are enabled here. The video should hopefully also helpfully direct would-be commenters...
View ArticleTim Minchin addresses University of Western Australia graduates (UPDATE: With...
This is an absolutely sublime speech. It is full of both realism and optimism at the same time. It is full of skepticism. It sounds nihilistic at times, but Tim Minchin does that oratory...
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Pine River, MN’s puppy mill animal seizure, and our temporary foster dog
About a month ago, since Jodi can’t work on the Spousal visa she’s under, she decided to start volunteering some of her time at a local animal shelter. The shelter was at the time flooded with animals...
View ArticleSkepticon: Not my Canadian pride!
Debbie Goddard fired a shot across Canada’s bow, viciously savaging us during her talk at Skepticon where she related her deconversion. She said — I am horrified to even have to type this; someone...
View ArticleSkepticon video: Greta Christina – Avoiding Activist Burnout
I absolutely loved the shorter version of this speech that she did at another con a while back, and was pleased to get to see it live. Unfortunately for me, though, Dave Muscato of American Atheists...
View ArticleShort posts to let you know I’m still alive. Really.
So life has had a bit more upkeep than usual lately, and of the things that can erode in my life (between my job, my projects, time with friends and family and my wife, and video gaming), unfortunately...
View ArticleZe Frank’s true facts about sloths
Whatever you’re doing. stop doing that thing. Thereafter, do this thing instead: press play on the below video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrUM8m2rnP0 If I typed as quickly as a sloth, this would...
View ArticleMy CONvergence schedule – 2014
It’s gotten so’s I gotta put a year in the title to make it unique! How weird is that. My CONvergence schedule is a bit thicker this year than in years past — I’m invited to participate in six panels....
View ArticleVMware VM can’t be cloned, moved or backed up? No problem.
There are probably easier (or harder) ways to do this, but my back was up against a wall yesterday after a very important virtual machine was in a very bad state yesterday, after a series of hardware...
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