Ben Wolfson
If I'd known, I'd never have croucester,
Wouldn't chide, contradict, or accoucester:
The vengeance she brings
Takes down paupers and kings,
The unstoppable Duchess of Gloucester.
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ronebofh
I recited a quick Pater Noucester
A vain try for God's favor to foucester
But it fell on deaf ears
My luck was in arrears
I was felled by the Duchess of Gloucester
You know, if 2wanda and i have to stand in line with a bunch of scruffy, chain-smoking hipsters waiting for the doors to open, i would expect to actually have the band start playing sometime in the vicinity of the posted start time of 21:00. At 22:35, we said, "Fuck this," and left, because she needs to sleep and i need to get to work.
On the bright side, stoat recognized us and we chatted a bit over the din of the warmup music (why does the pre-concert music have to be played as loudly as the live music?). Oh, and the Anchor Steam was excellent and fresh (which it ought to be, given that the brewery is only a few blocks away). But i'd be hard-pressed to give Bottom of the Hill, or Battles, another chance.
Would have been way funny if, at the State Dinner last night, Obama had played "Hu, Let Xiaobo Out (Liu! Liu! Liu!)".
Two weeks, i hit LISA for the first time in 12 years. I can't really explain why it took me so long to return, other than the typical excuse of indolence (and, really, from a professional standpoint, that is simply bad form). It was good to see _nicolai_, pir, gothgeekgrrl, and gallifreyan, as well as Steve VanDevender, ex-coworkers Grant Talarico and Aaron Fraser, and talk.bizarre's own George William Herbert (pure chance encounter), and i indulged in the opportunity to show them around downtown San José for lunch at Morocco's, Hanuman, and Mezcal.
One thing i learned at LISA was from ARIN regarding the imminence of IPv4 address space exhaustion; if everything breaks right, the last available /8s will be handed out by IANA to the regional internet registries sometime in the second quarter of 2012. So, adding IPv6 is moving out of the "hardcore early adopter" stage into the "prudent proactive user" stage (but feel free to disagree and call me names). I also picked up some good tips regarding interviewing, résumé writing, and becoming a better senior sysadmin.
As of this week, i've been working during the day, filling in for someone else in the group who's out (the group is running rather lean as of late). It's been nice to see people and actually get to have questions answered without having to wake someone up (although i get the impression today that far too many people have checked out early for Thanksgiving). I hope that i'll be on days permanently soon.
bryant notes that StackExchange's role-playing games Q&A board is in open beta. So take a gander and see what you can find and what you can offer.
bryant notes that StackExchange's role-playing games Q&A board is in open beta. So take a gander and see what you can find and what you can offer.
A simple invocation of lynx -dump http://ronebofh.livejournal.com/tag/ | grep ' use' | sort -nr -t - -k 2 | head' yields my 10 most used tags:
butterflygenius is driving it), but i've purchased a whopping 6 albums and 1 EP in the last 9 months. I'm probably due for making a run through the wishlist (as well as take out the unwanted to the used CD store).The task will be to coalesce actual writing out of the inchoate sputtering i inflict upon Facebook and Twitter.
A simple invocation of lynx -dump http://ronebofh.livejournal.com/tag/ | grep ' use' | sort -nr -t - -k 2 | head' yields my 10 most used tags:
butterflygenius is driving it), but i've purchased a whopping 6 albums and 1 EP in the last 9 months. I'm probably due for making a run through the wishlist (as well as take out the unwanted to the used CD store).The task will be to coalesce actual writing out of the inchoate sputtering i inflict upon Facebook and Twitter.
Earlier this week, tyggerjai and bunnikins stopped in lovely San José, so 2wanda and i, plus elmuchacho, met them for lunch at Morocco's Restaurant. It was a lovely repast, from start to finish, and we were regaled with tales of high-flying Russians.
Saturday, Kim and i had brunch and conversation with syringavulgaris and blarglefiend at Scrambl'z, which is what you'd get if Denny's didn't suck. Later that night, we headed to dr_memory and missionista's last hurrah party before the birth of their child, where i finally met illspoken, who is a delightful conversationalist.
Remember, if you come to town, contact me. Then offer me food or booze. Only good things can happen.
Earlier this week, tyggerjai and bunnikins stopped in lovely San José, so 2wanda and i, plus elmuchacho, met them for lunch at Morocco's Restaurant. It was a lovely repast, from start to finish, and we were regaled with tales of high-flying Russians.
Saturday, Kim and i had brunch and conversation with syringavulgaris and blarglefiend at Scrambl'z, which is what you'd get if Denny's didn't suck. Later that night, we headed to dr_memory and missionista's last hurrah party before the birth of their child, where i finally met illspoken, who is a delightful conversationalist.
Remember, if you come to town, contact me. Then offer me food or booze. Only good things can happen.
thedarkagesthedarkages sent me and 2wanda a lovely gift for our anniversary, a copy of The Orchestral Music of Charles Ives performed by Orchestra New England (which he found on my Amazon wish list, hint hint). I'd put that on the list because it contains the "Country Band" March, which i enjoyed hearing performed at Carnegie Hall.
You are a scholar and a gentleman, sir, and thank you again.
thedarkagesthedarkages sent me and 2wanda a lovely gift for our anniversary, a copy of The Orchestral Music of Charles Ives performed by Orchestra New England (which he found on my Amazon wish list, hint hint). I'd put that on the list because it contains the "Country Band" March, which i enjoyed hearing performed at Carnegie Hall.
You are a scholar and a gentleman, sir, and thank you again.
allbery is a very bad personSpeaking of systems administration in The Other Place:
rone: I'd love the job more if the industry weren't overrun with fuckheads at all levels.
Nix: But that's true of *all* jobs, and all humanity, everywhere, forever.
rone: No, man, what we have here in Silicon Valley is far from fucking normal.
allbery is a very bad personSpeaking of systems administration in The Other Place:
rone: I'd love the job more if the industry weren't overrun with fuckheads at all levels.
Nix: But that's true of *all* jobs, and all humanity, everywhere, forever.
rone: No, man, what we have here in Silicon Valley is far from fucking normal.
For those moments when "couldn't care less" just won't do, J. D. Falk conceived the terminally descriptive "This one goes to mehleven."
For those moments when "couldn't care less" just won't do, J. D. Falk conceived the terminally descriptive "This one goes to mehleven."
Two weekends ago, Kim and i ran away to Calistoga for restoration via mud bath and massage at Golden Haven Hot Springs. On our way there, we stopped at our favorite wineries, Summers and Ehlers Estate; on the way back, we stopped at Heitz, whose Grignolino wine and port i've admired for some time.
Last weekend, i nerded it up, as ever, at DunDraCon, but i did not neglect my sweet Kimmy on Valentine's Day, and brought her flowers and a card, and then took her out to sushi. DDC was fun as always; although i missed seeing some of the usual suspects, i did get to see vanmojo and dr_strych9, albeit in passing through the LARP in which they were participating (not judging you, guys... well, not too much).
Tonight, Kim and i drove to San Francisco to spend a little time with old Macromedia coworkers. It's obvious that we're a bunch of nostalgic romantics, and that's fine with me. I wish we'd've been able to get there earlier and stay later, but an hour-long drive home is always rough.
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