6/6/2001

The actual installation process is fairly straightforward, although as with all such activities, care must be taken to prevent creating a brick. - Chris Halsall, on installing Linux on an iPaq.
posted 11:20 AM

6/3/2001

Oh - and - I dyed my hair red. Just for kicks.
posted 1:13 AM
Spent the day doing yard work. Raked the front yard, fertilized, and Heather mowed. Trimmed the hedges. Beat the porch such that it is no longer hanging off the end of the curtain; used PT lumber to brace it. Looks like it's rotted out a bit, though, so I expect we'll have to rebuild at least that end of the porch at some point. I have blisters (it's been a long time since I swung a hammer) but it's not bad. Tomorrow: the back yard.
posted 1:01 AM
On the way in to work on Friday, I heard a National Weather Service announcement informing me that I was driving directly into a tornado. The cool thing was that the announcement was in the same computer-generated voice as Radiohead used for "paranoid android". Even better was that they apparently misspelled "window", such that the sequence that was supposed to say "stay away from windows" sounded like "stay away from weirdos". For the record, the tornado passed within half a mile of us, hitting the fairgrounds and Meredith College but leaving old Brickhaven alone. Some amazing skies, though. And torrential downpours.
posted 12:39 AM
We went to a seafood joint the other night. It was fun.

H: Oh, look - "garden oysters - I wonder what they are."
S: "rabbit testicles? Just a guess."
posted 12:34 AM