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Travel Woes, part (who knows)
I have been fortunate in my travels. I have close to 2 million miles of travel, and have spent time in a lot of countries, and have had relatively few incidents of food-borne illness. I have eaten street food in Taiwan, had unrecognizable parts of the chicken in China, eaten what probably was a pet…
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The Playdates. Astro meets Jack, Paul, and Noble, the neighborhood greyhounds
Following up on my earlier post about how I got into greyhounds, here is a video of the gang playing and bebopping around our courtyard. Lots of fun was had by all.
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Greyhounds
I have always been a dog person. Some people are cat people (up to the “crazy cat lady”), some are dog people, and some people shouldn’t do pets at all. Currently, I have Greyhounds. Two brindle boys, who are 3 years apart, and are half brothers. Garrett is the elder statesman, quiet, reserved, and eh…
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Fucking skimming scammers
A week and a half ago, my Wife bought gas at a Quick Trip in Tucson. Apparently, some shitball skimmer had jacked the pump she used, and lifted her credit card information. We came back from a short holiday in San Diego, checked out bank account, and found some sleazeball had used Western Union to…
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Posterous Shutting down
Well, I have been an on and off user of posterous for a few years. Probably less than 100 posts, some insightful, some silly. I guess they will fit here. Tee hee
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Forgot about this
Holy cow. I found this again by searching my userid. I created my own site, hosted, and moved from WP to Joomla. I might bring this back, since it is nice to have another option.
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Marissa Mayer: Can you please fix all the Yahoo email hacks?
It seems like a week can’t go by without one of my friends/colleagues Yahoo email account being hacked and sending me phishing messages. Yahoo must either have the worst security, or the worst users who succomb to phishing attacks. Either fix it o…
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Remodeling advice
Not that I am remodeling, or anything that ambitious, but I have some advice nonetheless. When you remodel say a bathroom, and there are two sinks (his/hers, very common), don’t buy just two sets of fixtures. Buy a spare. This is so that in 5/7/10…
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Physicists = bad developers
I was in a meeting yesterday, and our engineering director made an offhand comment that made me cringe. He commented that our principal developer for one of our products (he really is the only programmer) “like most good programmers” was a physici…