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I’m back

Posted: Friday, June 13th, 2008 @ 9:37 pm in Personal | 12 Comments »

I’m back, readers, with photos, as promised.
I’m still working on the pictures of Egypt, but what the hell, you can wait for those; you’ve all seen a million pictures of the Sphinx and the Pyramids anyways. Here are pictures of Ethiopia:

Pictures of Addis Ababa, the capital city.
Pictures of the Guassa afroalpine grassland (in [...]

I’m outta here

Posted: Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 @ 3:23 pm in Personal, Siteinfo | 4 Comments »

The long-awaited vacation is finally here, readers: the first leg of the journey starts tonight, with a flight to the Horn of Africa. I’ll be back, with pictures from Ethiopia and Egypt, during the first week of June.

Cigarettes

Posted: Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 @ 10:25 pm in Personal | 1 Comment »

TMZ.com reports that Barack Obama might still be smoking cigarettes on the Q.T.
Forget about gender and skin color — is today’s America ready for a President who smokes? As we all know, it’s considered diabolically wicked to indulge in cigs these days. Anti-tobacco fanaticism has become so mainstream, and so fanatical, that smokers [...]

Best wishes

Posted: Monday, December 31st, 2007 @ 6:26 pm in Personal | 4 Comments »

A (belated) Merry Christmas, readers, and a Happy New Year to all of you, wingnuts and moonbats alike.
Partisan rancor and truculence will continue in the next few days.

Slack

Posted: Friday, August 24th, 2007 @ 2:42 pm in Personal, Siteinfo | 1 Comment »

I’m headed down to southeastern Virginia, chers lecteurs, to visit family. Do not expect much activity here until after Labor Day.

Mean streets of the Steel City

Posted: Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 @ 2:36 pm in Personal | 6 Comments »

The streets of Pittsburgh, riddled as they are year-round with potholes, make life pretty tough on car tires. Conventional wisdom in this town says you’ll only get 20,000 miles out of a tire before it “needs replaced.”
But this, readers, is amazing. Look here:

Have you ever seen the like? That’s what happened to [...]

A Sysadmin Is Got to Dream, Boy

Posted: Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 @ 11:40 pm in Personal | No Comments »

That’s right, readers, I’m out of town again. Lots of time on the road.
Nobody dast blame this man. You don’t understand. Dumpendebat was a system administrator; and for a sysadmin, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don’t write Java code, he don’t configure routers, or tune SQL queries. [...]

On the road

Posted: Monday, March 20th, 2006 @ 1:30 am in Personal | No Comments »

I’ve been in lovely South Jersey for the past two weeks, readers, spending many, many hours with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, HP ProLiant servers, and Oracle Application Server 10g, staying in hotels without Internet access, relying heavily on coffee and Marlboro 100s. The rest of the month is likely to be more of the [...]

South Jersey

Posted: Saturday, February 11th, 2006 @ 10:53 am in Personal | No Comments »

A joke I came across on the Internet a couple of years ago:
Q: How many bloggers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Two: one to change the bulb, and one to apologize for the fact the room’s been so dark lately, but you know, he’s been, like, really busy and…
I haven’t been [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

Posted: Thursday, November 24th, 2005 @ 7:33 am in Personal | No Comments »

Happy Thanksgiving, readers, moonbats, wingnuts and language enthusiasts alike.