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I have photographic evidence, thanks to the AP, that my wife has no common sense. Witness the picture above, where she (the only female human if you couldn't figure it out) went to the post office on tax day. Not to mail anything tax related, of course, but just because it was one of her errands. None of the things in her hands are payments, extension forms, returns, etc., since we already did that.

(Firetruck outside our front door last night)

Around 12:30am-1am today, the fire alarms went off. I dutifully woke up Kat (who claims to be a light sleeper but now I know she's lying), got dressed enough to go outside, grabbed ID, keys, phone, and cats, and headed down the stairs.

The stairs reeked of ozone and burning plastic the lower we went, and I was a little concerned that the fire would be coming up. We'd have to hop the roof to the neighboring building, which would be trivial from our lower deck, as the building next door tops off at exactly the same level.

Dear LazyWeb,

I'm being audited for tax year 2004 based on a discrepancy in my Schedule D.

I am a tremendously lazy person, and a few things happened that year:

1. My trading volume went way up in comparison to previous years. I was living/working on the road, and I needed a hobby. One that made money seemed like a good idea.
2. ETrade (the place where my "play" account is kept) did a weird account migration thing halfway through the year -- they created a new account for everyone and moved them over. This meant two sets of 1099s, etc.

From The BMW Nightmare Webpage: This looks like a mangled 3-series with a bad ground effects kit until you look up and you see the adam’s apple under the scarf, the five-oclock shadow under the pancake foundation, and you realise Lola just made you a man in the back of an Accord.

Apparently, you can’t call it a “Ferrari” if it’s just a bunch of plastic glued/stapled/taped to a Fiero. Who knew?

I stumbled over a few of these in an archive (I find kit cars to be almost the funniest thing on earth), and thought I'd amuse myself with ready-made blogfodder:

Reply to: anon-76997776@craigslist.org
Date: 2005-06-04, 12:25PM PDT

ferrari body kit, ferrari tail lights, ferrari yellow, 5 spd 3.8 v6, holley throttlebody, funtional side scoops with ram forced air intake, Zeitner stage 5 performance tranny and clutch, only 25-30K on motor and drive train, Dual ocelot racing exhaust. needs some tlc on enterior, moon roof, NEW 17in Motegi wheels on Brand New Tires (with warranty). $1200 new. Just needs a little tlc. Gets Lots of stares and compliments. Make an offer or will trade for import of some sort, CRX, 2dr civics 91-up, 240sx and more! Or sell for 3k OBO with new wheels, $2300 without. Let me know!

I just realised the banner image bears a slight resemblance to the demon reefer.

Let me assure you that I would never put pictures of doobage on my ever-so-influential blog.

It's a mossy rock I fancied so much I took a picture of it before sitting down and smoking a pound of PHP and savaging a reindeer.

Edit: P...C...P...

Sorry, it was the MDA typing.

9:30 PM: Start Parallels and create a pre-configured instance for Windows XP, modifying RAM allotment to 512MB, relocating the data files to an external FireWire Drive, and changing the CDROM from an ISO file to the Mac's SuperDrive DL.

9:35 PM: Put Windows XP disk in drive, start VM.

9:46 PM: Windows XP installer says,"39 minutes left to install," as it copies files, probes hardware (probably especially easy with a virtual machine with constrained virtualised hardware), and tells me how much better life will be with XP. On my last install (on a PC), 39 became 23 which lasted for FOUR HOURS.

I succeeded (more or less) in importing my ancient Blogger posts into Drupal.

I used this guide as a base, but the database format has changed significantly with Drupal version 4.7. node and node_revisions have been broken out into two tables, making the SQL generated by the php template not work. As a result, I had to change it slightly, to the following:

<?php
$nid = 213;
<Blogger>
$iid = '<$BlogItemNumber$>';
$nid++;
$node=array();

From:   sales@coriolis-systems.com
Subject: iDefrag version 1.2.1
Date: April 4, 2006 12:32:01 PM PDT
To:   customers@coriolis-systems.com
Reply-To:   sales@coriolis-systems.com

Hi all,

Just a short e-mail to apologise for the delay in the release of version
1.2.1, which fixes a number of bugs that people have reported with 1.2.0,
including:

* Reference count exceptions from the B-Tree code
* (Potentially severe) slowdown and excessive memory usage under some
  circumstances, due to a threading bug
* Problems with unmounted disks that are marked as having a custom icon

  

A new study finds people who attend religious services weekly live longer. Specifically, the research looked at how many years are added to life expectancy based on:

• Regular physical exercise: 3.0-to-5.1 years
• Proven therapeutic regimens: 2.1-to-3.7 years
• Regular religious attendance: 1.8-to-3.1 years

I wonder how much I could get for writing a paper that resolved item the third:

If you go to a christian church, that usually involves waking up early on a Sunday morning. If you wake up early on Sunday mornings after lots of Saturday night booze and drugfests, you're going to be going to church hungover and miserable, the way God wants you. So you're going to reduce the druggin' and the boozin' on Saturday nights.

I was quit when I come in here, I'm twice as quit now.

I wish I had some sort of rage as an excuse, but it was just a whining ring in my ears that I needed to silence.