Homo Sum:
humani nil a me alienum puto

I don’t know if they’re the top 10 stories that I missed, but there are certainly several stories there that I hadn’t previously run into before.
Here’s a snippet of one of the stories that I was aware of, albeit with some numbers that are new to me:
Foreign Policy: The Top 10 Stories You Missed in [...]

I don’t know why this ditty from the Cthulhu Hymnal cheers me up so, but it really does make me smile. (And I really do hate the idea of filk generally.)
God Rest Ye Scary Great Old Ones
God Rest Ye Scary Great Old Ones,
Let everything dismay.
Remember Great Cthulhu shall rise up from R’lyeh
To kill us all [...]

As I promised Alex earlier, I have dug up the “Dave photos” of legend, and am posting them here with the accompanying story. The quality of the photos is not great–they were taken on a disposable camera and scanned on a crap scanner, but they’re enough to show the funny. So here’s a little bit [...]

For your amusement, a little parable I wrote many years ago to illustrate a point about goals being directions and not destinations…

Computer still mostly dead. Some recovery on Friday, but tonight–no keyboard. This will continue to affect blogging.
However, I do want to note that this weekend brought us the first snow of the season–we went from “none” to “a foot” overnight.
To put it another way, Friday morning there was no snow. Saturday morning it looked like [...]

So, Dell’s “Gold Enterprise Support” isn’t quite living up to it’s “service on site in 6 hours” contract. Apparently they lost my new motherboard in transit and had to dispatch a new one, or something.
I am now hoping to have the machine working again by Thursday.
I am experiencing some withdrawl symptoms, but fortunately I have [...]

Chris’ Special Rice

4 cloves of garlic
Quantity here can be varied to taste and/or tolerance for effects the next day. I have been known to use whole heads sometimes. Peel the clove and slice them thinly.
1 medium size red onion
Doesn’t have to be red really, but the more ‘fragrant’ the better. Cut it into chunks bigger [...]

My main working computer apparently died in the night. Well, actually let’s just say that it’s really sick, instead of dead, since I’m hoping to be able to save it with a motherboard transplant.
This means I’m cut off from a lot of my tools & data, which could mean a shortage of posts until it [...]

It must be the day of the silly one-line posts.
Apparently there is another good reason for me to avoid air travel.

Alex found me a page that clearly illustrates, with the aid of Venn diagrams, why I prefer to work from home.