Homo Sum:
humani nil a me alienum puto

Tonight’s planned hotel blogging will not be happening due to a much longer than intended commute time today.
Americans, rest assured that your Border Protection officers are doing an excellent job of preventing Canadians from sneaking into your county without a thorough examination. Also, they are very friendly, very interested in the intricacies of software architecture, [...]

It’s no Guinness float1, but here’s something I’ve had on the old hard disk for quite a few years 2 that’s always worked out well for me. Those monks are geniuses.
Charcoal braised beef with Chimay Blue
Serves: 4 persons
Preparation: 0 h 20 min
Cooking: 2 h 15 min
Type: Main dish
Cuisine: Belgium
INGREDIENTS

800 gr (1.75 lb.) of braising [...]

I’m working on a post with a bunch of information about the various things I got up to this week while I was away from the Internets. In the interim, here’s one photo that captures the way most of the week went:

So, yeah, it was a pretty good week.

Just because yours is smaller doesn’t make you less of a man. Unless we’re talking about your brain.

Whatever » From the “People This Lacking in Self-Awareness Really Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Speak in Public Ever Again” Files
But, you know what, there’s “graduate from good schools and work hard in public service” elite, and then there’s “make millions in corporate America and marry into the family that owned the mortgage on Europe” elite. [...]

The next few days are about focusing on my family. Back on Thursday evening.

This could easily have been the last item in that last link post, but I felt it was gloriously bizarre enough to merit a post all its own:
Man found in WI basement covered in BBQ sauce

APPLETON, Wisc. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - A couple telephoned police in the middle of the night after finding a man in [...]

The story about the classic “car on the roof” trick at Cambridge–my favourite bits are how they used skirt-hitching distractions, and the bit about the case of champagne the Dean sent.
Dawn Tyler Watson & Paul Deslauriers performing Led Zeppelin’s classic Going To California. Make sure to click the “watch in high quality” link.
There’s a new [...]

My copy of this finally arrived on Wednesday (shortly after copies hit Pitcairn’s Island)–and despite poker night followed by an hour of Australia work email very late at night, I still started into it. Thursday morning was… um… not ideal.
The book though, is great. I only got through around a hundred pages that night before [...]

It’s been a crazy week at work, which is eating a lot into my personal time, but I don’t really write about the job here.
That being said, apparently going to the weekly poker game with a lot of repressed anger fills in nicely for the “killer instinct” my poker play is usually lacking–since I dodecupled [...]