Phil on January 31st, 2009

spending the weekend in steamboat springs.  Beautiful weather.

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Phil on January 30th, 2009

Somebody forwarded me a copy of an article from the February issue of American Motorcyclist.  It seems that Congress has finally decided to fund a new study on motorcycle safety – the last good study was the “Hurt Report”, released back in 1981 and conducted by a gentleman named Harry Hurt from USC.
 
The Hurt Report [...]

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Phil on January 30th, 2009

Apparently I missed the shift from Ecko being a hip-hop/ghetto clothing company to a nerd company.
I did think this parody was pretty good, though.

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Phil on January 30th, 2009

To the little old white-haired lady in the shiny silver New Beetle next to me in the front rank at the stoplight on Prospect and Timberline who looked sooooo confused about why I laid into my horn so vigorously about two seconds after the light turned green…
 
… I just wanted to say “Hi” really loudly.
…or it [...]

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Phil on January 30th, 2009

At 7 last night I hadn’t eaten for 26 hours and I was considering throwing my laptop through one of the safety glass windows in the lab.
Today, I’m much happier because my boss and I found the completely-unrelated-to-what-I’ve-been-doing bug that was completely shutting down my progress. YAAAY!
It turned out that the code optimizer had [...]

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Phil on January 28th, 2009

Ok, people, I’ve had enough.
Repeat after me: “If an email says that I should forward it to everyone I know, IT IS LYING and I will delete it immediately.”
I have had email for… 14, 15 years now? …and have yet to see my advice above proven wrong. If I can accomplish just one thing [...]

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Phil on January 27th, 2009

Goal for the near future: configure my cell phone in such a way that I can sneak real traffic over T-Mobile’s WAP access points.
I’ve got some outboard hardware paired to the phone and I appear to be able to get to boring places like wap.yahoo.com with it, but I demand more.

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Phil on January 26th, 2009

Today I pulled from my mailbox an offer from Circuit City to purchase a 2, 4 or 5 year extended warranty from them for my TV.
Somehow, I don’t think that’s a very wise investment.

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Phil on January 26th, 2009

Forget impeachment.  Tar and feather that turkey.
 
(In case CNN changes their content on that link, I’m complaining about Blago’s announcement that he was considering sticking Oprah in the vacant senate seat.)

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Phil on January 25th, 2009

“Why is this,” you ask, “Aren’t  you an incredibly handsome, virile, wise  and witty man unto whom any woman should feel honored to bear children?  Also, aren’t you sporting incredibly neat and avante garde side burns this week?”
Up until five minutes ago, yes, yes I was.  This I realized that I’m an incredibly dumb person [...]

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