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As a gymnast in a former life, the Olympics have always held a wonderful set of feelings for me. I enjoy reflecting on the vastness of the world as I watch each opening ceremony. I speak French, having lived overseas for a couple years, and I really love hearing the French as the first language [...]

Odd as it may seem, the wife of one of the guys on my team got hit with some Exploding Water on Sunday morning. First degree burns on her face; glasses protected her eyes. Didn’t know nuking water in a Pyrex container could be so volatile under just the right conditions. Guess this gives you [...]

One of the great things about living and working in Phoenix is the weather in November. All the books say hiking season is October – April, and they’re right. The company picnic was planned for today, but it’s been cancelled since it’s predicted to rain all day. I don’t recall a rainy day this month [...]

Dilbert’s gone unread for a while.

I’m waiting in line for Harry Potter 7 now. There are more fake British accents than I’ve heard in a while. Definitely a few hundred people here from kids in strollers to a man I dress military garb. The costume contest is packed with Hermione entries but slim on Harry and Ron entries. I’m not [...]

My youngest cousin was in a building next to Norris Hall. She’s an engineering major at VT. Her mother works on campus. Her father has worked for the campus for years, and works for the campus from home. She wrote yesterday with a brief update that said, in part: One guy I know was in [...]

Grand Canyon Skywalk :: Hicks-Wright.net This was not because the package was that complex, but because each person in the line thought they were going to be paying $25 per person. In reality, the tribe was charging another $50 on top of the $25 for each person. You read that right, 75 bucks a pop. [...]

Random tidbit. I’ve followed Merlin’s dangerous precedent, and nuked nearly everything I have in my RSS reader. Unlike Merlin, I didn’t delete everything. I’ve left only those places I know I enjoy reading at least once a week. Everything else is gone. I did, however, backup my subscriptions as an OPML file. I’ll drop that [...]

Ever seen this symbol in ForecastFox? (CruiseControl and Bloglines plugins on the left) Meaning: Sunny and Very Hot.

Strange, but absurdly true. If it were only one of the two delays, I’d skip it, but both is just too odd to pass up. I work for a national company. I made a request to change my direct deposit setup a while back. I was told by our local branch that headquarters had received [...]

I had never seen the Greek spelling of Athens before the Opening Ceremony for the 2004 Summer Olympic Games. I thought it was quite cool. There’s not much that Americans encounter on a daily basis that gives us a sense of the truly international community we live in. Open source projects do that for me. [...]

Eric Jarvi has started to collect a blogroll of alumni from the BYU Computer Science department. Great idea.

What a better way to spend New Year’s Day after a hard week than updating my Gentoo box and watching the West Wing. Life is good.

deseretnews.com | Nature takes toll in Utah, West “We broke that one-day record with Friday’s storm,” Eubank said. “The most snowfall for any 24-hour period was 18.4 inches on Oct. 17-18, 1984.” This monster snow storm delayed my in-laws trip to visit us in sunny Arizona by more than 8 hours! I may include details [...]

Blue Sky On Mars: December 23, 2003 Archives Digital imaging for personal recordkeeping? If the legal issues can be worked out, someone should develop a digital recordkeeping system for mere mortals (as opposed to MegaCorps). Just look at Fool.com: Records You Need to Keep, and you can see how even average folk can get buried [...]

This post mentions an interesting app, Dashboard.