December 2010
1 post
“All service animals are permitted at Scottrade Center. Please notify your ticket...”
– http://www.scottradecenter.com/
Rebuttal: No, no, my doggy gets a seat!
Rebuttal: No, no need to accommodate him, I’ll just leave him in the car.
October 2010
1 post
Things I actually find myself saying at work
This was a response to a grad student’s trouble ticket:
I’ve brought the computer back down to 1125. It’s been reinstalled with TSG’s CentOS install. (If it has network problems in the future, reinstalling the operating system isn’t a very fruitful first step in troubleshooting.) If its networking acts up again, try powering it off and back on again. If this is...
June 2010
1 post
Blue Waters Thursday
A different proposal for Thursday fun this week… Tomorrow evening is an open house for the new NCSA Peta Scale computing data center next to the Assembly Hall lot. http://illinois.edu/calendar/Calendar?ACTION=VIEW_EVENT&calId=772&skinId=160&DATE=6/16/2010&eventId=170886 Should be fun if you’re into data center porn. I’m throwing out meeting there at 5, doing...
May 2010
4 posts
“This kind of issue defines why a site should have a storage architect, to select...”
– Richard Sims on the ADSM-L list in response to a thread ‘why create a 12TB LUN’
Five Laws of Calendars
I found five-laws-of-calendars.txt sitting in my home directory. I don’t remember if I wrote this or stole this. But I’m sure it was when I was thinking in a very Ranganathan-ian way. Topical again as campus switches to Exchange for calendaring and we still have scheduling/announcement problems. It’s not a technology problem, it’s a way of thinking problem. These rules...
Why I like the Radio Maria beers on tap...
From their weekly (?) emails:
“This week is American Craft beer week and we will be celebrating by having ten RateBeer 100s on tap at one time. Featured are Goose Island Bourbon County Stout, Port Old Viscosity, Port Older Viscosity, and Lost Abbey Angel’s Share. Nineteen of the twenty-seven beers on tap are rated 96 or above. Twenty-four are rated 87 or better and two of the three that...
Laughing Praire Dog Fest @ Canopy Club tonight
Hey, http://www.canopyclub.com/showinfo.php?id=1635 http://the217.com/articles/view/prepare_for_the_prairie_dog So I kinda hate the Canopy club, but I like two of the five bands playing at the Laughing Prairie Dog Fest tonight, and the rest sound good enough to pull me in. You should come out too. $13 tix at the door (2c cheaper than buying online…..) According to WPGU, the order’s:...
October 2009
1 post
“O HUSHED October morning mild,
Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; ...”
– Robert Frost / A boy’s will “October”
http://www.bartleby.com/117/30.html