I was working from home this Sunday, and got to thinking that I hadn't heard the water coming off the top of my house (as I would expect, given that it's been 40F+ the last day or so).
When I went onto my back porch to check things out, I was made even more worried, as all I could hear was the sluice of water coming from my neighbors drains, and not my own. I held my ear up to the drain nearest me: nothing.
I backed up further to see what could be blocking the drainage from my roof. And I saw that my roof had already melted, and all but a small bit hanging on below an exhaust pipe was what was left of this year's terrible snow.
We've almost made it. We're almost there.
Writing an essay on Utilitarianism. I realize most of you all are out of the essay-writing stage of life, and onto the actual-work-for-a-paycheck stage. Regardless, trying to write an essay on any ethical theory is fantastically annoying. Mainly because it results in hours of "how do I make decisions?" "Am I a moral person?" "How is morality defined?" and other such questions wreaking havoc on a worldview.
Since the weather was looking to be rather niceish today I decided it was time to break the bike out and ride some of my commute today. Being somewhat slow in getting up and miscalculating the amount of time needed to get down to where I wanted to start riding from I ended up getting going an hour later than I should have.
On my commute, which I decided I should keep to the 20 miles one way route I discovered that in the 5 months since I last rode, a major bridge is now gone. What I hoped to be a good break in to riding turned into a late morning dash to find an alternate route that didn't put me on roads that with cars whizzing past with no shoulder or sidewalk. Suffice to say, I'm tired and I have to do it all over again on the way home tonight.
Given my recent (shared) infatuation with Sherlock, I thought this was appropriate. However, when I think otters and Benedict Cumberbatch, let's just say this is not what my first thought was. It is, without question, more family friendly than what I had in mind.
Otters That Look Like Benedict Cumberbatch (redscharlach.tumblr.com)
This is for JD and Josh, you hipsters you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amhttp://www.youtube...&v=hgCqz3l33kU# (www.youtube.com))
I was finally gonna do it... I was finally going to cave on Burger King. But they were closed. Tis a sad day.
I close on my house on the 29th and need to move in March. Do you think I should start packing or cleaning?
I think it's possible to rate a driver's skills based on how many mirrors they are in a habit of using.
My sister only uses 1 mirror.
So, I had an idea for a business model this afternoon.
In my experience, hard drive recovery services are incredibly expensive (at least $1000+, in all instances I've heard quoted). This is because in order to support the full level of recovery service you need to be able to take a hard drive apart, remove the important internals, and place it in other working hardware. This process requires large amounts of time, skilled personnel, and a clean room (so not to destroy data).
However, it isn't always the mechanical portion of a drive that fails. Sometimes a bit is mis-written, or software errors occur, or simply a mistake is made by the user such that they corrupt or destroy their filesystem, or otherwise render their data inaccessible by normal means. In non-mechanical failure situations, there are a ton of programs out there (and many of them free), that perform basic recovery such that one can extract critical files with decent to good accuracy.
However, that these recovery programs exist only fuels my paranoia. I find that unless people are educated and diligent with their data, it is trivial to recover a person's files after they've deleted them. And being educated and diligent on the subject of encryption, filesystems, and data integrity often takes much more time than people are willing to commit, in the same way people are willing to ignore the necessity for good backups until critical failure occurs.
So my idea is this:
If you didn't have to support mechanical failures, you could probably undercut the competition by half. And offering a reliable, convenient way for people to ensure that people don't get at their data when they're done with it would be something I'd be interested in (plus I like the idea of villifying Geek Squad members in a marketing campaign... "What happens to your data after it leaves your hands?")
Anybody need a 50 gallon fish tank, complete with a plecostomus and two eels?
Parents have a coworker, giving away said setup for free.
In weather like this, I enjoy driving around with my windows cracked ever so slightly, blaring Israel Kamakawiwo'ole as loud as I can.
Well it looks like I was beat to it by people who care more and probably have fewer kids. Official Class of 2003 reunion planning was started on facebook it seems.
I'm not sure why I actually care as much as I do, possibly because I actually had a pretty good time at Service. But the idea of this reunion thing has actually been on my mind for the a bit and I actually do want to somehow make it fun and inviting for everyone.
I think a sizable chunck of the idkfa community are '03 grads, any thoughts on how we, in our own small way can push this endeavor to potential awesomeness?
Recent iMessage Conversation:
1: I'm at the store and have a coupon. Which Old Spice Body Wash do you use?
2: The one on the shelf.
1: There are four on the shelf.
2: That's what I mean.
1: *headdesk*
Oh, the places you'll go! (as told by various Burning Man attendees) (NSFW): http://www.youtube....atch?v=ahv_1IS7SiE (www.youtube.com)
Works strangely well into the surreal nature of Dr. Seuss' illustrations.
