Special powers

I think the special power I’d most like to have is to stop time in the sense that the world around me freezes. It’s difficult to attend to the mundane when the overarching compels attention and right now I’ve got banalities like Wisconsin has cheddar.

Steampunk WWW

Overheard in re: a Metafilter conversation [1] about the original cross platform web browser; a line-mode application which is essentially a TTY [2] interface. Imagine that… a typewriter that types by itself like some kind of terrible player piano. You read what it’s writing while it chatters away. And then once in a while it…

Bucket list

Another thing for the bucket list: Start a polka band named Rage Against the Indignities. Think Weird Al Yankovic meets Brave Combo mocking the latest manufactured outrage du jour.

Squicked

Dudes who use lavender, italicized script fonts in their work IM messages are dudes I just don’t get. In your personal life? Have at it. At work? Hrm…

Is I ill?

Confidence in my digestive tract after lunch is barely running above 50%. The mold spot I did see on the bun had to be on the very last bite. Kind of hoping that was the only spot…

Cornhuskers

For the third time ever, I’ll be walking through the gates of Memorial Stadium this afternoon. Bus leaves in just over an hour!

It’s almost hoodie/jersey time

The USHL teams released their final rosters/protected lists[1] today! Time to start working on the game face and stretch out the vocal cords. Seriously ready for some puck. Surprises to me so far The Stars stand pat with an exceptionally inexperienced crew of forwards. Number of goals scored last year by returning Stars forwards this…

Laws of technology

Overheard in the context of experiencing having one issue with a VM resolved causing a new issue which continues the state of the the VM being unusable: “It’s the Law of Conservation of Obstacles.”