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Brian Bilbrey March 17, 2016

17 March 2016

There once was a service called FandangoNOW, ah, Fucking Bastards, the company formerly known as M-GO. I logged into it once, because it was a featured service on our Roku box. As of this morning, I had neither purchased nor rented any content from M-GO. This is a good thing, because it appears that with the acquisition of M-GO by Fandango, you can either accept their new Terms and Privacy Policy (including the privacy policies of their corporate parents, NBC Universal and Warner Brothers), OR YOU, THE CUSTOMER, CAN GO TO HELL. Well, not HELL, as such. But if you'd…

Brian Bilbrey February 21, 2016

21 Feb 2016

It's been a busy week and weekend. Lots of fun stuff at work, including setup for production patching this weekend and a big physical-to-virtual migration of a production workload. Several of us worked on it for several hours today, but somehow most of the tasks on the spreadsheet had my name on it ... funny how that happens. So my work day today started at 0700 and wrapped up at about 1300, with a bit more email and ticket work late in the afternoon. * * * Additionally, it was unseasonably warm this weekend, with temps in the mid-to-high 50's.

Brian Bilbrey February 14, 2016

14 Feb 2016

Happity Saint Valentine's Day. Did y'all have a nice massacre? To pre-celebrate the day, we went out to supper and the theatre last night. The show was Annapolis Shakespeare Company's production of Anton Chekov's Three Sisters. It was a crowded main stage (20' x 25'), between set dressing and at times all eleven cast members at once! Three sisters is a melancholy and ever-so-slightly depressing drama about the titular sisters and their brother, trapped far from the desired Moscow in a semi-rural backwater of Russia. As the play opens, with their father the General dead a year past, the family's…

Brian Bilbrey February 11, 2016

11 Feb 2016

Lexi under a shawl Yeah, Lexi is a spoiled dog and she knows it, but all on her own, she'll go find something a bit like a blanket, on whatever piece of furniture is convenient. She'll burrow in, then turn a couple of times and end up with her face poking out so that she can see what's going on. Just in case we're doing anything interesting, don't you know? This time, it was Marcia's red shawl, draped (for a while) on the back of the sofa. Lexi hauled that down, and draped herself. Cute as beans. * * *…

Brian Bilbrey February 9, 2016

9 Feb 2016

Disappointing. Snow fell for about 18 hours, leaving a total accumulation of ... nothing. A smattering on the grass, a damp road surface. It was just too darn warm coming into this event - the storm never had a chance. It didn't even frighten the schools in my county into closing - and they frighten real easy! * * * A challenging day at work, with Internet issues external to our sphere of control, but massively annoying, taking center stage. That, plus a failed piece of hardware, made the first half of my day disappear. I'll get caught up, somehow…