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Brian Bilbrey December 4, 2011

Transitions

Another busy week, another year nearly wound all the way down. Work was assisting in proposal writing, preparing for a big weekend systems test, and ten hours yesterday working remote on said test. In between, a bunch of reading and some coding and conference participation for my Java programming class, a bit of left-over turkey for noshing, and sleep when it was able to fit into the schedule. Oh, yeah. "Transitions", eh? So I stripped out all the installed games off of the Windows box, and got that all winnowed down just the small-ish C-drive. Then I pulled the drive…

Brian Bilbrey November 5, 2011

One Nation Under A Groove

Thanks, Funkadelic, for brightening up my afternoon! * * * Busy week (huge surprise there, eh?) - four days working at the office, including a day of racking new gear and helping to get the electrics run properly for the new gear. Friday was an appointment in the morning, followed by writing and coding for school. I'd been working on the final paper for the Social Gerontology class for a couple of weeks, and yesterday I finished it and submitted it. In the evening, I worked on the Java project that's due on Sunday evening (or, confusingly, Monday, but I'll…

Brian Bilbrey October 29, 2011

Real Snow (TM)

Had I said I was going to celebrate All Hallow's Eve by decorating the whole DC Metro area for Christmas, they would have laughed at me. The snow is still here, hours later, and the temps are dropping through freezing, so it'll be here for a short while tomorrow, too. Wow, just wow! And our overall precipitation is around an inch and a quarter for the last 18 hours. We're 3/4 of an inch away from 20 inches of rain in our back yard since Irene made landfall here in late August.

Brian Bilbrey October 29, 2011

Snow? SRSLY?

First snow of Winter 2011-2012 - it ain't much, and it ain't sticking to anything, but I'm still impressed with the can-do attitude expressed by this weather system. We started off with rain in the middle of the night, and were just shy of an inch of rain today when it flipped over to the snow delivery system about an hour ago. Right now the occasional flake is still falling, and it's hovering around 35-36°F (~1.5°C)... I guess it's a good thing I winterized the watering systems yesterday. We might get our first frost tonight, eh? * * * I…

Brian Bilbrey October 27, 2011

Healthy Choices

Tim O'Reilly twittled about a talk at a conference, regarding "systemic" change to cities and food choices to enhance health. Really? We can't afford healthy, long-lived people! What this country needs is sick people, real sick people, people with low cost, short time-to-death diseases and infections. That'll solve our employment problems and our long-term social welfare funding issues, all in one go. It won't be as effective as the big rock from the sky with our name on it, but disease has the advantage of not damaging much in the way of physical infrastructure. Fewer people, faster commutes! * *…