Month: January 2008

I’m so dreamy…

I had two bizarre dreams in a row last night.

In the first one, it started off boring. I was stuck in traffic. Don’t you wish you were me, dreaming about being stuck in traffic? The sky was darkly overcast, except at the horizon. I had the top up. People were finally pulling off to the side of the road, and eventually pointing behind me and to my right, where I couldn’t see. I was coming up 360 to turn right on 183, so I pulled out my camera from my pocket, and stopped just in time to get a few photos of the flying saucer as it passed directly overhead with a roar. It didn’t turn around, but it did come back and there was a silly moment like the Simpsons haloween episode where it took two beams to lift Homer, except mine was becuase I still had my seat belt on. Then there was more trouble, because I had the top up, and the top is not porous enough to allow me through. That’s when I woke up.

I actually cannot remember the second dream now, but I recalled it clearly when I woke up this morning. Don’t you hate it when that happens?  I called Cy to ask him what I said about it; he mentioned something about getting Grace dressed, but that doesn’t drive any feeling of recognition in me.

2blog folder catchup

As always, start out with things overheard:

Geeky things:

Political things:

Interesting things:

Funny things:

Did you know I have a superpower?

No, really — it’s true. I even use it for the forces of good!

What, I hear you plead, could J’s superpower possibly be?

Anything you give me, I can take it and make it worse.

Many folks wonder how useful this particular superpower is. Allow me to describe:  Someone walks into our office, supposedly to get something IT-ish done.  They listen to what we are talking about, and are so appalled that they either forget what they came in for, or are driven off.  Now, that’s not using it for good, but it is useful sometimes.

To use it for good requires more effort, to wit:  We are planning something — an upgrade, perhaps.  We talk about things that could go wrong, and how we should plan for them.  I take everything that could go wrong, and make it worse.  This makes the plan more robust.

Another new word

ediot: (n), from idiot. A person who is incapable of using computers, causing much pain to support staff

Catching up.

As usual, starting with overheard things — it almost always cheers me up:

I’ve been doing many things involving streaming flv video files:

Some wordpress (and other geeky) stuff:

Funny and interesting things: