Category Archives: Real Life

Unbelievable

Note to self: Don’t pay off the car loan on a full moon, or near it. :p
(Don’t worry, it – and I – am OK, just annoyed at what happened today.)
–TSK
PS – And yes, the 2010 weblog posts are a *bit* thin nowadays. Thinking about how to fix that; Maybe focus more [...]

Accutane News Item

I’ve stumbled onto an short news item regarding the acne medicine Accutane. Quote is from Myway’s news section, as an AP newswire (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100217/D9DTLS5O3.html).

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) – A New Jersey jury has hit the pharmaceutical company that makes Accutane with a $25.16 million judgment in a lawsuit filed by an Alabama man who blamed [...]

Great Backup Quote

Ran across a great quote regarding backups, in the book ‘Python for Unix and Linux System Administration:’

. . . when you are dealing with backups, treat them like nuclear weapons, as backups are fraught with danger in ways you might not even imagine.

That’s pretty much sums up my last ten years at work. :)
–TSK

Revival 2010

I’m a bit miffed at how long ago my last post was. It’s not my intent at all to let it wither. Of course, it was also not my intent to fervently ignore it either. :p
Anyway, the ‘general update’ is that I’m realizing certain things (that were a regular part of my [...]

(Almost) September Update

Well, if I’m not going to post as often as I normally did (due to work and other obligations), then I’ll at least try to update once a month. ;)
Anyway…
Mysterium – The return trip from Spokane was uneventful, though delayed a day due to the illness. There was a three hour layover in [...]

Stuck in Spokane? [Updated]

This is somewhat ironic.
I’m stuck in my room @ Spokane, due to a really bad flu passing around the group. It’s not affected me, so far, other than having a light cold [and now a little light-headed, slight fever, etc].
Of course, I’ve not eaten since the meeting at Cyan yesterday, but that was part [...]

Corruption? What Corruption?

Short shout-out for Dad, MystBlogs, etc.
I find it slightly amusing that I’m a Hoboken resident, and apparently have been living under a rock until sometime Friday morning (when a co-worker mentioned the corruption roundup).
Perhaps New Jersey now has a chance of having a Republican governor again (though I was rather unhappy about Whitman, for various [...]

On the Eve of Eternity…

When an old friend tells me “I know your playing style, you’ll like this game,” the alarm bells kick off immediately (I have no interest in repeating the Travian debacle back in ‘07). In this case, however, its because he was right and I’m wondering how I may integrate this into my life. [...]