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You are walking down a country road. It is a quiet afternoon. You look up and far, far down the road you see someone walking toward you. You are surprised to have noticed someone so far away. But you keep walking, expecting nothing more than a friendly nod as you pass. He gets closer. You see he has bright orange hair. He is closer- a white sating suit spotted with colored dots. Closer-a painted white face and red lips. You and he are fifty yards apart. You, and a full-fledged clown holding a bicycle horn are twenty yards apart. You approach on the lonely country road. You nod. He honks and passes.
-- Steve Martin, "Cruel Shoes"
The core switch in our facility which is the fiber-backbone of our entire network blew out this morning bringing everyone down. This is not a small thing. Fortunately, the day before, we had identified a burning smell coming from the switch and it was hot to the touch, so we contacted the remote network guys and asked them to overnight us a new one. It arrived this morning, 30 minutes after the switch blew, fully configured. Swap GBICs, power on the unit, total downtime: 40 minutes. A severe outage that actually made us look good, like we know what we're doing. I love it when a plan comes together.
My back stopped hurting yesterday about 1500. Well, it evaporated to the point it was no longer my main focus. As I was mostly inanimate that day, my newfound evening-time energy level was over-the-top; a rare occurrence indeed. My wife was shell-shocked and hiding in the basement when I got home. Apparently, she stopped drinking coffee and had only decaffeinated tea during the day. She was completely listless. No worries, Super-Dad was home! I did a little of this, a little of that, danced a dance, then smoked some salmon on the grill. It was so good that both the children ate all of theirs, and asked for seconds. WOW! Later that evening, after I'd read to the children and tucked them into bed, the wife and I stayed up and played HGTV's Mission: Organization in the basement and tried to maximize our living area by shifting our paradigm of expectations and events. Even straight lines became blurred as we laid out the battlefield! At 0045 it was time to throw in the towel with much progress having been made.
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Alas, shot down again...
How cool is this: My wife asks me about digitizing all our music, and making it available wirelessly throughout the house. Wow! What a dream come true! I start with the plasma HDTV required for the new mac mini using iLife '06 and it's built-in wireless, sharing out the second 160GB drive she suggested I purchase to hold our (approximately) remaining 10,000 songs. I explained that most of the infrastructure was already in place to do this, we'd just require the second mini and the television as the big-ticket items. Her goal, in part - was to get rid of the physical media, my 2500 CD's. I explain corporate backup strategy and relate it to the CD's being our 'backup' in case of catastrophic failure, conceding that I would gladly pack them up and store them away for archival purposes. I also explained the time involved in bringing such a project to fruition. She wasn't disenchanted with any part of my oration, which is always a good sign. She also wanted to move toward a better surround-system, which I managed to talk up a more expensive version of what we currently have, without breaking the $500 range. Ta-friggin-da!
I'm sorry. My responses are limited. You must ask the right questions.
-- Steve Martin, "Cruel Shoes"
The core switch in our facility which is the fiber-backbone of our entire network blew out this morning bringing everyone down. This is not a small thing. Fortunately, the day before, we had identified a burning smell coming from the switch and it was hot to the touch, so we contacted the remote network guys and asked them to overnight us a new one. It arrived this morning, 30 minutes after the switch blew, fully configured. Swap GBICs, power on the unit, total downtime: 40 minutes. A severe outage that actually made us look good, like we know what we're doing. I love it when a plan comes together.
My back stopped hurting yesterday about 1500. Well, it evaporated to the point it was no longer my main focus. As I was mostly inanimate that day, my newfound evening-time energy level was over-the-top; a rare occurrence indeed. My wife was shell-shocked and hiding in the basement when I got home. Apparently, she stopped drinking coffee and had only decaffeinated tea during the day. She was completely listless. No worries, Super-Dad was home! I did a little of this, a little of that, danced a dance, then smoked some salmon on the grill. It was so good that both the children ate all of theirs, and asked for seconds. WOW! Later that evening, after I'd read to the children and tucked them into bed, the wife and I stayed up and played HGTV's Mission: Organization in the basement and tried to maximize our living area by shifting our paradigm of expectations and events. Even straight lines became blurred as we laid out the battlefield! At 0045 it was time to throw in the towel with much progress having been made.
From a meme on
swashbuckler332's site:
Made out with someone on your friends list?
No... but I certainly wouldn't mind with some of them... (stop looking so hopeful,
Alas, shot down again...
How cool is this: My wife asks me about digitizing all our music, and making it available wirelessly throughout the house. Wow! What a dream come true! I start with the plasma HDTV required for the new mac mini using iLife '06 and it's built-in wireless, sharing out the second 160GB drive she suggested I purchase to hold our (approximately) remaining 10,000 songs. I explained that most of the infrastructure was already in place to do this, we'd just require the second mini and the television as the big-ticket items. Her goal, in part - was to get rid of the physical media, my 2500 CD's. I explain corporate backup strategy and relate it to the CD's being our 'backup' in case of catastrophic failure, conceding that I would gladly pack them up and store them away for archival purposes. I also explained the time involved in bringing such a project to fruition. She wasn't disenchanted with any part of my oration, which is always a good sign. She also wanted to move toward a better surround-system, which I managed to talk up a more expensive version of what we currently have, without breaking the $500 range. Ta-friggin-da!
I'm sorry. My responses are limited. You must ask the right questions.
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my newfound evening-time energy level was over-the-top; a rare occurrence indeed
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Some things are not meant to last...
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#2 Excellent! Fucking excellent! Good job soldier.
#3 Mmmmmm. How did you prepare that fish?
#4 Don't fuck your friends - it ruins the relationship. Just snuggle with them - that's how you bond!
#5 Buena Suerte!
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#2)r0ckin'
#3)Smoked. Encrusted with roasted garlic. Jack Daniels's smoking pellets.
#4) I'll keep that in mind dude...uh, thanks.
#5) Danke.
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Any marinade or oil with that? Is that fresh garlic and is it crushed/grated/minced or what?
You must forgive my persistence.
Lena's bringing home some fish - I don't know what it's gonna be. Probably will be salmon, but she's looking for something different. I just wanna be prepared.
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Lay out your fish. Coat the everlivingshit out of them with your spice of choice. Spray Olive Oil Pam over your creation.
I stone-clean my porcelien-coated cast-iron grates (prior to every meal), remove the smaller of the grates (which I keep on the far left side) fire it up, coat the remaining grates with Pam for Grills, and close the lid. I place a 6x6 folded aluminum foil packet with a half-cup of Jack Daniels Smoking Pellets and a single hole on the left-most burner, and turn it about a 1/4 of the way up (hot enough to get the pellets to smoke like mad, yet keeping internal temperature right at 300-degrees) and - once smoking, place the filets atop the unlight burners and let the smoke do it's thing. The smoke runs out in about 20 minutes. If the slices are too thick (I'm not making lox here) I turn the remaining three burners on 'low' and give them about 5 minutes.
Dude - it was you taught me that salmon was to be grilled!
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Yes, well - thank you. :) It was you who taught me about smoking pellets. Being from Texas, we would be embarrassed if we didn't know how to handle the grill.
I was just interested in your spices and marinade. Which - you've just answered! Roasted garlic spice?? Never seen it - but now I will look for it. It sounds delicious.
It makes me so happy to see my girls enjoying (and devouring) my recipes and creations from the grill.
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The only thing I ever wondered about all of that was, did each of you write your own commentary or copy it directly out of Wikipedia?
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I've heard you say this several times. Every time you've said it, I've wondered if you're mentally retarded or just semantically confused. To say that you don't believe in coincidence is to say that you don't believe that a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection could possibly happen.
Surely you've seen plenty of cases in your life where events have coincided that, upon external evaluation, seem to be fortuitous or ironic.
If you were to say that you don't believe in a mystic connection between events would be one thing, but to say that you don't believe that two events that happen to, forgive the redundancy, coincide is just silly.
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Even in the proper context, its still misleading. It'd be like me saying that I don't believe in rocks simply because something i'm examining is not made of rock. Its difficult to imagine a circumstance that would provide the proper context for me expressing disbelief in 'rocks' to be appropriate.
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Someone suggesting everything is coincidence, all the time, 24x7. Its retarded. That's not the answer to everything - it is the exception rather than the rule. And rather than try to explain the same thing over and over (http://ehowton.livejournal.com/75623.html?thread=723559#t723559) you begin using absolutes. They're quick, effective, and true in most of the cases you're referring to. Only either an idiot, or a literal person would point out that disbelief in something isn't an appropriate allegory, and you sir, are no idiot.
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I dunno, I've found that burning some salmon covered in butter, paprika, garlic, salt, pepper, cayenne, and cumin in a very hot, dry pan, is really quite nice.
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Heh, I'd have to answer 'four' if I were taking that survey. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out which four.
How cool is this:
That's amazingly cool. I might try to parlay this into using your existing mini and an external hard drive as the media server to justify the purchase of a new Mac Pro.
P.S.: I've seen the Bose Acoustimass 15 5.1 system for as little as $215 on ebay.
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