It’s all been happening the last couple of days. I spent pretty much all Tuesday at work getting the memory management rethought for the demo on Wednesday. When I got back home, I put two coats of base on the texture (you can barely see the join!) and flopped into bed, just in time to […]
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A lot happened today. Lastly, the texturing: Well, they said it would be messy, and it was. But it turned out nice, and used 2.5 little hoppers of mud. There is also so, so much innuendo that’s just very tempting to mention about the process, but you can make that stuff up yourself easily. The […]
Several years ago, when I built the media room, I made a screen by removing the texture from the wall and skim coating a flat surface on it. It worked pretty well, but I’m moving the room upstairs which means I have to re-texture the wall. This should be straightforward: it’s about 40 square feet […]
Today we moved Sara’s bulky furniture to my house. She had rented a 10ft bed truck—of course they gave us a 16ft bed which was harder to maneuver downtown where she lives. But we got it loaded up with junk… …which we took to the dump. We did manage to fit nearly all the furniture […]
Sears was selling stuffed penguins with a big white space on their tummies. It had to go on my door at work with the note “A very Debian Christmas”. (I’m gradually migrating from Red Hat 9 to Debian—it doesn’t try too hard to hold your hand. B-) (By the way, the magazine page above the […]
I’m living in the kitchen at the moment. (The carpets have been cleaned, Sara is about to move her furniture into the house, and the cat is quarantined in the kitchen. It makes sense. Really.) However these northern California nights can sometimes be a bit chilly, so I got some rope lights ($1/foot at Home […]
So, I had to put something on this curiously-named web site. It’s not really about fury (in fact I’m mostly calm and collected). It’s about wit, decorum and maintaining composure in the face of outrageous circumstances. Enjoy this little WordPress site. At the moment it’s really very small.