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There’s not much to do when you’re working the graveyard shift at Tech Support, so I just spent 15 minutes walking around outside. I do that a lot, just to escape the sterile, filtered-air atmosphere of the office. Any way, I round the corner of the building, headed towards the street, and there are about 20 crickets climbing on the curb and the wall of the next building. “That’s interesting,” I think. I watch them for 30 seconds or so, but quickly become bored. That’s natural; crickets aren’t really that interesting. I walk a little further, and get to the corner of the next building, and there are a good hundred or two all over the building and the lamppost next to it. ...

if anyone has good photos of me (preferably in a digital format), please let me know.

OK, so I got REALLY bored tonight, and put up a profile on friendster. I should be pretty easy to find, if you know my name. Alternately, you can search for my by email address. Here’s the strategy I use when I need an email address for a website: Figure out website’s domain (that’s the easy part). strip off the hostname, leaving only the domain name (e.g., “devlogic.org”). take that domain name, and add “@logic.cx” to the end and voila! If I ever get spam, I look at what email address it was sent to, and ...

Put a new site up today here. It’s not going to replace this one, but I encourage everyone who reads the site to go over there, make an account, and post something. It doesn’t matter what. Fiction, non-fiction, a link you thought was neat, or a rant that you’ve been saving up for the jerk who cut you off in traffic the other day. I’m envisioning a “Hitch-Hiker’s Guide”-style site, kinda like Everything2. ...

I’m gonna want these while I’m bored at work tonight… Infocalypse myDVDs Myth2 phpDVD

I saw it on Fark first… How many teaspoons are there in a cubic light year? On a related note, What is the speed of light in furlongs per fortnight?

New gallery. It might be moved soon, but for now it’s here: photo gallery Some neat features, and it wasn’t too hard to set up. It even has a “setup wizard”.

I was listening to KMFA on my way to the grocery store tonight, and I heard something that blew me away. It was the UT Saxophone ensemble playing an arrangement of Bach’s Toccata & Fugue in d minor. Now, that’s one of the most impressive pipe organ pieces that I can think of, and it was being played by a bunch of saxophonists. Wow. if you can find a recording of this, I encourage you to listen to it, and be amazed. ...

Robert Heinlein (he’s got a new book coming out, you know) once said The correct way to punctuate a sentence that starts: “Of course it is none of my business but–” is to place a period after the word “but.” Don’t use excessive force in supplying such moron with a period. Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about. I feel that there needs to be an extention to that rule for people who start sentences with “I know we have freedom of speech but–”. BUT WHAT, ASSHOLE? ...

I’m really just doing this because it’s funny. I’m sitting here at work, bored out of my skull. I just finished reading The Makeshift miracle (a bargain at 99 cents through bitpass), and I thought “hey, it’d be funny if I started up the handheld and made a post. Especially since I’m sitting 3 inches from a desktop machine that’d be 3 million times faster. So here’s that post. Which I wrote on (and posted from) my iPAQ. ...