…spending several hours of the evening giving a pretty girl a massage while watching The Muppet Show on DVD.
Life is good.
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Sometimes, there’s no point in trying to summerize, or in trying to find the right bit to excerpt. Just go read it.
Being Poor by John Scalzi
Saw this on alt.poly, and know enough people who are on my flist who do handcrafts but don’t read a.p. that might enjoy this:
“We’ve all seen those craft projects. Projects that look like the cat barfed on a lace doily, or that make one suspect that they were designed by a colourblind gibbon on LSD. Projects that say “good taste went thataway”. Yeah. Those craft projects. Well, here’s where they all come to die. Enjoy the hideousness, folks. And let this be an example to you.”
http://handcrafthouseofhorrors.blogspot.com/
We’ve got a life here
We’ve made a home here
We’ve struggled for this peace
We’ve reached beyond our reach
And no one can ever take that away
I know that I love you
I know I was meant to
You lead I will follow
You speak and I’ll know
To me the truth was always very clear
‘Cause we’ve got a life here.”
–Ben Wakeman, “We’ve Got A Life Here”
One year ago today, we stood in a crowded courtroom, in front of friends and lovers and total strangers, and made public and legal the committment we’d already made to one another.
Happy anniversary, love, this first of many.
My employer is currently looking to hire a telcom engineer. If you or someone you know fits the qualifications and is in the Atlanta area (our offices are in Alpharetta), please contact Buddy Bertram or Scott Helms at 678-507-5000, or send me your resume and I will pass it along.
Qualifications:
Required:
1. Extensive experience with DSL networks, including installation and configuration of DSLAM’s and troubleshooting. BRAS experience, Redback, Shasta, Cisco, Alcatel, etc a plus.
2. Experience with digital loop carriers AFC, Adtran, Lucent, etc with more preference given to NGDLC’s like Occam, Calix, Zhone, Ciena (Catena),Telstrat, etc.
3. Theoretical and practical understanding of how phone systems work today. Central office experience is a plus as class 5 switch experience. Experience with class 5 soft switches will be highly regarded.
4. Understanding of SONET, ATM, Ethernet, and IP is a must, practical experience is a plus.
5. Ability to learn new technologies rapidly and a desire to find solutions.
Desired:
1. VOIP experience, understanding of MGCP, SIP, H.323 and other VOIP protocols.
2. Practical experience with VOIP based systems, either in the PBX sector or common carrier networks.
3. Cisco router experience.
In an effort to post more often than once every six weeks, here is memage, vectored from the lovely joyeuse13.
Directions: Type “(your name) is” , (with the quotes) into a Google search, cut-and-paste the first 10 responses that work. Just pull the answers right out of the excerpt google shows you, don’t click the link and search around. The only rule is that each one has to start with “(your name) is”.
Well, this should be amusing:
- Rob is now leading in newspaper endorsements
- Rob is composing
- Rob is the bald one
- Rob is always available by appointment to meet with you.
- Rob is Certified as an Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist,
- Rob is now available to individuals
- Rob is Jim Brickman’s “Brick’s Picks” artist of the month.
- Rob is a former Board Member of the Food Standards Agency and Meat Hygiene Advisory Committee.
- Rob is a Software Engineer who specializes in… Software QA;
- Rob is a libertarian Republican and Navy veteran from Houston, Texas who works as a tech
Some of those fit. Others, not so much. 🙂
Today, on “Out of Context Theatre”:
“I was thinking giant prophylactics as hats.”
–overheard on #filkhaven
The first bit of this popped into my head the other day when cadhla posted an open letter to her muse, Jane. Now, we’ve being hearing about Jane for years, but somehow this time it connected with that odd bit of MY brain, and…well….
This is obviously from cadhla‘s point of view…
Musing on Jane
by Rob Wynne
TTTO: “Jane” by Barenaked Ladies
© 2005
She lives inside my head, sweet Jane the muse
She lives on fiction, cigarettes and booze
She dictates plots to me and I just weep
I wish she would shut up and let me sleep
Jane, doesn’t seem to understand I have to work
Jane, doesn’t care that she is acting like a jerk
Jane
Jane
I wrote a story and thought it was grand
I didn’t know she had four sequels planned
I must look like a crazy foreigner
Arguing with myself on street corners
Jane, has more ideas than I’ve hours in the day
Jane, pesters me all night and will not go away
Jane
Jane
I wrote a novel
Tor should have got it yesterday
Why it would be best now to take a short rest now
is what I cannot explain to Jane
Still living in my head, sweet Jane the muse
Still sending more ideas than I can use
I’m not sure how she got inside my brain
I write her words out longhand on the train
Jane, has yet another trilogy for me to write
Jane, doesn’t see why I think I should sleep tonight
Jane
Jane
All my life, I’ve felt that I was born on the wrong side of the ocean. This was underscored yesterday in the aftermath of the London transit bombings, as I watched the populace react to events with characteristic British understatement. Yes, this is how you deal with this sort of thing — exactly like that.
Honestly, anyone who knows anything about Londoners culture should have known the operation was doomed to failure, anyway. The whole point of terror bombing is to send a message, and everyone knows you don’t strike up conversations with strangers on the Tube. It’s just not done.
I was also pleased to see #filkhaven once again creating a central place for people in the filk community to get news, check up on their friends and chosen family, and generally *be a community* for people scattered by geography but bound together by spirit. I did comment sardonically to fleetfootmike that we needed to find a better method for promoting the use of the channel, though. 🙂
Well done, everyone! Carry on.
Happy birthday to my beloved kitanzi, the best partner anyone could ever hope for.