Yep, it’s that time of year again. April 15th in the United States has a special meaning – it’s tax day. File your yearly income tax return OR ELSE! Normally I’d spend all day ranting and raving about how much I hate the IRS (which I do) and how taxes are evil (which they are)… Continue reading Tax Day
Category: personal
Clothing
I was re-reading Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon again last night (for about the 5 millionth time) and I thought I’d share this lovely passage, which really, um, speaks to me. 😉 “It is trite to observe that hackers don’t like fancy clothes. Avi has learned that good clothes can actually be comfortable – the slacks that… Continue reading Clothing
Silliness from the Past
Way back when burning CDs was still a novel thing, I used to derive great pleasure from compiling custom CDs and creating full artwork and whatnot for them. (Click on any of these images for the full-size image.) This is one of the very first ones I did. The idea was, suppose my life was… Continue reading Silliness from the Past
Bunny Trial Outcome
After much deliberation (and waking up several times in the middle of the night to put some unruly bunnies back in their “jail”), here is the verdict: Count one: Knowingly and Willingly destroying household property: GUILTY Count two: Accessing restricted under-bed space: GUILTY Count three: Being incredibly cute: GUILTY The sentence, to be carried out… Continue reading Bunny Trial Outcome
The Trial against the Bad Bunnies
The buns got into some mischief last night – in a big, bad way. We’d just gotten our new guest bedroom set up – all sorts of nice things (gotta love IKEA), and of course plastic under-bed storage containers to keep the buns out from under the bed (in the most guest-friendly way). Unfortunately, the… Continue reading The Trial against the Bad Bunnies