Archive of April 2005
Friday, April 29, 2005
Buried Treasure Bandits
Today we meet Barry Billcliff, 27, of Manchester, New Hampshire, and Timothy Crebase, 22, of Methuen, Massachusetts (Dead link, see below). Here's my rough guess at the conversation that lead up to their arrest:TC: Dude, roofing this house isn't paying us enough. Lets just steal these old coins and money while we're here!
BB: Yeah, we can pretend we dug it up like buried treasure in the backyard!
TC: That's cool! We'll be like famous and stuff.
BB: Yeah, who'll ever know we stole it.
TC: Yeah.
[Fade to black as our two clueless morons crack warm 40oz. beers.]
6/27/05
Ordinarily an entry such as this would have likely faded into history and that dead link above would have remained just that. But this one is no longer ordinary! Let's start with a better and fresher link of the story. And then we have the comment below, allegedly from Barry himself! You might need to read it a couple of times though being literacy apparently isn't Barry's forte. Let's hope he's a better roofer. As for addressing his comments, I'll take that that up below (when I have the time). Welcome back to the limelight Barry! You should have just let the sleeping dog lie. ;) April 29, 2005 @ 12:36 pm | Category: Darwin's Work
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Words To The Wise
Words To The WiseI've seen the wall
I've seen them fall
I've seen the light
I've seen them bend their little minds
Surrendering without a fight
I've done them all
I've done them twice
I've seen it all
Inside my mind
You think you should do it
I tell you you're wrong
You can't understand it
It's stronger than you
I hope you listen
To what I'm telling you
3/24/1982 April 28, 2005 @ 12:47 pm | Category: Writing
We have a name!
A while back in the My Job post I mentioned that the naming of my department at work was still up in the air. The leading contenders were:- Quality Engineering
- Engineering Standards & Practices
- Engineering Standards
- Engineering Practices
- Jackass & Tony
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
My GT
My GTThe trees line the road
Like soldiers in time
As we take the turn at 85
Do the cruise
Just me and you
Let it flow free
Rollin' in my GT
Rockin' down that highway
Doin' 125
Rollin' up that speed
As I shift to overdrive
'Cause we're rockin'
We're rollin'
Flying out on a line
My flash of red
Burns in the heads
Of those we're passin' by…BYE!
3/24/1982 April 27, 2005 @ 12:36 pm | Category: Writing
Monday, April 25, 2005
Smack the Pingu
You're working too hard! Take a break and go try your luck at Smack the Pingu! April 25, 2005 @ 12:58 pm | Category: That's Funny!Saturday, April 23, 2005
Gallery Update
As you probably hadn't even noticed, I upgraded the Gallery software to V1.5 about a week and a half ago. And in typical fashion they did a nice job of changing things so as to break my existing installation layout! From what I saw on the support forums, I wasn't alone in my unhappiness. After doing the upgrade I did manage to get my color scheme back in short order. But the layout was smooshed to about 1/2 its size. After mucking around with the wrapper files I finally got my layout working again. :)I have such a love/hate relationship with Gallery. It's a very nice and powerful application, but it's had security problems in the past and they constantly break things during upgrades! I really dislike the way they package things for distribution —when you unpack it, it overwrites the existing installation because they don't version label their release directory. Then there are never any upgrade/release notes. From what I gather from their web site you apparently are expected to keep up notes with the release candidates. That's not very good if you only upgrade when the stable version comes out! Ideally you should have some sort of README or UPGRADE notes file that you can read BEFORE you trash your existing installation! Enough venting for now. The application is getting better with every release, but they need to do a better job of preparing users for what to expect when a new release is installed. April 23, 2005 @ 09:54 am | Category: PolarLava Website
Friday, April 22, 2005