SuburbanAdventure

I’m fine with improbability in movies.  1 in a million shots, superhuman sniping abilities, random things exploding that have no business exploding, I can deal with all of them.  The blatantly impossible, I will not suffer.
Joe and I saw Quantum of Solace and in one part the protagonist his temporary partner jump from a plane [...]

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After a few days of sitting on the countertop the drippings from the twin turkey breasts should probaby have been moved.  The fat had gelled, which I don’t think should happen.  I took the tray of fat outside and dumped it down our hill that leads to the corpse of pine trees where most food [...]

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Two years running I’ve broken the tape measure I received for Christmas.  Most recently I broke the one given to me by my brother’s girlfriend Amanda.  I got her a day-to-day calendar which she’s obviously exhausted.  If I can keep up breaking her gifts we may have figured out a solute to the problem of [...]

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After my desktop reinstall farce I was caught bewildered when my laptop BSODed me on startup.  It couldn’t possibly be related to removing the hard drive while the computer was still on during a RAM upgrade.  No, not at all.  Boot CD after recovery disk failed to circumvent the BSOD until I hit up that [...]

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Team Interrobang has had a spate of people (we think) using wall hacks (ways to see through things you’re not supposed to, like concrete) to cheat in Team Fortress 2.  I talked to a high school friend about what he did to track cheaters when he ran a server he said he’d use a coordinate [...]

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The conference room was packed today.  Jammed full of at least 40 people.  Why? Ladder training.  Well, that was the title of the lunch seminar, the power of free pizza such that everyone for one hour is mystefied by the mist-shrouded deathtrap that is the standard ladder.  When I walked by the slide was something [...]

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Exam MLC is an odd combination of life contingencies, properties of aggregate distributions and Markov Chains so goes back and forth between old retiring, old people walking picking up coins and old people dying.  There’s always a medium sample question where you have a bunch of old farts and you’re asked to determine the likelihood [...]

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I guess this is my second article about hidden archaeology.  The sink clogged, a lot.  My brother had made pumpkin “things” after unleashing fatal fury upon it.  I tried undoing the clog with two toilet plungers but as my surroundings acquired a petina of clogs past, toilet paper particles and the remains of my chicken [...]

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Intel’s Atom processor intrigued, nay, called to me.  A 8 watt draw for a 1.6GHz dual core CPU making it the most efficient dual core processor for the desktop.  I changed the processor in my home server from the Pentium D.  The Pentium D was the least efficient processor ever created for home use pulling [...]

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While driving to work I saw a car pulled over by a Town and Country Minivan that had been converted to a cop car.
I was going to try to add something witty to this observation, but there’s something perverse and sad and funny and enraging and mystifying about it like a crying clown.

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