Sources of Variance

The results of the first test under the fake colon waste method didn’t come out as expected so I met with the requester to figure out what the cause was.

Him: There were two sources of error, first, I think you applied the product incorrectly.
Me: Really?  I’ve done it this way for every previous running of [...]

Back to the Colon

Only one test method I’ve learned required signing legal documentation.  The mixture for this particular method is the colonic equivalent of the recipe for Coke syrup and the entire time I’ve done this mixture I’ve treated it with a deference bordering on the sacred.  Today I was running through the blending process when I found [...]

Best Invoice Ever

I purchased 1000 stickers for my TF2 team’s second anniversary.  I received a note from the printer that the stickers would be printed as soon as I paid the amount on the invoice.  Here’s a screen cap of the attached invoice.

That’s the easiest invoice I’ve ever been asked to pay.

Phantom Server

Boss: Terry, did you disconnect that license server?
Me:  Yea.  It’s been down for an hour.
Boss: I can still connect to it.
Me: How?
Boss: Well, I can ping it.  What do you think’s causing it?
Me: Honestly?  Internet gnomes.
Boss: Gnomes?
Me: Well, maybe faeries, but rarely do web faeries work on the business levels.
Boss: So, gnomes?
Me: Yes, gnomes are [...]

New Camera Limitations

The 5D Mark II has some wonderful features or at least I assume so as I have no idea how to use them.   I excreted a sizable chunk of masonry on finding that most of my lenses didn’t work.  What was  I left with?  My 70-200mm zoom lens.   I went to the troop 5 banquet [...]

Megapictures

My birthday gift this year is a little photography robot called a Gigapan.  One places a point-and-shoot digital camera on the base, calibrated the setup, and the stand will go to town and take a crap-ton of pictures and stitch them together with an the included software.  Here was my first test:

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Dubious Dealmaking

I found a 5D Mark II for a reasonable price on Ebay and pounced when the seller offered to allow me to pick it up sameday not far from where I worked.  I met him at a gas station and received the camera for six hundred dollars cheaper than the equivalent new in box but [...]

To Do List Growth Rate

My last day is April 1st and my boss has been accumulating tasks I need to do before departing and I probably have six weeks of stuff to do in my remaining four.  This has led to me being barred from doing other tasks for other people who’ve realized I’m leaving which causes them to [...]

Roomba Barrier

My father and brother succumb to what I call the “Roomba Paradox” which is that any time saved by using the device is lost to simply staring at the thing operate.  My father has faithfully followed mine around to three rooms on our ground floor to watch the pattern and my brother will physically relocate [...]

Max Meets the Roomba

Long ago, someone suggested to me that nature would one day rise up and crush man.  He wasn’t talking about this in the sense that we’d be undone by our own destruction of the environmental balance but in a literal sense that apes, dogs, and groundhogs would begin attacking people.   Quaint but unlikely and I [...]