machine_dove: (Bat Cave)
posted by [personal profile] machine_dove at 07:26am on 23/02/2007
The truth comes out! The real reason why DeepDiscountDVD became just DeepDiscount.

Anyway, yesterday was funny. It was extremely windy, and I was noticing that a couple of our skinny dead trees were swaying waaaay more than they should be. Especially the one by the driveway. "We're going to need to cut that tree down soon, or it's going to fall," I said to myself. Less than an hour later, I look out the window - and there's no tree. >.< Apparently the gale force winds (slight - but only slight - exaggeration) combined with the ice melt + frozen ground that turned my entire yard into bottomless swamp were too much for it to handle. We lost a couple of other trees, too, but nothing important. And it didn't even fall across the driveway!

It's cold again today - fingers aren't quite working the way they should. Bleh!
machine_dove: (Earth-logic)
posted by [personal profile] machine_dove at 09:41am on 23/02/2007
Why My Job Sucks #34,871,120:

I just got an email from NMCI. In summary "Hay guys, a bunch of emails servers are down, just thought I'd let you know."

...

What possible point this email serves, I have no idea. If I'm one of the people affected by this issue, I'm never going to see this email. The only way anybody is going to see it is if they're not affected. So - the point? Who the hell knows. This is the service we pay ~$3500 per computer per year for.

In other news, I'm finding it difficult to be productive while listening to Into the Woods. Blame [livejournal.com profile] geoduck.
machine_dove: (WWHVIIID?)
posted by [personal profile] machine_dove at 03:02pm on 23/02/2007
BEWARE! Of...tape.

Ok people, this is just stupid. They carried out a controlled explosion...on a role of tape. So you can shut down an entire city with a couple of lite brites, and you can cause major disruptions with a roll of tape. God alone knows what a real terrorist could do with a plastic slinky and some pocket lint!

Also - it seems that it's not safe to be around large animals in China.

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