Monthly Archive for November, 2004

The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus

by Ogden Nash

A little Nash to get your Season greased.

Let Christmas begin!

Roadblog! – Thanksgiving Edition

Karen is driving,
Verizon has off-peak holidays,
I have my whole rig with me…
Must be ROADBLOG!

Actually, this grants me painfully little bandwidth. To get the idea, use this handy holiday recipe:

Lightly mix the following ingredients in a shallow skillet:
  - The bandwidth from one 14.4 modem
    (Ask your mother - she probably still has one)
  - Two bars of cellular phone interference
Drizzle in the effects of high speed travel
Cool in the refridgerator until mixture is is approximately 40 Fahrenheit
Stir in liquid sunshine to taste for monitor intererence
Place pan on solid surface
Repeatedly smash your face into mixture until you pass out

So, we’ll just stick around for long enough to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving! Just like the Pilgrims did, and just as in every Thanksgiving proclamation, we hope you will take the time to thank God for all of the good things we have been given, and the hard times we have been given the strength to endure.

And remember, kids, don’t drive under the influence of triptaphane!

Long Hours

Useful Slashdot discussion on the effects of extremely long hours on software development. Spurred in the wake of the EA constant-death-march non-scandal.

IMPORTANT DOCUMENT

Make sure to grab the PDF file from here and print off plenty of copies before you hold your feast this year.

(Alerted by Don Wade on WLS 890 AM)

Snowetry

More Haiku Fight:

Pika:
  Tiny white ice bombs
    Diving to the frozen earth
      Numerous as spams.

Canthros:
  It is called snow, Herb.
    It happens during winter.
      You should know by now.

  Spam’s gone to your brain.
    What you need is some turkey
      and cold, frosty beer.

update 2004.11.25 @21:28
Mmm… Canthros was right

Cold beer and turkey fixins Clear spam from the mind.