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Friday, May 16, 2008
heat wave
It's 75 outside right now and 1500 people have already suffered severe heat stroke from the 2008 eXtreme Seattle Heat Wave.
Not really, about the heat stroke part, but it IS 75 outside. I didn't think I'd be one of those people in Seattle who gets all giddy when the sun comes out in the Spring. Well, I am. It feels so good outside right now that it was really hard to force myself back into the meticulously climate-controlled building after lunch.
In other news, we didn't get that house. So it goes.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
offer? i barely know her!
julie and i just signed an offer on a house in kirkland.
holy shit.
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Monday, May 05, 2008
viva Mexico!
I hadn't realized how much Mexican pride there was in the greater Seattle area until this morning. There was NOBODY on the road on the way to work. It was like a ghost town.
Presumably, everyone is home celebrating Mexico's independence.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
epic parking fail
I was parking for a meeting at building 33 and I used a conveniently-placed concrete pillar to remove a portion of the paint from my MINI’s passenger door and right-rear quarter panel; also some chrome from the passenger door handle. I didn’t do it on purpose--I assure you--but looking at the circumstances you’d wonder how someone could do it accidentally.
I'm so mad at myself (not to mention bewildered) I could scream.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
tree of life
Thanks to Bertrand Meyer, I may not get any work done, ever again.
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Monday, April 21, 2008
lazy phishermen
If there's anything worse than phishing, it's lazy phishing. I enjoy looking at the URLs in phishing emails. Some of them are very creative, with the expected domain name stuck into the URL somewhere, with some junk at the beginning (that junk being the phishing site's domain). The emails often look as though the phisherman directly copied an email from the company they are trying to fake. It's really getting ingenious.
Then there's the email I got today. No fancy fonts, no images. Just some poorly-worded PayPal fakery with a few raw URLs that my email client conveniently turned into hyperlinks, to expedite the resolvation of my PayPal account limitization. And the real kicker is the domain of the link:
freescams.net
freeSCAMS? Are you joking?? Not even trying to hide it with something like 'accountfixitude.com'? I weep for humanity if anyone falls for this truly pitiful attempt.
Also, it was sent to my work email address, which is amazing because I can't imagine how this address got 'out'.
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Sunday, April 20, 2008
schizoid weather
A few days ago it was sunny and warm. Then a couple of days ago it snowed, which was weird. Then yesterday it snowed and rained all day. Then this morning it was sunny, then snowing, then sunny, then hailing, and now it's sunny again. I have a photo of blue skies with a barrage of hail falling in the foreground.
I can only imagine what is next.
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Sunday, April 13, 2008
new blog!
For a while I was thinking about moving my blog over to Live Spaces, on account of the ridiculous amounts of spam I'm getting now. As I didn't come up with a straightforward way to make this happen, I've decided to merely start a new blog on Spaces on a particular topic: gaming. It's what I do most often now with my free time, so it probably deserves its own space. That also leaves me to get back to photography, travelling, and other boring things on this blog.
I give you, MINI Wombat's Space:
http://miniwombat.spaces.live.com/
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Friday, April 04, 2008
basketwha?
if anyone can make it to the seattle center tonight at 7:30, i've got an extra ticket for the Sonics/Rockets game.
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Monday, March 31, 2008
Word of the day: embogus
embogus, vb. - to make totally bogus, man
That guy can embogus the most straightforward meeting with his off-topic rants.
OR, to become inescapably drawn into something which is totally bogus, typically at the expense of more important tasks.
I would have gotten a lot done today, but I got totally embogused with hardware issues.
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