Pacman orgy

Pacman orgy, originally uploaded by marcn.

Curves, squiggles, and flowing lines interest the eye. Make a photograph dominated by a curvy shape of some sort today.

Get out there, take a photograph, upload it, and tweet a link to @dailyshoot with the hashtag: #ds118

Sports tips from the future

September 31, 2007

Originally uploaded by marcn

Check out the date on last Thursday's Nashua Telegraph -- September 31st, 2007.

Hot sports tips! Now if you can find a bookie taking bets for that day...

2 unusual New Hampshire license plates

nh-license-plate-pen-iz

Originally uploaded by marcn.

nh-license-plate-bloggin

Originally uploaded by marcn.

"pen iz" and "bloggin" -- both seen in Nashua, NH in the last week or so.

Non-Paged Pool

Non-Paged Pool sign (1/3)

Originally uploaded by marcn.

A little geek humor for the day --

Instead of the usual afternoon coffee break, I walked out behind the office building and took these pictures.

Back in the late 1980s, one of Digital Equipment Corp's VAX/VMS developers planted this sign.

VMS has two types of kernel memory pools to allocate from -- paged which can be swapped out and non-paged which can not move. Clearly this pool is of the latter type. Is there any other kind?

See all three photos here

Alpha RIP

[

Hewlett-Packard Co. will release the final processor upgrade for its AlphaServer line of Unix servers on Monday.

](http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/08/16/HNendofalpha_1.html)

Goodbye old friend.



[Check out the tombstone generator](http://tombstone.dogcrap.net/tombstone.php)

New favorite T-Shirt

Wendy picked up a T-shirt at a yard sale today. It says:

one by one
my children
steal my sanity

silly email disclaimer from NH Governor's office

A coworker used the NH.gov webform to send a comment to Craig Benson, NH Governer.

Check out this disclaimer that was at the end of the response.

This email and any attachments are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the addressee or the person who delivers email to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error. Any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to it and then delete the email. Thank you.

Any use is strictly prohibited? No printing?! Doesn't is seem a bit excessive since this is coming from a government employee?

Alien images from last night!

Some pictures I took last night around dusk.




The Alien's scout ship! (04Jul2004)



The Mothership lands! (04Jul2004)

Some unrelated images I took at the same time (04Jul2004)

Okay, so digital cameras don't do a good job catching fireworks (04Jul2004)

The best part about fireworks in Merrimack is we can see them from the
neighbor's driveway and walk 30 seconds and be home. The worst part
is always the bugs...

Since tomorrow is Good Friday...

Here is a
nice condensed version of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ"

The musical score is amazing.

I've seen things, I've seen them with my eyes...

Excellent non sequitur flash to
on!

Here are the lyrics, but they don't do the song justice.

-----

I've seen things
I've seen them with my eyes
I've seen things
They're often in disguise

Like
carrots
handbags
cheese

I've seen things, I've seen them with my eyes
I've seen things, they're often in disguise

Like
carrots
handbags
cheese

toilets
russians
planets
hampsters

weddings
poets
stalin
kula lumpur

pygmies
bugies
kuala lumpur

-----
Inspired!

"The system is available 24 hours a day"

I was looking at internal-only benefits-related site at work today and
found this note hilarious.

Availability

The System is available 24 hours a day except during daily backups
Monday through Friday , 11pm - 11:30pm PST and during weekly backups
Sunday 3pm - 9pm PST.

So the website is available 24 hours a day except for those 5 1/2
hours a week when it isn't available.

Adelphia's experiment with Microsoft TV

There is an excellent new show in Merrimack, NH on Adelphia channel 22:

Program D:TRMSDisplayEngine.exe

Program D:TRMSDisplayEngine.exe dialog box

It says:

Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
Runtime Error!
Program D:TRMSDisplayEngine.exe
abnormal program termination

        [OK]

It gets bonus points for the time not changing. Apparently the app crashed 10 1/2 hours ago and hasn't been noticed...

Fellowship Baptist Creation Science Fair 2001

From href="http://boingboing.net/2003_07_01_archive.html#200443661">boingboing.neta>
a link to the hilarious href="http://objective.jesussave.us/creationsciencefair.html">"Fellowship
Baptist Creation Science Fair 2001". I like the first place
winner at the high school level "Using Prayer To Microevolve Latent
Antibiotic Resistance In Bacteria".

Okay, okay -- I give up. Here is why MSIE really does rule.

But I'm still going to be staying with Galeon and Mozilla running on Linux.

Anyway, check it out -- href="http://craiger.uh.nu/ierules.html">http://craiger.uh.nu/ierules.html

Unclear on that whole email thing

Last week I got some US postal mail from some relatives. It contained printouts of their AOL email and were forwarding on to me. No handwritten note, just the printouts. Yes, they know what my email address is and have even managed to send to it before.

I won't say who they are on the slim-to-nil chance that they find this website...

Positive feedback from my manager today

I had just responded to a field person about a particular Linux question with some detailed information and pointed her to a number of our external corporate pages with more relevant information. This is the 'attaboy' from my manager:


Nice, overwhelm them with URLs, that's the ticket ;-)


You shall fight besides me as we take on the masters of
the digital plantations. No longer shall we remain poverty
impoverished shareware cropping lackies.

Well done.



P.S.

Management/employee bonding lesson 42
I'm really getting the nack
of this...


I laughed for about 5 minutes.

MyTrailerPark.com -- cruel, about amusing

One for the folks at work is buying a new house out in the country and
pointed everyone to his site to take a look. He set a redirect to
MyTrailerPark.com