Two things this week have given me pause to revisit my youth.
Earlier this week I had a hankering for some bubble gum.
Thanks to the campus store next to my office in College Park, I
sauntered over, looking for my favorite gum from my childhood: Big League Chew. I found it, and I am enjoying the last [...]
I have been meaning to post this since zenchick made this comment last week.
I have been thinking of getting a nice catchy URL for my blog.
Although I have it committed to memory, the default address one gets
with Radio Userland kind of sucks. I realize that the catchy URL
will merely redirect here, but [...]
Last night, I was cajoled from my usual Tuesday evening antics to join my buddy Shorty to watch the O’s-Sox game at Captain Larry’s.
Well, I figured it would be a tame evening, so a couple of beers and
baseball would be in order. Also, we wound up meeting a couple of
guys who are involved in organizing [...]
In about a half-hour, I am in a two-hour meeting. Essentially, it
is a meeting of the managers of my stem here at the University.
Interestingly, I only started going about two weeks ago, but now I get
all the cool manager emails and such. My participation results
largely from my role in our disaster recover planning efforts and [...]
My momentary interruption in blogging yesterday was brought about by a
technical error of my own making. While busy installing some
things to allow some remote work on my home workstation, I gave my
machine the command line shutdown command. I, of course, forgot
to pass it the restart switch. So, my machine–and hence my
blogging software–were down until I [...]
