Slightly Off KIlter

Normal is overrated

  • Weekly Wrap-up (Mon Oct 4 – Sun Oct 10)

    After a lot of effort (and completely replacing Palm Desktop with Apple's iSync and The Missing Sync (Mark/Space), I finally got my new Kyocera handheld to sync! The "missing" piece appears to have been that I needed a newer and better USB hub. We had a fire drill at The Company on Tuesday. That horn… Continue reading

  • It’s Art! Who cares if it’s misspelled?

    Well, some of us do… A colorful mosaic gracing the entrance of Livermore's new library is of a genre known as naïve art because of its whimsical design and childlike nature. Maybe that explains why 11 of the 175 names and words on the piece are misspelled — from "Eistein" and "Shakespere" to "Van Gough"… Continue reading

  • Treasures 2004_41

    "Life … is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?" — Margot Fonteyn Treasures are positive things that strike my fancy, that make me feel happy or thankful or interested. Treasures are memories encapsulated in just a few… Continue reading

  • Weekly Wrap-up (Mon Sept 27 – Sun Oct 3)

    Autumn days. Autumn nights. Fog on the car windows in the mornings. Blue skies in the afternoons. Another quiet week. Not much going on. Continue reading

  • Treasures 2004_40

    Treasures are positive things that strike my fancy, that make me feel happy or thankful or interested. Treasures are memories encapsulated in just a few words, I hope you'll consider starting your own list of Treasures. These are my Treasures for the past week. Continue reading

  • Weekly Wrap-up (Mon Sept 20 – Sun Sept 26)

    The mornings are darker. The days are shorter. The prettiest time of day is 3 in the afternoon. I often go for a short walk at that time, just to get out of the building and out in the air. It's been a quiet week in Lake Woebegone… Continue reading

  • The More I Learn About Python…

    … the more I like about Perl The Company I am working for uses Python. As a programmer with over 20 years of experience in several languages, I can read Python without much difficulty. And, because I’m employed to do internal documentation, not develop code, it doesn’t really matter that I’m not a Python programmer.… Continue reading

  • New Cell phones

    My very first cell phone was an early Motorola, purchased in 1993. It had an LED display, if I recall correctly. For the day, it was one of the smallest available. I replaced that a few years later with a (smaller) Ericson phone with LCD display. Then a few years after that, a Motorola StarTac,… Continue reading

  • Treasures 2004_39

    Treasures are positive things that strike my fancy, that make me feel happy or thankful or interested. Treasures are memories encapsulated in just a few words, I hope you'll consider starting your own list of Treasures. These are my Treasures for the past week. Continue reading

  • Weekly Wrap-up ( Monday Sept 13 – Sunday Sept 19)

    It's been distinctly autumnal. it's a bit cool in the mornings but what I notice most is the angle of the light. It just feels… like… fall. Not my favorite season, fall. It leads into winter which is my decidedly least favorite season. Ugh. I worked from home on Tuesday. I had approval from my… Continue reading