June 14th, 2009
02:03 pm - Taco Bell is broken
( Taco Bell is broken. )
Current Location: US, California, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Central Expy
May 26th, 2009
03:46 pm - Okay, Mr. Dishwasher, I'm looking at you next
Whoever had the water heater in the "Which of Andy's appliances fails next" pool is a winner!
I was sick over the three-day weekend, which means I didn't even get to visit at Fanime, and ended up working from home today. Then Jenny came upstairs and said "I don't want to bother you, but there's a funny sound coming from the laundry room." After stepping into a pool of water, I quickly figured out what was wrong.
One quick shutoff valve turning and some not so quick mopping and drying of the linoleum later, and the room is mostly dry... although the fan is going to run overnight to make sure the nooks and crannies underneath the washer and dryer get dried off. This, people, is why it is building code to have a pan and drain underneath all new water heaters. This one was 20 years old and so it didn't have it.
So in retrospect, spending an hour in a damp room exerting myself may not have been the best thing to do when getting over a cold...
mood: damp
I was sick over the three-day weekend, which means I didn't even get to visit at Fanime, and ended up working from home today. Then Jenny came upstairs and said "I don't want to bother you, but there's a funny sound coming from the laundry room." After stepping into a pool of water, I quickly figured out what was wrong.
One quick shutoff valve turning and some not so quick mopping and drying of the linoleum later, and the room is mostly dry... although the fan is going to run overnight to make sure the nooks and crannies underneath the washer and dryer get dried off. This, people, is why it is building code to have a pan and drain underneath all new water heaters. This one was 20 years old and so it didn't have it.
So in retrospect, spending an hour in a damp room exerting myself may not have been the best thing to do when getting over a cold...
mood: damp
April 17th, 2009
01:51 pm - Spring!
Current Location: US, California, Santa Clara, Santa Clara, Patrick Henry Dr, 2902
Forget the vernal equinox, spring officially starts when a bird hits my window repeatedly at 8:30 a.m.
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Current Location: US, California, Santa Clara, Santa Clara, Patrick Henry Dr, 2902
April 14th, 2009
06:33 pm - Bite sized for your annoyance
Okay, after ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
magaliiiii (oh dear, I started to type @magaliiiii there) pointed out, many of us are doing the "Here's the tweets I did in the last 24 hours" posts here in lieu of real content.
I started doing this because not many people were following me on Twitter. I suppose I can stop now, but then I'll have to actually post real posts here instead of just relying on a constant string of 140 character blurbs to fill my LJ history...
In all fairness, this is probably a good thing. Twitter is good for what it is, but there are many times I've felt very constrained by the 140 character limit. Crafting elegant turn of phrase is hard when that number is very steadily counting down to 0...
magaliiiii (oh dear, I started to type @magaliiiii there) pointed out, many of us are doing the "Here's the tweets I did in the last 24 hours" posts here in lieu of real content.I started doing this because not many people were following me on Twitter. I suppose I can stop now, but then I'll have to actually post real posts here instead of just relying on a constant string of 140 character blurbs to fill my LJ history...
In all fairness, this is probably a good thing. Twitter is good for what it is, but there are many times I've felt very constrained by the 140 character limit. Crafting elegant turn of phrase is hard when that number is very steadily counting down to 0...
01:30 pm - Tip of the iceberg
I've been watching my Dark Angel DVDs again in the background while I do other things, and I noticed quite a few actors that later went on to do the new Battlestar Galactica. I just kept seeing more and more, and I realized that the seven that I recognized were only the tip of the iceberg of actors that worked on both shows.
12:03 am
Thoughts in 140 characters
- 20:11 Going to get the cavity filled tomorrow morning. I hope I can properly breathe out of my nose this time. #
- 20:22 I always see people wearing scrubs in El Pollo Loco. That's gotta be a good endorsement of the healthiness of the product. #
April 10th, 2009
12:02 am
Thoughts in 140 characters
- 15:23 So many new faces in teh tweeter. Now there's even more chance that tweets will disappear before I can read them. #
- 20:42 I get to deal with dim sum during Passover on Saturday. This shall be interesting. #
April 9th, 2009
12:02 am
Thoughts in 140 characters
- 12:35 Dentist. Checkup. Cavity. Sigh. #
April 3rd, 2009
12:02 am
Thoughts in 140 characters
- 14:17 Capital loss: the gift that keeps on giving, year after year. #
April 2nd, 2009
12:02 am
Thoughts in 140 characters
- 00:19 Time to ignore everything I read on the Internet for 24 hours. #
March 31st, 2009
12:02 am
Thoughts in 140 characters
- 10:42 Well, that was an earthquake. #
March 29th, 2009
12:02 am
Thoughts in 140 characters
- 16:49 There are butterflies everywhere. It's quite surreal. #
March 26th, 2009
12:02 am
Thoughts in 140 characters
- 14:24 My work laptop just froze up when I returned it to the dock. I need a new work laptop. #
March 25th, 2009
12:02 am
Thoughts in 140 characters
- 15:54 Sometimes my iphone runs hot in standby and uses up extra battery and I don't know why... #
March 21st, 2009
12:02 am
Thoughts in 140 characters
- 14:53 Here's to hoping I don't have to work much (or at all) this weekend. #
- 20:48 Finally leaving work. More work needed over weekend. Sigh. #
March 18th, 2009
12:02 am - Tweets for Today
Thoughts in 140 characters
- 19:34 As code freeze checkpoints both pass and approach, having bugs that defy explanation, aren't reproducible and break my head are a bad thing. #
- 19:34 And now, I have hit another twitter milestone: My first tweet that's exactly 140 characters. #
March 14th, 2009
12:02 am - Tweets for Today
Thoughts in 140 characters
- 13:16 Just paid thirteen dollars for lunch on Friday the thirteenth. #
March 13th, 2009
12:02 am - Tweets for Today
Thoughts in 140 characters
- 17:45 Schadenfreude moment of the day: Having the guy who's tailgating you get pulled over by a cop. #
March 9th, 2009
06:11 pm - Embracing new media
So I was one of the guest hosts in Kevin and Dom's S-Words Podcast for the week (The "Snyder" episode, for posterity). Probably not the last time, either.
I'm actually not too disappointed with the sound of my voice, which I haven't heard in a while.
mood: Have you heard about the bird?
music: Buh buh buh buh bird bird bird buh bird is the word
I'm actually not too disappointed with the sound of my voice, which I haven't heard in a while.
mood: Have you heard about the bird?
music: Buh buh buh buh bird bird bird buh bird is the word
12:02 am - Tweets for Today
Thoughts in 140 characters
- 00:19 Saw Watchmen. Recorded podcast about Watchmen. Singing karaoke now, natch. #
- 03:16 Pro: easier to update digital clocks. Con: I want my hour of sleep back! #