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Modern Day The Twilight Zone Ideas

Twilight Zone premises for the modern age: suddenly every installed web browser vanishes, leaving only the installers. Or every compiled compiler disappears, and we have to bootstrap gcc from scratch. Years are lost.

In New York in April?

Do you live in New York, or will you be there the second week of April? I have a plus-one for a company party. They're fun.

In New York in April?

An Invite to The Met

Work is sponsoring a trip to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, with some fun stuff afterwards. I've got an extra invitation. Anyone want to go?

An Invite to The Met

Where to Move To

My New York lease is ending and I'm plotting where to move next. I scored eight cities against geography, people, and miscellany like 2nd Amendment rights and smell. Savannah edged out the top spot; New York came in dead last.

Where to Move To

The Four Most Prolific Things in NYC

The four most prolific things in New York City: cockroaches, rats, people, and (you didn't see this coming) water towers. I noticed while eating my 3pm orange and circled all of them in a photo from the roof.

Resistentialism

I learned a new word today. Resistentialism: a jocular theory in which inanimate objects display hostile desires toward human beings.

Rubik's Cube Update

I've taken the simple layer-by-layer method about as far as it goes; my best was seventy-eight seconds. Time to learn the Fridrich method, which means memorizing at least fifty-three algorithms instead of half a dozen.

Rubik's Cube Update

TODO for 2008 - Revisited

Revisiting my 2008 to-do list: amateur radio license and Mt. Rainier are done, the Rubik's cube is down to 78 seconds, and McKinley, Half Dome, the balloon project, and a back flip are still ahead.

The Deafening Silence (update: now with humor!)

In Adirondack Park the silence each night was a deafening ring, a static with no noise at all and no internet to blog about it. Also, I passed the FCC Element 2 exam: I'm officially KC2SUS. Now I just need a balloon and helium.

Lackey

I was minding my own business on the train home when a guy sat beside me and pulled out a Zune. I scanned for logos to categorize him and spotted a Microsoft jacket. The one Zune user in the world is a Microsoft employee.

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