Life is meaningless and full of pain…

…which is what George RR Martin says when his team loses. Williams is fired. That game was great right up until the end. Argh, fail. Update: Now that I’ve had some time to reflect, sober, about how the game went down: The whole team played amazingly well vs. a surging Giants. Williams essentially handed the [...]

Holy crap 49ers, and uplifting betting strategies

If George R.R. Martin can notablog about the Giants, I can blog about the 9ers when it’s this late in the season. Turns out rooting for your favorite team is a hell of a lot more fun (and profitable) than last year’s self-loathing betting strategies. Since I grew up watching the 9ers dominate the 80′s, [...]

An open letter to Apple regarding my pending religious conversion

Dear Apple, I’ve never been a fan. I can’t deal with your one-button mouse, your walled garden, your multitouch gestures (which seem to contradict your approach to mouse design), and your general disrespect for enterprise-compatible behavior. Finder sucks, spotlight fails in common large-scale use cases involving anything that isn’t AFP, and the last iOS update [...]

Shaq and Kobe together again, or command-line output hilarity

See what I did there? An enticing title. Of course, it’s possibly going to draw people who don’t really give a shit about NetApp cluster naming hilarity. Oh well. MrPinstripe recently set up some new gear for the Cosmic Colo, including a NetApp cluster. He named the heads Shaq and Kobe, which imo is bloody [...]

WH40K is an Amazing Wargame Under all the Buckets of Dice

It is said, “There is a fine line between a hobby and mental illness.” I’m having a hard time distinguishing here. In case you can’t tell I’ve become a bit obsessed with Warhammer 40K lately. I spent a great deal of my vacation plus the better part of a couple of weekends (time a rough [...]