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Couldn’t figure out a safe sftp access for my students, so I’m setting up...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:33:10 -0500

Couldn’t figure out a safe sftp access for my students, so I’m setting up sexyFileManager for each of them. Hourly rate now below min wage.

How nice of them to offer. Some dude in Estonia is telling me I need to update “security...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:03:38 -0500

How nice of them to offer. Some dude in Estonia is telling me I need to update “security mode” on a mail server I personally administer WTF?

Asked spouse to come down for dinner and she asked if we were having burned rubber for dinner. My...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:41:25 -0500

Asked spouse to come down for dinner and she asked if we were having burned rubber for dinner. My “chicken curry” smelled like that to her.

My spell checker wanted to change “people of Woburn” to “burnouts”....

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:37:31 -0500

My spell checker wanted to change “people of Woburn” to “burnouts”. That’s kind of how we’ve always envisioned them from “next door”.

Anyone want to suggest “fun” things I can put in the left-over meat and gravy for...

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:18:47 -0500

Anyone want to suggest “fun” things I can put in the left-over meat and gravy for tonight?

Apparently, I just sent myself an e-mail, via Brazil, telling me my mailbox was deactivated. If...

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:08:07 -0500

Apparently, I just sent myself an e-mail, via Brazil, telling me my mailbox was deactivated. If it’s deactivated, how come I got the mail?

.@verizon just told me my balance was out of harmony. They contracted with Russians to send the...

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:55:10 -0500

.@verizon just told me my balance was out of harmony. They contracted with Russians to send the message thru Brazil. Nice to spread wealth.

Slactivist: “If we refuse to be our brother’s keepers, we’re inviting Big Brother...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:43:24 -0500

Slactivist: “If we refuse to be our brother’s keepers, we’re inviting Big Brother to take over the job instead.” http://ping.fm/f5gXR

Today is the birthday of my most wonderful, shiny, new (as of May) daughter-in-law. The 10-yr...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:04:52 -0500

Today is the birthday of my most wonderful, shiny, new (as of May) daughter-in-law. The 10-yr struggle to reel her in was worth the effort.

Wow, a fancy-pants attorney in Dallas got hacked and is now sending me mySpace account info update...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:19:06 -0500

Wow, a fancy-pants attorney in Dallas got hacked and is now sending me mySpace account info update requests, via Brazil. Bad Scott Yung!

Church dinner tonight: buy ingredients for food; cook the food; buy meal ticket so you can eat the...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:20:41 -0500

Church dinner tonight: buy ingredients for food; cook the food; buy meal ticket so you can eat the food; eat; clean up; feel blessed.

Not surprisingly, Yahoo! still sucks. Their search can’t even find a group I administer…even...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:53:10 -0500

Not surprisingly, Yahoo! still sucks. Their search can’t even find a group I administer…even after I type the exact name into the box. WTF?

Just in time for our Christian Formation meeting tonight

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:16:14 -0500

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Grandpuppy is getting restive. Time for yet another loooooong walk. At least it’s not raining...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:50:40 -0400

Grandpuppy is getting restive. Time for yet another loooooong walk. At least it’s not raining today, so perhaps I won’t get mad at her.

Say Two Hail Marys and Call Me in the Morning

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:25:42 -0400

That’s the prescription we have been given for swine flu, or as we now like to call it, so as not to offend the sensibilities of our porcine brothers and sisters, H1N1. Of course what we were really told was to wash our hands endlessly, for a full 20 seconds at a time. If you actually look at a watch for 20 seconds, you’ll see that is a rather long time. So long, in fact, that you can’t even come close to guessing it. Thus, you need to find something to say or do while you’re washing your hands all that time. Something that takes a full 20 seconds to say or do. That something turns out to be two complete Hail Marys.

Now, given that I was born and bred a Protestant, one of the more liberal Protestant denominations actually (née UPC USA; currently UCC), how would I know about Hail Marys? Well, it seems that when I was in 7th or 8th grade, I used to listen to the radio a lot. I had rather a good one, a Hammarlund HQ100 A. I liked changing stations on both AM and shortwave to see what I could find. I would listen to stations from Buffalo, Nashville, Cleveland, Boston, Toronto, Moscow, Quito. You name it, I probably heard it at one time or another.

One day, I chanced upon a group reciting the rosary. Over and over again they chanted:

Hail Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women.
Blessed is the fruit of thy womb,
Jesus Christ, Our Lord.
Holy Mary, mother of God,
Pray for us sinners,
Now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.

I may have this a bit wrong. Seventh or eighth grade was a long time ago. Whatever, when I started washing my hands, and looking at my watch to see if I’d done it for twenty seconds, those words from long ago popped into my head. I discovered that, when said at a measured pace, two full Hail Marys, at least as I had remembered them, took up twenty seconds.

So that’s how we combat ~~swine flu~~ H1N1: we spend quality time at the sink saying our Hail Marys. The Pope would be proud of me.

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According to my latest e-mail the FDIC has outsourced it’s operations to Columbia. They want...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:55:04 -0400

According to my latest e-mail the FDIC has outsourced it’s operations to Columbia. They want my banking info to serve me better…or something

My spouse pointed out that the kid who got 88/200 on the mid-term is probably too stupid to realize...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:49:33 -0400

My spouse pointed out that the kid who got 88/200 on the mid-term is probably too stupid to realize 88 is a bad grade. Best tell him it’s 44

Ok, prayer schedule ‘til Christmas is done. I’m sure listening to doo wop made the work...

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:42:03 -0400

Ok, prayer schedule ‘til Christmas is done. I’m sure listening to doo wop made the work go more easily…like a spoonful of sugar…or something

“Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strange resemblance to a cat named...

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:37:09 -0400

“Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strange resemblance to a cat named Frankenstein…another Saturday night and I ain’t go nobody…”

I just told the printer to collate the 15 copies of my midterm. It said, “yes sir!” But...

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:39:17 -0400

I just told the printer to collate the 15 copies of my midterm. It said, “yes sir!” But then didn’t do it. I have a slacker printer.