Senate ignores American people, film at 11
News ·Thursday May 25, 2006 @ 23:43 EDT (link)
Front foliage
Now that the desk's here, yesterday I arranged the computers and cables (without disconnecting the power, although we lost network and hence telephone connectivity for a few minutes), and played a game of Warcraft for the first time in about three months (playing on the floor just doesn't seem all that much fun). I played a level 7 (I'd fallen down to level 9 because of my long absence) yesterday, and won, and a level 19 today, and managed to win that one too (probably the highest level player I've ever defeated).
Still on stale bugs this week; making more of a dent than last week, partly because I tossed a few License Wizard bugs back asking for developer investigation (they like to just send the error message, which sometimes isn't even from Word). True, it should work the same as Word 11, but sometimes it doesn't, and some investigation from their end would be very nice. Fixed a nasty one with "online documents" in the wee hours of this morning; we were leaving behind the "owner" files (~$foo.doc) on a "save as" for a file on a UNC share.
Comfy chair
Looks like the U.S. senate's ready to sign the "amnesty for illegals" bill. The house version is much better (close the border, make being here illegally a felony, fine employers, and actually enforce it). The senate is totally out of touch. Personally I think rounding them up and deporting them would be a great idea, even if the price of lettuce goes up a few cents (and back down after robots are developed to start picking fruit). Hopefully the house can hold them off.
And now for a small rant about driving, specifically, merging. When you merge with other traffic, you come as a supplicant, that is, you yield until there's a space to merge; if you have to, you stop. Drivers already in the flow of traffic may, even should try to make a gap to let you in, but, if all the a**hole drivers in the world lined up and went past your merge lane at once bound and beholden not to let anyone in, well, too bad. You wait. You don't drive forward as if it was some sort of high-stakes game of chicken. That is all.
I've also finally fixed the photo links on this page; if you click the thumbnails you will once again get to see a larger image (but not the full size, because people's screens usually aren't that big).
