http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/ Welcome to the "speaks" section of my blog! This tends to be more journal type stuff that doesn't fit under the more specific areas. If you want to see what else I have here go to my main page here. en Copyright 2008 Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:09:52 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss So today was sock washing day which always reminds me of the number of socks I own. Which currently sits at 19 pair with a 20th on the needles. Granted, this isn't really a huge problem and it has the advantage of knowing that none of them will wear out any time soon since each pair only gets worn, on average, once every three weeks. But it is getting a little ridiculous, which means I really need to inflict socks on other people! So if any of you want socks at some point I need to know how big your feet are. At a minimum that'd be how long they are, but the measurement around the ball would also be helpful. Feel free to leave a comment here, or on facebook if you're reading this there, or send me an e-mail, whatever. Also... I don't know if this would be fun for anyone but me but I figure I'll bring it up anyway. I was wondering if, while I'm home in December, anyone wants to have a little sock yarn dying get together? If anyone's interested you'd dye your own skein of sock yarn and then at some point after that I'd turn it into a pair of socks for you (or if you're Mom you can do the knitting your own self!) I'd need to order blanks beforehand, but the place I buy those ships pretty darn fast so it isn't like I need to place an order in the next two days or something. If anyone in Rhode Island wants to do this I'd be totally up for doing something here too. http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/11/dear_family_and_friends.html http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/11/dear_family_and_friends.html Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:09:52 -0500 this again. There's a character that's been running around my head for the past 7 or 8 months or so and I have no idea what to do with her. So maybe this'd be enough of a push to get me to work on it.]]> http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/10/nanowrimo.html http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/10/nanowrimo.html Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:34:10 -0500 I now have a new phone and I'm just checking how everything on it works... the browser seems to be a winner. Being that I'm posting this from it. Next test... pictures. Can I upload them to the blog from the phone. http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/10/is_this_thing_on.html http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/10/is_this_thing_on.html Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:41:56 -0500 Loopy Ewe rock? I've ordered from Sheri before, but every single time it's such a lovely little present in the mail. Handwritten note inside, extra little samples of things... it's just wonderful and makes me smile every time, and I felt like sharing!]]> http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/10/ok_seriously.html http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/10/ok_seriously.html Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:24:01 -0500 knitting blog. The entries are dated by close to when they were actually finished so you'll have to go through the monthly archives if you want to see everything. Also... the RSS feed on the main page works now. It'll grab the latest entries across all the blogs, just like the main page does.]]> http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/10/almost_2.html http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/10/almost_2.html Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:57:24 -0500 capri story before. I am short. Petite pants are even too long, they need to be hemmed. But they do get close length-wise. A lot closer than "normal" pants. Unfortunately the top half of petite pants really don't fit at all. So I end up buying "normal" length pants that fit on the top half but are then 6 inches too long. I think I tried on at least a dozen pairs of jeans before I found one that basically fits. They're waaaaay too long, but they'll work. ]]> http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/09/i_hate_jeans_shopping.html http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/09/i_hate_jeans_shopping.html Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:03:32 -0500 It's probably a really good thing that I'm just babysitting the 10 tonight 'cuz I'm not sure I'm going to conscious by then, let alone be able to do anything horribly useful. But on the plus side, BBC did finally air half of the 3rd quarter and all of the 4th quarter of the US/GB game. The gold medal game will be tomorrow at 8am (EST). So, still early, but not as bad and I'm off at 11 tonight so hopefully I'll actually be able to get some sleep before then! Go USA! http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/09/may_i_take_a_nap_please.html http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/09/may_i_take_a_nap_please.html Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:23:31 -0500 So I figured out how to watch stuff on BBC's website (there's a proxy involved). Their player for the Paralympic coverage says "Live!" on it. So silly me thinks that means live. So I get up at 6 am (after being at work last night until nearly 1 because stupid football made us start late) to watch the US vs. GB rugby game. I thought they'd have it. It's starting to look that "live" means what they're airing on the BBC right now, not actually what's live right now. They've had track and swimming so far which is all stuff that happened earlier today. Grrr!!! http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/09/cmon_bbc.html http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/09/cmon_bbc.html Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:31:22 -0500 Every time I think I've seen every weird thing drivers around here do, something new and strange happens. On my way in to work this afternoon I was behind someone turning left. So I'm waiting for them to make it through the intersection, they finally get through but on the yellow. The light turns red, and I stay put to wait for it to turn green again. After maybe 5 or 10 seconds the person behind me starts beeping at me. I figured I'd completely zoned out and the light switched, glance up... nope, still red. So I point at the light and look back at him going "It's red!" The guy is behind me gesturing and all disgusted at me. It looked like he wanted me to go through the intersection. On the red light. It finally turned green and I went through and this dude turned left behind me so I only saw him for a few more seconds, but he went through his turn just shaking his head all disgusted at me. It didn't make me mad or anything, it just confused the daylights out of me. What exactly did he want me to do? How is stopping at a red light a bad thing? It makes me wish there were some way to track the guy down and ask him what on earth his problem was. http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/09/it_never_fails.html http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/09/it_never_fails.html Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:36:45 -0500 Bones that'll air this Wednesday. I now have something to watch when I get home from work tonight! Yay! ]]> http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/08/sometimes_working_in_tv_has_ad.html http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/08/sometimes_working_in_tv_has_ad.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:54:31 -0500 So a couple things have happened over the past few weeks that resulted in me buying a new laptop today before work. Thing the first: I got a lovely little surprise at the beginning of the month; I was picked for the employee of the month. That comes with a monetary bonus. So that on top of the OT we've all been getting lately means that I have a bit of extra cash. Thing the second: Mass is doing their tax-free weekend thing this weekend. So I ended up at Best Buy today. I went in knowing exactly what I wanted since I knew it would be a madhouse and there'd be no way to actually look at things or try them out. I did that last weekend. Having heard all kinds of horror stories about Vista I was more than a bit apprehensive about that. But I figured I'd buy the thing, see how it works, and then decide if I want to deal with it or if I want to do a little reformatting myself. After messing around with the thing at work this afternoon for about two hours... I'm gonna be reformatting when I get home tonight. Vista is driving me absolutely nuts. I brought a couple programs with me so I could see how it works as far as installing things goes and it just refuses to cooperate. I keep changing settings, using different accounts... had to go into the command prompt to find the administrator account! I keep getting "access denied" messages no matter what administrative powers I give myself. It is just not intuitive at all. Settings aren't where I expect them to be, or they're hidden three menus down, and that's assuming the menu bar even shows up! It's pretty, but that's about it. And even the pretty is rather annoying (at least to me, I'm sure that's not true for everyone). The menu boxes have to do a little animation every time they pop up. It wastes time and it's distracting. I don't care if it's pretty! I just want it to work! I've already gone looking and all the drivers I'll need to make sure the hardware keeps working with XP exist. And I have an old copy of XP at home, so tonight I'll be joining the ranks of the "downgraders." http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/08/argh_6.html http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/08/argh_6.html Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:44:41 -0500 here. And if you know what set you want already here's the direct links to those: Home (Wisconsin) Seattle Vancouver Rugby 1 (Saturday morning, US vs. Canada) Rugby 2 (Saturday afternoon, US vs. Great Britain) Rugby 3 (Sunday, Championship game, US vs. New Zealand) ]]> http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/07/vacation_pictures.html http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/07/vacation_pictures.html Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:09:02 -0500 Rugby was awesome! I had a ton of fun watching the games and seeing it in person. So cool! Went to two games on Saturday, the first one against Canada and then the one in the afternoon was against Great Britain. By the end of the second game I was feeling like I had a slightly better feel for how the game works. I mean, I already had the basics from the movie and from reading Zupan's book, but it's a whole different thing watching a game all the way through and not all cut up the way it has to be in the movie. Then on Sunday was the championship game, got there plenty early and caught the second half of the 3rd place game (Canada vs. GB) and then watched warm-ups and all that fun stuff until the actual game started. They were playing New Zealand in that one. There was quite a bit more knocking over of players in that game than in the other two. And we won. Yay! I did take an absolute ton of pictures, but taking pictures in a gym is a difficult prospect, it's this balancing game between blurry and enough light. I pulled my shutter way down so I at least had a shot at non-blurry pictures, but that means I have to brighten every single one of them to have any hopes of getting a decent picture. That is going to wait until I get back to Rhode Island, because the laptop just isn't quite up to the task of that much photoshopping! But it looks like there's at least a couple that approach decent so I should have some that'll be ok. And after finally managing to get my nerves up I went and asked Mark to take a picture with the frog. Oh, I should explain the frog. There's this wooden frog that is always waiting for me in the guest room at home whenever I go home on vacation. (I'm not sure where he lives when I'm not there) He always has a note of some kind for me when I get there. This time his note said that he wanted to see Seattle. So I snuck him in my bag when I left and I've been taking pictures of him all over the place. So... there were a couple other people asking Mark for pictures so I went over and did the "I have a ridiculous question to ask... I have this frog and would you take a picture with him." And he said sure and then I said that I might possibly have a book that I'd love to have signed as well and he said "even better." And he asked someone else to do the picture taking so I could be in it too and was totally cool. I'll post those once I get back to RI too. I had the cover for my DVD of Murderball in there too and the pen I had wouldn't write on it so he went hunting up a Sharpie for me. And as an aside to Mark (on the off chance you ever stumble across this)... I'm not usually that much of a shaky spaz. I get all freaked out whenever I have to initiate a conversation with someone I don't know. Really doesn't matter who they are and then it of course goes fine (it always does so I don't know why I freak out, there's clearly no reason) and all that pent up nervous has to go somewhere and I get shaky. So all in all Rugby rocked and I really have to figure out if there's any teams that play anywhere near me. ]]> http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/06/back_in_seattle.html http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/06/back_in_seattle.html Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:56:38 -0500 I'm needing to pack up my stuff so I'm ready to go when Keva gets home from work this afternoon. We're going to Vancouver! Yay! I have no idea if I'll be able to get on-line from there, we shall see. Theoretically my phone is supposed to work up there, but I haven't been able to post from my phone as of yet, but I should be able to get e-mail (the phone e-mail, not my regular one) and IM's and all that fun stuff on it at least. http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/06/leaving_soon.html http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/06/leaving_soon.html Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:55:07 -0500 I'm sitting on Keva's couch right now! We haven't done much as of yet, just went out for dinner to a little diner and then wandered down the beach a bit. And I'm tired so I'm thinking I'm going to read for a bit and then go to sleep! http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/06/in_seattle.html http://www.sunidesus.net/blog/2008/06/in_seattle.html Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:02:02 -0500