You plugged WHAT? WHERE?!

I’ve officially had the stupidest customer of the year, today.

This customer has had a ticket open with us for over 2 weeks. We kept seeing alarms coming from his smartjack — no signal from his equipment, etc. We kept testing it, and continually saw the same alarms, so we kept sending to him to verify his equipment. Each time, he would send it back to us, saying his equipment was running fine. This went on and on.

Mac Aquarium

Hey kids! Turn that clunky old Macintosh into a shiny new aquarium! Macs make fish happy!

Windows 1.0

Have a spare PC/XT compatible computer and no software to run on it?

Buy a vintage copy of [Windows 1.0][1].

[1]: PC/XT compatible computer

Off-Peak Living

I really like the idea of ”Off-Peak Living“. I keep trying to get up before 9 AM, and to not stay up until 5 AM, but I’m slowly realizing that I enjoy having this behemoth of a city all to myself. There’s no traffic problems at 3 AM. The restaurants (that are open) aren’t crowded. I do a lot of work (or play) in the wee hours that I’d otherwise never get done in normal daytime hours. If I need to run errands, I can go after noon, when nobody’s around.

Stress Test

I feel so happy that I’m much less-stressed than Robyn, who is basically a plant.

You exhibit a stress percentage of 10%, which barely registers. Get a job.

Your Stress Test answers indicate that to reduce your stress level even further you should eliminate at least one of the following from your life immediately:

  1. consciousness.

Q.E.D.

add n to x

In 1994, when I was in tenth grade at Bradshaw High School, there was one programming problem that I could never figure out. For years, I’ve occasionally pulled that problem out and toyed with it: reversing a sequence of numbers. A few nights ago, as I went to sleep, I came up with the solution.

#include < stdio.h >

int main(void) {

long foo= 0, bar = 0, x = 0;