27. October, 2002 - spring ahead, fall back
- If you remembered to Spring Ahead, Fall Down, you might ask yourself What's the purpose of daylight saving time? If you didn't, consider this a little reminder. I didn't exactly forget, but I didn't get around to resetting the two clocks in my house that need manual changing until after I went through the following process:
- Wake up partway, look at clock. 7am, might as well get up.
- Oh wait, wasn't I supposed to change the clocks?
- Yes, I still need to change the clocks. It's really 6am.
- Crap. Now I'm wide awake.
- World Series Game 6: Anaheim wins, forces Game 7. It was a pretty good game, I thought. And I'm glad to see that there'll be a game 7. [strib]
- Not everyone wanted to be Switched. A funny (though perhaps not safe for work, due to profanity) counter-ad.
- Ask the pilot what happens when you dump dry-ice down an airplane toilet at 33,000 feet. Oh my. It hurts to laugh so hard.
As he steps away, the pilot hears a deep and powerful burble ... It's similar to the sound your own innards might make if you've eaten an entire pizza or, perhaps, swallowed Drano, amplified a thousand times over.
[boing boing]
- Have you seen the PowerBook's new PC rival--designed by Porsche [warning: popups]? It's a pretty spiffy looking piece of hardware. I wonder if it runs OpenBSD as well as the TiBook.
- Paper Blowgun Darts look like an awful lot of fun. Almost as good as the tinfoil-from-a-stick-of-gum thingies I'll sometimes roll up and shoot across the room with my hands. And rolling the paper darts isn't all that complex. First try out, I got one that's nearly perfect. And I've got a lot of suitable paper... [doc]
- Faced with both possibly having company I wanted to impress (or at least not scare away) last night (of the cute-gal persuasion, but her earlier-in-the-evening-obligation didn't get done early enough, dangit), plus the onset of winter (I know it's only fall, but temperatures below freezing change my mindset) so I'll be cooped up inside for a while, I went on a flurry of cleaning the past couple days (mostly yesterday). Here are the raw statistics:
- Loads of laundry done: 6
- Drainers of dishes washed: 2
- Bags of trash hauled out (tall kitchen bags, 13 gallon capacity): 5
- Bags of shredded paper (receipts, old code listings, etc) which will not be accepted for recycling: 2
- Trash carts filled: 1
- Trash carts to be filled once the full ones have been emptied: 1
- Grocery bags of office paper and junk mail for recycling: 2
- Document storage tubs filled with papers to be filed: 1
- Mean thickness of stuff piled on kitchen table before cleaning: 4 inches
- Maximum thickness of stuff on kitchen table before cleaning: 15 inches
- Months since I'd been able to eat at the kitchen table: 2
- Number of unneeded computer keyboards found in the pile: 2
- Thickness of the stack of flattened cardboard boxes for recycling: 6 inches
- Computer CDs found and filed: 17
- Floppy disks found and discarded (the last four computers (three Macs, and one PC) I've bought have had no floppy drive): 11
- Audio CDs remaining to be dealt with: approx 6 dozen
And I still have plenty to do. I haven't touched the area immediately around my computer. There are the closets in my bedroom which need to be emptied, sorted, and refilled. Where am I going to fit another bookshelf to hold all the books that won't go on the existing shelves? Similarly, where does a shelf to hold all the DVDs go?
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Sun, 03 Nov 2002 12:22:04.