Farmer's Almaniacal

Feb
15th

Mon

“Matilda – Who Told Lies and Was Burned to Death”

I heard this poem on the Writer’s Almanac and it tickled me.

Feb
4th

Thu

Crabbiness is a hedge against outright rage.

— Garrison Keillor, A Prairie Home Companion.

Jan
25th

Mon

Stephen Wright @ the Warner Theater

Wife bought me tix as an Xmas present, show was this past Saturday. Still funny as hell. Good mix of old and new stuff. Line that made me laugh hardest: I joined the Jehovah Witness protection program.

Jan
22nd

Fri

The Known Universe in 6 minutes and change.

Nov
14th

Sat

A Glorious Dawn, featuring Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking

(Single for sale here: http://www.thirdmanrecords.com/news.html)

Jun
22nd

Mon

Twinkie, dunked in funnel cake batter, fried, covered with powdered sugar and chocolate syrup. Taken at the 60th annual WV State Folk Festival, Glenville, WV.

May
20th

Wed

Very cool representation of all the known bodies in the solar system.

Apr
2nd

Thu

I skipped the suffering…

From a recent comment in some of my code:

FEAR: ANGER: HATE: THEDARKSIDE:

Yes, I was commenting a HACK: I like Visual Studio tags - pity I never go back and clear them….

Nov
7th

Fri

9V Tragedy, from the Make blog.

Oct
27th

Mon

Azure Screen Of Death

I’m at Microsoft’s PDC 08 in LA, where they introduced Windows Azure - their “cloud computing” platform. I’m sure someone’s already beaten me to it, but I wanted to try to go on record as being the first to use the phrase “Azure Screen of Death” - just a few minutes after they announced it, I leaned over and whispered to my cow orker “I wonder if you get an Azure Screen of Death if it crashes.”