September 21, 2062 — SUKKERTOPPEN, Greenland Director and cinematographer Mark “Bob” Boszko was killed today in a boating accident off the west coast of Greenland. Authorities say that he and members of his boating crew, who were shooting a documentary, had been capsized into the water by the wake of a Pan Am jetwaver, which…
Category: ramblings
Why blog?
Recently AAlgar sent me an email: “Pretty nifty, but I’m forced to wonder: who is this for, exactly? You could tell me (and your other friends) this stuff in an e-mail. Anyone who’s not your friend probably isn’t interested in your job situation or what you think of movies. (They’re not interested in online comics…
Jobs
As some of you may know, about a month ago, I lost my job at NIH due to a number of reasons, the main points being: 1.) Financial. The Medical Arts and Photography Branch ended the fiscal year something like $0.5 million in the hole. 2.) Political. I ended up doing a lot of work…
False Sense of Security
This morning, when I came in to work at NIH (the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, MD), everyone was on alert. Well, really, we’ve been on alert since a year ago. Right after the terrorist attacks, NIH went on super-high-ultra-alert, and was performing car and bag searches on everyone, every day. I had to…
Later that same day…
In addition to the den cleaning thing, I’m working on moving my sites to my own server at home. SITM is in the pipeline to move soon, so if it goes offline for a few days, I thought you, my two remaining viewers, might like to know that it’s not cause for panic. I also…
Update
Haven’t done much in a while, because— well— I’ve been trying to clean out my den. It’s a bigger chore than you might think. Just ask my friend AAl— he’ll tell you I’ve moved the same crap around with me through six moves in the last ten years, and it’s still not organized.
replayTV
Earlier this evening, I went out to get a ReplayTV and bring it home. Silly me. If you’ve never heard of it, it’s a lot like a TiVo. Records TV onto a hard drive for later viewing, lets you pause live TV, things like that. In short, very cool stuff. The electronics chain Tweeter is…