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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
Today the office know-it-all/nag/dolt/snitch (yes, this is all one person) was asking me about a monitor which ended up in her work area. It happened to “belong” to me, and I had put it down in that room as temporary storage long before it had become her space. Once she found out it was mine, …
