Year: 2005

“Sir? We’ve traced the call. The problem is coming from inside the house!” ::splattery death:: A Covad technician has been here for the last hour, poking at my DSL with various tests, tone generators, and the like. He fairly quickly determined that the problem lay with the (rather messy) basement wiring. More to the point,…

Watching movies that came out when I was too little to see them, my parental units saw them, but they’re weren’t good enough to see again with me when I was older, or the sorts of movies I would see with my friends. Think most okay action/dramas from the early ’90s. Thanks Jed for the…

Remember my last post about DSL? Insert it here, but increment every number referring to the how many times I have called Speakeasy customer service, or how many times a Verizon technician has come to my building to poke at my NID. I’m going to have to take ‘s advice, and express myself thusly: FUCKERS!!!…

I went to church at UniLu today, and after the service just met people. Katie S., Class of 2002 and former SPC member, is a member there, so she and Celia and I talked briefly about life after Swat. Then when talking to Kate, the Young Adult programs leader, I met Mike, who coincidentally also…

I hate Verizon with a burning passion hotter than a thousand fiery suns. It’s probably a good thing that they are no longer BBN’s parent company, otherwise I couldn’t rant about their complete and utter failure and incompetence when it comes to the handling of my DSL physical line. So, I am still having problems,…

Last week, the rear brakes on my bike went out. Since it has hydraulic disc brakes, I didn’t want to mess with it and try and fix it myself. Thankfully my mom was in town (more on that later), so she was able to conduct my bike to Wheelworks in Belmont without me riding a…

At least I’ve got something going for me: I’ve since gotten a “supermaster”, which I think is higher. It took me a while to figure out that Make-a-Word was not Boggle. However, I’m not actually that dumb:

Dunuh dunuh dunuh. Dunuh. Dunuh. Dunuh dunuh dunuh. Dunuh. Dunuh. Doot doo-dee doo! Doot doo-dee doo! Doot doo-dee doo… deet doo!!! (For those of you who don’t read music, that’s the Knight Rider theme) I did my first night biking ever tonight on my way back from Amy’s apartment, where there were many SWIL alumni,…

I was tagged by . List ten things that make you happy, then tag five friends. Star Trek (in almost any form) A freshly opened can of Mountain Dew Steve Jobs unveiling a new Apple product Building stuff with Lego The Lord of the Rings (in any form) Playing in a snow fort that I…

On Monday I learned that my immediate supervisor, and the only person in the group who has been devoting their entire time to the question-answering project, is going on at least a 3-month leave. She’ll be gone starting the first week of September. A newly-minted Ph.D. will be starting the first week of October, and…