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Tuesday
Wikipedia says
- The name comes from Middle English Tiwesday, from Old English Tiwes dæg, named after the Nordic god Tyr, who was the equivalent of the Roman war god Mars, and Greek god Ares.
Sounds like a good day for Fight Club. I could do with a bit more brutal physicality - it's tres masculine, darling!
Master of Time
My ongoing discussion with Dante about clock skew has ended. Dante thought that clock skew was good and entirely acceptable, I argued strongly that it wasn't. I tried to enforce my will, Postfix cried (she's a delicate soul)... mass hysteria ensues.
I read through some VMWare and Kernel documentation, had another chat with Dante, and then with his friend NTPD... now everyone's happy.
Geeky enough for you?
Now with added Books!
Last year I discovered I'd accidentally doubled up on a DVD (Smallville season 5) and passed it onto Matt as a birthday present.
It's happening again, but with books. I was reading HTMAFILWY (lazy typist) and the author started talking about her slow sexy carpenter... and something twigged. When I got home I looked, there it was, on my bookshelf. Last read ~1998, I'm guessing.
I've had duplicate copies of things before, but this is my first accidental one. Is it too early for me to get those pig brain stem-cell injections?
Worst Dad Ever
T was over on the weekend, and after watching TV and computer (some of it educational) for most of Saturday I declared a "TV FREEE Sunday". This was not popular, but fortunately I get "Daddy Veto".
Off we went (alright, I let her do a little computering while I was getting all purdy (which for we men means not sweaty most of the time)) on the train to South Bank. We hacked our way through the Zombie Hordes (Lifeline Bookfest - readers!) and off to West End for Chinese food, a new pair of thongs and merriment! Then it was Despereaux.
So we traded a small screen for a big screen - but at least we got out of the house, had some exercise, and met people.
Back on the subject of "Daddy Veto" - I've been informed that I don't get Daddy Veto on wigs. Why T, all of nine, is wearing wigs I just don't know. It's spooky, I tells ya!
