June 29, 2004
Abbot & Costello
This is the about the funniest thing I have read in quite a while. The first time I tried, I was cracking up so hard I had to stop 10 lines into it.
Abbott & Costello Visit The Computer Store
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from."
June 28, 2004
Stephen Hawking Quote
"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image." From
June 24, 2004
Prefixes
People call me "Ms." a lot. However, it is because they have no idea whether this person named Ezra is a gal or a guy. So they take a shot.
Here is a revolutionary idea. Don't use a prefix unless you are 90% certain (like you met the person and there was not strong ambiguity). Examples:
Hello Ezra,Hi Ezra:
Ezra,
In any case, I don't think I will be adding "Mr. Ezra F..." to my emails again. That confused people more.
June 19, 2004
Making It Easy To Be Stalked
It disturbs me how often put their home phone number in emails, on web sites, etc. Not so much that the number could be called. But that the number could be traced back to an address with any of the hundreds of reverse phone book web sites.
June 15, 2004
LHS Reunion
This is old news for most pople.
The high school reuniton went well. Lots more people showed than I expected.
The Friday night drinks had a whole crew of people I knew getting very wasted. The drama. Oh. The drama. Every day was full of so-n-so is so upset about some trivial thing someone did. Why stay home and watch soaps on TV when better stuff is in real life? Of course, this was also the case in college. I so loved living vicariously.
Saturday morning we were able to take a tour of the school. Pictures below.
Saturday evening, was full of dancing and music at the actual event. I have never seen so many guys wearing French blue dress shirts. Too weird. It was fun. I was able to talk to another geek like me about what he does in computer security. Got to see some other people from back then I missed Friday night.
All in all, I wish some people who skipped it had not punked out. None of my closest friends from that class were there. Which sucks because that is what reunions are all about.
