Didn't get home until 7, and my room didn't cool down fast enough to make cooking attractive at a normal dinner time. So I finished late-ish, say 9PM. By then I was tired enough that I flopped down on the bed rather than finish out a guild battle. Then I woke with an irritated tummy ~12:30-1AM. Once again, sipping a little smilk did wonders for that. A little later I also had a muffin to help things along, and back in bed ~2:30-3:30. The excess of coffee and perhaps iced tea might have contributed to the s... (...more)

Pretty much lost my discipline of treadmill sessions recordkeeping beyond tweeting; eventually I'm sure I'll get around to filling in the blanks in my spreadsheet and if I ever get Phosphoros hooked up with a post-date-fixing facility I'll get that (and my LJ) ported here too. For that matter, I misplaced my discipline of getting on the treadmill at all for about a month. Quick recap: July 10: #119, 3.3mi July 12: #120a, 2.5mi, tripped emergency stop, lost groove and called it a day July 13: #120b, and ... (...more)

The Little Penguin 2011 cab sauv was a great cooking wine - drinkable, cheap, flavorful. The 2010 Little Penguin merlot is a nice sipping wine as well. One reviewer (google-translated from French) cites "Powerful nose releasing dominant aromas of vanilla, red berry jam and wood. This dry red expresses good acidity and smooth tannins". As with the cab sauv, the raw alcohol nose up front is a bit distracting. Palate-wise, I was more reminded of blue or blackberry than red berry; other reviewers also suggeste... (...more)

Perhaps, as the movie quote goes, the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist. Surely though, a close second greatest lie must be that God, Whose paramount creation is Man, somehow despises the carnal half of human nature, and values us only insomuch as we sweep that half of our nature under the rug.

Someday Mozilla will finish wanking over features of dubious utility, and develop reliable profile backup/restore from within Thunderbird. Until then, we have MozBackup. MozBackup can (and probably should) take a configuration file parameter at the command line. Its file format is basically ZIP, ergo it can encrypt archives. However, if you want unattended backup you'd have to store the password in plain text in the config file, and plaintext passwords make babby Jesus cry. So I run a batch file to call Mo... (...more)