Happy Birthday

Because I’m just that sort of friend, Doxy, I forgot yesterday was your birthday. I keep tellin’ people, I’m an asshole. Anyway, a big moronosphere shout-out to Doxy. Happy Birthday, baby. You seem to have stopped blogging again, but I’m hope you’re havin’ a fine ol’ day of it. It also seems to be Gina’s […]

Because I’m just that sort of friend, Doxy, I forgot yesterday was your birthday.

I keep tellin’ people, I’m an asshole.

Anyway, a big moronosphere shout-out to Doxy. Happy Birthday, baby. You seem to have stopped blogging again, but I’m hope you’re havin’ a fine ol’ day of it.

It also seems to be Gina’s (mrs Ray) birthday.

So mid-april spankings all round.

Like a dream that has no dreamer

I’m in one of those song lyrics phrases. A couple days ago it was Spiriitualized – and yesterday if I’d bothered, it would have been Hüsker Dü. But now I’m suddenly in a Be Bop Deluxe phase. Like a square peg in a round hole Like a harp without its strings Like a sailor who […]

I’m in one of those song lyrics phrases. A couple days ago it was Spiriitualized – and yesterday if I’d bothered, it would have been Hüsker Dü.

But now I’m suddenly in a Be Bop Deluxe phase.

Like a square peg in a round hole
Like a harp without its strings
Like a sailor who sails no oceans
Like a bird that has no wings

Without love, I am a desert
Without love, my light is dim
Without love, I have no treasures
Without love, I cannot win

(Without love) We are like ships in the night
(Without love) Selling our souls down the river
Sailing away and forever our pleasure is blue.

Like a dream that has no dreamer
Like a cloud without a sky
Like a truth with no believer
Like a mother without a child

Without love, I have no pleasures
Without love, my light is dim
Without love, I have no treasures
Without love, my chance is slim

(Without love) We are like ships in the night
(Without love) Selling our souls down the river
Sailing away and forever our pleasure is blue

     —Be Bop Deluxe, Ships in the Night

Be Bop Deluxe are in my top five Best Bands Ever list. You really should hear them, if you’ve never done so. They’re amazing.

cobbler’s elves

looks like I’ve got one of those all-weekend pushes coming – a project that’s due for release monday (this is internal tools stuff, not product. I don’t do product, man) needs the cobbler’s elves to do magic behind the scenes. So I’ll be at my desk, or some variant of my desk, most of the […]

looks like I’ve got one of those all-weekend pushes coming – a project that’s due for release monday (this is internal tools stuff, not product. I don’t do product, man) needs the cobbler’s elves to do magic behind the scenes.

So I’ll be at my desk, or some variant of my desk, most of the weekend, getting data moves and tools tested so that no one notices a damned thing on monday.

That’s the essence of what I do, most of the time. make it work, so users people notice anything changes.

If i’m lucky this won’t be a really major push. I’d actually like to see the sun if it pops out this weekend. But we’ll see…