It's Quality Alright! YEAH BABY!

So I was writing a work related email today with the subject line of "Software Quality Assurance PVCS Tracker Report" and when I minimized the email the above is what appeared in the taskbar. No, I did not plan this. It just happened....

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How Does Will Spell Relief?

I opened my email at home this morning before heading out to work and found the following from one of my readers... ***** Organizing a search party for one Will Burham......stop............ Has not been heard from on the web since 3-25-05.....stop.......... Highly unusual........stop............if located, have him make a post on...

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Battlestar Friday

Well BSG fans here we are at the first part of the two part Battlestar Galactica season one finale! Not only is it a two parter, but a cliff hanger as well. That means that I will see my least favorite three words at the end of the next two...

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It's Alyson Hannigan Day

Before you begin to fear that my web page is turning into a celebrity birthday page let me assure you that it is not. I don't really get into the whole celeb/sports star worship thing, I just have a few folks that I sort dig and Alyson (sometimes spelled Allison)...

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It's WILLIAM SHATNER Day!

Today is William Shatner's seventy-fourth birthday! BDTH wished the Captain of the Enterprise a very happy birthday! Da-man was born on March 22, 1931 in Montreal, Canada. Beauty, eh! To see his online biography click here. To see his filmography click here. Here's a little Shat-trivia. In 1965 William Shatner...

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Happy Anniversary and Birthday

Happy 4th Birthday, San and happy Anniversary Jenne There are no photos from the weekend, as the weather and lighting conditions (thick haze, thin cloud layer, rain, hail) while we were away didn't make for good photo ops, and I really just wanted to focus my time and attention...

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Anniversay & Birthday Weekend

Monday March 21st is special to Jenne and I for three reasons. It is the first day of spring and of course we're all waiting for that, and it is our cat's, Missy San's fouth birthday, and for Jenne and I it is our 13th Wedding Anniversary (we've been together...

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Battlestar Friday

TGIF and TGFBSG. That's right, it's Battlestar Galactica day and tonight's episode has received a 4.5 out of 5 star rating. Not one episode of this show has received a rating below 4 stars! I won't spoil tonight's episode for you - I hate spoilers myself, so much so in...

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HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY EVERYONE

"Top of the morning to ye on this gray, grizzly afternoon. Kent OHHH'Brockman live on Main Street, where today everyone is a little bit Irish... except, of course, for the gays and the Italians." -- Kent Brockman, celebrating St. Patrick's Day on The Simpsons Ralph: This is my swing set....

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Happy Birthday to Professor Pan

I wanna give a big shout out HAPPY BIRTHDAY to good friend and Dungeon Master par excelence, Professor Pan, AKA Michael H. Be sure to celebrate it by throwing back a few cold and frosty beers with good friends! Umm beer arrrrhhhhhh....

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The Lengths Gamers Will Go To

Folks who play role playing games - any games in fact - can go to great lenghts to enchance their game experience. Here are two examples of the lenghts gamers will go to via MM and Prof Pan. Traditional table top Dungeons & Dragons with miniatures mixes in Photoshop and...

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Yellow Rose of Philly

Yellow Roses Jenne and her friend Michelle went to the annual Philadelphia Flower Show this past Saturday. It's an all day trip for them and Jenne always comes home with some very beautiful flowers. This year she came home with yellow and pink roses, and two Orchids (to be...

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We're Moving

No, Jenne and I are not moving, we are staying firmly put. The offices of my current employer are moving and you can bet it's not going to be to Maryland and you can bet again that it won't be closer....

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Pressure

175 PSI One hundred and seventry five pounds per square inch. That's a lot of pressure. This is another photograph from last week's false fire alarm at work. One of the firemen - a cool guy with an interest in photography - thought I was with the media and...

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Battlestar Friday

It's after 2:00 PM and I am finally breaking for lunch. Recall that on Monday I said this was going to be a brute force week? Well I was right. I have been so very swamped this week and there is no light at the end of the tunnel. But...

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Fire Alarms and Trucks

In the eleven months that I have been here we have had five false fire alarms. Of course it couldn't happen when it's 74 degrees and sunny, but it also didn't happen during the driving snow storm and 24 degrees of yesterday. Big thanks for that small favor. Well instead...

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Yesterday it was 74 Degrees!!

Today it is in the mid twenties with wind chills making it a balmy seventeen. The snow has finally stopped. The ass clown weather prognosticators predicted rain with a little snow possibly accumulating an inch on the grass only. Dumb asses. Yesterday my commute in only took me an hour....

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Brute Force

Brute Force, salvaged B-52 nose art on display at the USAF Museum, Wright Paterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio. Monday morning. The week is only minutes into beginning and already I can tell it's going to be one that I will have to get through by brute force. I can just...

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Battlestar Friday

Warning: link leads to collection of photographs and a few of them have partial nudity and may not be safe for viewing at work. It is NOT porn. That's right... IT'S FRIDAY!! And that means a new episode of Battlestar Galactica at 10:00 PM on the Sci-Fi channel. This series...

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Is Your Story a Felony?

It might be if it includes a high school set in the genres of Sci-Fi, fantasy or horror. Writers and students be careful what you write about or you may end up in jail like this teen age writer of horror stories. The thought police are coming and they are...

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What Happens When...

... you combine the movie Office Space with the Super Friends? You get two great things that go great together! Click here and let the hilarity commence! A short by Idiot Work Films. Via MM...

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Exposing Myself

It’s a Monday some weeks ago and I am sitting in the test lab doing what I normally do, no not slacking and surfing the web, but testing software, when the VP of something or another – totally acting on his own initiative– comes into the software test lab and...

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