Geek Drivel

Spam has become enough of a topic here that I’ve given it it’s own category, and reclassified a number of earlier entries on the subject.

I also wanted to mention the blog-comment spam problem again. Oddly enough, out of over two hundred such attempts, every blog-comment spam that I’ve had here has been on one of two entries. I got tired of it, so I decided to try turning off comments on those two entries. It’s amazing… I haven’t had a single comment-spam attempt in the last several days!

Now back to our regularly scheduled spam update, already in progress.
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Although the sound volume of our three part-Siamese cats is generally set to “annoying,” this article gives a possibly-useful, and definitely-interesting, method of approximating the true physical volume. And it’s something that the cat will cooperate with.

(Be sure to check out the “rat-like creature” link, purely for the hilarious pictures.)

From our friend Interrobang, a hilarious mention of the Transformers movie. I chuckled for several minutes when I first saw it today.

It’s so nice to see that fathers are doing more things with their children these days.

I’ve always felt a certain kinship to the character of Sherlock Holmes. Not for his ability to notice the most minute of details, or his reasoning skills, or his undeniable flair for disguise… admirable as those and many of his other traits may be, it’s his moods between cases that I’ve always identified with.
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If you’re a fan of really big trucks, check out this one.

The air conditioning fellow arrived about 45 minutes ago and spent maybe fifteen minutes isolating and fixing the problem (a blown capacitor). We’re finally starting to cool down now. I may be able to move back to the office in a couple hours.

The temperature is hovering around ninety this week, and it’s bright and sunny, so of course the air conditioning in our building decides to croak yesterday afternoon. And of course the repair place can’t get out here to look at it until tomorrow at the earliest. Our office is on the upper floor, which reached intolerable at about 9:15 this morning and is still rising.

It’s at times like this that I really bless the current state of computer technology. My main computer is a laptop, portable by definition, so it’s easily possible to move it (and myself) to a lower and cooler floor for the duration. And reliable wireless networking technology means that I’ve got full access to our phone system, our network, and the Internet, anywhere in the building. So this becomes a minor inconvenience, rather than a choice between lost productivity and an invitation to heatstroke.

Fascinating piece on how reading is actually done.

Appetizing.