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Worst Jobs In Science: “I was a teenage stool-sample analyzer. Well, not me, but my old roommate was. He thought this type of job would help him get into med school (it didn’t). His biggest complaint was people who turned in tightly-sealed (naturally) peanut-butter jars packed full of the stuff, which would (naturally) decompose producing gas, causing a literal shit-storm when opened. He only needed about a teaspoon-full to do the analysis. “

I’m a healthy motherfucker. I stepped on the scale a couple of days ago and I’m now pushing 195 pounds. I was 192 pounds last week so those three pounds are driving me nuts! I’m working out a lot and definitely gaining muscle mass, but my fat levels are not decreasing. I should add more cardio to my work out.

So true!

The site seems to be operating at 100% efficiency again! I’m not exactly sure what caused the slowdown, but my suggestion to my website admin is what caused the latest problems (eg gallery was broken)! I noticed that the log files for apache were reaching sizes larger than 1.3 GB, so I suggested rotating the logs. When apache was restarted, it was mistakenly restarted in chroot mode (a security feature that we don’t really need) and that broke just about everything. My home dir website was down, gallery was down, etc. Another quick email and things are back up again!

It seems that my website isn’t responding for some of you. For me, it just takes awhile to load. Odd, posting about everyone not being able to see my posts…

It’s your birthday. Someone gives you a calfskin wallet. How do you react?: Questions asked of San Fransisco mayoral candidates taken from Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep. Beautiful! The questions make more sense in the book than the movie because of the greater explanation of how a human should/could react to the questions and what a replicant would do instead.

Motorola picks an operating system : “If Motorola is launching something, it ought to suggest that the software has passed the technical hurdles.” Hell yeah our software has passed the technical hurdles. Just wait until you use a Smartphone; you will be hooked!

It looks like the second expansion for Neverwinter Nights is going to finally resolve some serious issues with the game (especially issues Chris has with the game):

1. Lack of a kensei => New prestige class, weapon master
   

2. Inability to see much of a playing field => Unlocked camera, meaning you can swing the view around to just about anywhere in the hemisphere above the floor around the character
   

3. Boring henchmen => New scripting elements including romance
   

4. Two character party maximum => Ability to bring along two henchmen
   

Jeff and I have started an actual honest-to-goodness workout routine. We are shooting to work out at least 5 times a week (more depending on work load and possible visitors) and we are going to track our progress. Currently, we take a notebook with us to record the exercises, weight and reps. When I get back to work the next day, I update an Excel spreadsheet with the data. I’m not sure what I’m going to do with the information, but never fear. I’m a huge dork; I’m bound to make charts and graphs representing our progress.

Since we also play racquetball every day, we sometimes don’t get enough time to do as many exercises as desired. Yesterday we were able to get through bench press, leg press, rope tricep pushdown, lateral pulldown, left and right obliques, hamstrings, and abdominals.

In the past two days, I found out that a lot of people still check this site at least a few times a week for updates. Maybe I should give the people what they want!