I woke up late – it was almost 9. Counterintuitively, Aruba is +1 hour from the east coast (the dateline takes a sharp cut west to accomodate Venezuela), so we lost an hour. I did the morning walk, then headed to breakfast. We stationed ourselves in a group of lounge chairs facing the sea in …
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8 am was painful. I spent a good part of the day fighting off sleep. Jet lag sucks. It was rather windy out today. On deck the relative windspeed was over 45 mph. That made a nice walk an interesting exercise. They have this “Ship Shape” program where you earn a “Ship Shape Dollar” for …
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Not that I’m complaining. Day 2 started out late, east coast time at least. Anne had already been up for a while, but I couldn’t get up any earlier than 9. If we had thought things through a bit more, we might have realized that we had a least a half-day to explore Miami. Without …
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A year or so ago, my parents booked us all on a 10-day cruise around the Caribbean. I’ve been looking forward to it and it’s finally here. Kinda. I’m not sure that a frantic 24 hours of packing up, tying up loose ends and flying to Miami counts as ‘vacation’ – especially since I went …
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Yesterday I got a strange piece of mail. It was a thin security enevelope with nothing printed on either side. Through a window on the front was simply my address printed on a piece of paper. The stamp was one of those “Presorted First Class” stamps that aren’t really stamps. There was no return address. …
Something that’s mystified me of late is the popularity of tag clouds. Why do people like them? Don’t they realize they’re ugly? Or perhaps no one really likes them, everyone just thinks someone else likes them. Let’s take an example tag cloud, a strange mishmash of oddly-sized words that look like a 12-year old just …
A few months ago, my trusty Roomba stopped working. It would start and just stop after a few seconds of flailing. I thoroughly cleaned all the cat hair out of it, but still no dice. I thought the battery was not holding a charge anymore, so I borrowed a spare one from Tony. That didn’t …
When we got back from vacation, I noticed one of our cats was sneezing quite a bit. He had a cold. What was more amusing is that the other cat is deathly afraid of sneezing and runs like hell whenever someone lets one out. He was quite annoyed that the other cat was doing it …
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It seems that all I do on over holidays is watch movies. Perhaps it’s the only time of year that I have hours on end to do absolutely nothing. It felt good. Anyway, here’s the movies I saw and a 6-word or less review: The Hulk – That ending made no sense Robots – Someone …
A few weeks ago, I ran across a cool product – a supermagnet. I joked on my blog that I wanted one for Christmas. Let that be a lesson to me: be careful what you ask for, you might just get it. The day before I left for Christmas break, my team approached my desk …