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naming the printer

this is how the conversation went.

mike: i also need to order ink
carrie: ink? for crazy printer?
mike: crazy printer, yes.
mike: perhaps it needs a name.
carrie: Let’s name it Yar.
carrie: As in Lt. Tasha Yar.
mike: which one was that again? the psychic one?
carrie: No, that was Troy.
carrie: Yar is the one that got consumed by the tar monster then replaced as chief security officer by Warf.
carrie: Since she, uh, died when consumed by the tar monster.
carrie: That was when they finally let Warf grow his hair out and look less Vulcan and more Klingon.
carrie: Before that, he looked like a Vulcan with an acne problem that got knocked in the head.
mike: hrm. okay.

yes, it’s st. patrick’s day. not that it affects my work or home life, but i’m part irish so i feel compelled to recognize. since i don’t post nearly often enough, this is simply a catch-up with what’s going on. i’ll try to keep it lively. “edgar” is progressing nicely. we’re due in mid-August. carrie […]

O HAI!

O HAI! arriving in August.

eight or nine years

eight or nine years, depending on your perspective, that is. nine years ago today, i got in my car and drove out to Framingham, MA to have dinner with a girl i had been talking to on the phone the night before, and chatting with on IRC for days prior. dinner was nervous. conversation was […]

retrospectacular

yay! another one of those year-in-review posts, boring! these things always sound shlocky to me, and the couple of drafts i’ve written so far are no exception. so i’ll sum it up with this: my heartfelt thanks and love go out to my friends and family who have been following along with our little adventure. […]

the overwhelming joy of normal

while extraordinary circumstances often challenge us, teach us, enrich us, and make us stronger, the return to “normal” can be ecstatic. early last week, i first read the ominous forecast: ice accretion. having not used the term “accretion” in daily conversation, i looked it up. sure, i thought, some freezing rain. some icy sidewalks and […]

Dinner with Tom, Dick, and Harry

Tis the season to suffer through spend time with family that you see only once in a blue moon.Â This year–our Thanksgiving is going to be spent in Maine at my Uncle Dickie’s house.Â It should be quite a treat–Mike hasn’t met my Uncle Harry yet and the last time he saw Uncle Dickie was […]

everyone is your friend in new york city

and everything is beautiful, when you’re young and pretty. or at least, that’s what They Might Be Giants told me once, in a song. last week around this time, i was attending the Future Of Web Design workshops and conference. i got in my focus and i drove down to manhattan last sunday. yeah, probably […]

kelly and his arch enemy

i like to think of my cats as pacifists. sure, they will “hunt” some inanimate object, or infringe on the civil liberties of a wary insect when it suits their fancy. but i never imagined they would be involved in any sort of long-standing rivalry or grudge; in fact, a cold-war of sorts. when we […]

pack monadnock

while my parents were visiting this past weekend, we took them for a trip up the auto-road in Miller State Park. it’s a paved road that runs 2Â½ miles up Pack Monadnock mountain. from the top, it’s possible to see Mt Monadnock to the west… the White Mountains to the north… Manchester to the east… […]