Perspectives of a WASPMDSWEWAP http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/ due to recent budget reductions all funding for smoke has been eliminated. this operation is now run entirely on mirrors... Copyright 2010 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:30:01 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss ... and so it begins
First day in the new BU - already have a user story to look at, but not going to settle in just yet - we change buildings just after the start of the new year!
]]> http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2009/12/14/#001471 http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2009/12/14/#001471 Mobile Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:30:01 -0800 So it ends...
Last day in the old BU - new job come Monday!
]]> http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2009/12/11/#001470 http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2009/12/11/#001470 Mobile Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:50:02 -0800 Proposed change to new construction signs road-sign-change-suggestion.png

]]> http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2009/10/25/#001446 http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2009/10/25/#001446 Political Ramblings Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:55:21 -0800 Not a truck I really want to follow... ]]> http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2009/09/10/#001396 http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2009/09/10/#001396 Mobile Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:40:01 -0800 Happy Independence Day It has been said that those who control the language control the future. I have been trying for years now to take back a little corner of the language, by wishing people a "Happy Independence Day", rather than "Happy Fourth", or "Happy Fourth of July". Especially when someone wishes me a "Happy Fourth", I make sure to respond with a "Happy Independence Day!"

Join me in bringing back meaning to the day - it is not just the fourth day of the seventh month people, it is our country's birthday!

]]> http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2009/07/04/#001301 http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2009/07/04/#001301 Political Ramblings Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:44:43 -0800 Purell invasion
Suddenly these oversized Purell dispensers are everywhere at work - at the elevators, anywhere there are more than a few light switches. We are all eventually going to die off because our immune systems will have become so weak from disuse they will not be able to fight off anything...
]]> http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2009/05/26/#001229 http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2009/05/26/#001229 Mobile Tue, 26 May 2009 12:30:01 -0800 The Debt Star debtstar5rk3.jpg

Via AR15.com

]]> http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2009/03/07/#001035 http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2009/03/07/#001035 Political Ramblings Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:37:34 -0800 Centrist??!?! On the CNN Wire blog, one of the authors had the audacity to say that Obama was being centrist in his speech today:

the question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works - whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.

Pardon me?!?! It is not the government's job to find anyone a job, help them pay for health care, or pay for their retirement! Just because he throws in the bit about government being too big or too small does not make him a centrist, nor his ideas. He still thinks that the government should be taking care of our every need, and that is certainly not centrist...

]]> http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2009/01/20/#000947 http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2009/01/20/#000947 Political Ramblings Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:19:52 -0800 Long term storage in my hood
Guess the porch was full...
]]> http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2009/01/10/#000924 http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2009/01/10/#000924 Mobile Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:00:02 -0800 Run for your lives! I ran across this video of the bloat of the bailout legislation - quite depressing really, in that this is not limited to this bill I am sure.

Bailout Bloat

]]> http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2009/01/01/#000874 http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2009/01/01/#000874 Political Ramblings Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:59:41 -0800 Moblogging
Yes, I know, first texting and now moblogging - I am dragging myself into the twenty first century a little bit at a time. Just finished my scripts last night to allow updating from my phone, so doing a first post while stuck on a conference call.
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]]> http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2008/11/10/#000678 http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2008/11/10/#000678 Because I am a techie geek Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:10:13 -0800 SCOTUS says that it is not supposed to make laws! Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.

The above is from the SCOTUS ruling on the Heller case that upheld the right of the people (called out in the ruling as separate and distinct from "a well regulated Militia") to keep and bear Arms. You have to love the smack down of the activist courts so prevalent in the country today. This is a good day.

]]> http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2008/06/26/#000599 http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2008/06/26/#000599 Political Ramblings Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:11:17 -0800 New life for the laptop We got a new laptop because the old one was dying - the final straw was that the power cord had a break in it somewhere, so you had to hold the cord just so or it would not charge.

I went at it this morning with a razor blade and 2 lbs of solder later, it works again! The patch is of course ugly, but it works - now what to do with this computer? I think I might try to install Ubuntu, but um, well, the CD player does not work ;). Of course half the memory slots don't work, the wireless card gave out years ago, and every once in a while you have to press the power on button repeatedly to get it to turn on, but it has a few month miles to go now!

]]> http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2008/05/10/#000568 http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2008/05/10/#000568 Because I am a techie geek Sat, 10 May 2008 10:32:42 -0800 The cutest baby in the world The cutest baby in the world

I know, eye of the beholder, I am not objective, etc, etc, blah blah blah; but tell me she is not at least one of the cutest babies that you have ever seen...

:)

]]> http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2008/02/17/#000537 http://www.hraban.com/scott/blog/archives/2008/02/17/#000537 Photos Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:14:32 -0800