Category archives: Vindaloo
Discussions of the spice of life, spices, and/or life.
When women flirt (Men are reduced to sleepless fools)
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Vindaloo.
I remind myself
She was just flirting
I remind myself
She thinks I'm a bore
I remind myself
But blue dreams
Keep reminding me of her
Gentle smiles for fools
Written by
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Vindaloo.
What fool am I
To hang upon the casual smile
Of any passing siren
Literature on a Bus
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Vindaloo.
She seems so pleasant
Reading fine literature on a bus
I don't want to ruin the image
So I avoid her gaze
He holds the shirt
Written by
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Vindaloo.
He holds the shirt to his nose
I wonder about the girl
Who hurts him so
Coincidence and magic (Plans fall apart, then magically reassemble themselves)
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Vindaloo.
After the meeting with PCI this afternoon I beetled down to the Friendly Thai for dinner with Mark and Dave. Turns out it was actually 6 people for dinner, not just the three of us. By the time we finished, though, the hardworking people had to get to bed so they could get up in ...
Too many cabs to save the girl
Written by
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Vindaloo.
On the third jump
Discussing his buildings
In the pouring rain
The cabbie delivered me
To the dioxin pond
Joy of Windows (I'm such a sucker for a beautiful face...)
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Vindaloo.
Friend needed help trying to repair her computer this evening. I'm really not flush enough with time to be messing about with corrupted Windows installs, but you can't just leave a lady in distress.
Turned out to be a corrupted hard disk. Also a broken CD drive, and some loose cables, with no admin password ...
Week fills up too fast (Also, messages from Rosey...)
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Vindaloo.
I'm trying to think when I'll get time to put together the demo on Tim's laptop... guess it'll have to be now-ish, as I'm pretty much booked tomorrow and Tuesday. I think I'm getting to the meeting-exhuastion point... or rather I'm getting to the "I'd really like to work on the product now" point.
Meetings ...
Very pleasant dinner (Meet a new friend)
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Vindaloo.
Dinner at Jazz' place was wonderful. Great food, lots of fun conversations. Jazz' friend Mark was there. Interestingly, his job for Rogers is, effectively, one half of what Cinemon does (the group-of-modems half). Kind of a neat coincidence there.
We (Mark and I) didn't wind up winning (my fault, I'm just not up on pop ...
Hope for Me
Written by
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Vindaloo.
She says there's hope for me
As she walks down the aisle
Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.