Category archives: Vindaloo
Discussions of the spice of life, spices, and/or life.
She never brings them home for *me* (Rosey & co go out clubbing, so the day ends early...)
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Rosey and Erin (friend from St. Mary's back when we were in high school (and a rather stunning woman even back then (she's the one on the right))) took one of their friends out clubbing as part of another friend's wedding festivities. They're all staying over, so I guess I'll call it a night so ...
Wow, Andromeda ends darkly... (Spoiler warning...)
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Couldn't sleep, so decided to plough through a few of the PVR'd shows piling up on the hard disk. They included the last 2 episodes of Andromeda. Um... dark. Everyone dies save the hero who decides to flee... even the heroine that the hero (who eventually flees) convinces she shouldn't flee.
I mean, yes, it ...
Am I a romantic sham? (Tim's hopes withstanding?)
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Tim remarks, in response to Chad, (and I think in earnest), that he hopes my penchant for romanticism is all part of some act or other. Which is in line with my understanding of how Tim views my view of love. But I'm afraid I really do mean what I say when I describe what ...
Time to restart the Mikey on Linux project? (Have to get off Microsoft eventually...)
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Snaking,
Vindaloo.
As all my loyal readers will no doubt remember, I hit a rather annoying snag way back when that forced me to switch back from Linux to Win2K. I fixed that a while ago, but since then I've spent all of my time on Linux trying to get FreeVO installed and configured to work with ...
Remembering (You'd think after 11 years I'd have written it down...)
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Natasha and I have known each other for 11 years now. I still don't know the precise day of her birthday. I remember when it is (somewhere between the 4th and the 6th). The problem is that I got it wrong for 4 or 5 years (and always wind up seeing her on days that ...
I've said it before... I'll say it again (Ever heard of a broom?)
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As everyone knows, yesterday was the one-year anniversary of the Spirit rover on Mars. It had a 90 day expected lifetime and has "miraculously" managed to survive 4 times that. However, the only thing that I've ever heard of that would reduce the thing's expected life-cycle is dust accumulation on the solar panels.
I mean, ...
Double standard still exists (Ruminations on oral fixations...)
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A few years ago three friends and I were taking a cab ride. For some reason the conversation turned to fellatio, and went ribaldly along for a few minutes in that vein. Playing along, I mentioned something about cunnilingus. The reactions from those friends were striking. While they'd been happily discussing a woman pleasuring a ...
A perfect evening (From the Book of Questions...)
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Design Theory,
Vindaloo.
This question came up at my last party, and my answer was too brief to capture what I dream of, so here's the expanded version (warning, don't expect anything grand, I'm a bit of an Epicurean at heart):
We are in our home. The home is modest, but well designed, near the university where we ...
No sleep for the over-stimulated (Maybe I shouldn't think about work before bed...)
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Vindaloo.
Made the mistake of running over everything I want to get done tomorrow as I was trying to get to sleep. 2.5 hours later, can't sleep, as I'm still spinning ideas... not even really ideas, just priorities mostly, which items need to be in the 1.0 release, how to get everyone on the same page ...
Should have gone shopping this week (New camera was supposed to be picked up during boxing-week sales...)
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I'm planning on giving my camera to Shane when I buy a replacement I can actually use. Was intending to get out this week to buy it, but instead I wound up spending the entire time working.
Shane reminded me about it again last night and suggested I try Shopper's drug mart, as they are ...
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.