Mikes Thoughts

Recently, I’ve been playing a bit with my AMD64 box and since I have a Technet Plus subscription with Microsoft, I can get access to operating systems, applications, and other stuff early on.  That’s kinda cool because I am a OS junkie.  I like playing with various OS’es, seeing what they do, etc.  There are [...]

There is that old saying “only the good die young” and its hit me here a bit of late.  As we humans get older, its dawned on me that its damned hard to make friends.  Its like some cosmic button was pushed, lever was thrown, or force field was erected. We just cannot seem to [...]

Its quite an interesting world we live in.  Witness the fact that my wife and I finally got a “nanny” that comes over on occasion and plays referee to our two bundles of joy.  Its not like either of them really need what could be called a babysitter; but I’m sure parents understand that the [...]

It seems we are in the season of conundrums. There are conflicting things which could happen given any outcome. One amazing factoid is that the Raiders won today! How did that ever happen? Two games in a row. Goodness.
Today also was the day of falling back. I don

No particular big enlightenment to share.  I made an attempt to use Ubuntu Dapper on my AMD64 system over the past days and its kind of painful with having to load 32bit versions of things to get things working.  I’ve sheled running Linux on that beast for awhile since I could do Debian’s pure AMD64 [...]

Its come to me after a 17 day absence that I simply need to write weblog posts.  So many things come and go in a day that without blogging, I seem to miss the measure of them because I cannot live them vicariously again when I blog them.  Age has this determining affect on you [...]

The blog is not being posted to all that often anymore.  I’ve reached a few rest spots along my highway.  Blogging has become a secondary thing.  I’m not sure why.  Perhaps in the end, bloggers reach some point where they’ve said what they wanted.  Maybe its like a good novel.  You write up the beginning, [...]

Every year; but only once and sans kids, my wife and I do a weekend away.  This year we chose to go here.  This place is cool, has restaurants, art galleries, nice shops, and interesting nightlife.  We tend to not really do much and end up sitting in the room, drinking a bit too much, [...]

For us men, we know when to say when.  I’ve read that men do three career changes in a life.  I’ve counted mine.  I’m up to three now.  These would be completely different career paths.  The one I come back to more than once is archeology and anthropology because its taught me more about how [...]

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You have all played the game before, right?  Its like the result of midnight film noir, afternoon westerns, morning things.  We all dream of things that might have been, places we can go play that may look like work, levels of effort far different than the regular ones that include:
work, work, work.  [...]