the occasional occurrence

i am so sick of SPAM. i hope no one i know is a spammer. i picture spammers sitting in messy smoke filled rooms, typing on sticky keyboards and listening to bad early 90’s music (ok, we’ll leave it at early 90’s music).
i don’t want to “increase the size of my [...]

In the last week or so I have discovered the wonderful world of Microsoft’s Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). Being a huge corporation, there are certain things that MS pulls of quite well, and WMI is one of them. Here is how to get at the running process data using Python and WMI (my [...]

we had food day at work this week. the cholesterol-fest took place on Thursday - plenty of meatballs, sloppy joes, summer sausage (4 varieties!), and cheese (more than 4 varieties!) to go around. i brought my homemade salsa. here is how you make it:
2 cans of diced tomatos (or equivalent fresh tomatos)
1 [...]

So Dan’s site is now the number one search result on google for the phrase “dan who sits”. Of course, this is due to his site being linked to by dowski.com. Another demonstration of the vast influence of dowski.com.

Good Saturday to you all. It has been a pretty good one here. We had our first decent snowfall of the year, so it looks beautiful outside. Of course, the snow will be replaced by dreary Illinois rain in a couple days, but I’ll take it while we’ve got it!
Tonight was the [...]

Here is a picture of Curtis and his favorite uncle. In the movies, favorite uncles always leave their wealthy estates to their favorite nephews. Especially after favorite brother-in-law puts pictures of favorite uncle on everyones’ favorite website.
Favorite, favorite, favorite …

Well, Curtis had some playtime at 3am this morning. I tried to convince him otherwise, but he was wide awake and smiling. Sarah isn’t feeling well so I got to have the fun with him. He is such a morning person - even at that early hour! He must get that from his mom…
Last night [...]

So Dan has been pulling some hijinks on me lately - messing with my computer and stuff. This all started when he replaced some sound files on my computer with those of Homestar. I retaliated by loading a fake “Clippy” Office Assistant on his computer with some “customized” messages. Thus began a [...]

Ok, here is a link to a curtis photo album. These are just some pictures that we have taken recently. I think this will be how I post pictures from now on, as I can create these albums automagically with a program called gthumb (only runs on *nix). So there you have [...]

ok, this was supposed to go up the other night, but Curtis himself was rather demanding that night and I didn’t have a chance to put it up. here you go though! more smiling (he is all about smiling these days - and crying and pooping clear out of his diaper, but i [...]