Random Access

Friday – 13 March 2009
Another 9/80 Friday begins. This morning, I had Jonathan Coulton’s Skullcrusher Mountain playing in my head as I got ready for work. (I’m currently listening to 2112, so it’s been a win-win kind of morning, musically.)

I arrived at the office and discovered that I was the first person here. It wasn’t the lack of  lighting that gave it away – lights can be on in one area, but not another. No, I was informed of this by the way the alarm beeped at me when I opened the door. It was at that moment that I remembered something that had been nagging me for a couple of weeks:

I didn’t remember the disarm code.

I entered what I thought was the code. Strike one.
I tried another code. Strike two.

*grblsnrkx*

One more chance to get it right before security and/or the police showed up. I am going to assume that the two synapses that rubbed together to form “a clue” were just on a coffee break, because I got the right code on the third try. I just hope that the rest of the day is relatively less eventful that that.

Stray Toasters

• I worked on my Sodam Yat ‘Clix again last night. I finished the top of his dial and mounted (most of) the figure on the dial. I still need to figure out what to do for his head. And then, there’s also the matter of doing a character card for him…
• NEA Releases Strict Rules for Arts Stimulus Grants
• Medals for videogame veterans
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• Bored? Try Doodling to Keep the Brain on Task
• A dime for a dozen
  If that’s what you’re after
  A moment of silence
  Or a lifetime of laughter
• MacBook modded with second monitor inside logo
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• Modern day Noah’s Ark replica
• Last week, I mentioned that Craig Ferguson did a great, though brief and comical, mini-history of South Africa on The Late Late Show. It seems as though CBS has finally posted the video of it:

Time to see what (other) kinds of trouble I can get into…

Namaste.