clusterlizard

State of October Report

clusterlizard — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:26:00 +0000

The final days of the month were marred by my succumbing to what I must believe was a genetically-engineered flu virus. It began last week when practically all of the team situated on the opposite side of the office went missing due to illness. A friend of mine on the team came back to work and discovered the huge bag of peanut M&Ms I had on my desk to encourage socialization with all of my fairer coworkers (indeed, it worked well for this... even better than my alien action figure!)

Wine on Tap

clusterlizard — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:13:03 +0000

Oh those crazy Italians. Why can’t somebody do that with morphine?

Participate in the Destruction of the World!

clusterlizard — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:26:52 +0000

The Large Hadron Collider needs your help! From the site: Most of the scientific computing challenges that the LHC experiments are facing will require access to huge amounts of storage, the LHC will produce 15 Petabytes (15 million Gigabytes) of data per year. These data requirements mean that most analysis programmes cannot be run on individual PCs. [...]

Understanding the Federal Reserve

clusterlizard — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:23:27 +0000

An excellent overview of the Federal Reserve, from my old college friend, Jake. Originally posted here. And I thought he was just playing video games all those times he skipped class…

My Buddy, Daffy

clusterlizard — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:33:09 +0000

I didn't notice anything unusual when I went outside on a smoke break. Our building provides a few places to smoke—out front, in the parking garage and a sort of patio putside the glass walkway leading from the main building to the garage. I chose the patio so I could sit down at a table and relax my aching back. A co-worker came down with me, but forked off to the snack shop to get some cigarettes or something. I grabbed one of the black metal chairs and sat down at the matching table, lit up and exhaled slowly as the blur in my eyes from programming all day cleared away.

Has the Large Hadron Collider Destroyed the Earth?

clusterlizard — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:17:38 +0000

Check this link regularly to find out if the Large Hadron Collider has killed us all yet. My mind reels at the technology that must be behind that site. It must be even more advanced than the Large Hadron Collider itself! Maybe someone should be tracking whether the hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth site has [...]

9. High Contrast

clusterlizard — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:33:10 +0000

Black hair, black fishnets and a black dress, between her thin fingers a cigarette was as burnt as the evening. A street lamp and a neon sign in the distance combined to give her pale skin a faint greenish cast. Her eyes, two pools of liquid night, searched the damp streets for anything of interest, only to find the same blandness she had tried to leave behind in the club. Men, rolled off an assembly line with mechanical precision, escorting women from the same cookie cutter trying to distinguish themselves with a different color of candied glitter. The crowd filtered out of the club into a fleet of imported sports cars that sped off belching poison and pretense.

New Theme

clusterlizard — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:25:32 +0000

I was getting tired of my crappy custom theme, so I’ve changed the theme for clusterlizard to “librio” from Deniart.

Who’s More Sad?

clusterlizard — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:36:40 +0000

clusterlizard: i’m not sure which is more sad: that a cat can derive so much enjoyment from a laser pointer, or that i can. 11xor6: lol 11xor6: Generally, if you consider yourself the greater being then it should be more sad on your part clusterlizard: that’s just crazy man… anyone who knows cats realizes they’re the greater being 11xor6: [...]

Claire Danes

clusterlizard — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:13:45 +0000

chick friend: You should rent “Once” - it’s awesome! clusterlizard: Okay, I’ll add it to my Netflix queue, but I’m going to have to put it after “My So-Called Life” chick friend: OMG! I love Claire Danes! clusterlizard: Yeah. chick friend: I got high with her once, you know. clusterlizard: WHAT?? WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME THIS WHEN WE WERE [...]