The tropical cyclone season for the Atlantic Ocean runs from 1 June to 30 November.
(In other words, the 2007 hurricane season starts today.)
Levees in the Lower 9, New Orleans East, and on the Westbank & Algeirs still aren't up to par level. (Thus sayeth the all-wise Mayor Ray Nagin.) Haven't heard anything about east Jeff, which is sad because I, of all people, should have inside knowledge about it.
It's hurricane season.
God help us all.
-KIE
That's what my little brother says when he has to drive through Mississippi. Such a comment is usually met with "ha ha" laughter, but he's one not to find any redeeming qualities about the state to our immediate east.
Certainly not with their two major college programs, being the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University. Southern Miss, he's ambivalent.
(Speaking of my brother, I wish him good luck: he has an 8:11,000ish chance of getting his name pulled later today for a $160
197¾ lb., 24.8% body fat
Ugh.
This week has been terrible.
Sunday, I come to the office before church, and start the design storm runs for Houma & Cleary, and those finish. I go over graphs with Rob Monday and we went over the graphs for Helios/Galleria (the part of this project that will be its undoing because it's taking so long), and, in the interest of time, we're calling it done. I go to start the design storm runs Monday morning, and in the middle of the night Tuesday mornin
199½ lb, 23.3% body fat
Just for starters: tomato paste
I squandered multiple opportunities to make this post over the weekend, but I feel as though I made the better choice. Since it is now Monday, I figure I should let the lot of you know what became of the past few days.
FBC-Kenner is still undefeated, but we didn't beat Williams Boulevard BC. They scored 3 runs in the bottom of the sixth to tie it at 5 when the game was called due to time. Last run was walked home on 5 pitches.
I k
This entry is not directly about the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, the Brady bill, the National Rifle Association, the events of April 16, 2007 in Blacksburg, VA, or any gun control movement.
This entry is, however, directly related to the intent of some people to make money hand-over-fist with no regard to the consequences of their actions.
Would've posted this yesterday had I seen it before the server got all ouruboros.
From yesterday's Times-Picayune:
Somet
Macros are your friends.
Especially when you're making repetitive changes to Excel worksheets.
Now, to convince Excel to let me use the macros I recorded myself, in that they're NOT damaging to my computer.
Gosh, I just love how Microsoft Office XP has taken upon itself to think for me.
In other news, the model is officially behind, but, if it's correct when it wraps up the run tomorrow, I'm back on schedule. Probably won't be, but I can dream that I'm that good.
Now, to validate
Don't mind me, just taking a cue from Turakii.
*drumroll for the huge weekend recap*
Philosophical question: What would you do if you had more money than you, your brothers & sisters, parents, aunts & uncles, your kids (regardless of whether you have any now) and your grandkids could ever hope to spend, combined?
One answer: build a ridiculously tall skyscraper.
The lunchtime speaker at the Tulane Engineering Forum on Friday was the lead designer of the Burj Dubai (برج دبي ,
I have seen the future of bandages.
Last night, I scratched my left pinky on an exposed, unfiled screw hole leftover from a chair in the choir room at church. It bled, but I let one of the photocopy-of-the-hymnal sheets of music soak up the blood.
Wasn't much.
Today at lunch, I stopped in at Walgreens and bought a box of ActivFlex bandages by Band-Aid. With a foil box and clearly stated 10 bandages for $5, I figured this was not cost effective. However, I rarely break my epidermis, so I fig
La la laaaaaa
Storms that ruined the weekend on the southern Atlantic coast [of the US] blew throuh the Gulf coast during the week. Three things to take from this, in addition to how Yale Street turned into a makeshift canal. Flash floods are fun! Lightning is dangerous: A thunderstorm early Friday morning caused a power hiccup on the server, thus voiding the previous two days of computer run. Another setback...blah. Also blew out a network hub. It was an old hub, but it's now going to need
I think I rolled my ankle at some point this morning. Or it might have been when I landed as I jumped backwards down three steps after a meeting upstairs. Either way, I don't feel like I can put any weight on my left ankle unless it (my leg) is absolutely vertical.
The meeting, by the way, was about my troubles at work: the prime firm now knows how far behind I am, and how it's impossible to catch up. And, how it's not my fault. While the EPA will have to wait on my computer to do its thing,
Only 7 of them were mine.
In an attempt to appeal to, and ease the transition of, players of Runescape, Ultima Online: Kingdom Reborn has shifted its new player experience away from the themed quest system (usually involved some simple crafting, monster killing, skill practice, decision making, all pertinent to the character class) and towards a directed quest for individual skills of most of the 50 or so skills available to players.
This system was implemented with Publish 44, which, afte
Black & Gold nation hereby welcomes: Robert Meachem, junior from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville Usama Young, senior from Kent State University Andrew Alleman, senior from the University of Akron Antonio Pittman, junior from the Ohio State University Jermon Bushrod, senior from Towson University David Jones, senior from Wingate University
and Marvin Mitchell, senior from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville to the New Orleans Saints football club.
Congratulations.
Don't think gett
...it's the breathing that's taking all this work.
The model is unravelling. That's the only word for it.
I was supposed to finish improvement runs Monday. Instead, I might have calibration finished Monday.
In other words, I have 6 weeks of work and 2½ weeks in which to do it.
I'm out of time. It's all over.
Nothing short of a contract extension or divine intervention will save my hide.
-KIE
And wouldn't you know it, those are the two things that happened this weekend that I'm not going to go in depth over tonight.
Friday, I finally got some time to run by the post office. Tarakava II, ChocolateFrogs, and Toaraga, your MOCs are on their ways back to you via Priority Mail: they should arrive no later than Wednesday. To recompense my tardiness in their return, I've included something for you: make sure you fully empty the box.
Oh, and PDX is the three letter airport code for Por
21 Major League seasons, all with one team.
2,722 career appearances
2,944 career base hits
282 career home runs
282 career hit-by-pitches
410 career stolen bases
4,586 career total bases
1,782 career runs scored
1,129 career runs batted in
0 combined career clean post-game jerseys and post-season clean batting helmets
Craig Biggio has been one of the great gentlemen of the game. He will likely log 3,000 hits this season, and then retire at the age of 41.
Please, send him to San F
...I'd say it'd be well worth your time to pick up Rebecca St. James' latest CD, entitled the same as this blog entry. I could say more, but she's already articulated most of it.
As I told Lady K last night (I got to talk to Lady K on YIM! I feel so important! *squeee* ), "God Help Me," the first track on said album, is my newest favorite song. It talks of a early-life crisis in the singer's own life. And I can identify with her, as I'm about 4, maybe 5 months younger than she: as I'm careeni
196 lb., 23.4% body fat
"Opening night? But the Mets went at it in St. Louis 2 weeks ago!"
Ah, not MLB opening night, my friend, but the opening night of the Greater New Orleans Church League softball.
A twin-billing at Delta #4, Williams Boulevard Baptist at Riverside Baptist, and First Baptist Kenner at Grace Presbyterian. The two Metairie Baptist teams, FBC New Orleans, and St. Charles UMC play tomorrow morning.
I'd been working towards tonight since before BrickFest '06. And I dare
New component!
Some of you may remember my posting of a dual socket ASUS AMD-compatible motherboard before BrickFest. It was the ASUS L1N64-SLI WS Dual Socket......board. It really, really intrigued me to perhaps be running dual 3.0 GHz over 8 GB of RAM, a beast of a machine if ever there was one.
And then I came to my senses. I shouldn't get that, for multiple reasons: Cost: $2100 for just a board, RAM, & processors. That's a lot of pretty pennies. Excessivity: If you have to think abo
Found out who it was that viewed from Longville.
It was one of my mates from college. His DSL IP says he's in Longville, even though the computer is in Moss Bluff (15 minutes south).
Anyway, that's not what this entry is about.
Today, I got to shake the hand of someone famous.
"Who?", you ask? Why, none other than Aaron Broussard, Jefferson Parish president.
Politics break: Your social studies teacher may have gone over this in class: Louisiana is one of two states with no counties.
199½ lb, 22.8% body fat (Hey, I guess being sick'll do that for ya.)
Okay, now I'm curious.
Sunday night, I posted a map, in hopes of seeing a bunch of New Orleans pins, or perhaps a pin in Greece or a few in Canadia (BrickFest joke). Instead, I find pins in the Côte d'Azure (French Riviera) and Italy.
But the one pin that intrigues me the most is the one pushed at 9 seconds after 11 AM yesterday: Longville, LA.
Folks, I know where Longville is.
ATTENTION WHOEVER VISITED MY BLOG
I should be sleeping, and yet I am not. A shame, really, but I must discourse on the events of this weekend.
Friday I took off before I was finished with work, but after hours still, to go eat with my brother, his wife, and our parents, while they (my parents) were in Baton Rouge to play golf on Saturday. I'll be frank: I'm sufficiently tired of working on this model. Burned out, as it were. I'm looking forward to something else, even if it's just no-brain maps in ArcMap.
But enough about my
Posted a week ago, but I still wanted to call attention to it here, as the BBC tends to swallow the mediocre quickly.
Argaius and his topic.
I'm not going to ask for glowing reviews if they're not warranted. In fact, I can't really promise I'll do much MOCing, regardless of feedback. I'd just like to get a feel as to how this is. And if it's "mediocre", I can handle hearing that.
Ms. Hedge-Morrell issued an apology in the paper today. She said she wanted to set a good example for the st
Word to the wise: no matter who you are, no matter what you do, no matter who your father, mother, brother, or uncle is, no matter where in society you are, NO ONE likes to hear the words "Do you know who I am?", ESPECIALLY A COP.
Read it all: If it really were a serious offense, she should've been ticketed, if you ask me. No one should be above the law.
I think I might actually finish this model today. Scary.
-KIE
Now presenting YOUR Moss Bluff Cruisers: Catcher:
Kenji Johjima, SEA
Iván Rodríguez, DET (also doubles as a first baseman) First Base:
Lance Berkman, HOU (also doubles as an outfielder)
Carlos Delgado, NYM Second Base:
Chase Utley, PHI Short Stop:
Michael Young, TEX Third Base:
Scott Rolen, STL
Garrett Atkins, COL Outfield:
Jermaine Dye, CWS
Juan Pierre, LAD
Johnny Damon, NYY
Torii Hunter, MIN Designated Hitter:
Travis "Pronk" Hafner, CLE Pitchers:
Roy Oswalt, HOU
Aaron Harang, CIN
