Mike Pictor

The myth, the man, the monkey

Archive for June, 2007

phones

Posted: Thursday, June 28th, 2007 @ 9:04 am in General | No Comments »

I have some friends, I am not sure how many (green_ogre), that use a cellphone as their only phone service, abandoning use of a landline entirely.
How’s that working for you? It’s something I have considered for a while. The landline at home costs ~$45 a month, and that gets you a perfectly adequate monthly plan […]

go me

Posted: Thursday, June 28th, 2007 @ 7:53 am in General | No Comments »

In my inbox this morning
Mike,
I wanted to thank you again for continuing to be one of the most productive members of the team. Your contribution to 8.1 project has just been amazing. By now everyone knows how quickly you ask for more work as soon as you’re done with one task and that […]

buzzzz

Posted: Sunday, June 24th, 2007 @ 3:05 pm in General | No Comments »

well….here is me now. Take that.

moo

Posted: Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 @ 2:10 pm in General | No Comments »

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is a gramatically correct sentence.
Discuss
reference
It took me a while….but I can see the structure now. Still….my head hurts.

crickets

Posted: Sunday, June 17th, 2007 @ 7:55 pm in General | No Comments »

well…I don’t seem to say much these days. In no small part, with Helen at her own apartment, and my liking to be around people in general and be social, I end up out of the house quite a lot, which means I spend less time around the computer, and work has been busy, so […]

weekend in review

Posted: Monday, June 11th, 2007 @ 9:38 am in General | No Comments »

A moderately busy weekend
Saturday was mostly at home style busy. I did some garden work that Helen asked me to look into if I had time, mostly pruning a few of the plants, and replacing a 2 foot tall thistle with a castor bean plant we’ve been growing inside (must remember to go check how […]

Tony awards

Posted: Friday, June 8th, 2007 @ 3:51 pm in General | No Comments »

Who wants to watch the 2007 Tony awards this Sunday?

FSM

Posted: Friday, June 8th, 2007 @ 1:46 pm in General | 2 Comments »

Who wants to go to the new creation science museum and hand out leaflets for the flying spaghetti monster?

Helen’s garden

Posted: Thursday, June 7th, 2007 @ 10:29 pm in General | No Comments »

I just wanted to show off Helen’s garden a bit. It’s growing all the time.

ARGH

Posted: Thursday, June 7th, 2007 @ 1:52 pm in General | No Comments »

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