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The thing about humane mouse traps is that they're only humane if you remember to check them every couple days.

In other news, today i found out i really enjoy using a chainsaw. If computers don't work out for me, life as an ax man or the Ash man doesn't sound that bad.

More Death

This mouse died scared, not even able to force a little piece of feces out its anus. Little One, blurrily visible in the background, is turning out to be quite the mouser.

In other deaths, i enjoyed reading the story of Margaret Moth's life. Her whole spirit reminds me of Matthew Scott's Colombian escape and Aron Ralsten's Utah experience. I hope i can exhibit a tenth of their character - preferably while keeping my arm and mouth intact and never going too hungry.

Now if only he'd invade somewhere

Congrats on the Healthcare work.

More History

Listening to a WCC student's photo project reminded me of my first 15 minutes. Many years ago some friends and i decided to drive to Cleveland one night, to visit one guy's sister and brother-in-law, Brian Michael Bendis. Brian was writing and illustrating crime noir comics, taking photos and drawing from them for the panels. At the time Brian was working on Jinx, and he took a couple photos of us for an issue. I'm the "Frisco" referenced in the wikipedia page, "Street Loser 2" - the guy with long bangs in these panels:



Wonder who'll play me in the movie version.

Travails

After biking through 6" of snow to get to work this morning, today's xkcd seems particularly funny. I even had to rescue a downed database when i got in.

Work Slides

Later this week i'm presenting to my co-workers on benchmarking storage. As some of you may find them interesting, here is a pdf of the slides. The presentation assumes a rudimentary understanding of storage concepts and is only a 30 minute overview.

Random bits, not related

My mom's new thermostat - the 15 minute install took me 5 hours across 3 days. Doesn't help that it took some heavy thought to figure out how to remove the original or that i used the wrong paint (whose fault?) the first time.

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Friday, on my way to work, heard a beautiful sound, kind of like someone hitting the bottom of a large empty metal coffee container. I filmed it and tried to filter out the background noise - here is the sound, i think i need to work on my audio editing skills.

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Last night i found a dead mouse in my basement, in my work area. At first i was sad that something in my house killed it - i purposefully use live traps. But as i boxed it up i thought maybe it was poisoned in a neighbour's house and spent its dying strength crawling to a comfortable place, where it knew i'd take care of its passage.

Frozen ground is hard to dig.