Kara Thrace and Her Special Destiny

March 6th, 2007

Is is just me that thinks about Navin’s “special purpose” from The Jerk everytime I hear that?

More on BSG/Kara later, but I’m glad to see BSG is back on track.

Shamrock Shake!

March 2nd, 2007


Shamrock Shake!, originally uploaded by mtruesdell.

That time of year again…

Horton hears a Lou

March 2nd, 2007

My calendar tells me that today is the birthday of Dr. Seuss and Lou Reed. There’s a really good joke in there somewhere, but I don’t know what it is. But I’m pretty sure it involves “Walk on the Wild Side.”

Blizzard 2007!

March 1st, 2007


IMG_3571, originally uploaded by mtruesdell.

This is about in the middle. We were still getting snow at this point.

Taco Bueno

February 28th, 2007

Taco Bueno no es bueno. Overpriced taco bell, but not as good.

Perl Server Pages

February 27th, 2007

Mason seems to be a web scripting perl module that lets you embed code/scripts in html pages ala jsp or asp. At work we have a bunch of pretty clunky internal apps written with perl’s CGI module, and it’s terrible. I can’t stand having the html embedded in the code. I’ve been thinking of moving a bunch of it to PHP, but Mason should give me the flexibility and cleanliness of design I want without having to port (read: break) everything from perl. I can keep using what I already have.

Of course, my heart still belongs to Java.

Where I am on the internets

February 26th, 2007

…Soon to be a sidebar item. Here’s a current survey of my presence on the internet

Website and blog: www.anamnesia.org
Flickr: mtruesdell
Upcoming: mtruesdell
del.icio.us: hobaird
And, nearly abandoned (last post May 18th 2003! Whatever. My user id is lower than your user id…) slashdot: hobaird

Take 3

February 25th, 2007

This is my third and final attempt at regularly updating a blog. I’ve been thinking of things to write down recently, so here goes. Some of this may also serve as my own personal notebook/memory store. I’ll try to categorize those off. See you later today!