Ordinary Canary

This is where I grow herbs when it’s too cold outside:

The chives have done well!

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In the last two days, I’ve been doing some coding and clean-up of my computer. In ways that I could describe but would be long and boring, I got the two random bits of text that I found particularly meaningful.
The first, output from a Perl script gone wrong:
They need to be tested and
need to [...]

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Ada Lovelace Day is, of course, near and dear to my heart. It’s nice to see women in tech being recognized. Sometimes it feels like I’m a mythological beast by being a female sysadmin, so a day to focus on the fact that we are not actually alone is nice.
So, cheers to you, [...]

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I noticed the other day that today is my 2 year anniversary of joining Sparkpeople.com, which is a website dedicated to helping people eat right and exercise. Weight loss is a major goal for most people on there. When I joined, it was definitely one of mine.
When I started there, I had a [...]

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These pictures are crappy quality because I took them with my cell phone. However, they wouldn’t exist otherwise, so there.
First, the one woman who has zero business teaching children about cooking, Ms. Paula “I use butter because I can” Deen, discovered in the book section that caters to dieting at a Bed, Bath and [...]

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I’ve been a high-geared nerd lately, which has been taking up tremendous amounts of time. Being a professional nerd means that studying on a regular basis is a pretty important part of being able to advance my career, since technology is constantly changing. I’ve been on a hiatus since my mom passed away [...]

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Is it just me, or is the Obama Administration really irking you with their focus on the middle class?
I’d like to think that they see a classist society where there is an upper class and a middle class and no lower, since that’s how they’re acting, but I suspect it’s more of a “we just [...]

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Except for this one.
It made me laugh. I hope it makes you laugh too.
Happy Sunday!

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I’m not sure if this is national news or not, but here in NYC, we’re seeing two hospital closings in Queens as a result of financial difficulty.
In addition to the horrors of even fewer medical facilities in Queens (and, having lived in Queens for five years, I sadly have some personal experience with this), the [...]

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Warning: I will spoil the plot. You may not want to read further.
I watched Perfume: The Story of a Murderer the other night, after renting it because Dustin Hoffman and Alan Rickman are in it and it looked like it would have an interesting plot.
And, well, yes, if horrific means interesting, it [...]

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