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Seneca Park Zoo
ZooBrew - September 5
Don’t miss the wildest after-hours event in town. This 21-and-older event features a live band and raffles. There will also be food and adult beverages to purchase
A bunch of us went to Zoo Brew @ Seneca Park Zoo on friday and it was alot of fun.  They had Dundee Honey [...]

I am still at work, to say we experienced “technical difficulties” would be putting it lightly.
Hopefully business as usual tomorrow

Right before I left my office I noticed that the floor was covered in ants.  The carpet was alive with the tiny little fuckers, eating out of our trash can apparently.  Streams of them were going in and out, eating who knows what since its emptied daily.
I did what I did last time I saw [...]

Your Money - A Primer for Young People Starting Their First Job - NYTimes.com
So below, I offer a proper primer on health insurance, taxes and retirement plans for employees starting their very first jobs. Please pass it out with my regards.
When I first started, it was all confusing. I needed someone to tell me [...]

I taught a session today on using Outlook rules to sort your e-mail. I use them extensively to put mail in folders in both my personal and work accounts.
Later people said they used Outlook Express, Apple Mail, OWA, Thunderbird, etc. I sometimes feel bad that I am a nerd that finds Microsoft products [...]

The datacenter at RIT went dark today. A complete power loss. We are still in the midsts of it, but even with the off site DNS servers, they can’t really handle the load of everyone switching to them at once.
People lost it when their internet stopped working because with the domain controllers down [...]

I am back in Rochester now, but I wish I was at home still, or could teleport there at will
I have a math final tonight @ 6, and I am having a hard time studying. I just don’t care, at all. I do how I do, and since I know enough [...]

Today is my brother’s wedding.
His fiancé started crying at the rehearsal dinner and I was all “awww”
The ceremony is at 2pm and at some point after that I have to give a best man speech. I pretend to be confident and outgoing, but I am totally nervous. And I’m not supposed to drink [...]

I went to PA for the weekend.  Kevin and I had waffles Friday morning, then I got around to leaving at 11ish.  The drive home was mostly uneventful, there was light rain almost the whole way.
About a mile north of PA traffic came to a sudden halt.  We sat there for a while; I even [...]

The REPUBLIC of TEA - Exquisite Green Tea, Red Tea, White Tea, Black Tea, Oolong Tea and More.
This China green tea is luscious with the naturally sweet flavor of ripe pears and tropical tang of kiwi. A highly aromatic, healthy blend that’s refreshing on ice.

I drink a cup of coffee in the morning, and then [...]

YouTube - Hot Dog Assembly Machine
Awesome robot that gets a hotdog, buns it (its totally a verb), applies mustard and ketchup, and then serves with a juicebox.
Made by RIT’s Society of Manufacturing Engineers, via MAKE: Blog: Hot dog assembly machine

We had a power outage @ RIT yesterday.  RG&E somehow messed up and 22 buildings on campus went dark, then lit up, then went dark again.
Fortunately we have a 2 hour UPS for the servers, and the generator kicked in ASAP and kept the network gear alive so aside from being pitch black, we stayed [...]

Tin Foil Soldier
Rochester, NY

Temp: 19°F
Wind Chill: 9°F
Humidity: 73%
Wind: SW at 8 mph
Clouds: partly cloudy
It was finally “cold” this morning.  I judge cold by the fact that my snot freezes when I breathe in through my nose.  Its isn’t super cold, because it thawed out quickly, but I could still feel it stiffen and freeze.
My car [...]

I bought a Queen sized bed at Sam’s club last night(2 nights ago, I accidentally wrote this without posting it).
A friend with a truck helped me get it home and into the living room but my roommate and I said we would finish getting it to my room upstairs.  The box spring definitely did not [...]

AccuWeather.com
SIGNIFICANT…AND LIKELY DAMAGING ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF UP TO THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OF ICE ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. THIS WILL INCLUDE WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGES AND DAMAGE TO AREA TREES.
Putting it in all caps makes it more important.  But seriously, its supposed to get bad.  People are talking ice storm of ‘91 bad [...]