The O’Blog

I was behind this dump truck on the way to work yesterday morning and realized I'd be better off not smelling the stench the whole way to Stoughton, so I tried to get away while I could. It was while I was passing on the 4 lane stretch that I saw his mudflaps. [...]

Tags: photo

Ok, so I pick up one of the SanDisk 4 gig micro Cruzers on sale for half off that's been making the rounds at all the stores lately. I remember from the last time I bought one, it had the U3 crap on there with the separate mock cd-rom partition that can't be deleted, [...]

You callin' me a muggle?

So the news yesterday as well was that Madison finished hiring 9 carriers finally. Actually, they started in on that only a few weeks after I started in Stoughton, so that was quite the bummer to hear. And I guess the rest have trickled in and are all starting working this week. [...]

I forgot to mention this, but last Friday (13th) was my first day on the job of not being on probation. Granted it's been 2.5 years so far of being on probation essentially, but this time it was for real. No screwups, no late starts, no sick days, no nothing but being near [...]

So, in the 2.5 years I've been with the USPS, light days come and go and can be a blessing and a curse. Blessing, because if you're like me, you get done early and get to go. A curse, because also you lose time you would normally get paid for. This doubly [...]

I remember way back when I started being a video geek and taping shows on the VHS deck when we finally got one, namely any episode of Trek that came on, that I was always amazed at how much time was lost due to commercials. Usually, it was about 15 to 16 minutes per [...]

Tags: encoding, rant

Dinosaur Footprints – Earth Science Picture of the Day
I actually just read about these within the last month on a page listing some of the last places on Earth that you might be able to visit. Last place on Earth meaning a place where something was the last to have happened like the newest [...]