The Pfabulous Water with the Pfunny Brownish Tint

The talk of the campus this week seems to center around an issue with our water supply, and in particular, its peculiar brownish tint…
Furthering the speculation, conspiracy theories, and boycotting of said water, was a memo advising that we’d somehow picked up a touch of extra Manganese from source water, and that there was nothing [...]

Trick or Treat?

I woke up this morning with the vague recollection that someone had mentioned we could possibly have some snow flurries last night, and sure enough, a quick glimpse of the back deck confirmed, that indeed we were having such flurries.  Upon getting to work this morning, I was happy to see that despite it being [...]

Yay! I’ve been invited to…

Got this in my email this evening before packing it in.  The suspense is killing me! What exactly am I (and hundreds of other staff people) invited to do? If anyone has figured out the attachment, secret code, or point of this email, do clue me in!
Perhaps I’ve been invited to stare at the listserv [...]

Talking Flat Rat Jerky

A certain passionate photographer and power blogger at work made an extremely unsettling, but curiously delightful discovery when shooting one day- a completely flattened and rather leather-like rat corpse.  She actually brought this deflated beast into the office in a little bag, and I even got to handle it a bit! (while it was in [...]

5-Second Test: Simple User Interface

I’ve designed a very simple user interface inspired by a basic functionality required to address low barrier of entry in web application user interaction for a particular subset of users, which are often discussed in circles around lunchtime at my workplace.
To that end, I’ve set up a 5-Second Test using the nifty service at www.fivesecondtest.com. [...]

Drummin’ and Dancin’ on Campus

As I was leaving work yesterday, I heard the not-too-unfamiliar sound of some sort of music close by. Being that some faculty are known to wail on electric guitars and such inside the faculty lounge in the upper floor of my building, I assumed that something similar was going on.  When I exited the building, [...]

Ann is an awesome boss!

Today, I am going to do something atypical with my weblog- I’m not going to complain and groan about technology that doesn’t work well, or that spies on you, or even ponder out loud on the confusion something or someone instills in me at any given time. There’s not even a shred of nerdspeak to [...]

A Festivus Miracle!

Festivus is a great annual holiday made popular by the television show Seinfeld, and is actually observed by one of my co-workers.
Festivus Resources

Festivus on Wikipedia
Festivus Book
YouTube video excerpt of Seinfeld eisode
Festivus poles!

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