mahalo.

it has been a painful couple of weeks. with the technical architect of the team gone on vacation, i’m next in line in terms of seniority when it comes to the application knowledge, and since i am involved in what is effectively a 24 hour operation, so it is with when i get the phone calls.

since the friday before christmas eve (which we officially have off), it has been 6 days, and i have gotten calls or been involved in work-related meetings during off hours/holidays five of those seven days. thank goodness there was peace on christmas day.

tonight was the real kicker. i got a call this morning at around 10:07am to check the status of something. after being caught up with some other tasks, i eat breakfast at 2:30pm. i basically eat nothing else but a light dinner and i thought it’d be nice to get out and have some coffe or a snack at night. by 8pm are talking about heading out to bj’s and carpooling. i said that i definitely needed to drive my own car just in case i got a call. my friend said that he’d go with me anyways - he wouldn’t mind as long as i wasn’t actually forced to head into the office. i warned him to the effect that it’s possible i’d have to leave 10 minutes after we got there. my exact words were:

i definitely need to drive my own car… well you gotta realize it could be like, 10 minutes after we get there

Now… largely reconstructed from my phone logs…
i get to bj’s around 9:34. feeling pretty good so far… watch the end of the sharks game… we’re seated… feeling settled in… everyone’s arrived… i order my beer, pizza and seasoned wedge fries at probably around 9:44pm. then i receive an incoming call at 9:54pm and at 9:55pm i’m on a conference bridge. by 10:08, i’m in my car driving home to figure out what’s up. after our irc session, the issue’s wrapped up at 11:32pm - the exact time when my friends arrive at the front door bringing me the food i abandoned at bj’s.

there have been way too many days this week that started with work calls and ended with work calls.

oh, the joys and pains of responsibility.

Ryu vs Scorpion (not the older, lamer version you might have seen before - this one uses the SF3 ryu)

penny arcade has some good ones.

There’s some conservative columnist, Ann Coulter who was recently on the front page of cnn with this headline Ann Coulter to audience: You’re stupider than I am. They actually were protesters, so I don’t think that’s quite the same as an audience, but nevertheless..

That headline caught my attention. Then I read the article and noticed that she wasn’t too bad looking. So I decided to see exactly what she was all about.

And then I ran across this page of quotes. Dude, this woman is crazy!

Here’s a nice one on Clinton:

We’re now at the point that it’s beyond whether or not this guy is a horny hick. I really think it’s a question of his mental stability. He really could be a lunatic. I think it is a rational question for Americans to ask whether their president is insane.

or

I have to say I’m all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention. And it might not be such a cool thing in the ‘hood to be flogged publicly.

I hear it’s hyper, hyperbole, but still man. She’s got some cajones to say these things in public.

… Alright you guys, now fess up. How many of you decided to click through the article link after your read that I didn’t think she was bad looking?

…and now includes Battlestar Galatica!

If 24 makes the jump, there isn’t much reason left for me to hold out…