Naming no names and assigning no blame, I merely ask, "What do I do now that my laptop has shown that it does not have the ability to fly, or stay on the boot of a car at 45mph?"

It is dinged up but still use-able (as I type on it now.) Dings are on left side, both corners, but bad enough to have an eighth inch vent in left corner, where the bottom is not so seamless any more. It now has that annoying rock a dining table with a short leg has when I type.

Do I (we) replace it with a brand new or refurbed laptop?

Looking like starting at opening time might be unwise on top of no sleep whatsoever.

Anyone care to make it 2pm for food & a few quick beers instead of an all-day last-man-standing deathmatch?

So a while back I pointed out that Smokey's BBQ is really quite good. Considering I go there fairly regularly, I thought I might see if anyone else wanted to go there for lunch on Friday.

I know Bill was saying that he was interested, anyone else?

Smokey's Shack:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=smokey%27s+B...

No rain or ice due, so weather makes a poor excuse!

Got to be in Smithfield at 8pm for a set of family portraits to be taken. I tried to explain I've got dungeons to run and stuff, but they wouldn't have any of it. Gotta get suited up and stand around trying to look dignified for what might turn into a couple of hours. 8pm for cryin' out loud. Not 4pm or anything sensible, and not today, but 8p-freakin-m on a Tuesday. Grr, and decidedly argh.

Bring jacket liners on long trips. Mesh clothing + wicking base layer + 65 degrees + 65 mph == ++unwarm.

Also, Pik-N-Pig was closed :(

Been a while since we've played any TF2 or Unreal Tournament, and I for one feel like my Company of Heroes skillz are getting a bit rusty. Anyone else got any suggestions before I throw a poll up (and hope it works)? I mentioned CoH by name, by the way, because I've started getting antsy about R.U.S.E.: http://store.steampowered.com/app/21970/

Early one? Late one? No one?

Ahn'Kahet? Azjol-Nerub?

Don't know if this is an interesting read, an entertaining read, or a scary read...

http://issendai.livejournal.com/572510.html

I have too many programming ideas in my head.

Project #0, find people to help with the other projects.

Project #1, some particularly awesome reporting and graphing stuff for work.

Project #2, a pidgin plugin for my Logitech G15.

Project #3, take over the stagnant Sourceforge project to port Dosbox to my phone.

Project #4, port Perl to my phone.

Project #5, port MAME to my phone.

Project #6, figure out where the bugs are in Net::IPAddress::Util, or more specifically the Math::BigInt modules it relies on.