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Spent much of the past work-week buried in documentation. As it turns out, there are a lot of routine-to-me tasks that my co-workers haven’t performed in a long time, if ever. I’ll probably be spending my last week at the old job madly scribbling notes on how things should work. Surprisingly, there has been no [...]

Well, it’s official: I’ve accepted an IT job in a research department at $UNIVERSITY, and tendered my resignation for my current position. The new job itself is somewhat similar to my current one: it’s a small IT department covering many independent subunits, and I’ll be geek-of-all-trades for a while longer. Plus, it’s a 25% increase [...]

Meeegan checks in with some words of wisdom for singers, delivered by Robert Shaw. (Meeegan: enjoy the Requiem!) Lagniappe: on the plane of aspiration I love the idea of a contagious diminuendo…

I’ve been neglecting this category — and my mad-scientist cooking skills — far too long. My new food love is sugo all’amatriciana over bucatini. It’s impossible to go wrong when there’s that much pancetta involved, but the short ingredients list, simple prep, and easy wine pairing (dry, fruity red) just makes the sauce completely kick-ass. [...]

Lots to discuss. Where shall I start? Got to work on Thursday morning and learned pretty quickly that the network file server was 101% full. That’s “fix NOW NOW NOW” priority, whatever remote users may think. Cleaning that up took most of Thursday and Friday. The netadmin and I managed to reclaim about 7% by [...]