I have my 'standard' lunch that I've posted about before.  Turkey sandwhich...cheese...dijon mustard....dill pickle slices.

They recently changed the cafeteria procedure in that we don't make the sandwhiches anymore and the caf workers prepare them instead.

As you can imagine, this usually leads to disaster.

One day, when I wasn't paying attention, my sandwhich ended up having honey mustard instead of dijon and multi-grain bread instead of whole wheat.  Seriously.

That, combined with the mild stomach ache I've been getting after lunch for the past week or so (I'm thinking the turkey the caf uses is not of the highest quality deli meats), has been making me re-evaluate my life choices.  Specifically, in changing my lunch routine.

After tossing and turning all last night in bed due to anxiety and trudging into work this morning with the weight of uncertainty pushing down upon my shoulders, I decided today was the day.  Today, I shall have a salad.

The salad had green things in it.  It had raw spinich leaves.  It had carrots.  Freaking carrots.  Cucumbers, a couple of strips of chicken, shredded cheddar cheese and hard boiled egg whites rounded it off.

I ate it, my stomach doesn't hurt, and most importantly, the world didn't explode.  My mother would be proud.

Since I seem to be in 'crazy changes mode', perhaps tomorrow I'll become a mormon.

A co-worker sent me this link to what is essentially a CAT-5 network cable sold by Denon for 'high end connection' of Denon audio equipment.

At first, I started laughing hysterically at the price and thought that was the entire joke.

But, that's not even the funny part.  Read the comments users have been leaving.  I almost peed my pants.

So, the most inconvenient lightbulb I have in my place has gone bad and I need a 15' A-frame ladder to get to it.

Anyone, by chance, happen to have access to such a ladder?

You were one of the greats, for sure.  A wonderful quote from the news that I think sums it up...

"The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things — bad language and whatever — it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition," Carlin told the AP in a 2004 interview. "There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body. ... It's reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have."

...amen, good sir.  You will be missed.

My disclaimer is that I'm a huge fan and supporter of science and space exploration.  I believe that the human race's eventual destiny is out amongst the stars.  I recognize the value of the scientific process as the forefront of human reasoning.  I also fully understand that good science is a process (oftentimes a slow one) of necessary stages.  Building blocks and proper methodology are extremely important to form accurate conclusions about observed phenomenon.

With all that said, NASA's habit of giving cute names to everything in the universe is getting a little silly.  The latest is that they named the first two dirt tracks the Phoenix lander dug into the Martian soil ('Dodo' and 'Baby Bear')....

http://news.cnet.com/2300-11397_3-6241162-2.html?tag=ne.gall.pg

I know it's an impressive feat to have a remote module on another planet digging a hole.  But, given that they're trying to dig a 1+ foot ditch to find ice samples, naming the first two scoops of the shovel seems a little rediculous.

When I'm designing a motherboard, I don't give special names to every resistor I place down, no matter how sacred and special each one is to me.  I let a tool assign them names that correspond to a Cartesian coordinate system on the board to allow for easy part location.  If some form of indicator is truly necessary during NASA staff meetings to make sure everyone is talking about the same thing, how about something like 'Hole 0' and 'Hole 1'?  Or maybe use a logical coding system like 'PMHn' (Phoenix Mars Hole n, where n is the chronological order the hole was dug)?

Tip:  When you're going to go buy your smack, make sure the Google Maps camera vehicle isn't nearby.

Can men and women truly be platonic friends or does the issue of one of them wanting to 'do' the other on some level prohibit it?

The same question applies to the various straight/gay mixes as well, of course.

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I'm perusing a vendor's technical docment web site looking for a spec.  There are bunch of titles in the document list.  One of them is...

"<Proprietary vendor label omitted> Platforms Reference CLIT Usage Model Overview"

I looked twice.  Yup.

Then I chuckled.

Then I opened up the file because I just had to know.

It was nothing like I envisioned.

So, this is completely unrelated to my previous post, as this was a Perl/Tk project I was working on before that whole thing came up. It's my first foray into Tk and I'm still trudging through some issues.

I'm trying to make a scrolling read-only text box. It works ok except the text scrolls 'down' below the border of the text box and the vertical scrollbar stays where it is. What I want is for the latest piece of text to be visible at the botton of the text box and the scollbar to automatically scroll down to it (essentially, making a 'scrollback buffer' instead of having to 'scroll forward' to see the latest entry). Hope that makes sense.

Snippit is below. Anyone see what I'm doing wrong? I'm sure there's an argument I need to pop in there to make it do what I want, but I can't find it in any of the online documentation I've perused.  Thanks ahead of time! 


# Event pad which will scroll messages and status

$eventpad = $mother->Scrolled
(
# Which kind of widget? A "ROText"-widget
# RO = Read Only
'ROText',
# scrollbar on the right
-scrollbars => 'oe',
# width/height in characters
-width => 120,
-height => 7,
)->pack(-side => 'bottom', -pady=>45);
 

Sandwich and pickle

Juice flowing on shared plate

Soggy bread makes sad