July 2008
5 posts
“She traded a nod with the security kid and hooked a thumb back at me....”
– Jim Butcher - White Night
I chortled aloud at this passage. Who cares that the people on the plane thought me odd. Good snarky deserves no less.
Asperger Test →
I just took this test and scored a 32. Hmm … that puts me into the perhaps-you-should-be-concerned range. That can’t be good.
I considered digging through the test’s source code to figure out how it had miscalculated my score. But then I realized that doing so would only futher validate the result.
Guess I really am a geek.
The Trip Redux
Movies Seen: 5
The Incredible Hulk - This was a surprisingly good movie considering I’m not a Hulk fan. (Saw it during my inbound layover in Honolulu.)
Get Smart - I never watched the TV show, so I had low expectations. The movie exceeded those by a fair margin. (It was a long layover, so I made it a double feature.)
Kung Fu Panda - It was a hit with my kids, but left me underwhelmed....
The Sucktacular Return
Our six-hour flight from the mainland to Honolulu went fine. It was the next morning when we went to check-in for our flight from Honolulu to Pohnpei that things began to go awry.
The kiosk check-in screen demanded a passport number for our infant son. At that point, he was all of ten days old. There’s no frickin’ way I could have gotten him a passport that quickly. I presented his...
There Are Places Where the Internet Sucks Worse...
For all intents and purposes, I’ve been incommunicado for the past few weeks. Not by choice, mind you. Normally, a trip to the States means an opportunity to indulge in the trappings of civilization: blazing Internet connectivity being one such perk. Not this time.
It was a personal trip, so I could not take a laptop from work. And my personal PowerBook G4, while somewhat functional, is no...
