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The Stacks of Beer

The Stacks of Beer, originally uploaded by NiteMayr.

Yeah, this is what I see on my way into work every day, the stacks, not the clouds. It’s nice and sunny outside right now, also very green.

I was worried that I would be giving up all the green when I came down here to the City; I’m no nature lover, but I do like the trees and grass the come with nature. London has proven to be very green, excessively so. But like Kubla Khan, I find wisdom in excess and think that the tree lined streets are awesome and I go out of my way to drive down the back streets to stay among said streets.

Did you dream about me?

Last night I dreamed about old friends and strange pets; I wonder if anyone else had such odd dreams last night?

  1. I was attending a physics class; there were about 10 people in the class that I would consider close or fairly close confidants.  Some old crushes were there too.  The teacher was kind of ineffectual but was intent on teaching us how fusion worked and why it was important.   I got lost in the math and was unable to follow the actual class.  The class was disrupted by our constant celebration of seeing each other after long absences.  I followed my friends out of the class; but went back and apologized to the teacher (who was kind of a jerk anyway).
  2. After leaving the school building I met a woman who I think I used to know, but her name escapes me.  She was standing in one of the school fields and sort of crying and looking out of sorts.  She explained that she had given up her son for adoption and that she missed him terribly.  She had her boy when she was a teenager and had given him up at birth.  I told her that she made a choice out of love and that I admired her for being strong enough to keep on going.  I hugged her and told her how much I admired her and that I wished her all the best.
  3. Then I shifted to a park where there were some kids playing (my daughter and nephews were there) my parents drove up in their van and the kids piled in.  I sort of floated alongside the van and we drove on down a nearby hill to a disused rail terminal.  I took photographs of the old steam trains held there juxtaposed with toy rail employees.   (NOTE:  Now I want to take pictures of iconic places with toy versions of typical employees or people who would utilize such places) juxtaposed with them)
  4. It was at this point my nephews introduced me to to their new puppy, a black lab.  I forget it’s name.  I then showed them my new cat, a long-clawed sable back mini-panther.  I forget what I called it too.  I also (apparently) had a pet dwarf (fantasy style, like in WoW) calle U-Thor (oo – thor).  I had to keep the dwarf and mini-panther from killing random people as we walked from the rail terminal along a sandy beach.
  5. I took the mini-panther back to the school where I let it loose to roam the halls.  It didn’t do any harm there, as it seemed to love attention.

What was I dreaming about?  I have no idea!  I didn’t play world of warcraft or any other video games last night, I wasn’t reminiscing with anyone.  Maybe I miss some people?

What did you dream about last night?

Twitter Updates for 2008-05-27

  • Busy morning, been to the plant already. Going off to IBM building in a bit. #
  • Finished decommissioning laptops this AM. Will move them to storage soon. #
  • Heading out to IBM building, back soon! #
  • back from IBM, miss me? #
  • Rebuilding a Laptop #
  • Killed Virus! #

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Another Alley in London



Another Alley, originally uploaded by NiteMayr.


Thus far London has been a treasure trove of things to look at, alleys and buildings and trees and ponds and and and….

I’m looking forward to having more time to explore the city when Jen and I are more liquid, instead of hiding monk-like in the house when we have no cash.

Take this alley for example, I’d have loved to get on with more images of this alley (or at least took more time on the shot)

This alley was full of neat lines and colors, I think one could pull a few really iconic images just from a couple shots of it.

Yes, I think I’m happy here in London.

It's Commander Rick!

Some judicious Google video searches led me to some Prisoners of Gravity episodes online:

For the uninitiated, the young, the vain or the American; Prisoners of Gravity was THE genre fiction discussion program from the 80s to early 90s (it followed me through High School guaranteeing that I would never be “cool” at my rural high school). If you were a fan of any kind of Genre ficiton of any sort, with comics and sci-fi as a preference then Prisoners of Gravity was your mecca. I remember being excited when Commander Rick would interview the Cyberpunk luminaries like William Gibson and Bruce Sterling (The Difference Engine) and authors like Alan Moore (Judge Dredd) or Neil Gaiman (Black Lotus).

I strongly encourage you (if you are a fan) to check out “Prisoners of Gravity” online at google video and enjoy what us kids in the know (and not americans) were able to enjoy way back when.

I know those were their less famous works, which is why I chose them.

Twitter Updates for 2008-05-26

  • Good morning, had to press my shirt today, thanks to Nitegirl for pressing my trousers. #
  • Repairing Hp LJ 1100 (Hard to take apart) #
  • Getting ready to test my handiwork, it turned ON so I’m at least 50% of the way there! <laughs> #
  • Looking for parts for the printer… looks like I might be bringing another printer online instead #
  • Looks like I will be putting the LJ in Storage. Shucks #
  • I wish I didn’t feel I needed to plan out my nights along with my days. I should get my house in order tonight. #
  • found my new fave store. Tons of older RPG source books for < $20. #
  • It’s already too warm to carry PCs half a block up a street. #
  • @billdeys I wish I knew, I just sweat all over a guy while installing his new desktop. #
  • Time to update my resume; but for a good reason! #
  • @picard102 re: “underwear weather” yeah it’s sweaty out, I love it though! Better than “Long-coats and thermals weather any day” #

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Layout Redesign and Webcam

I’m going to harmonize the main web page design and the blog sometime in the near future, bring this in line with the “solid-state” feel of the main website. The site itself is just a series of scripts and css so it’s fairly portable and easy to adapt to wordpress (the blog feed on the main site is already wordpress based as it is)

There is entirely too much country on this live365 radio station that I am listening to…but the rest is fine