Always happy to answer semi-personal questions on my blog. Thanks, Dan!

Four awful jobs I’ve had:

Burger King (Fry cook, burger tosser, cashier)
Temporary file clerk at Merrill-Lynch. They wouldn’t give me a badge to come and go as I pleased, so I was pretty much locked up in an office for 8 hours a day
My first contract [...]

Here’s a list of some things in my office, along with a representative example from each group.

Number of O’Reilly books in my office: 5 (random example: Perl Pocket Reference, 4th Edition)
Number of action figures: 25 (random example: Total Justice Black Lightning)
Number of cartoons attached to various surfaces: 7 (random example: Dilbert, February 18, 1996, the [...]

It seems like our house is under attack from a mouse army. As the cold weather moves in, we get a lot of field mice and the like looking for warmer climates. I’m not sure where they are coming into the house from, but I will find them. In the meantime, I’ve been putting out [...]

Each year, I cook a turkey for Thanksgiving, like many others. Sometimes, it doesn’t turn out very well (two years back, I set off the smoke alarms with my turkey cooking). This year, though, the turkey was practically perfect. I stuffed it with oranges, lemons, apples, cinnamon and ginger, and coated the skin with lemon, [...]

Star Trek news aplenty today, for some reason.

George Takei comes out of the closet
Shatner interview footage on Google Video: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five: this is all raw footage, but quite interesting
Also via Google Video, you can rock out with Shatner’s Lucy in the Sky
Here’s a review of the [...]

I was going to write my own Halloween post, but why bother, when the fruits of the blogospherearama are mine to exploit. So here are some of the fun Halloween things I’ve read this week:

Dan Century has a lot of amusement value, including Halloween Babylon and The Most Popular Halloween Costumes for 2005.

Dan also plugs [...]

I grew up with sisters. That means I grew up having to watch various soap operas. One sister enjoyed the NBC dramas, like Days of Our Lives, the other two tended to gravitate to the ABC shows: All My Children, One Life to Live, and, of course, General Hospital. (As an aside: if Apple wants [...]

Yep, it’s Talk Like A Pirate Day!