“Suck it up, sugar” has been the mantra over here for the past few days as work, preparing for the upcoming two-week business trip, krewe business, change in weather, insomnia and (get a load of this) homework for the course I’m about to take converge towards Maitri Wants To Cry While In The Fetal Position.
My brain is one big paste of the physics of porous rocks, fluid mixing laws, Bayesian probability, Dutch train timetables and krewe invoices. On some days, the inner mother reminds me I should have stayed on the initial career path and not have asked pointed questions about the nature of seismic data, which sent me careening towards my current state of Still Learning. The continuation of education is in itself a wonderful and laudable thing, and the topic in question quite fascinating, but not for two weeks in December in dark and bone-chillingly-cold Den Haag right before Carnival hits the fan here at home. Aaah well, at least I’ll get to see Sinterklaas (who is said to have “passed through a rainbow with his boat” in 2006).
Lots of stories to tell including my own personal Seinfeld episode while aboard the flight home from Chicago after Thanksgiving.
Ultimate nerdery at the 2007 RIPE (European IP Networks) convention
“So, bye bye, folks at RIPE 55
Be persuaded to upgrade it or your network will die
IPv6 just makes me let out a sigh
But I s’pose we’d better give it a try
I suppose we’d better give it a try.”
N.B.: It’s a row-ter, not a roo-ter.
MSNBC to air five-part series starting Monday, November 26th
Throughout the week of November 26, “NBC News With Brian Williams” will take a look at the issues facing African-American women across our nation in a new series “African-American Women: Where They Stand.” The series will cover a wide-range of issues from their role in the ’08 Presidential race, to the increased health-risks that they need to be concerned about.
nola.com: New Orleans jazz loses one of its early pioneers, Ernest “Doc” Paulin
Thoughts and prayers go out to the Paulin Brothers at this sad time. The brothers have been an integral part of Krewe de C.R.A.P.S. (and Krewe du Vieux) tradition and will walk with us again this season.
At Best Buy in Metairie a few nights ago, I neared the checkout register only to be greeted with, “Oh my god, you look like a Barbie!”
“Huh?” was my immediate response as I restrained retorts like “Which one? Malibu Barbie or Peaches & Cream Barbie? Diwali Barbie, perhaps, seeing as how my luscious black hair reaches all the way to my calves and I’m here in a flowing sari. Or maybe it’s the new bangs which I just did with my Magic Hair Styler. If I’m Barbie, who are you, the Queen of Sheba?”
Checkout girl: “It’s just all of you. I saw you and I just knew you looked like a Barbie. Your face and everything.”
Oh brother. Not just Barbie, but a Barbie. A Barbie in headed-for-washer capris, a t-shirt, a non-descript black fleece vest, hair pulled up in a bun and smelling like the tail end of the Po’ Boy Preservation Festival. Aaah, that’s it, Harried Stinky Scientist Barbie. I thanked the nice (yet perplexing and obviously blind) girl, regardless, and told her it was the nicest thing I’ve heard in a long time.
While Maitri Barbie does not hit stores everywhere for a few more years, how about enlightening your kids in Hinduism Meets Marketing this holiday season with a nice Mighty Hanuman Action Figure? (Thanks, SM!)
