T**tter Archive — Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 (@thereisnocat)

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 31, 2007 at 6:59:37 PM

is contacting companies to find out if his fried electronics are covered by warranty.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 31, 2007 at 6:42:55 PM

is still discovering things that were fried by Sunday's lightning strike

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 31, 2007 at 2:55:17 PM

is testing how much power his current washer uses for a single wash cycle

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 31, 2007 at 12:33:57 PM

is happy that the nice lady from Comcast climbed the pole outside and fixed his cable service so he doesn't have to leech wi-fi any more

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 30, 2007 at 10:05:10 AM

iz at ur library leeching ur wi-fiz

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 29, 2007 at 5:48:30 PM

is taking a break from surveying the damage from the lightning strike to leach some wi-fi from a friendly neighbor. Mac Pro RIP 2007-2007.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 29, 2007 at 2:06:41 AM

shouldn't have had that diet Coke with dinner

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 28, 2007 at 9:54:27 PM

has gotten enough wallpaper stripped for the drywallers to do their work on Tuesday, but is convinced to just drywall over the rest of it

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 28, 2007 at 9:10:25 PM

finds that the answer is yes, it's ever so slightly more easy, but still a royal pain

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 28, 2007 at 8:38:59 PM

is seeing if the wallpaper will strip more easily today than it did 30 years ago

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 28, 2007 at 9:15:13 AM

@sniffles I got roped in to a call about why one of our apps stopped working when the mainframe it works with moved to Germany. 14 hours.

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 27, 2007 at 11:23:37 PM

has finally hung up on the conference call from hell.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 27, 2007 at 7:17:53 PM

really really wishes he could hang up now that the conversation has shifted into German

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 27, 2007 at 7:12:45 PM

Wishes he could get the hell off this conference call; 10 hours and counting....

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 27, 2007 at 5:58:53 PM

really needs to find a new job

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 27, 2007 at 3:30:22 PM

is looking at JCL code for the first time in 23 years. Yecch!

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 27, 2007 at 10:59:02 AM

thinks debugging by proxy is like pulling teeth with eyebrow tweezers

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 27, 2007 at 10:56:19 AM

is debugging a shell script-based application by remote control (telling programmers on the other side of the world what dir to change to)

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 26, 2007 at 1:37:27 PM

just got back from lunch at the beach

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 26, 2007 at 12:26:20 PM

just opened the box containing his new Diana camera; yay!

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 26, 2007 at 1:02:22 AM

Can't sleep. Again.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 25, 2007 at 12:48:13 AM

can't sleep. Pfftphtptfp!

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 24, 2007 at 1:45:38 PM

just arranged for drywall contractors to finish the walls in the family room next week

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 23, 2007 at 2:17:17 PM

just bought a new washer and dryer

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 23, 2007 at 1:16:00 PM

is grumbling over Safari/Win's lack of support for tooltips using the title attribute. Buggy....

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 23, 2007 at 12:53:43 PM

is all wet

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 22, 2007 at 1:47:50 AM

just had to listen to Roadrunner tonight

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 20, 2007 at 4:30:45 PM

is headed out to pick up his car from the mechanic; ah, sweet mobility!

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 20, 2007 at 4:11:33 PM

just saw his wife on TV. Well, kind of on TV. A new (unannounced) net TV thing. Kind of.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 20, 2007 at 11:44:08 AM

thinks he's speaking English, but the gentleman on the other end of the phone line seems to be hearing some other language

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 19, 2007 at 4:33:35 PM

is mildly disappointed that his car won't be ready until tomorrow

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 19, 2007 at 2:23:54 PM

just hacked around a CSS problem for a friend and former colleague

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 19, 2007 at 12:28:04 PM

has gotten the electric and gas problems sorted out, and now just needs to buy the new washer and dryer

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 19, 2007 at 10:18:15 AM

@surlyshirley we used to go there for lunch when in town for my radio meeting every year

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 19, 2007 at 9:30:58 AM

is looking at photos of the demolition of the Kahiki restaurant back in 2000; sigh....

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 19, 2007 at 7:46:41 AM

is picking up pieces of a fence that vandals had some fun with last night

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 18, 2007 at 9:31:19 PM

is listening to loud music

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 18, 2007 at 1:45:36 PM

just made an appointment to get his car fixed tomorrow

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 17, 2007 at 10:13:03 PM

got the camera

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 17, 2007 at 7:53:05 PM

is going to be unhappy if he misses out on a Diana camera because his SMTP server is misbehaving

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 16, 2007 at 3:36:09 PM

just gave the electrician a jump

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 15, 2007 at 12:36:13 AM

figured out how to speed up the import routine in the software he's writing by a factor of 10,000, more or less

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 13, 2007 at 11:00:56 PM

@snifffles w0ot! Great minds think alike. :-)

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 13, 2007 at 10:53:57 PM

just finished wrestling some ancient Polaroid Spectra film from a cartridge with a dead battery into a cartridge with a working battery

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 13, 2007 at 10:53:08 PM

@sniffles what kind of new Mac? We got a new Mac Pro not long ago, and it's su-weet!

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 13, 2007 at 5:04:25 PM

is delighted not to have to work this weekend

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 13, 2007 at 4:54:21 PM

Has successfully completed testing. Who schedules a server move for Friday the 13th?

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 13, 2007 at 12:16:42 PM

is *still* waiting for the DNS to propagate, 3.25 hours after we were supposed to start testing

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 13, 2007 at 10:11:04 AM

thinks there's nothing quite so exciting as listening to someone reconfigure the DNS servers

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 13, 2007 at 10:00:28 AM

wishes that when the schedule said "turned over for testing at 9 am" it didn't mean "servers will start to be reconfigured at 9 am"

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 12, 2007 at 9:47:52 PM

just reconnected with an old colleague and gave him a pointer for a quick easy way to do menus that *doesn't* use Milonic Menus

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 12, 2007 at 6:18:35 PM

thinks Steve Ballmer should have his balls cut off for the "activation" feature in Windows Vista. Then he would be Steve mer.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 12, 2007 at 6:08:34 PM

@wnalyd Ortho-McNeil is in Raritan, and they're a J&J subsidiary

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 11, 2007 at 11:02:55 AM

is spending lots of money to fix electrical problems

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 11, 2007 at 9:02:19 AM

forgot his NT password and has to have it reset

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 10, 2007 at 12:47:34 PM

just got back from the barber and feels light headed

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 10, 2007 at 10:25:23 AM

wishes he could understand Indian English dialect more clearly, even though he knows he does better with it than most Americans

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 10, 2007 at 6:14:36 AM

is going back to bed

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 8, 2007 at 1:24:44 AM

wonders how David Pogue gets away with the stuff he pulls on the New York Times web site....

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 7, 2007 at 12:17:10 AM

figured out why the REALbasic program he's writing wasn't creating the database and now has the database displaying. Yay!

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 6, 2007 at 11:12:06 PM

is trying to figure out why the REALbasic program he's writing is creating the database but not populating it

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 6, 2007 at 12:01:44 PM

@alunr "Yes, eventually you *will* get laid"; hard to stretch that to 20 minutes, though

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 6, 2007 at 11:26:38 AM

is waiting for his e-mail and web server to come back up

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 6, 2007 at 12:16:24 AM

is shutting down the computer after hearing thunder

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 5, 2007 at 12:38:10 PM

has finished removing the 1970-vintage paneling from the walls in the family room.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 5, 2007 at 12:17:33 PM

is finding Firefox 2.0 to be flakier and flakier on the Mac. :-P

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 3, 2007 at 9:20:42 PM

is delighted that BBC reporter Alan Johnston, held hostage in Gaza for four months, has been released

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 2, 2007 at 9:47:59 PM

is mad as hell at the pResident for commuting Scooter Libby's sentence. The coverup is complete.

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 2, 2007 at 8:13:30 PM

is thinking about getting a quote to have someone else finish the drywall instead of doing it himself

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 2, 2007 at 9:43:54 AM

is distressed to discover that the wallpaper in the foyer was applied over the original wallpaper, which will also have to be removed

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat July 1, 2007 at 9:35:03 PM

@steveganz Happy 39th! 39 is fun; you get to spend the whole year thinking about being 40. 40 is no big deal, but hard to see from 39. :-)

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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat June 30, 2007 at 10:10:10 PM

just got ODBC working between Filemaker and MySQL on his Mac Pro

Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat June 30, 2007 at 8:45:35 PM

@doublesided have a safe trip; hope your back feels better soon.

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