Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸
@thereisnocat
Advocating Semantic Markup since 1987. Not posting here any more. Married to @JerseyGrrrl. On Mastodon: @thereisnocat@toot.cafe
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 31, 2007 at 6:19:58 PM
thinks that the later it's getting, the smaller and cuter the trick-or-treaters are getting.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 31, 2007 at 4:19:38 PM
just got his first trick-or-treaters who actually looked like they were wearing costumes.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 31, 2007 at 4:07:46 PM
just got his first trick-or-treaters after a half hour of watching others just walk by
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 31, 2007 at 3:52:15 PM
just found his social security card; good thing, they require it at the unemployment office, and I have an appt tomorrow
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 31, 2007 at 10:53:08 AM
is reminding himself that it's a bad idea to count on anything until the money is in hand
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 30, 2007 at 11:27:20 AM
@surlyshirley no, just a contract gig. A very lucrative contract gig.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 30, 2007 at 10:08:58 AM
is scanning a ton of paperwork to fax to his new contract house
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 29, 2007 at 2:36:12 PM
has started routing the wood for the DVD bookcase
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 29, 2007 at 5:16:13 AM
@doublesided no, just a sensible adult who knows that that stuff is best kept offline. :-)
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 27, 2007 at 10:55:50 PM
thinks it's getting ugly late in the game in Happy Valley.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2007 at 8:50:48 PM
just spent an hour reading every last entry on I Work On The Web. Good stuff.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2007 at 5:14:31 PM
@surlyshirley Will do sometime tonight. It's on DVD; not sure if they've released it on CD.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2007 at 2:07:57 PM
thinks Calexico's cover of The Minutemen's "Corona" might be even better than the original, which was already one of the best songs evar.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 25, 2007 at 11:19:01 AM
is designing a bookcase to hold all our DVDs
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 24, 2007 at 11:45:50 AM
didn't blow the interview. Looks like the job is mine if I want it.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 23, 2007 at 11:29:10 PM
is IMing with Jan about Glenda's singing habits
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 23, 2007 at 12:57:28 PM
@surlyshirley I've been limiting my game playing to evenings and insomnia sessions; no games during the day
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 23, 2007 at 9:50:59 AM
has the incidental music from Katamari Damacy playing on auto-repeat inside his head
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 22, 2007 at 4:29:31 PM
is applying for unemployment benefits
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 22, 2007 at 2:15:05 PM
did well in his phone interview just now; I suspect I'll get a callback from this one
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 19, 2007 at 6:13:56 PM
waited for 45 minutes in a drizzly parking lot for someone from work to hand over his laptop before giving up when they didn't show. Jerk.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 19, 2007 at 4:01:26 PM
is deleting stuff from his work laptop in preparation for turning it back in
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 19, 2007 at 1:43:38 PM
just got a call from a recruiter looking for someone with a lot less experience than I have; weird
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 19, 2007 at 1:26:35 PM
has a phone interview set up with a startup in Jersey City for Monday (yes, that one, @kimmieblessing, thanks)
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 19, 2007 at 1:25:43 PM
@surlyshirley thanks!
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 18, 2007 at 8:41:29 PM
tuned in just in time to see Rutgers tie the game
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 18, 2007 at 10:18:45 AM
@goodwitch didn't you have a hand-me-down G4 PowerBook? If you've got VMWare, you must have gotten new hardware
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 17, 2007 at 5:00:14 PM
is checking the time in Bangalore; hmm, 2:30 in the morning. Sucks to be a support person in India.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 17, 2007 at 4:38:27 PM
is dealing with trouble ticket bureaucracy for what is hopefully the last time at this job
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 17, 2007 at 10:48:42 AM
is amazed at his team lead's ability to restate the same thing over and over and over again in slightly different ways
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 17, 2007 at 10:45:01 AM
is in another transition session; this time, I'm just answering questions
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 17, 2007 at 3:39:03 AM
is wondering why Movable Type blogs don't grab the "nickname" property from OpenID but instead derive one from your URL. Feh.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 16, 2007 at 9:59:16 AM
doesn't know what good another knowledge transfer session will do when what's needed is an attitude transfer
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 16, 2007 at 4:48:17 AM
is going to try to go back to sleep, even though I don't feel tired. Bah!
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 15, 2007 at 5:33:02 PM
@goodwitch have you looked at A&M's athletics site to see if it's accessible? If it is, you could use it as a prod.... :-)
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 15, 2007 at 10:50:50 AM
just arranged to hand over his laptop and other work junk on Friday
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 13, 2007 at 4:45:39 PM
is enjoying watching Penn State manhandle the Wisconsin Badgers
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 13, 2007 at 11:08:26 AM
has the moulding for the family room cut; now all it needs is primer and paint and I can install
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 11, 2007 at 9:11:50 PM
@lachlanhardy Congratulations!!!!
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 11, 2007 at 8:49:31 AM
is back at work. Bleah. Seven more days....
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 8, 2007 at 10:42:51 AM
@surlyshirley going to Cape May until Wednesday; just about to leave, in fact
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 8, 2007 at 12:23:03 AM
feels kinda weird about going on vacation after finding out about getting laid off, but on the other hand, hey, vacation!
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 6, 2007 at 8:03:47 PM
is watching ESPN's play-by-play announcers make fun of a TV show I used to work on at Penn State
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 5, 2007 at 8:27:43 PM
@doublesided we had our floors sanded and sealed yesterday and today too; family room and hallway only, not the whole thing.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 5, 2007 at 3:33:56 PM
@doublesided hell if I know; look for a new job, I expect
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 5, 2007 at 1:39:06 PM
@surlyshirley I think I will. I'm convinced that in the long term, it'll be the best thing to happen to me. Short term, I'm not so sure....
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 5, 2007 at 12:53:03 PM
just got notified of his last day at work, October 19.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 5, 2007 at 11:05:52 AM
thinks it's kind of creepy to operate another person by remote control
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 4, 2007 at 10:07:50 AM
just finished the first hour of training my replacements
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 4, 2007 at 8:12:35 AM
is letting the workmen in to start refinishing the family room floor
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 3, 2007 at 5:48:03 PM
is writing an entry for I Work On The Web
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 2, 2007 at 5:13:37 PM
is testing out the inflatable mattress we'll be using while the floors in the bedroom wing are being refinished later this week
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 2, 2007 at 1:37:55 PM
@epersonae tnx!
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 2, 2007 at 11:40:36 AM
@alunr Flip4Mac lets you export WMV files; http://www.flip4mac.com
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 2, 2007 at 5:03:12 AM
@alunr yes; Steve Jobs knows.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 1, 2007 at 5:35:14 PM
@wnalyd heh, not like here in NJ where they only call daily....
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 1, 2007 at 5:20:42 PM
@andrea both, really; I haven't been doing web stuff and I've been unhappy, but a paycheck is a paycheck
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat October 1, 2007 at 4:56:44 PM
just got the heads up; I'll be out of a job in a few weeks