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 August 31, 2008 at 7:59:05 PM
got Facebookmail from an English bloke I knew in college 25 years ago; the intarwebs are an amazing thing.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 31, 2008 at 12:38:09 PM
must be a marine biologist, because hey, I live in New Jersey, right next to the ocean
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 29, 2008 at 12:41:49 PM
she says "nuculur" just like Dubya. Please shoot me now.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 29, 2008 at 11:08:09 AM
thinks that Sarah Palin may be the best VP nominee since Thomas Eagleton.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 27, 2008 at 9:18:08 PM
is watching the Big Dog rip the Republicans to shreds
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 27, 2008 at 4:55:02 PM
was complimented for my "Feminist Chicks Dig Me" t-shirt on the street today
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 26, 2008 at 11:00:15 PM
thinks Hillary is giving the best speech I've ever seen her give
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 26, 2008 at 8:19:52 AM
is sad that Abizaks, home of wacky modern furniture in Rehoboth Beach, is no longer. :-(
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 25, 2008 at 9:08:39 PM
is in bed at a B&B in Rehoboth Beach nursing aching feet and failing to connect to his new Slingbox.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 25, 2008 at 9:07:51 PM
@feather have you tried putting the old drive in the freezer for an hour or so? That can bring it back to life long enough to recover files.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 22, 2008 at 6:32:12 AM
@lachlanhardy congratulations on the house! It's an amazing experience to own one.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 21, 2008 at 12:16:33 PM
is committing crimes against semantics. Damn you, Microsoft and SharePoint!
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 20, 2008 at 8:22:17 PM
hates music. Sometimes I don't. I hate music; it's got too many notes.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 20, 2008 at 7:28:00 PM
is listening to Alèmayèhu Eshèté on the radio because he's a lame ass wimp who didn't go see him in person in the city after work.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 20, 2008 at 3:38:55 PM
just realized that Safari has different defaults for line-height; if you don't specify the line-height, containers have different heights.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 20, 2008 at 1:37:23 PM
feels very jumpy this afternoon for some reason. Aaaaaaaah stress! Vacation starts Friday at 5:30....
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 19, 2008 at 7:51:32 PM
updated the anti-spam code in my blog to fight the pricks who've been hitting me for the past couple of days. It never ends....
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 17, 2008 at 5:47:44 PM
spent another day down the shore. Life is good.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 16, 2008 at 2:13:09 PM
had a burger and a beer at the beach for lunch. I love living at the shore....
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 15, 2008 at 8:18:41 PM
would have gotten dinner in the city tonight since the wife is out, but something about a Tornado Warning makes me want to be at home.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 15, 2008 at 3:23:30 AM
spent 10 minutes navigating an IVR system to get to the point where they tell me that I need to talk to a representative. Poor design, bah!
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 14, 2008 at 7:55:02 PM
won the lottery. Only six bucks, but hey, it's a start. When can I retire?
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 14, 2008 at 2:36:16 PM
is playing with our new JIRA installation and wondering if this is what @lachlanhardy works on
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 14, 2008 at 9:40:12 AM
@sniffles bah! non-fiction is more interesting anyway; you can get away with stuff that wouldn't be believable in fiction because it's true.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 13, 2008 at 11:09:46 AM
can't hear the music playing on his iPod when the reticulating saw is running. Fortunately it's only running in fits and starts.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 12, 2008 at 1:45:08 PM
had lunch on the steps of the New York Public Library. Cafe Zaiya spicy chicken sandwich FTW!
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺 🇸 @thereisnocat August 11, 2008 at 1:52:28 PM
is having a wall demolished about ten feet away from his desk
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 11, 2008 at 11:26:25 AM
@wnalyd I've been very happy with Pair, and they've got a cheaper service these days for hobbyists at www.pairlite.com; same stuff, less $
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 11, 2008 at 12:59:10 AM
is checking out B&Bs in Rehoboth Beach online; vacation starts in two weeks....
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 9, 2008 at 11:29:00 PM
just developed a roll of film for the first time in something like three months.
Ralph Brandi 🇺 🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 9, 2008 at 4:41:24 PM
@wnalyd why on God's green Earth would Nick Saban move from Alabama, one of the most tradition-rich programs, to UW? Occam's Razor FAIL
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 8, 2008 at 9:40:21 AM
is glad to see there's an app to sync FileMaker databases with the iPhone. That's the only Palm app that was missing for me. www.fmtouch.com
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 7, 2008 at 9:06:35 PM
@surlyshirley check this out: http://tinyurl.com/5adpgy
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 7, 2008 at 8:20:10 PM
wonders if anyone else's scrobbles for last.fm are queueing up for the past several days
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 7, 2008 at 4:18:34 PM
@wnalyd get the LCD; plasma screens are energy hogs. LCDs are definitely greener.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 7, 2008 at 3:59:18 PM
@obiwankimberly did you ever hear the song "Story Musgrave" by Scrawl?
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 7, 2008 at 3:39:06 PM
@obiwankimberly when I was working in broadcasting, we found Ortofon cartridges to have excellent sound. Stanton were hardier and good too.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 7, 2008 at 2:22:11 PM
sez "Remember, kids, writing bad HTML makes baby Jesus cry."
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 7, 2008 at 12:10:13 PM
@goodwitch sending you and your dad good thoughts
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 6, 2008 at 7:22:31 PM
@epersonae thanks! it's a good thing. I'm not totally enamored of the place, but it's better than most, and the work is interesting.
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 6, 2008 at 5:30:22 PM
just accepted an offer for a staff position at work.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 6, 2008 at 4:51:08 PM
@steveganz I can't imagine it being too long since seeing Detroit (and I was born there....)
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Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 6, 2008 at 4:46:59 PM
wants to fly to Toronto where this code was written and slap someone upside the head.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 6, 2008 at 2:25:08 PM
is cleaning up someone else's code, but not allowed to do it right, just make it slightly less wrong. Feh.
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 6, 2008 at 10:57:56 AM
can't get over how well a bunch of Russians sound playing Congolese music
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 2, 2008 at 8:11:12 PM
is watching an amazing report from inside Burma on Current TV
Ralph Brandi 🇺🇦-🇺🇸 @thereisnocat August 2, 2008 at 6:43:25 PM
all of a sudden can't find the server for my 401(k) plan, in the middle of a session. Very weird and somewhat disturbing. They must know.