Dewi Morgan

Anyone with Austin-area work, work-from-home work, contract work, etc, I've got about 15 years experience sysadminning most OSs, and programming most languages.

I'm pretty cheap, too: while at the moment I'm looking for jobs over $40k/year (£26k), I'll likely grab the first solid offer over $25k/year (£17k).

Please let me know if you hear of any interesting and relevant openings.

As a child, I remember sitting, watching the 18-30 Clubbers sing and dance the Hokey Cokey in the water. Sometimes my sister and I would watch them: sometimes, in a more meta mood, we'd try to ( analyse the song... )

Trying the "standing desk" thing. 30 minutes and already the temptation to just grab my laptop and curl up on the floor is almost overwhelming. Not sure this is for me.

OK, that lasted about an hour. Maybe I'll do another hour tomorrow.

So I had a dream last night. Seems like it's been a while since I've had one amusing enough to bother remembering.

I was walking through a flattish expanse of estuarine flats. ( boring analysis hidden behind the cuts... )In one of the streams running across the flats, there was a pile of ducklings, interspersed with larger ducks.( ... ) These, I remembered, were what Firefox used as storage for web cookies.( ... )

I was worried that some of the ducklings were fully grown( ... ): was this meant to happen, or were they meant to have been disposed of before getting that old? I was also concerned about having to look after all of the ducklings for DEP, and my ability to do so. ( ... )

Occasionally, I try to remember how many pets my family has had.

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I dreamt last night that all the people who owed me money had paid up. I had enough to put a down payment on a house.

Seriously, I'm owed over $10,000. Nice position to be in, since at some point I may get a windfall. And I'm not spending it :-)

Then I had a longer dream :) ( Read more... )

I finally (OK, a few months ago, but writing here so I remember) found the name of a food he's missed from his childhood! Paidika pita-souvlakia me tsatsiki. Yay :-)

I've never successfully managed to describe to a cook what I wanted, always getting a mere pita-souvlaki instead.

I think this is because the "child's" (="paidika) style souvlaki-filled pitta is different! No onions inside, and fries instead!

But the chips were what made them awesome, somehow. But, being an adult, when I described a souvlaki in a pita, I'd get the adult's version.

Basically, it's pork cubes cooked on a kebab skewer. Once crispy, wrap it in a pita with a few fries, tzatziki, and lettuce.

Now I remember the fries, and that it's pork, no onions, it's a trivial recipe. But I suspect the secret to the awesome is the tzatziki.

The heat of the pork and the moist of the tzatziki would make the fries soggy in the nicest way :-)

Good: Boms found my wedding ring in the washing machine.
Bad: She only found half of it.
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I was having a conversation today about what makes a computer RPG an "RPG", to me.

I thought I'd ask all your opinions, too...( Read more... )