Warning: caffeine deprived whine ahoy. About two weeks ago, I decided that I was drinking far too much coffee and needed to stop. It was at the point of needed to brew 4 cups of coffee (2 mugs full - coffee makers lie) just to get out the door, then another ...

There's less to write when you're not off drinking yourself to oblivion in foreign ports, but it's been a couple of weeks now, so here's an update. I'll have one more trip for STS in July, and then I'm done. I will be sailing from Suva, Fiji to Honolulu, Hawaii as ...

The rumors are true. I accepted a new job with the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. I'm in the midst of working out a transition schedule between my old job at Shipboard Technical Support and this new position at IGPP. This is basically ...

Time for a big redesign. I seem to go through bursts of web dorkery where I do massive updates all at once, then neglect the site for a year or two. I finally got around to implementing a decent weblog system - well I didn't really implement it. My own attempt ...

Wow, I've not updated this crap in forever, and seem to have lost some data in the last server update as well. Here's a brief rundown of life for the past year... Came back from South Africa in February. 1994 Moved from PB into a house in University City, where I have a ...

What happens when you share the same name as some would-be candidate for something or other who has spent a lifetime building character, overcoming ob-stacles, and maintaining an appearance not wholly dissimilar to the janitor character in Rocky and Bullwinkle? Answer: Comedy Misdirected Email!! It seems some folks in Kentucky have PORBLEMS WIHT TEH ...

I have updated the webserver from a lowly P133 overclocked to OMGOMGOMG 166 whopping MHz of love and 5 GB of disk to a PII 400 with 30 GB of disk. As this is a full OS reinstall, random crap continues to not want to work. Our crack team of uberdorks ...

Yay!! I am gainfully employed finally. I interviewed with two different departments at UC San Diego, and finally ended up taking a job with Scripps institute of Oceanography. The position is that of a Shipboard computer engineer. I will be spending 4-6 months at sea in 1-2 month intervals supporting ...

4639 I moved to San Diego in June, as I felt it was time to move on from Santa Barbara. I'm currently looking for a job in the IT field, which is proving harder than I initially though. Anyway, my new house is cool - I have a great view of ...