Author: Brian Enigma

900,000 Chutes & Ladders per hour

Every Thursday at work, during our lunch hour, several of us get together to play board games. We play a different game each week, and aside from a few tries at new games, we tend to rotate through the same three or four games each week. In an attempt to add a little variety, we … Continue reading 900,000 Chutes & Ladders per hour

“Use our brand to build your [backward] business”

I saw this on the back of a van this morning on the way to work. “Use our Brand to Build Your Business.” Let’s put aside the random bold and capitalization for a second and focus on the brand. If you really did use the depicted branding iron, the resulting brand would read backwards. Great … Continue reading “Use our brand to build your [backward] business”

Piece of Sale / Point of ****

Something I have been noticing with increasing frequency at POS (that’s Point of Sale, not Piece of ****) terminals is an option to pay with multiple credit cards. I worked in retail many years ago and know that paying with multiple cards has always been a feature that is on the store employee’s side of … Continue reading Piece of Sale / Point of ****

The Apple keyboard under Linux, revisited

Since I made my original blog post about using the Apple keyboard under Linux two years ago, did a bit more refinement to the process. I don’t think I blogged about it, but did post a few instructions and configuration files to my “notes to myself” wiki at StackOverflow (no, not THAT StackOverflow). To this … Continue reading The Apple keyboard under Linux, revisited

Brian’s Ten(ish) Songs

At work we’ve been organizing little unofficial fun activities. (And by “we,” I mean a coworker, Helen.) This includes things like Friday lunches out with the whole department (some of us eat out more frequently than that, but even the brown-baggers are now going out with us on Fridays). There is a weekly lunchroom board … Continue reading Brian’s Ten(ish) Songs

Buh Bye, Birdie

For a week now, I have been trying to come up with something to tweet along the lines of me being a [straight] guy who enjoys musicals. It had to be witty. More importantly, it had to NOT be… what’s the word? Racist? Sexist? Gay-ist? I guess “homophobic” is technically the right word, but doesn’t … Continue reading Buh Bye, Birdie

Portland’s Robotic Goths

Here are two “Portland excels at…” links I have run across in the past week. I lurk on the Portland Industrial Gothic (PIG) mailing list. Actually, “lurk” is an understatement. I subscribe, the messages come into my inbox, and the vast majority of them get moved, unread, to an archive folder. One subject line recently … Continue reading Portland’s Robotic Goths

A little girl last night said I…

Last night, I attended a most excellent party. (Thank you, Grace and Micha! I regret that I did not get to say more than a few words to Micha, but there were so many people there and too many interesting and great conversations!) The main focus was as a sort of going-away-to-college shindig, but there … Continue reading A little girl last night said I…

Compostification

Almost exactly a year ago, I built a compost bin out of spare palettes I scrounged up in the inner-SE industrial area. For various reasons, we never quite got around to using it. Part of it was knowledge and experience. Part of it was laziness. Part of it was being a little unsure of the … Continue reading Compostification

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