That biker story is beautiful.

I just got the word that the remaining work on my apartment will start Monday. Thus begins project Move Everything Out of the Bedroom. I should cull the closet.

I will look around this weekend, Jesse.

Has anyone ever posted to omg.yahoo.com? I've commented on an article, and the comments appear for five or ten minutes, and then they go away--is there an incubation period. or am I hallucinating all of this?

Oh, dear. My mom just sent me a link to some weird website, asking me if I knew anything about it, because she'd thought the link looked weird when it was sent to her and even weirder after she clicked on it and tried to log in just like it told her to.

Sigh. I foresee a long, long tense phone call and a painful remote log-in and hard drive scrubbing for my baby brother tonight. I wonder if I should call and warn him?

eta: Oh, thank goodness. I cautiously checked out the link, without logging in, and it turns out that "weird" and "even weirder" mean "ornate and flowery and possibly slightly stoned," and it seems to be the blog of a friend of a friend. Weird, but not malicious. Still, what was she doing trying to log onto some site she didn't recognize, sent from an apparent stranger? Bad computer hygeine!

Bikers Against Child Abuse made me teary. My BFF posted that on LJ yesterday and I called her and we sniffled over it, then I posted it on LJ and FB but I have no idea how to post anything to Tumblr without reblogging, so now I've reblogged it from GoodStuff and now it's on all my social media.

Things like that revive my belief in the worth of humanity.

Man, some people weird. One of the testers, in trying to do a performance test on our system, came up across a particularly nasty and elusive error we've been trying to track to its source for months, but the developers can't duplicate it in a controlled environment. But the tester can, and has--repeatedly. So much so, that he can't complete his performance testing.

I drag a developer over to him and his screens full of error and resist the urge to bang their heads together, because the tester has never done me wrong, but eventually the developer comes back to me, helpless, because the tester wasn't generating errors in any places he was tracing the code.

Does this really take an entire extra person to move to the next step on? Seriously?

I love Rescue Ink, as well, big burly scary types looking after critters.

...what's the inoffensive verb for Shanghai?

Wrangle? Draft? Press-gang? Dragoon?

I saw a tv piece on them a year or two ago. Maybe the same chapter, maybe not.

Totaly lucked out on my swim tonight. They kicked everyone out of the pool when I was only a lap shy of the main event. Didn't get my cooldown laps (and can feel that. Legs were all wobbly walking to the locker room) but since I'm still hearing thunder 2 hours later, I wouldn't have gotten a chance later tonight.

ION, Pumpkin apparently thinks Devi was responsible for the really close cracks. After one scared her mid-jump and made her land next to Devi, every subsequent crack, she'd run up to Devi and hiss in her face. Odd little bug.

One of the testers, in trying to do a performance test on our system, came up across a particularly nasty and elusive error we've been trying to track to its source for months, but the developers can't duplicate it in a controlled environment. But the tester can, and has--repeatedly. So much so, that he can't complete his performance testing.

Whereas in my env, operations comes up with a nasty and elusive error but test cannot replicate in and I get to bang my head together with the developers all the while with a nasty error.

I feel your pain.

My niece just posted pics of her summer. She was, apparently, in New York for Fleet Week. As part of the fleet.