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I walked out of one of the buildings on the company campus the other day and became hypnotized by the warm sun and gentle breeze. I daydreamed the steps I was walking down were sand dunes and the well-manicured lawn I was facing was an endless ocean. Suddenly, returning to a windowless cubicle in an air-conditioned maze wasn’t as appealing as it had been.
Dang my luck that the best job in the world was just claimed. That’ll teach me to actually apply for something next time!
Some WRAL viewers had trouble watching the channel yesterday morning and wondered what was happening. WRAL’s crack team of meteorologists checked into the issue and found a strong temperature inversion to be the culprit. Nate Johnson describes the phenomenon in the station’s WeatherCenter blog.
I worked extensively with radio while in the Navy. Once I was blown away when I tuned in San Francisco FM radio stations from 800 miles away in the Pacific! This phenomenon still fascinates me, if you couldn’t tell!
I overheard a conversation in the office this morning about first email addresses. One guy says he once had an email address without an @. That’s old-school, for sure.
My first personal email address was jmturner at eos dot ncsu dot edu, which I picked up back in 1992. The one I probably used the most at the time though was the Compuserve account of Pioneer Software (a.k.a. Q+E Software). It was something like 71333.xxxx at compuserve dot com. I was managing the company’s technical support forum on Compuserve from 1992 to 1994.
Right now I can’t picture the client I used for Compuserve. I think the client was originally a text-based terminal, though later I recall CS came out with a GUI front-end once Windows became established. This was in the days before the Web became publicly available (though UNC’s ibiblio was already serving web pages as one of the first webservers in the world.
Dang, I’m old.
As promised, here is my sleep report.
Sleep report
This page doesn’t show my apnea scores. I’ll get more info from Dr. Garside on this because I neglected to ask him for them.
