"Murphy was an optimist!"
Kevin Costner did it first August 3, 2005 5:34 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeWired has a great article on NASA’s attempts to recycle urine into drinking water. Excellent read!
Over the past five years, the agency has spent $60 million delivering potable water to the International Space Station on the space shuttle (6 tons at a cost of about $40,000 per gallon).
One gallon of that stuff would dramatically improve my family’s quality of living. Two gallon’s and we’d have a whole new life!
Alan Shepherd’s first 15-minute suborbital flight was so short that no one thought to install a urine receptacle in his space suit. At T-minus 15 minutes, an electrical problem caused an 86-minute delay on the launchpad. Shepherd’s bladder soon reached the bursting point, and he radioed the first-ever “Houston, we have a problem” message. After some deliberation, mission control had an answer: “Do it in the suit.”
Troubleshooting Just Got Easier or too convenient August 3, 2005 1:07 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeThanks to Windows XP and MSN Messenger 7.0 I was just able to use Remote Desktop Assistant to get on my father-in-law’s desktop computer to grab a file from his laptop computer and transfer it to a server in West Virginia using software downloaded from Atlanta.
I love computers!
add a commentToday I am happy… August 3, 2005 12:15 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life…because I am accepting my challenges head-on. I am confident that everything will work out.
add a commentWahoo! Milestones met! August 3, 2005 9:02 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeOk. I’m an hour late and I missed on biggie but it will complete later in the day. Off to a client meeting.
add a commentCalgon! August 3, 2005 7:27 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeI’m so ridiculously tired!
add a commentProgram with external documentation August 3, 2005 4:33 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeVisio Rules! If you program, build databases, or build database driven websites (which counts as programming) then you should be documenting your code within the code itself in the form of comments and externally in documents. My stand-bys are a site map (created in Visio), a data dictionary (created in Word), a data map (created in Visio), and a specification (created in Word). I also maintain a single document that records all my assumptions, questions, and notes about future upgrades or oversights that need to be modified "later." Maintaining these documents is enjoyable and having them on -hand makes the coding go so much smoother.
add a commentOf Grasshoppers August 3, 2005 3:48 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeMaster: Are you fighting for the right reason?
Names on my brain August 3, 2005 3:29 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeJeff Haas, Bruce Gay, Kirk Diebolt, Joanne Grist, Spy Farmer
add a commentOf Grasshoppers August 2, 2005 8:28 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeStudent: Quit?
Master: Or go for broke.
Wahoo! Milestone! August 2, 2005 4:21 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeAye! I finally hit a milestone at which I promised myself a reward. Tis good to achieve goals.
add a commentThe Haze! August 2, 2005 12:09 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeI’m sitting here…right here on the Group W bench with that nagging feeling that I’m forgetting to do something. Considering 1000 thoughts are fluttering around in my head like a swarm of bats in a moon lit mosquitoe infested Louisana buyou it is not unusual for me to feel like I am forgetting to do something. But this something has the words "I’ll do that right now" attached to them…words carelessly spoken as one phone call ended and another arrived.
Of course, those words were attached to a request for a copy of my resume. Shining bright today aren’t I?!
add a commentToday I am happy… August 2, 2005 8:23 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life…because I chose honesty over making a white lie.
On Sunday I wanted to list multiple reasons I was happy but for some reason felt compelled to focus on one. I wanted to add on Sunday that I was happy because:
- Noah had a great time on the camping trip
- Noah made friends and got to be a regular 9 year old boy
- I was able to impart knowledge on several boys and hopefully was a positive influence in their lives.
- I had adult conversations!
- No major tramas, dramas or injuries
- I still having camping skills
- I was home
- I was with my wife and family again!
Today I can feel the self-flagellations coming so I may need to post several reasons I am happy just to keep the negative thoughts at bay.
add a commentOvercoming Fears August 1, 2005 7:06 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeI haven’t checked email since Thursday due to the camping trip. I’ve avoided it all day. Here goes…
…that wasn’t so bad.
add a commentToday I am happy… August 1, 2005 4:08 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life…because Noah had a fantastic time camping.
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