Entries by ben

Furiousblog is moving from furiousblog.com to furiousblog.someguysserver.com. This is because the domain name is expiring and I don't want to renew it, since I don't really use this blog anymore. But, I don't want it to go away, either, so I'm moving it under one of my other domain names.

So, if you've got it linked somewhere or in an RSS reader, update your link or reader.

That is all.

-Ben

This is my favorite picture of grapefruit ever. -Ben

Every so often I get in a particular mood:

July 30, 2009

[REDACTED], [REDACTED], The Distinguished Gentlemen of the [REDACTED] Mailing List
US Naval Research Laboratory
4555 Overlook Ave., SW
Washington, DC 20375


To whom it may concern:

I'm planning to leave around 3 today.

I guess that is all.

It just seemed like I needed to write some more since I
included a salutation in the email. Maybe I should take it
out and then remove all of this extraneous text. Or maybe I
should go all the way to the other extreme and include
addresses & dates for a true formal letter like I learned in
high school business class.

It's been a long time since I've done a true formal letter
format, so I guess I'll go that way. I should probably
update the conversational, string-of-thought style of the
text as well. I guess I won't go that far, though. Take
that, high school!

Well, I guess I'll go ahead and update the salutation. It
used to say 'Hello All.' On a side note, does anyone else
loathe putting punctuation marks inside of quotes? I really
think that "'Hello All'." would look much better. Stupid
english! Also, please note that I have left the requisite
four lines after my 'Complimentary Close'. See? Doesn't that
look better? On another side note, I didn't know what to
call the 'Complimentary Close', so I did some Googling and
found a page on formal business letter formats.

Sincerely,



Benjamin N Rasmussen
Linux Admin of No Note
US Naval Research Laboratory
4555 Overlook Ave., SW
Washington, DC 20375

Also, you can't tell here on the blog, but there were appropriate margins in the email.

Fact: We have a deck. Opinion: It's a good deck.

Fact: We have a back yard. Opinion: It's not so good.

Opinions, presented as facts in a pro/con list:

• Con: The deck is too big.
• Con: We don't use most of the deck.
• Pro: The deck railing blocks our view of our not so good back yard. (this one actually is a fact)
  
• Con: The deck railing blocks our view of our myriad bird feeders. (this one, too)
  
• Con: The deck feels like it is blocking us off from our backyard.

Computer generated result: reduce size of deck by 50% and remove back railing. This will make the deck flow into the back yard. This will make the back yard more inviting to humans. This will provide enough wood to build another, free-standing, non-close-in-ing deck just over there.This will provide plenty of room for sitting on deck and watching squirrels eat bird food. It will also continue to provide a location for the grill. It will also more or less approximate heaven on earth.

Factual Photos:

I used to do an occasional blog series about photo-blogs that I liked. That, as with most of my actual blogging, died a quick, yet painful death. When I started getting into flickr, I thought that I'd continue the same idea, but featuring flickr users. That didn't happen either.

Maybe this post will be the beginning of a long-running, oft-updated series of blog posts. Maybe...but I wouldn't hold your breath.

Anyway, I saw the above photo today and thought I'd share it with you. He's got some other great macro stuff in his 'plants & things' set, so definitely click through and check it out.