tags: epic fail

Yeah, it’s solipsistic and egotistical to ask, but “Why does this shit always happen to me?”

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2003 Jun 21

Forfeit

There is just nothing left to say.

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July

2003 Jul 24

Damn It All to Hell

And even though I’ve raised the white flag and cried uncle, I am still getting beaten down.

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2008

March

2008 Mar 22

how to: lose the faith of your customers

So I used to have an array of external hard drives attached to my Mac Mini by Firewire. Most of the hard drives were encased in Venus DS3s. Like many Firewire 400/IEEE 1394a hard drive enclosures, it's based on the venerable but reliable Oxford Semiconductor 911 chipset.

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August

2008 Aug 5

in threes

Somewhat inspired by this diatribe about 2008 thus far on a random blog I clicked through to, I realize that I had pegged my hopes on three things to happen this year, in order of estimated probability from highest to lowest:

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September

2008 Sep 23

when all you've got is a hammer

It's odd, but I'm starting to look at the disaster that has befallen Wall Street like something akin to a person having a stroke or a heart attack. Sure, the symptoms are most dramatic during the acute phase, and it's the acute phase that's probably going to kill you, but it's important to recognize that what a stroke or heart attack means is that this person has been sick for quite a while. Coronary artery disease and cerebrovascular disease don't just develop over the course of a week. It takes years of unhealthy living to get you to the point where you are vulnerable to having a heart attack or stroke.

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2012

May

2012 May 20

some people claim that there's a woman to blame, but I know it's my own damn fault

I've spent too much time thinking of might-have-beens, of the garden of forking paths, of the paths forever barred to me
is it a sign that I'm getting old, always looking backward instead of forward, or a sign that I'm still too immature for my age, unwilling to plan for the future, and wallowing in my broken dreams?

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