Something to keep in mind

Note to self:

1. If I am using voice recognition software to do my writing, and
2. If I have a freshly-brewed cup of French roast coffee sitting next to me as I work, and 
3. If a large black fly is pestering me, and
4. If I wave my hand to shoo it away, thereby
5. Tipping over the cup, and
6. Dumping the steaming coffee over the desk, and 
7. Into my lap, thereby
8. Triggering a long and extensive series of unsavory expletives, which
9. Continues for some time as the mess is cleaned up, and since
10. The voice recognition software was still on, and
11. Recorded the entire incident (with its own Puritanical assumptions about what I was yelling), then
12. The resulting text is nearly amusing enough for me to laugh at the entire incident.

Ego Trip

I just found a tasty bit of information that previous folk have missed. Damn! I'm good!

If I may paraphrase Harold Hill (from The Music Man, "You Got Trouble")

Why sure I'm a researcher,

A good researcher,

and I'm always proud to say it. 

I consider that the hours I spend 

With Google search are golden. 

Helps you cull the nonsense

And the fool threads 

And the troll bait. 

Did you ever try to use key words to 

Narrow a search algorithm on a body function 

To keep yourself out of the porn sites?

But just as I say, 

It takes Boolean algebra and curiosity to score

In the research game, 

I say that any boob can take

And copy a wikidedia article,

and they think they're smart! 

Okay, THAT's out of my system ... back to work.

What Entropy Means To Me

Multiple computer failures and human administrative tangles of cordons rouge have made my life more interesting than productive for the last few weeks. It's time to settle down and get some work done.