Into The Weeds

In honor and observance of the Writer's Strike currently going on, here is my version of a "clip show." This blog has over 175 entries now, some good, some bad, some awesome. I know there are several new readers here, and it's a pain to sift through the entire blog to find the good nuggets. Here, in my opinion, are the 15 most worthy entries if you're flipping through this place I like to call "Into the Weeds":

• yuck: Cold Stone Creamery Rant
• The Soul of the Commuter: Commuting sucks. In very many ways. Here I get back to my urban studies roots.
• UIUC Mail Server Disaster: A tale of sysadmin sorrow from 2002
• Trivia: See if you can identify who all of these footnotes to history are.
• The Cult of Scientology: Mini-rant and link to a freaking awesome article on scientolgy.
• Longwood Towers: Rant about why the Longwood Towers Condominiums are some place you should not be thinking about living in.
• Kozmo.com: : Classic tale of dot-bomb woe. Ever wonder what that "kozmo" box is that's sitting in the kitchen lounge on second west?
• Florence Co. ADMAX: Crazy terrorist prison in Colorado with all sorts of nasties inside.
• New Apartment: Check out the awesome view from my living room.
• Driving in Boston: A primer, with scary crazy maps of intersections.
• Captain Al Haynes: The amazing story of Capt. Haynes and United flight 232.
• Firefighting Mode: Some systems philosophy, and the condition of what things were like back when I worked at MIT IS&T.
• The Switch: Mac vs. PC
• Unofficial!!!!: The crazyness at UIUC known as "Unofficial St. Patrick's Day" and why it is awesome and awesomely stupid at the same time.
• Datacenter Transformer: A tale of woe from some crazy-ass electrical problem and superbad preparation and handling at MIT IS&T.