Holiday Dinner

We're holding our first traditional holiday dinner on December 9th at 1pm...

We have served stuffed shells (in a top secret family recipe passed down from son to father) on Christmas Eve for more than a decade. While Christmas Day is for family and friends, Christmas Eve is a bit more of a private event, for those who live in the house or, at the least, are staying there as overnight guests.

That means that most people don't get a chance to feast on the scrumptuous cheesy goodness of one of our most special of house specialties.

Back in May or so, when I set out to schedule an event a month for the remainder of the year, it didn't take much to figure out what the December event should be.

So stop by for holiday cheer, holiday music, and, of course, stuffed shells!

Contact me here or through ellyssian at that there ol' Google mail service for more information.

Recently Watched: The Pink Panther

The Pink Panther, starring Peter Sellers

The classic original, which patrixa sent us so that Justin could counteract his experience with the Steve Martin version he had watched during the summer. He definitely prefers the original.

I can no more detach the role of the clueless detective with Peter Sellers than I can think of him in any other role - and I've heard he's done at least one unrelated project. =)

This movie is one of those - like a variety of films from Arsenic & Old Lace to Monty Python and the Holy Grail that exemplify what, exactly, a comedy film should be. Even when they remake it, they seem to lose the idea at the heart of it - what, exactly, funny is. The earlier films didn't need a laugh track to cue the funny reflex - they handled it another way, by legitimately being entertaining and funny. Funny is not an exact science, but it certainly seems to be a lost art.

All that aside, how can you go wrong with a couple of gorillas involved in the car chase at the end?

n - 1

I am *so* glad we received full agreement and management support for enforcing an n-1 policy with our software products...

Whazzat? n-1 refers to the newest software release, and the one prior to that. Theoretically, an n-1 policy limits our ability to support more than one version back without charging obscenely high additional fees, to attempt to recoup a portion of the funds lost attempting to recreate abandoned environments and ancient technology.

Of course, as anyone who has ever glimpsed the real world from afar might have noticed, theory and practice have never been introduced. I don't think they've even been invited to the same parties, or hang out at the same bars.

This message is brought to you by multiple check-ins to multiple version control archives of the same files. Because n is ready to ship, and customers are still running n- the ol' sidewise 8.