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Thursday, January 23, 2003 |
Went over to Liz's. She didn't want to drive on the still treacherous road, so I personally delivered a 12-pack and a couple steaks. Ended up drinking three beers and chatting for 2 hours. It's cold and windy outside. Very cold. Very windy. Reminds me of W.C. Fields stepping out of the cabin and saying "It ain't a fit night out for man or beast."
'T ain't.
6:18:34 PM 
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When the KVM switch is working, all is well; when it ain't, all's hell. It usually craps out after I've used the laptop on a connected dock. Since my job entails support for the very laptop I use, I know it is not supported. The failure goes like this: Mouse freezes on one computer, but generally reinitializes okay after a reboot. Sometimes it doesn't and the lockup spreads to the two desktops.
Today it did that and no amount of rebooting and replugging could get the mouse working on either desktop. I've finally plugged the keyboard and mouse directly into computer number one (an Intel 2.2 GHz system) and am hanging it up for a while.
3:43:23 PM
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 An hour ago, I called in to the weather hotline at work. It said we were open for biz as usual. I scraped 4 inches of snow off my car and skidded my way out to the bypass. Between here and the next exit, I saw three cars (2 of them 4WD!) in the damn ditch.
I turned around and came home. Looks like I-40 is fairly clear, but low traffic. Called the weather hotline again and now they say we're opening at 10am. Good for them, my VPN client is working and there's plenty catching up to do from the two weeks I was gone. I sure hope the power doesn't go out again like it did from the December ice storm. It's getting down to single-digits tonight!
7:59:41 AM
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The Trouble With Truffles - Part II
The TV in my hotel room in Seoul, when it was working, re-ran a CNN story about "counterfeit" black truffles. The real problem is that there is a truffle from China at less than 10% the cost of perigords that may get passed of as the real thing. The French are resorting to genetic tools to root out the counterfeits since the abundance threatens to deflate prices. The CNN story ended with a pig choosing between two sliced truffles, one French, one Chinese. The pig sniffed both, tasted both, and eventually settled on the French one for a second slice.
As if that wasn't scary enough, The Rosengarten Report arrived yesterday and David gives a big thumbs-down to black truffles. Seems he was having dinner in Perigord with "the most esteemed purveyor of truffles in the southwest of France" (IOW, a source revealing truth under cloak of anonymity) who tells him, to his complete horror, "We are truffled out. Any truffle called truffe de Perigord is, today, a Perigord-style truffle, but it doesn't come from Perigord anymore."
I have to put my 2-cents worth in here. For all its Kiplinger-esque ambitions, The Rosengarten Report is at least partially a foodie shopping club. While Rosengarten reveals he's giving up on buying truffles in the US, he still can recommend truffle-based products. What you do is to call in (or visit the website), give them the magic number on your Rosengarten Report secret decoder ring, and they'll give you a 10% discount on the products he features!
The Rosengarten Report is always a good read. Here are some of his truffle recommendations:
6:12:50 AM
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