Here's an interesting political gambit,

Here's an interesting political gambit, Democratic legislators have fled Texas, paralyzing the state legislature over the Republican-proposed redistricting of Texas. The Republican plan could cost the Democrats 5 seats in Congress, so they walked out, and fled to Oklahoma, outside the jurisdiction of the Texas Rangers who are now seeking to arrest them, and bring them back to the statehouse. Boy, wouldn't that make for a good episode of Walker: Texas Ranger?

He hadn't made a name

He hadn't made a name for himself yet in the NFL, but Ennis Haywood was a reliable running back for the ISU Cyclones, and he's dead, at age 23.

I just registered, so it's

I just registered, so it's official, I'll be at Gnomedex in July.

Postings have been pretty slim

Postings have been pretty slim here lately, with the last few weeks of the semester getting quite busy. Spring semester has ended, and my number of things to fix should hopefully drop off rapidly now. Of course, May Term starts today, but summers are pretty slow here, there's even ample parking now!

We got a new printer

We got a new printer in today, the HP Color LaserJet 4600DN. So far, it's been a decent printer for the money, though we had an autonegotiation issue with it and one of our switches. It's reasonably fast, has reasonably good output, and is reasonably priced. The only thing unreasonable about it is the weight, unless you're approximately my size, don't try lifting this thing by yourself. John, this means you. :)