Author: DOuG pRATt

Crime boss caught!

Big, big news in Boston, with the capture of James “Whitey” Bulger, hiding in plain sight in Santa Monica, CA.

Follow-up: More details are coming out. Apparently, Whitey made a couple of slip-ups. First, he was the only one yelling in Santa Monica when the Boston Bruins won the Stanley Cup, then he tweeted, “going to Costco to buy a 3-pack of v-neck tees.” 😉

Further follow-up: It’s confirmed that Bulger was lured out of his apartment with a Bruins championship cap. He’s lived there since at least 1999, and it’s across the street from an FBI training center! 😉

More further follow-up: I don’t get it. I think Bulger and Greig look great! Obviously, retirement has agreed with them. Why all the talk about Whitey not being well?

Winter remnant

It was an extremely tough winter here in Massachusetts. In February, when I was up on the roof shoveling snow, I wondered if there would be any damage left behind. Tonight, I know the answer is probably yes.

It’s raining very heavily, and Eric noticed water in the basement. It was coming down from the chimney wall, and I ended up in the attic (which is really more of a crawl space), and found a leak in the roof where the chimney goes through. The kitchen faucet has a bizarre problem, and I can see it was caused by the plumber doing a crappy installation job years ago.

A couple of days ago the automatic garage door wouldn’t open, and I found a broken wire in the electric eye transmitter that opens the door if the beam is broken. I redid all the wires and now it works. I was hoping that would be my only household emergency this week. Oh, well….

What large servers you have!

Today at work I was watching a not very useful video about VMware virtual networking. When I looked to see what else YouTube had pulled up as related material, what I saw between NIC teaming and the Cisco Nexus was a surprise.

That little blue ghost in the upper right corner of the screen shot is Ghostery. I recommend giving it a try. So far, it seems to work best with Firefox 4.

The Wright frame of mind

On WBZ-Boston radio Monday night laconic, existential comedian Steven Wright chatted with his fellow Emerson College alum, Steve LeVeille. Wright was scheduled to be on for just the first hour, but he stayed for two. (I wasn’t going to sit at the computer any later than that, Samjay!) Here’s the first hour, and I think I got all of the commercials out, but I left in Mike Love singing about pretty trees.

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