Picture of the day. (I say that as if I’m constantly providing pictures)
The thing about this guy isn’t that he was out “‘-wheeling” in the middle of the night and got caught in some kind of slough, the thing is that when he got stuck last night he was “‘-wheeling” with his “friend”. So our boy here gets stuck in this foul-smelling industrial morass in the middle of the night and the aforementioned “friend” has to go. “He has a girlfriend.”
Disgusting. Was this guy watching Jane Fonda movies instead of The Lone Ranger during his formative years?

So there I was, minding my own business as usual: I had this call about a kidnapping, complete with failed rescue mission, and I got that cleared up and I’m walking out to my car, just minding my own business, and I see these dudes next door to the kidnapper’s place loading up some equipment into a VanHool bus. Being friendly, as I’m prone to be, I stop and talk to these guys, ask them if the bus is for sale, blah blah blah. As it turns out these fellers claim to play with Monte Montgomery and are headed out on a big trip to spread musical goodness across the fruited plain.
Of course I call them on this obvious lie, as any fool would figure out that Monte Montgomery wouldn’t ride on a bus, he would just use his magical powers to appear backstage at the approximately appropriate time. But, as it turns out, Monte appears, as if on cue, to prove them right (or did he prove me right?).
Anyway, I did get to meet Mr. (and Mrs.) Montgomery and some other cool guys. And that’s the story of today’s installment of “Brush With Greeaaaatnesssss”.

Upgraded to Perl 5.8.0 today. …But I was using those bugs!

So I go to this estate sale today to look at some guns, and I’m digging around in a gunsafe and open a pistol box and I see a Taurus PT-92 that I had owned when I was a teenager. High-profile, adjustable Bomar sights meant for something else still shimmed on it, an eraser from a #2 pencil still glued to the back of the trigger to provide overtravel adjustment, and my first checkering job: 20lpi on the frontstrap done with a thread-chasing file. Definitely a blast from the past. I thought about buying it, but I think I didn’t much like it the first time I had it.