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I've noticed that sophisticated bloggers rarely speak about the weather. While I wanted this to be a post about the weather I decided I better camoflauge it as a philsophical obeservation of life.

Why are we so interested in weather? Is it hardwired into the brain?

There are a lot of automatic responses that humans and other creatures have. Rats for example have a set of wiring that makes them run from cats if they smell cat smell. A rat doesn't have to be taught what a cat smells like, and it doesn't have to learn to run from a cat. It gets all this stuff at birth. So do humans have a born in fascination with weather? It seems reasonable because of the direct connection between weather and survival. I know I get really excited when it snows. I like snow. It's snowing right now. <--- that's all I really wanted to say.

Here it is, the proof is in the pictoral pudding. I spose I could have staged this picture, but I think I have some witnesses that will back me up on this one....

Thank you all for your gracious support. I would name names, but I would leave someone out then. In a lot of ways I don't know if there was hardly anyone that wasn't a supporter. Said in a different way:

Thank you, for being in my life.

Dustin

Today is the day. Three years of hard work and one day to sum it all up. I'm getting my Master of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering today. The ceremony is at 11am.

It's so nice to have family in town for this event. My grandparents took my wife and I to a northern Italian restaurant dowtown. By far the nicest dining experience I've had. We all had a marvelous meal and a fine bottle of white wine from the province that my grandparents lived for a year. Just a fantastic time. I woke up this morning thinking about it and just remembering all the people involved in our table. The maitre'd was wonderfully friendly and took our coats and helped seat us. Then the drinks order from a nice waitress, but the host, specifically came to our table to pour the wine. Yet another waitress helped out making sure we had enough bread. It was a wonderfully slow flurry of action. We must have spent 2+ hours at the table eating and talking and drinking wine. Thanks!

So it seems I've been having problems with my DNS servers -- they cache my blog and it doesn't get updated with all the posts that I've put up. Which reminds me: I know way too much about DNS and other crazy stuff that has to do with the Internet. You see at work we make software that is like the ultimate IT guy. This is the guy that works a a large organization; who lives in the basement next to his linux box; and knows *everything* about computers and is happy to explain it all to you. Even if you didn't want to know. All you wanted was to get a new work account.

So we are trying to write software that encapsulates this guys knowledge and hopefullt doesn't give you too hard of a time about your weak password - whichreminds me to remind you - user name: dustin password: dustin. IS a bad password. (Don't do it!) So anyway our box will do all that nifty work like email accounts and telephone extensions in a simple easy to use way -- that doesn't require a guy who still reads comic books and doesn't understand "normal" people.

BTW - I was kidding abut all the "posts" that didn't get updated, I'm just lazy. and I've been working. and we're moving. but mostly lazy tho.