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How Are You Spending Your Christmas Vacation?
Embedded Geek asks: "Instead of just spending Christmas break (or slowdown if you don't actually get time off) fixing up your house/car/server, are there any neat activities or events in your neck of the woods that you've been putting off? A museum exhibit? A cool new restaurant? An attraction in your hometown you usually only see with out of town relatives? Share your ideas with your fellow Slashdot readers! I, for one, plan to check out Barsoom to Blade Runner: Science Fiction in Southern California in my hometown."
How about spending a bit spare time with your family and/or friends? I guess it could be quite nice and it won't do much harm either! :-)
And I'm doing that right now...
Have imeadiate family but it's bleah for christmas. So my biggest thing is trying to stay connected to this server on Neverwinter Nights as a dwarf wearing a tuxedo. Ahh the Dryads love a sharp dressed Dwarven Fighter! :)
~~ Behold the flying cow with a rail gun! ~~
The long nights with the kids in bed and no need to rise early are just perfect for rewriting the text of an Internet-Draft that will become an RFC that registers a new top-level MIME media type.
Get a hooker, you deserve it.
For christmas this year our family spent the money we would have on gifts for ourselves and bought toys for poor kids in an innercity school.
This perfect to do when there are no little ones in the family (our youngest is 18) and there is nothing like seeing little kids get wide-eyed over a toy.
--Joey
Traveling tonight (instead of yesterday) with my wife and kid halfway to where we are going to end up tomorrow. I am going to visit my family in the Knoxville area. I intend maybe Saturday or Sunday to go see Dollywood in Pidgeon Forge. Really nice time you can have there. The total drive is only 6 hours, but I am going to take my time getting there. I will probably be there earlier then if I waited to leave tomorrow. I have a laptop and GPS in tow (no DC to AC convertor so no laptop on way down, maybe on way up). Also have PDA and digicam. Have a Merry Christmas! (wishing Happy Holidays is just SO not like me....I want to profess who's birthday I am celebrating....sorry if offend the vocal minority.)
Gorkman
I think that if CCNP certification and building a slashsite are higher up on your list than finding a girlfriend, you are probably going to be single for a looooooooooooooooong time ;)
"Well kids, you tried your best, and you failed. The lesson is, never try." -Homer Simpson
I'm spending my -day- off assembling toys that have been purchased or 'delivered by Santa' for my son. Mr phillips-head, Mr Duracell, and Mr Band-Aid are treating me poorly as I discover new and even more ingenious ways to bind toys that are in no way assembled to the cardboard boxes they came in. The joys of Christmas are truly without number. Twist-ties and styrofoam bricks provide a nice seat for me while I curse with reckless abandon the SOB who figured that GI Joe vehicles should practically be through-bolted to their respective boxes. Soon, I will get the portable propane torch and ignite the remaining boxes with the goodies still in them. The boy gets what survives the inferno. I like to think of this as Christmas Darwinism. Amusingly, of the many and expensive toys he received from various family, he is most taken with the $15 helicopter so far.
after opening all of my gifts i go to throw my new video card into my computer. 3 hours later i leave the hospital with 6 stitches from my case-o-death :-(
oh my god, I hope you are not reading it at -1 with your family...
cheers and merry xmas
``If a program can't rewrite its own code, what good is it?'' - Mel
We're all unemployed remember? ... tech crash ... :D
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley
Just hanging out this Christmas. Had a blast with my 5 month old watching his new Wiggles tape. Used my new apple peeler which is just totally cool. (cores, peels, slices!)
Now, I'm watching CNN and drinking some REALLY nice wine and reading Slashdot while my incredibly awesome wife is in her office, surfing the net and xfering her radio show to MP3.
Here's to a safe and happy New Year where I finally find a job! (unemployed since Aug 01)
Oh yea, it's snowing like crazy outside here in Act(i)on, MA., 25 miles west of Boston. Expecting 12-18"!!! May actually start up the snowmobiles tomorrow!!!
I'm the luckiest guy in the world. We've got our health, I've got a GREAT wife and a wonderful kid.
What's my Karma Mr. Burns? "Excellent"
I'm still searching for my missing daughter -- she was abducted over 8 months ago. I was on America's Most Wanted in November, but she still hasn't been found.
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Please help to give a geek dad the only thing he wants for Christmas -- Sabrina back at home. Please mod this up, and please visit FindSabrina.org. Please tell your friends to look at her picture to see if they've seen her.
This Christmas has really sucked for me and my family.
(Sorry about the repeat -- that's my
Please help find my missing daughter: FindSabrina.org
Two of my brothers and our families just spent an hour googlewhacking! Fun for the whole family, plus you get to see your name in lights!
me- "Hi, can I buy you a drink?"
her- "I don't know, can you?" *wink*
...one drink later...
her- "So, what operating system do you use?"
Not that I'm complaining, mind you. I play the truth card ("you know, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, I'm into the group thing") and have been laid more times than I can count in the last month alone.
Chicks dig unix.
Fully licensed blockchain psychiatrist
Read the David Sedaris book Holidays on Ice. It, like all of his work, is hilarious, and includes a story about a Christmas hooker. (he might have called her the Christmas Whore instead, I don't remember) Also includes Santaland Diaries, which is incredibly funny.
Also comes in "book on CD", where he reads his own stuff, also well worth it (one of the things that holiday money is going for!)
Lea