I’m a big fan of days when you’re asked to work from home, although these ‘severe weather conditions’ don’t necessarily afford me the ability to go out and play.

I was paged this morning, so I’m up extra early, and, while I’m waiting for a deployment to finish, I thought I’d do some blog work.

Current observations and subsequent realizations :

• I’m incredibly hungry: i should eat breakfast
• leo‘s no longer one of my biggest tags!: he will be again after this post
• xkcd cartoon: complete and utter truth
• Grim Optimism: Woke up early, but not early enough. Reminds me of the subject of my dreams
• 32nm: I feel bad for my former employer, then really happy I was never given the slip…
• Deep Throat dies: why was Mark Felt called Deep Throat again? According to the love of my life:
  

  Howard Simons, the managing editor of the Post during Watergate, dubbed the secret informant “Deep Throat” as an allusion to the notorious eponymous pornographic movie which was a mainstream cause célèbre at the time. The name was also a play on the journalism term “deep background,” referring to information provided by a secret source that, by agreement, will not be reported directly.