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noreply@blogger.com (jason) — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:39:00 +0000

noreply@blogger.com (jason) — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 04:09:00 +0000

The cutest mouse in the house!

noreply@blogger.com (jason) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:33:00 +0000

Just got off the T on my way home from work and am greeted by a rainbow. I think this counts as a moment of grace in what has otherwise been a lackluster day.

noreply@blogger.com (jason) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:16:00 +0000

This is what our apartment looks like now. Eek!

noreply@blogger.com (jason) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:21:00 +0000

We're playing euchre with friends, and Gena forgets to call a lay down loner. Behold the most powerful 2 point hand ever.

noreply@blogger.com (jason) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:11:00 +0000

We did it! We are now officially homeowners in the city of Cambridge. Ack!

Isn't she adorable?

noreply@blogger.com (jason) — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:31:00 +0000

Especially when she's concentrating hard on getting estimates from movers.

Mobile blog test post

noreply@blogger.com (jason) — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:29:00 +0000

This is a test post from my phone to test mobile blogging.

Goodbye, Lady Jane.

noreply@blogger.com (jason) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:58:00 +0000

A little over three years ago, this adorable ball of fuzz came into our life. Sure it started out as cat-sitting for our friend John, but it soon turned
into full-on adoption. John had asked us to cat-sit while he through-hiked the Appalachian Trail, but by the time the hiking ended, Janey was so firmly entrenched in our lives that we all agreed that she was happiest with us.

After three years of wake-up meows, curling up on laps, and freaking out at her own shadow, we noticed about a month ago that she wasn't acting quite right. I had suspected a hairball, but after 2 days of nothing, I took her in to the vet. X-rays confirmed that she had a large tumor on her intestine and probably would last too long. A few days later, the vet confirmed our worst fears, an aggressive lymphoma. The vet offered a few treatment options, and after taking it over with Gena we decided to try the prednisone therapy. Chemo, we decided, is a cruelty that we ought only inflict on ourselves.

That worked, or at least it looked like it did, for a few days. Her appetite started to return and her energy started to increase. But after 2 weeks, things weren't looking so good. She had stopped eating again, an no barely had the energy to make it up onto the couch. It was time to say goodbye.

So we did. Last Monday after work, Gena and I took Janey to the vet for a last time. we both were hoping for something miraculous to occur. Instead the vet told us what we already knew, the cancer was spreading rapidly and we had some tough choices to make. We both knew what we were looking at and we took a few minutes to say goodbye. I stayed with her until she wasn't with us any more, petting her and telling her what a good kitty she is.

Now, nearly a week later, the sharp pain is fading, but the ache of missing her is still there. I still look for her in her usual places, still think I see her moving out of the corner of my eye. She's still here in our lives, even if she's no longer napping on our pillows or stretched out on the floor.

Email and web problems resolved.

noreply@blogger.com (jason) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:31:00 +0000

There was a problem with the DNS servers that my hosting company provides which is why some of you were unable to get to the site or were having email bouncing in the last 2 weeks. I was able to find the root cause last night and updated the DNS entries with the domain registrar, so things should be completely resolved by later this morning (if they're not already resolved).

The non-technical explanation: Websites have a name (jasonstonehouse.org) and an address (10.0.0.1). DNS servers are the phone book that link the two. In this case, I had an out of date phone book that didn't have my current address.

technical difficulties

noreply@blogger.com (jason) — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:11:00 +0000

UPDATED 9/9 @ 7:20AM:
This problem has now been resolved. Any mail that was coming through during the outage has bounced (sorry about that), but it looks like the accounts are working normally again. I'll continue to keep an eye on everything. Thanks for your patience.

If you've got an email account with me (on jasonstonehouse.org), you may want to alert folks to try reaching you on other alternate accounts. There was some server wonkiness over the weekend, my hosting company restored from backu, but now it looks like all the accounts that I had are bouncing as undeliverable.

I'm working on a fix, but no ETA yet (and with freshman move-in this weekend, it's not likely to be in the next 2 days).

ideas for anti-social networking

noreply@blogger.com (jason) — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:49:00 +0000

Sadly, the domains getoutofmyfacebook.com and yourinvadingmyspace.com are taken by cybersquatters. Still, there's got to be a market for anti-social networking sites for introverts such as myself. I'm thinking something like this:

Instead of sending "winks", you could send "cold glares"
Instead of "friends" you can have "people you're avoiding"
"what I'm doing" would be replaced with "passive-aggressive behaviors"

You get the point.

All of these ideas grew out of a late-night post comedy and ice cream bit of brainstorming near Davis Square with some friends last night.

If only I were social enough to actually want to implement any of this. :)

Save the Geeks

noreply@blogger.com (jason) — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:34:00 +0000

Pandemonium needs helps, and needs it soon. They've had a traumatic year, and while they're not doomed right now, there is looming doom on the horizon. Help save a landmark if you can.

hitched

noreply@blogger.com (jason) — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 22:57:00 +0000

No better feeling in the world than having sucessfully convinced the most rockin' woman in the world to marry me. It went wonderfully, the honeymoon was great, and we're reluctantly getting back to reality.

Oops.

noreply@blogger.com (jason) — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 01:11:00 +0000

I just realized that the reason I wasn't seeing any comments was that I had somehow turned on comment moderation. So yeah, I just approved every one of them.

My name is Jason Stonehouse, and I approve this message. Tacos rule.

is it really just 2 weeks away?

noreply@blogger.com (jason) — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:00:00 +0000

Don't expect much posting from me between now and mid-August. Getting married less than 2 weeks has started to place a big restraint on just how much free time I have. I feel like I should try and be more productive. While I do have pants, there are many other things to take care of. I just don't know exactly where to start.

I am such a geek.

noreply@blogger.com (jason) — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:39:00 +0000

But there can be no shame, no, none whatsoever.

66 days...

noreply@blogger.com (jason) — Wed, 31 May 2006 13:28:00 +0000

But who's counting? :)

Balance my humours.

noreply@blogger.com (jason) — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:59:00 +0000

the Wit
(66% dark, 26% spontaneous, 15% vulgar)

your humor style:
CLEAN | COMPLEX | DARK

You like things edgy, subtle, and smart. I guess that means you're probably an intellectual, but don't take that to mean pretentious. You realize 'dumb' can be witty--after all isn't that the Simpsons' philosophy?--but rudeness for its own sake, 'gross-out' humor and most other things found in a fraternity leave you totally flat.

I guess you just have a more cerebral approach than most. You have the perfect mindset for a joke writer or staff writer.

Your sense of humor takes the most thought to appreciate, but it's also the best, in my opinion.

PEOPLE LIKE YOU: Jon Stewart - Woody Allen - Ricky Gervais

The 3 Variable Funny Test written by jason_bateman on Ok Cupid.

I can always count on a mailing list to tick me off

noreply@blogger.com (jason) — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:19:00 +0000

edit at 8:30pm
This has annoyed me enough that I've edited a version of this as a letter for DFA. It's been a long time since I've sent a letter to a PAC (I write to my members of congress a few times a year), but somehow this hit a raw nerve. Maybe it's because the national GOP is floundering and rather than raise the level of discourse, Democrats are wasting time on cheap shots. No wonder they can't win elections on a large scale. And now the Young democrats are doing it too; fund raising to send a golden hammer. Enough with the gags.

You know, right afer I'm lamenting my lack of topics to post about, I get an email that I could write volumes on.

I'm not shy about my politics. My friends know my liberal leanings, they know that I voted for Howard Dean in the primaries back in 2004, but increasingly I'm put off by the antics of the mainstream party that more often than not gets my votes.

Take this fundraising campaign that I heard about via one of the email lists I was on. The group Democracy for America, a grassroots group I had supported in the past has sunken to the stunt of fundraising to, I kid you not, send dozens of rubber chickens to Tom DeLay's office since he's decided not to run for reelection.

Now I'm not a fan of DeLay. I find his ethics abhorrent, his politics foul and his tactics vile. I'm glad he's resigned. But to resort to the prank (which is all it really is) of mass-mailing rubber chickens is as puerile as many of DeLay's own publicity stunts.

Use this resignation as an oppurtunity to fundraise to support a candidate in his district. Use it to advertise in another tightly contested district. But, for the love of civil discourse, don't waste a dime of that money on something as absurd as sending rubber chickens to the man. He's resigned, we've won that battle. Why can't we (the Left, that is) at least be civil about it?

The Left is notorious for it's persistent lamentations that "we deserve to be in power, the election was stolen, etc." Well, maybe if we had some sort of a plan, some position (other than "We're not Bush!") and if the party had the good sense to bring some decorum to the game we'd be in a better position.

All this does not mean I'm going to run out and register as a Republican. Far from it. But if Democrats want my continued support they better decide to to act like adults. It's the only way things can get better in our national politic.

That goes for both of you. Knock of the childish insults and bickering, look at where this country is going, and get to work fixing it rather than blaming (The Clinton Administration | The Bush Administration | The Aliens at Area 51) for the problems you yourselves are making.

Thank you.

Your own personal...

noreply@blogger.com (jason) — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 19:31:00 +0000

DNA

Considerate Leader

Yup. I've been reduced to quizzes for my posts.

I'm a sucker for a nifty meme

noreply@blogger.com (jason) — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:39:00 +0000

I'd say not much has been going on, but that would be dishonest. Frankly, between the occasionally overwhelming crush of tasks at work and the feeling that my free time is asymptotically approaching zero I don't know what to write about. So along comes a webmeme that I actually found nifty. Think of it as a bit of a mirror on how the world sees you. Or, in this case, how the world sees me. Follow the link, click the adjectives that you think describe me, and pass it along. (swiped from metagnat)

In other news, my own rule of never posting details about work is frustrating me. It makes sense, but after the last week it may have to break.

Finally, I haven't forgotten about you Gabe. You'd better start thinking of when you'll drag your ass up here. And wear Yankees attire. Lots of it. They love it up here in Boston.

A. Howard Matz is my new hero.

noreply@blogger.com (jason) — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 04:50:00 +0000

This has to be the best dismissal of a motion that I've ever read. Every once in a while, a real gem comes out of the US District Court system, and this is one of them. Even if you have only a rudimentary grasp of French, it's worth the read.

So tell me, "Quel jeu doiton jouer vis-a-vis des autorités de Californie?"

The... pain...

noreply@blogger.com (jason) — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:48:00 +0000

Dial
up
hurts
me.

I'm jonesing for bandwidth like a junkie locked out of a methadone clinic. At least I was able to set up some sort of wireless access with my parents' modem connection and a USB wi-fi card. It's slow, but I still feel some joy in the absence of wires. I have a feeling it's the same sense of civilization that Victorian era British explorers felt when having afternoon tea in a tent on the savannahs of the Serengeti. Yes, the table is made of an old termite mound, and yes (my good chap) the chair does smell of sweat and elephant dung, but dammit WE STILL MUST HAVE OUR EARL GREY!

Ooo! Ooo! Pick me! Pick me!

noreply@blogger.com (jason) — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 02:25:00 +0000

Can I be named a far-left hate site? Please Mr O'Reilly? C'mon, I promise I'll compare your hate spewing rhetoric with Joe McCarthy and criticize the Bush Administration as often as I'd like! I know the freedom of speech means I'm only supposed to blindly agree with the Republican party and dissent is undemocratic.

Freak.