Sun, July 12, 2009 - 3:11 PM PST
I've been cleaning this weekend. During this, I'm not sure why, but I decided that I should go through the spindles of CDs sitting on my desk and toss out what was junk and what wasn't - and to determine what unlabeled disks were blanks and what could be thrown away.
That took me over an hour and at the end of it all, I had over 100 burns that are now in the trash. It was nothing short of absurd how many different burns of Debian I had - I probably had every release since Potato for both x86 an...
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Fri, July 10, 2009 - 7:23 PM PST
I think I mentioned this before, but I'm finally reading The Wheel Of Time. For whatever reason I had never started it before and I saw the first few books at the local Goodwill for less than a dollar each and so I picked them up. Every few weeks I go back and look for others and so far I've been able to collect up through book 6. That's a pretty good deal for about 1000 pages per book. I'm presently on book 4 after about 6 months of reading them... I knew that the author died after 11 volumes w...
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Thu, June 18, 2009 - 10:39 AM PST
There was a day where the release of Opensolaris (I mean the Project Indiana stuff - not just SXCE) for SPARC would have gotten me downright excited - sadly, that day would have been about 5 years ago. Oh well. I'm still interested in it nonetheless. Anyways, it's out now, and I was considering just now installing it onto my Ultra80 this weekend - which although about 10 years old now, is still more than a usable workstation.
A coworker, who coincidentally is about 5 years younger than me, has ...
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Fri, December 19, 2008 - 8:04 AM PST
For one reason or another, I've pretty much been covered in glitter for the past 24 hours. I hate glitter.
Fri, December 12, 2008 - 5:24 PM PST
I didn't really do anything today and it was really nice. I've put in more than a few 16 hour days at work recently, so when I saw that my workload was mostly caught-up, I chose to take today as "comp time". I probably won't take any more days like this even though I could/should, but I like to stay clearly on this side of the line, as being on the other side is a good way to find yourself out of work. And I just don't need that.
So anyways, I didn't really do anything. Well, not really. I drov...
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Sun, November 30, 2008 - 9:32 PM PST
I joined the 21st century yesterday when I bought a new laptop: an Acer Aspire One. It's a teeny tiny "netbook" that weighs two pounds. I'm still getting used to the slightly smaller keyboard and the orientation of the keys as well as the location of the trackpad buttons (they're on the sides rather than the bottom), but overall I'm pretty happy with the functionality and size vs cost; it was under $400 and obviously outperforms my old G3 iBook while also being considerably smaller and with dece...
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Sat, November 8, 2008 - 7:54 PM PST
Oh yeah, as long as I'm sitting here logged in to my blog's admin software...
I won an award at work and they're sending me and Linda on a 5 days, all expenses paid, 5 star vacation to Mexico in February. This news came at just the right time, as I've been starting to feel the stress of my position quite a bit in recent months and some good news for my efforts is just what I needed. If I can make it a few more months, I'll get to enjoy a week of sitting around by the pool drinking iced drinks w...
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Sat, November 8, 2008 - 7:50 PM PST
And I end the blog silence...
Iowa beat Penn State today, ending any chance that we had at a national championship. That totally sucks.
I this I might be taking it worse than last time. It's at least not as bad as when the Yankees lost to the Diamondbacks in the series a few years ago. Still, this feeling sucks.
Fri, August 22, 2008 - 6:54 AM PST
I'm on vacation for the better part of the next two weeks. I'm tying up some loose ends today and dropping my car off at the shop (bushings again). Then first thing in the morning, Linda and I are catching a flight to New York.
Linda has this piece of graph paper with our entire week planned out. She is always saying "let's go to XYZ this weekend" but never has anything for us to actually do there, so I tend to veto these requests. She hates this. So she took this matter into her own hands and ...
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Sat, August 9, 2008 - 8:02 PM PST
You should all be proud of me. I was at RE-PC today and managed to get out by only spending $1 for exactly the item that I made the trip for - nothing more. I passed on buying a Sun Netra T1 for $30 as well as a stack of Ross HyperSPARC modules that I could have put into my sparc10 - and they had a ton of SBUS cards that I had a hard time leaving behind too.
It was tough.
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