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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
3:53 am	Back home I'm back home from the delightful trip to Maryland. Nothing too exciting happened. I got there, sadly delayed beyond where it was viable to see some relatives. So I watched the lightning storm while eating the most delicious burger and fries. On Tuesday I did the install for Children's National. They had to tinker around with the DVD before remembering to mount it. After that things went pretty smoothly. I'm proud to say I have now been lost in a bathroom. At the airport they had this giant bathroom with several sections, there were urinals in one section, and two sections of stalls and one for sinks. I eventually found my way out. The plane that I was going to get on was struck by lightning, so they had to check everything before they could take off again. So I was delayed into the next day. That night I was kind of worried that I wouldn't wake up in time. So I never really fell asleep. Instead I dreamed that people got into the room somehow. I however decided to dismiss this as crazy talk, instead assuming that a group of pranksters had telepathy and were making me think that they were in the room. On the way to the airport the bus driver told me about how he was driving a friend to the airport in a pickup. The fog was really dense so he didn't see something of a ramp that was in front of him (it was apparently some kind of lane divider) as he lifted all four wheels of the truck into the air on this thing. I imagine my brother will be somewhat impressed. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, March 8th, 2009
10:19 pm	_____________________________________ / You will have a long and unpleasant \ \ discussion with your supervisor.    /  -------------------------------------       \                _        \              (_)         \   ^__^       / \          \  (==)\_____/_\ \             (__)\       ) /                 ||----w ((                 ||     ||>>  And because everything a dragon says is funny:  ____________________________________ / Excellent time to become a missing \ \ person.                            /  ------------------------------------       \                    / \  //\        \    |\___/|      /   \//  \\             /0  0  \__  /    //  | \ \                /     /  \/_/    //   |  \  \              @_^_@'/   \/_   //    |   \   \             //_^_/     \/_ //     |    \    \         ( //) |        \///      |     \     \       ( / /) _|_ /   )  //       |      \     _\     ( // /) '/,_ _ _/  ( ; -.    |    _ _\.-~        .-~~~^-.   (( / / )) ,-{        _      `-.|.-~-.           .~         `.  (( // / ))  '/\      /                 ~-. _ .-~      .-~^-.  \  (( /// ))      `.   {            }                   /      \  \   (( / ))     .----~-.\        \-'                 .~         \  `. \^-.              ///.----..>        \             _ -~             `.  ^-`  ^-_                ///-._ _ _ _ _ _ _}^ - - - - ~                     ~-- ,.-~                                                                   /.-~ (Comment on this)
Friday, January 9th, 2009
10:42 pm	"I was smelling your dirty laundry again today." -KJ "The ones that smelled like you made me miss you." -KJ (Comment on this)
10:15 pm	Oh so awesome I burped and it tasted of bacon. (Comment on this)
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
12:00 am	lalala A rope lying over the top of a fence is the same length on each side. It weighs one third of a pound per foot. On one end hangs a monkey holding a banana, and on the other end a weight equal to the weight of the monkey. The banana weighs two ounces per inch. The rope is as long (in feet) as the age of the monkey (in years), and the weight of the monkey (in ounces) is the same as the age of the monkey's mother. The combined age of the monkey and its mother is thirty years. One half of the weight of the monkey, plus the weight of the banana, is one forth as much as the weight of the weight and the weight of the rope. The monkey's mother is half as old as the monkey will be when it is three times as old as its mother was when she she was half as old as the monkey will be when when it is as old as its mother will be when she is four times as old as the monkey was when it was twice as its mother was when she was one third as old as the monkey was when it was old as is mother was when she was three times as old as the monkey was when it was one fourth as old as it is now. How long is the banana? --credit...someone... (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, November 21st, 2008
7:05 pm	Dude 14:04:38 up 1067 days. I logged into a server that has been up for over 1000 days. I've never done that before. Thats only like 100 days away from the top 50 on netcraft: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
3:23 pm	Think of the Children! Alex, I know you are out there. And I know you have a close proximity to the server that wasn't sending its backups. Coincidence? I think not. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
10:22 am	I think of important things It would be cool to be a urinal engineer, such that you could field questions like this: "This urinal is badly designed!" "Yeah, that, or your penis is badly designed!" (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, September 14th, 2008
3:27 pm	It appears that no one comments on live journal. Suggesting that people who comment are generally bad or undesirable people. (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
12:54 am	Team unique visitor Total : 0 Known, 15 Unknown (unresolved ip) - 15 Unique visitors Pages Hits Bandwidth Last visit 192.168.1.1 1777 3550 65.27 MB 19 Aug 2008 - 23:53 Whenever anyone tries to get to the url it bounces them back to inside the network. So it never got the outside ip but still tried to route so it leaves it with the routers ip. Thus everyone in the network is all part of a unique visitor. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
1:59 pm	Amethyst I was pointing out that if you dip an amethyst stone into a potion of booze it turns into fruit juice. KJ pointed out that she in no way believed me. To which I said "No really, amethyst means to keep from becoming drunk." KJ stared at me with questioning eyes. I suggested that I find identifying items in this manner wasteful. "Oh, your talking about nethack!" KJ says. (Comment on this)
Monday, August 18th, 2008
11:56 am	Benadryl I've been itchy recently, and I think it is because of an allergy to something around here. As part of my combat of this I have been taking Benadryl. I was getting one such pill when KJ said "Are you taking your crotch pills?" I tried putting it in my crotch, but it didn't seem to work, so I suggested that we put it in her crotch. KJ replies "...that will lead to pure joy and happiness, and health." (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
6:26 pm	So what do you think? When you are about on the weekend would you say that you spend more or less time on the internet? Perhaps more or less of your free time? (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 30th, 2008
9:15 am	Alright, here we go. So here is the quick of what has been up more or less for the last few weeks. I came down to San Diego with KJ a few weeks ago. At first I was in LA to see my Granny, we went to see a play, then went to see La Rondine. I didn't like it as much as La Bohem, they changed the ending so that the lady does indeed die. And I think the original ending had a lot more power in it. In any case it was fun. KJ came to pick me up Sunday morning. We got here and started cleaning like crazy. The back bedroom is really quite nice now. Yes KJ it was much the way we left it when we left. And I do like the pedestal for the penguin. There is still plenty more work to do around the room. One of the walls needs some re-plastering, and then painting, and there are still just a few boxes which should go somewhere, but we are unsure as to where yet... Prior to leaving for San Diego we hired a replacement for Noah/me. She had been doing IT stuff for more then 10 years and just wanted somewhere to hang out for awhile. She apparently started last Tuesday, but my sources say that she has not returned since Tuesday. It is always possible that she just sneaks in and out, but that seems unlikely. I left MMC when there was lightning starting fires all around the place. They wouldn't let me out through the park because of a fire. So I had to take the old road. It was bumpy. Before I left I saw a big spark come off of the phone panel when a bolt of lightning hit somewhere really close by. Apparently it caused a credit card machine to stop working. But it was very exciting. Anyways, I moved down. And I'm still not exactly sure if my car developed an alignment problem part way through the drive, or if the roads of LA just suck. When the road was smooth it was fine. When there were the little rain water grooved my car would bounce up and down about twice a second. Not so cool. Anyways, I made it here and am alive and all that. I'm just about done unpacking. I still need to figure out where to put the tools that I brought. But I just found another cache of them outside. So I'm going to go look at those in a minute. Beyond that just sending out some resumes and deciding what to do. We are planning on seeing fireworks on the fourth. I really like fire works. I miss KJ, but I am excited that the plan for that is to be temporary. I hope you are all having fun. I know I am. (Comment on this)
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
9:17 am	Odds and ends I rode on the top of a flatbed truck. It was really pretty nifty. Nothing too exciting about it, just standing up there with the wind going by and being able to look all around. Trying to avoid getting smacked in the face by various trees. But quite nifty. I also learned what glow plugs are for on a diesel engine. And participated in pouring about 14 quarts of oil in an engine. They had a funeral thing for Kishori. I was so right that she was in the little box. Everyone there was looking sad in one way or another, but I was having trouble not laughing at the thought of human ashes. Something about cremate is just so funny. It came in a box, that had a plastic bag in it, and it all kind of reminded me of clay, you know something that I usually play with. This was all followed up with shaking the contents of the bag into an urn. So I giggled on the inside. Also did you know that memory doesn't always freeze the computer when it goes bad? I had never experienced it going bad in any other manner. So half a day later I ran a memory test and within 2 seconds there were about a thousand errors. So I gave it the mark of death, and went on to replace it. I still have some more work to do on that computer. I think the hard drive is on its death bed, but I'll plug it back in and see. (Comment on this)
Monday, May 26th, 2008
6:56 pm	Here we go Alright time for some described annoyance of bad design. So a server comes up on the monitor as down. Fair enough it happens from time to time. I get some dinner and a little after head up there to see what the scoop is. I switch the KVM over to the correct server and it is posting some kind of error (It is SCO so we really don't do anything but keep it on the network.) So I think I'll just log in and reboot it. The keyboard isn't working. OK maybe it is just that server. No the keyboard isn't working anywhere. The mouse works, as does the display, but no keyboard. OK I'll try restarting the KVM. So I unplug it. Both of them actually they are daisy chained together. Nothing happens. I can still push all the buttons as though it still had power...oh wait...Dread sets in. I start to realize what it is that has happened, I don't want to at first. So I look around for some kind of reset switch, or anything. No, no luck. So there are 2 KVMs each with 27+ cables coming out of them. And I can see what happened while some people who were never planning on using the thing designed it: "Hey I know why not use the peripherals as a redundant power source?" "That sounds like a really good idea. That way everything would have to go down in order for the KVM to turn off." "Awesome lets do it." after unplugging 3 sets of 9 cables which all looked close to identical or identical, then plugging them all back in...for each...I have my keyboard back. However now the KVMs are working independently, which they weren't a short time ago. I sense the way to fix this is to unplug everything from the furthest one down the road and plug it all back in while plugged into the last link. I decided to work on the server first. Of course being SCO it doesn't realize that there is a keyboard anyway. So I reset it and now it seems fine. It was the night of the wonderful technologies. *SQUEE!* (Comment on this)
10:33 am	I love it I really like this quote: http://bash.org/?1582 In particular I like the fourth line. They are having some kind of retreat. I think the idea is to relax and such, but in practice it means "breakfast" isn't until 11. Also KJ is really awesome. And Chuck Norris can divide by zero. I'm still convinced that division by zero is possible. Well more LaCaille never did point out that division has to do with the number of time that you divide it. I always envisioned it as more of the number of things that you took away from it. I can see the logic in it being undefined, but I can also see logic in it being infinity. Now that I have written this I'm having trouble seeing how it is undefined again...Oh well it was worth a shot. (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 25th, 2008
12:11 am	So we were talking ( you don't want to read this ) (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, May 24th, 2008
4:57 pm	Odds and ends Well we have the [Ii]nternet connection back up. There are a few servers that appear to be down, or at least not on the network. So I'll probably be headed back up to the server room in a little while. Beyond that we still need to figure out which cables go to wireless devices so we can plug them into the correct VLAN. So far really not that bad. Making everything seem fine, clever girl. I like a network that can lull you into a false sense of security then break. Shows a lot of character. The fire is still going on. I'm told that the cop down at the road block is starting to be a pain and wanting a drivers license that has to do with the area. The fire as far as I can tell is dying down. We haven't heard anything about an evac. So I think the media is just trying to suck up everything they can to continue the fear mongering. KJ has been up to some mighty nifty programming. One would have to ask what exactly has been created, but it is all sounding pretty awesome. Also he has been keeping me up to date on exactly how cute and fuzzy the cats are being. Apparently Cat is all about going on walks. Which is new. I use to put his harness on him and he would lay there. It was kind of fun on a tile floor, if you tugged him a bit he would slide. Little Face however will have nothing to do with being outside. Apparently he seems really interested in going out until he has a leash on. At which point he doesn't want to go past the door. So there was the theory that maybe he just didn't like the stairs. So they brought him outside where he proceeded to claw up MCWheelie's back in an attempt to get back inside. KJ has fun stories. I got RT setup a few minutes ago. Then my mind went blank as to what to put into it. Eventually I arrived at "Get a transistor to work." because those little buggers are just not playing ball with my research. I think I have the theory down, however I don't know which equation to use and which bits of the datasheet to use as my variables. I got in touch with Adrienne, she is hanging out in San Mateo. We commiserated on the fact that while the center is in its special retreat mode we only get food at 11 and 6. Generally not cool. I think it will be finished up by Tuesday, maybe earlier. The fire on the other hand brought out some mighty tasty dinner. They just pulled out all kinds of stuff so it was kind of like a buffet with more then 3 options. I found someone's ring today. We found the person who it belonged to and gave it back. It made me think of KJ, which made me happy. So all is starting to shape back up. Nothing to exciting really. Dinner is in 45 minutes or so. Maybe I'll go jogging first. It is pretty cold out though. hmm...I probably wont want to jog after dinner. And I feel kind of like it now. Maybe I should go. KJ got a call from a position that starts at 60K. I'm excited for her. It sounded like the kind of work that he really wants to be in. And it is a short commute. She said that the interview went really well and I believe is expecting to be in contact with the group soon. I hope it all works out by resolving to an awesome position. Anyways, I'm going to go change and see what I can do about that jog. I hope you are all doing well. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
9:54 am	Alrighty Well I took the lady to the air port and was just getting into the idea of sitting around and doing just about nothing all day when I got a call that they are putting the network back together. And want me back up there. The roads are still closed, but I am told that I can tell them I am going to the center and they will let me through. Hopefully this is true. So the fire is still going but apparently not headed in the Center's direction at all. I'll update everyone more when I can, I don't know when we will have the internet connected again so I figured I would splash what data I had. Have fun. (Comment on this)