October 24, 2005

First Day

So I start my new job today, and I wanted to share an epiphany with you all that I had over the weekend. I never have to see kudla again! (don’t worry if this doesn’t make sense- it will to very few people)

October 24, 2005

Recipes

So jackie finally got around to putting her recipe book into tellico, a collection manager. Now she can export it to HTML and share it with everyone so she doesn’t have to keep ripping a cookbook.zip file to CD and handing it to people. Update The tellico db is gone, replaced with opensourcecook.com

October 17, 2005

Famous

well, almost. A few years back I had just finished working on a multi-threaded matrix multiplication project for a class, and jumping between that and bash scripting, which I was fairly new to at the time. I asked the following question in the #asp channel when I bounced back to writing ASP: (morganj): 0 is false and 1 is true, correct? (alec_eso): 1, morganj (morganj): bastard. This quote made it’s way to bash.

October 14, 2005

Wall of Lamers

October 14, 2005

Another IRC Porn Loser

Sometimes I really enjoy IRC a bit too much. you see, I spend a lot of time in the #asp channel, which at one point was a good place to talk about Active Server Pages. ASP is now pretty much dead, and the channel is a plain old (and rather vicious) chat channel. The problem is, on another network, #asp stands for alt.sex.passwords, so people come in all the time looking for porn passwords.

October 7, 2005

Resign’d

Yesterday I turned in my resignation. October 21st will be my last day. I was offered a job at another place, a big Gov’t contractor in the US as the Lead Linux Systems Administrator. The pay is better and the work sounds more fun. Just wanted to share that with you. Perhaps later down the road I’ll release my reasons for actually leaving- you know, the dirty secrets that disgusted me to the point of find another job.

October 3, 2005

If I won the lotto

a couple of weeks ago the lotto hit $200 million, and I bought my annual lotto ticket. The lotto has a strange effect on people. It gives hope where there is none. Even I sat at a redlight imagining all of the wonderful things I could do with that amount of money. Of course erasing family debt, replacing vehicles, real honeymoon with jackie, etc was at the top of the list, but what would *I* do after that was said and done?

October 2, 2005

Serenity Review

So Jackie and I went and saw Serenity yesterday. It was… a very good movie. A lot of fellow geeks either love or absolutely hate the TV show Firefly and are transferring these feelings towards Serenity. I have one thing to say to all of you hatemongers. Please. Give it a chance. Watch it with an open mind before you start bashing it. I know most of you haven’t seen it.

October 2, 2005

Review of Rama Series by Arthur C . Clarke

The series started with Rendezvous with Rama, going on to Rama II, The Garden of Rama and Rama Revealed. Since I’m feeling lazy, I’m not gonna write a pretentious review about how the style of the first book was different/better/worse than the following books. The series as a whole was pretty decent, lot of things made you think about how humanity as a whole will probably be cleansed when they meet another intelligent species because they’re too stupid to just be civil.

September 30, 2005

Review of “My Name is Earl”

So I caught an episode of “My Name is Earl” the other day, starring Jason Lee, of Mallrats and Dogma fame. He plays a grungy scum of the earth type that has an epiphany that every time he does something bad to someone, something bad happens to him. He decides to make a list of the things he’s done bad, and right the wrongs. I saw the second episode of the series, where his friends convinced him to apologize to a friend of his who went to prison for a crime earl comitted.