| That's Amore |
[Jul. 10th, 2005|02:31 am] |
Today was the wedding of Bourg (co-worker) and Miss Sarah Jane. The service was your standard service (i.e. not too long, yet boring) and the reception was fairly standard, as well. I have to say, the reception my brother had was by FAR the best style. My brother had the buffet thing that was ready when the guests arrived; there was no waiting on food, you could get food whenever you wanted, and return trips were encouraged. The bar was open and stocked (for those who like to partake in the sauce) and there was no assigned seating. Had Bourg's reception allowed for the free movement of guests, I wouldn't have been relegated to the table with the fucking stupid white trash. Our table had four of the smartest people in the room (four Rose grads) and three of the dumbest.
I did get to see one of the partners of my company after he had a few too many, which made for a humorous memory. All in all, the reception wasn't "bad," but those things just aren't my kind of scene. |
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| MC Chris, What! |
[Jul. 8th, 2005|10:32 am] |
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I just got a bunch of tickets to MC Chris for August 20th. If you want tickets and I didn't already get you, let me know. I'll get another batch soon-ish. |
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| 2 Days Late |
[Jun. 26th, 2005|12:25 am] |
I just noticed my last post was on May 24, thus meaning I have failed to meet my "post-once-a-month" standard. To catch you up on my goings on, all I can say is I've been working. A lot. I've had two days off in the last month. They were a Saturday and a Sunday. Man, those days were pretty sweet. I only worked 10 hours today, so I guess that's something. Something pretty fucking stupid, but it's something.
I installed my terabyte RAID server about a month or so ago. It's pretty sweet sitting in my closet. The whole WoW thing is still going well, I guess. I'm once again spending too much time in game. My phone has also lost the ability to judge battery life and possibly the ability to actually charge them. Luckily, I have an older phone which is similar to my current phone which can charge batteries and whose battery is similar enough to be used in my current phone. I should probably just replace my phone, but I'm a lazy bastard. |
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| Day 4 |
[May. 24th, 2005|10:56 am] |
Well, 24 Day 4 ended last night. It's probably some sad testament to my life that one of few posts I make is in response to a TV show ending for the season. I guess I can tie in some other things with this post.
For instance, last week, like many of you, I saw some Star Wars movie. You may have heard of it. Joel and I caught the midnight showing at our theatre and then caught the 5 o'clock showing after work with the coworkers. It was easily better than Eps I and II, but the writing was still atrocious.
Dave stopped by on Saturday and we watched Unleashed. It was... a movie. In all actuality, it wasn't bad, but I don't see it winning any awards. We then watched movies at my place, as is par for the course (I *Heart* Huckabees and First Blood).
Iver was up for the weekend so I met up with him and Joel for some Penn Station action, then stuff back at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) argen's place (since he was out of town).
Also, those assclowns zowch, argen, and TJ convinced me, through incessant begging, to come out of retirement and return to WoW. There, that should have been random enough. |
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| The Weekend |
[May. 9th, 2005|12:50 pm] |
After disassembling my PS2 on Friday, I went to the movie theatre with argen and Joel (to be later joined by zowch and tj9582). argen wanted to see Kingdom of Heaven which lived up to my expectations of being not good.
Saturday involved me heading out to the ol' Castleton Mall to meet up with folks from out of town. Kenny, Tiff, and Brogan were there along with Ben and Sharron and Kegs and Michelle. There was a fair amount of standing around and talking and we later headed for Uno's where more talking and some eating ensued. As a note, the sentence where I listed all of the people has the word "and" in quite a few places. I tried to arrange people with their respective groups which caused there to be a seemingly high number of uses. I say this so I don't appear some grammitical moron who just says "1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 5." I will now use parens to show how the groupings break down: (Kenny, Tiff, and Brogan) were there along with (Ben and Sharron) and (Kegs and Michelle). And now that that useless explaination has taken more text that that of the remainder of the post, I'll stop. |
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| Hardware RAID Controllers and LiveCDs |
[May. 5th, 2005|10:00 am] |
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I've beeen investigating small SAN solutions and have determined that it would be FAR cheaper to just build a barebones system and stick harddrives in it with a RAID controller than to buy a specific SAN solution. To this end, my thought was to just run some Linux distro via LiveCD so that I wouldn't be taking up any space on the array with an OS. So, does anyone know of any LiveCD that has good support for RAID cards and possibly any specific cards that with these distros? All I really want is a card that can do RAID 1 (0+1 works, too). |
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| I Am Filled With an Undescribable Rage |
[May. 2nd, 2005|01:01 pm] |
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This rage consumes me. I am liable to perform many violent acts. This rage has been brought upon by viewing H2G2. I implore all those considering seeing this movie to NOT see it. The parts of the movie that existed in the book are, at best, average. The parts of the movie that were not in the book and really have no bearing on the plot laid forth in the book are numerous and insipid. THE WHOLE MIDDLE OF THE MOVIE IS HORSESHIT! I realize that some things needed to be cut in order to fit the entire book into a movie, but you don't cut extra stuff, then fill those holes with contrived drivel! I am Jack's seething pituitary gland... |
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| I Bested You! |
[Apr. 27th, 2005|07:53 pm] |
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So, after ~9 months of running dual monitors reversed (the monitor physically to my left was the right monitor), I finally fixed all of my issues allowing me to put them the right way. I had to write a little workaround for 2 issues in LiteStep (and upgrade a module). That allowed my taskbar and systray to appear at my mouse no matter where it was located. I also fixed the issue with cygwin's X server that would only allow windows to refresh on 1 monitor. Apparently there was a -multiplemonitors option I needed to pass to it at startup that I neglected to see before. This is all weird not having to move my mouse off the right edge of my right monitor to go to the left of my left monitor. |
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| In Honor of Earth Day |
[Apr. 22nd, 2005|12:31 pm] |
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Fuck you, Mother Nature. You and I have had it out in the past, but this is ridiculous. You knew damn well that none of my 4 UPSes had coax protection, thus leaving me with 1 vulnerability in my entire setup. So you had to go and create a lightning storm something fierce early in the AM today and fry my cable modem. I guess I'll have to procure a cheap surge protector just for my coax. Ass. |
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| Annual Review Redux |
[Apr. 21st, 2005|11:44 am] |
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Today was my annual review at work. It took the same format as my 6 month review, so it was like my second annual review. I didn't get fired, thus beating the odds. Also, for those of you who are calendar-centric, you may notice that I have not been working here for a year, yet. My company moved all reviews to right after tax time so they would more easily be able to analyze the past fiscal year and use that to decide raises and bonuses and whatnot. So, my annual review came just over 1 month early. |
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| It's That Time Again |
[Apr. 4th, 2005|11:39 am] |
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So, it's been about a month since my last update; ergo, it is time for another. We (argen, Joel, Mike and I) saw Sin City this weekend, and I must say the movie is badass. I will be seeing it again in the theatre. I bought a racquetball racket and some goggles so argen will quit bugging me to do so. I also procured a new pair of running shoes thus allowing Joel and myself to embark on a run last night. This was my first run since junior year of college and let me tell you, that was a long time ago. I'm acutally not sore at all. I just have some Texas sized blisters on my feet, which is to be expected. Hopefully they'll harden up soon and my feet will return to their former state of running prowess. I can only hope that I can increase my level of fitness back to where I used to be, which would also mean I would drop back down to my fighting weight, as it were. |
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| Dangerous Minorities |
[Mar. 7th, 2005|11:02 am] |
The last week or so seems to have been filled with crime. As most of you know, argen's CD player was stolen a week or so ago (as seen here). As none of you know, one of our (my company's) clients had his laptop stolen out of his car when he stopped to get a drink at a CVS on Tuesday on his way to play poker with us after work.
Saturday night, argen, zowch, viersehen, tj9582, periwinklepatch, and I all went out to see The Jacket. zowch, viersehen, and I rode back from the theater together and parked at argen's place. We got out of the car and noticed a guy running away from the buildings, jump in his car and peel out without turning his lights on. He was parked far away from the buildings in a location that made no sense. We commented on how odd this was and I made a note of the car's body style and color. Fast forward to this morning as I walk out of my building and notice a posting on our bulletin board with red letters stating there is a criminal about. There was apparently an assault on Saturday night that coincided with the time that we were arriving home from the theater by a man whose description matched that of our mysterious midnight runner. So, I did my civic duty and called the appropriate sheriff's department, but I have yet to reach the proper persons. An officer took my name and number and will have the appropriate person call me back. I have a feeling nothing will come of this, but you never know.
What really has me thinking is had we arrived back at argen's 1 minute earlier, we probably would have heard the screams and could have subdued the guy until authorities arrived. On the bright side of all of this, my interpretation from the posting on the bulletin board is that the woman was not seriously harmed. She was able to get her cellphone and dial 911 which caused the assclown to bolt. |
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| Phoebe Seems Like a Dumb Name |
[Feb. 14th, 2005|10:28 am] |
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But I'm going to use it anyway (most likely). I have another computer on the way that will act as an application server to compliment (or remove 80% of the load from) Coeus, my main Gentoo box. As it will be a partner to this box, I felt Phoebe would be the appropriate name. Phoebe will raise the count of computers in my apartment to 7 (but only 5 of those are worth using). I also picked up an additional UPS for her, thus raising my count of UPSes to 4 (2 APC and 2 Belkin). It's not like 86% (or some other made up percent) of my electric bill is computer related or anything. |
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| Poker Pays for Itself |
[Feb. 2nd, 2005|12:11 pm] |
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We had Poker Night last night with some folks from work and one of our clients. We played 2 tournies. The first was a $5 tourny where the blinds upped at the crazy rate of every 8 minutes... Despite the craziness that went on, I ended up winning and pocketing a cool $18. We played a $10 tourny next with 20 minute blinds. I kept knocking people out early, but they could reup during the first three rounds of blinds. People reupped 4 times. 4 times. I ended up getting 4th (1 spot out of the money). But, I ended up $1 on the night ($2 for pizza), so I can't complain too much (I would have been up ~$40 had people not reupped). During the first match, I took some nice pots off the CEO, one off of a monster bluff. I'm not sure how smart that was in the long run (i.e. my career), but it was nice last night. |
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| Guilty! |
[Jan. 31st, 2005|10:26 am] |
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I was pre-selected for jury duty. This means I have to mail back a questionaire to make sure I still have blood in at least 1 arm. After that is done, I will be selected for jury duty. I have no problem with jury duty. It means I'll get paid for judging someone. I normally do such things pro bono, but now I'll be paid to do it. My main issue with the whole thing is I'll have to go downtown for it, and, even worse, find a parking place. I was instructed to mail the questionaire back via the included address and stamped envelope. This sounded like a sweet deal, but there was a small problem. There was no included envelope or address. Of course, if I didn't take it on myself to find this information, which it was their duty to provide, I would be served with a summons to appear, at my own expense, to fill the questionaire out downtown. The important thing to keep in mind here, which I will bring up when they are selecting the jury, is I make snap judgements on people and will decided within the first 15 to 20 minutes of the trial whether or not the defendant is guilty. I'm sure they'll pick me then. |
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| Johnny Carson |
[Jan. 24th, 2005|09:55 am] |
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Johnny Carson died yesterday morning: CNN's story. I was too young to watch him, but I understand the impact he had on our culture. Anyone who can give Bill Cosby, David Brenner, Jerry Seinfeld, George Carlin, Garry Shandling, and David Letterman good starts had to be an amazing man. I've seen reruns of his show and they were good even today. |
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| On Average, People are Stupid |
[Jan. 23rd, 2005|02:54 am] |
In what was described to me as a mid-life crisis, zowch and viersehen made the trip up to Indy to drag argen and myself to a "club." Really, it was zowch who did the dragging and viersehen just came along because he had nothing better to do today, I guess. We ended up at the Vogue where for the next few hours I came to learn a few things.
- Men go to clubs to meet women. Women go to clubs to judge other women's clothing.
- Take any 2 women in a club and add their IQs. That result will *maybe* top 75 (I'm not saying the men were any smarter, I just don't plan on spending my life with one).
- Clubs are not where I need to be going to meet women. I need to find a Nobel Laureate convention or something.
It's not that the people at the club were exceptionally stupid, they just seemed of average intellect to me. I am starting to notice that I am taking an elitist attitude toward intelligence of Rose vs. The Rest of the Country but I think I'm well within my right to do so. As I looked across the club, I was able to pick out the people who would be bagging my groceries and those who were destined for a life filled with receptionist jobs (at firms with a simple phone system). I'm sure I have more to say but this entry bores me as I'm sure it does you. |
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| Peer Pressure |
[Jan. 3rd, 2005|11:43 am] |
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So, I just read what seemed like a week's worth of friends' entries and now feel compelled to write something. I took the last 2 weeks of 2k4 off and it was grand. I spent a couple of days in the KY with the family. It was good to see my brother again, as I have not since... last Christmas maybe? Driving there (KY) was an adventure as I picked the worst day of the year to do it (Wednesday), what with the ice and snow piled high on the interstate. I came back on Monday to pick up argen at the airport. I did the New Year's thing with argen, viersehen, zowch, and gizmo88. tj9582 and periwinklepatch were there shortly, but had other obligations or something. We played poker and the others (save viersehen) had them some of the al-key-hall. This post blows so, uh... and then I stabbed him. |
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| You Can Never Have Too Much Jack Bauer |
[Dec. 13th, 2004|02:13 pm] |
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I rolled out of bed Saturday morning at 8 following a client Christmas party (which was enjoyable) so I could head over to Matt's house and his wicked theater setup. Why would one want to watch something at 9 (eating+driving made it 9) in the AM on a Saturday? When the thing being watched is all 24 episodes of 24 Season 3, that's why. Three of us from work watched all 24 eps in one sitting. I have determined that is how 24 was intended to be watched. It's only on TV so the DVDs will sell better. |
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| Updating is for Hookers and Fat People |
[Dec. 1st, 2004|09:25 am] |
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Hmm... so what's been going on since my last post... I went back to the KY for Thanksgiving where much eating ensued. I think my USB Thumbdrive fell out of my pocket at the house of one set of Grandparents. I'll eventually get around to calling them about that. I've been playing this "WoW" thing a bit and I've been working extra hours due to an upcoming product release. That's it! That's the list! |
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