The occasional musings of Andy Scheffler
I AM 43% GEEK.
I probably work in computers, or a history
department at a college. I never really
fit in with the “normal” crowd. But I have
friends, and this is a good thing.
Take the GEEK Test at Fuali.com!
This thing paled in comparison to The Geek Purity Test.
For the last few Tuesdays, someone has taken it upon themselves to drag a trash can from one end of the alley behind our house all the way to the other end.
Either they’re just now doing it, or I’m just now noticing it because I’ve been leaving the window open because we finally got around to being less dependent on the A/C… but either way it’s really frigging loud and it always wakes me up.
So Tuesdays suck because I never get enough sleep.
Also, last night I had a dream (or you might say a nightmare) that Nati still hadn’t left yet! The horror!
Once again, I had so many ideas driving to work about what to type into this thing, but I’ve forgotten them all.
For all those of you who care… the current count of stuffed hamsters in my cube has risen to nine, two of which are motorized (one in a wheel, and one in a ball…).
So once again, today we had the semi-regular gathering of the old employees of the Unit 4 computer (or “computing”) center back at Berkeley. It seems that through some weird sort of cohesion, we still manage to stay in touch and try to organize events to get everyone together.
We actually got a significant percentage of our number this time around, only missing the two who moved out of state and the two who had plans that evening. After driving to the city (That’s San Francisco for you non-Bay Area people) and having Mexican food, we were standing outside the restaurant having a conversation on the sidewalk, wondering what to do next. Aside for the $6/hour parking spot I was in, I was perfectly fine with just standing around talking. We decided to actually do some sort of activity, and ended up at karaoke. I think I scared them with how familiar I was with the whole karaoke thing. I also learned that one of the other people who worked at the CC, but the year before most of us, is currently in Antarctica. We then joked that we knew someone who was on every continent…
After karaoke, we had the same sort of lingering. I guess that’s what you get when you haven’t seen each other in months and you know it will be months until you see each other again. It took at least three different attempts at “okay, I guess we’re done and we should disperse” from different people before we actually left. And then I managed to see every single one of them driving back down Van Ness. Only one of them saw me back, though.
Then, driving down 101, I happened to look up and see a shooting star.
Yes, I made a wish.
No, I’m not going to say what it was. But you can guess.
So my machine’s back… mysteriously.
But the uptime says it’s been on for 5 days (remember 5 days ago?) so something else must have happened.
Did the network cable become unplugged or something?
Someone better fess up, I hope this isn’t a repeating problem (i.e. a burnt out network card.)
My Linux machine has died again.
I don’t know why, all I know is that it stopped responding to pings, yet the gateway still is up, so the power’s still on in the room.
Looks like I’ve got an interesting evening ahead of me.
WHY ME! DAMMIT! ARGH! Is it too much to ask for something that DOESN’T BREAK! I’m not even messing with it! I’m not installing new hardware, I’m not installing new software… I even gave up on trying to get the printer working again!
ARGH!
Just because I’m not writing entries doesn’t mean that nothing’s happening.
It just means it’s not worth noting.
I played ICO. Very pretty game, but quite short. It’s weird that now, I own a PS2 game, but don’t actually own a PS2.
I finally got my Scott Kurtz original art in the mail! I was afraid it wouldn’t make it to me because it was shipped to my old address. Fortunately, he sent it regular mail so the mail forward caught it. Maybe I’ll take a picture of it. It’s at home right now… I need to figure out what I’m going to do with it. On that note, I’ve got a few things that I need to get framed… perhaps I should just make a trip to a framing store with a bunch of stuff in-hand.
It appears the power supply gave out.
Lucky me I happened to have a spare.
I certainly hope that was the problem. I’d hate for this to happen again…
My Linux machine just decided to up and die.
Yes, it shut itself off, and now won’t even boot.
This is so what I don’t need right now.