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Month: June 2007
Attention Tacoma, Washington:
Are you guys missing 4,000 pounds of pig blood? We found it.
Heading To P-Town
Don’t know if I’ll have time to blog at all the next few days. I’m heading to Portland for a much-needed mini-vacation. The grandparents are coming over and watching the kids, and the wife and I are heading to Portland to watch people bang on things. Yes, we’re going to see Stomp, who my wife and I saw in Eugene when we lived there when we first got married. I couldn’t afford the tickets then nor could I know, but after having as much fun as I did last time, I wasn’t going to miss this. That, and I really needed to get out of town for a bit, even if it is just overnight (we’re staying with some old college friends up there).
Everybody be good while I’m gone. I’ll be bringing the laptop and might check in — or I might not (I just know if I don’t bring it, the office will call me and I’ll need to remote in to the servers and won’t be able to). Cell phone calls will be sent to voicemail, regardless.
On a totally random note, I’m glad to hear that The Source “loves” me (read the comments) and will hopefully quit putting my name in quotes, which I griped about before. Thanks Dave for getting on ’em about it.
E-mail Troubles
If anybody’s tried to e-mail me this afternoon at all, you’ll need to re-email me. My MailScanner installation on this server went bonkers thanks to a needed Perl upgrade, and was basically dumping mail into the bit bucket. I disabled MailScanner, and mail went through fine. So I have no server-side spam scanning, but at least I have e-mail.
Now That’s An All-In-One Card
I’ve mentioned before my penchant for pulling apart old systems to find useful parts from them for my spare-parts stash. I got an old Compaq Prosignia machine and found this beast inside:
I can’t find the manual for this thing, but from what I can tell, this is an ATI Rage IIC video card, an Intel Server network card, and an LSI SCSI card, all on one full length PCI card. Pretty much everything in the system was plugged into this card. I don’t know if the PCI slots on this motherboard were 66mhz or 64 bit or anything (I seriously doubt it), but I can only imagine the bottleneck this thing caused on the PCI bus.
I’ll hunt down some more info about it later. Right now, I’m headed to COWPU.
Great Use Of Processing Power
A Pigeon Cam with dynamically added fez (this is a fez, if you don’t see the pigeon when the cam loads or it’s dark).
Note that is appears to not have updated most of the day, so as of right now, there’s a pigeon with the fez on its butt:
It’s Good To Have You Back, My Precious
I mentioned before that I had to send my laptop back to get repaired. I got it back today, and let me tell you how nice it is to actually be able to run more than one program at once and not have to stare at progress bars all frickin’ day. Still have to get re-used to the higher resolution (as the text and such on this thing is fairly small compared to my other one) and the location of the Ctrl key (it’s switched with the “Fn” key compared to the one I’ve been working on for a few weeks). But it is really nice to be able to put more than one program on the screen at a time and run more than a couple programs at a time.
Seattle Times Telemarketer Gets Punked
Oh man. Out of all the people that a Seattle Times telemarketer could call and try to sell to, they’d call Chris Pirillo during his call-in show. This is priceless — this lady is so confused by the end of this.
Best quote: “This is better than Google. It’s the complete newspaper.”
Biggest tip for salespeople: Know Thy Product.
Thanks to Barn and Lost Remote for the video.
The Japanese Are Weird People
And we all know that Japanese have an obsession with oddball game shows. Like this really weird example (video after the jump as I really don’t want this sitting on the front page).