Cyndi handed me a box Saturday evening and cheered “Merry christmas!”. The box was small, yet surprisingly heavy. I could feel the smooth laminated cardboard through the wrapping paper. Electronics! I tore open the wrapping paper, and found a new, smaller, faster, better digital camera. My camera had developed its own personality of malfunction on Day 2 of this years Hatfield McCoy trip, and started drawing strange icicles coupled with a blueish hue on every photo. I was elated, and during the grins and shutter sound of my new toy, she said “Now you can take pictures of stuff and blog about it, right?”.
Last night I found myself thinking about that while I was standing in a very fancy looking datacenter, and had to pull out the camera. If anyone has been wondering what I’ve been doing for a solid two months? Your looking at the general theme. You’ll notice nowhere in the picture is there even a motorcycle! Sadly this photo speaks truths about that sector of life as well. The Italian hussies in the garage are likely crying oil onto carpets and floors in protest, while the tools freeze to eachother.
Why do I always think I’ll have all this beautiful free time in the winter, during the summer when I also think I’m busy?
January 2nd, 2008 at 9:55 pm
I showed Sara the Datacenter, I thought it looked like a great place to work and she said it was sad. Women! What do they know, that is some serious technology, our “datacenter” is three computers running XP, a monitor, backup battery and a small bookshelf. We both loved the icicles. That is wild! You should definitely keep it for some fun shots. I cannot believe that is from the camera, it really looks like ice.
I rebuilt the power valve on the YZ and revalved the rear shock. Tomorrow it goes back together. I sure am looking forward to that heater, man it’s going to be nice. I might need to get a DVD player out there.
Thanks
January 7th, 2008 at 5:39 am
Dood! omg, i’ve put in like 30 hours this weekend.
man, we got that scan alert service. ay carumba.i think i’m into fixing security issues like 50 hours. it’s insane… wp has a few holes in it i had to patch. i never realized how serious xss could be — or how easy it is to inject!
yeah, that place is insane. our “cia” room is coming along. there are 2 or 3 linux boxes running with no monitors or keyboards attached. first thing i do upon install:
remove cd-rom from apt sources
install open ssh server
assign static ip table…
then walk away.
~$ uptime
02:13:38 up 88 days, 22:23, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
man, my php and cli foo are intensely strong now.
