First of all, mucho sorry for the lack of updates. I had something that I wanted to tell everyone about, and wanted to make a separate page about it before I said anything. Course, as I’m a slacker, it took me till now to get the page done.
Anyway, remember that talk of hair a few days ago? Well, I did it. Hit the all new super wonderful awsome with clickable images hair page for the full story.
That out of the way, a huge Happy Birthday to Firefly, of Relaxing Touch chair massage [archive.org link], who turned an undisclosed youngness today.
Had a great party up at Iambe and Engel’s last Saturday, with lots of people. One of the things that was supposed to go on was to talk about going to phase two of the Ultimate Galaxy [archive.org link] demo that we finished. Sadly, my squid god friend and his wife didn’t arrive until the party was well under way, so the “lets meet before things get going” turned into “lets run away in the middle of the party”. This sucked, but had to be done. Seems like most of the problems we had encountered and were there to get resolved were, which is a Good Thing. Towards the end I stole off again, to go for “just one drink” with K, tig, nateflex, and a couple of others, as I wanted to talk fitness with the fitness freaks. One drink turned into at least two pitchers being consumed (hint: not by me). I did give my body and mind over to K and her bro to let them mold me into the chisled god that I know is hiding inside me somewhere under the soft marshmellowy coating. Nateflex is supposed to get a hold of me so I can wander to the gym with him and let him show me how to work out “properly” (I think that’s code for “hurt me and make me beg for mercy”), but alas no word yet. I don’t really want to go to the gym without him, only because if I go in the morning and do a workout, and he gets a hold of me at noon or something, that’d suck.
Fred managed to get me some absolutely awsome new hardware for ufies which I’ve been… uhmm… burning in lately. I ripped apart my second windows box (named Garfield) and put the new supermicro board, dual PIII 1.13Ghz chips and 512 megs of server quality ECC ram. Oh yea baby. The raid card didn’t work out to work like we’d hoped, so it was replaced with a matrox PCI ide card, allowing another four hard drives to be added to the system (and allows me to put in a hot swap for the raid5 that is currently running on it. The box cracked SETI@Home for a few days, and gave me a good idea of what to expect and what was needed when I replace the current system’s motherboard in a couple of days. Wish I could keep it for myself though… man that’s a nice system, and seeing your kernel compile with “make -j3” makes me ponder selling a spare kidney for a sweet system like that for myself š
<rubs lint that has collected on his velcrohead>
Hmm….. 2am, bed time..