Archive for November, 2005

origin: Middle-of-nowhere

Monday, November 28th, 2005

As noted yesterday I ordered my new RAM. And I have become accustomed to my Amazon orders getting here in one day, because I am a Prime member (so 2 day shipping is free), and all the things I order seem to come from a warehouse in Deleware, which tends to get it to Horsham in 1 day, and to me around 2 the next day.

Well my RAM shipped from Sparks, NV and the map shows my concern. It doesn’t look from that view, like anything could get out of that town in less than 3 days.

Well I guess it will still probably make it here by the 30th, but damn, I would have preferred sooner.

A worthwhile Sunday

Sunday, November 27th, 2005

So far so good today. I finally isolated the bad part on my laptop. (Allison spilled a large cup of water on it a couple months ago). I tried booting with a linux CD and noticed that the resulting kernel panic mentioned some errors relating to the VM system. So I decided to use memtest on the Knoppix disc. And stopped it at around 13,000 errors at just above 128 MB. So I pulled out the soDIMM in slot 2 and it booted. My new memory should be here Wednesday. :) It gives me an excuse to squeeze a little more life out of this laptop, by bumping the memory to 512, from 256.

And I have two worthwhile 1PM NFL games to watch for the first time in a million years. Probably because the Jets play tonight, god I hate watching Jets games.

The Darkness overwhelms

Monday, November 14th, 2005

As the darkness washed over the land our hero glanced up from his domain and said, “Fer Chrissake, it’s only 4 of the clock!” Undaunted he mindfully focused his mind back to it’s purpose, but the darkness had crept in. That couldn’t be enough to stop him. Recessions and unjust wars could not stop him from plotting and creating and otherwise making a nuisance of himself to the tireless enemy, entropy. But he looked around again, “I can’t even see my notebook,” he said. So he pulled out his trump card, he rolled his chair back turned and flicked on the light.

Blinking he returned to his plan, and found the shadows still growing in front of him, as his 75 watt battalion was overtaken and engulfed by the darkness. Shaking his head, he muttered, “… must hold on … call at 4:30 ….” Just then a yawn thundered out across the workspace, his hands rose on their own to try and force it back down his gullet, but they faltered, and began to rub his right eye. And time stretched out, with nothing to mark it by. His spirit oozed out onto the table and lay off to the side like an empty basketball, as his arms sprawled and his head slowly came to rest where once his hands had lain, nay, where they had danced and made the universe sing. He made his final statement until somehow maybe the darkness would pass, “asjl;j;l”

Perpetually getting organized

Monday, November 7th, 2005

I have been trying to “get organized” since sometime in high-school when I was probably told to “buckle down.” Nothing seems to have taken very well, however.

The problem that I seem to have is two-fold. First, every time I see a neat discussion or article or book on how to help you do stuff, I read it and get all fired up and start thinking about how to implement that philosphy. Second I am letting the best destroy the good. And I think this is the bigger of the two problems.

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