General

I’m now required to bake these cookies. Luckily, the mixer is inbound and the ingredients are being air-lifted into the drop zone.

On Saturday, when my Blackberry 7100t crashed three times, I was annoyed but not concerned. It crashed a few more times on Sunday, so I wiped and reinstalled it. The phone was ok all Monday, but on Tuesday, mid-conversation, the speaker went out. I rebooted it a few times, and even disassembled it to clean it out. Nothing helped. The trusty Blackberry was toast (or jam?)

This was a big problem, since I’m on-call this week, and have some precariously-balanced systems that I expect to fail very soon.

Roommate from Hell

When I was in college, I had the worst. roommate. ever. We’ll call him C. C was a heavy-metal redneck cowboy. This meant he only wore black, but wore cowboy boots. He was a big Pantera fan, too.

C smoked non-stop, and he drank Coke non-stop. He’d constantly hawk up snot and spit it in half-empty Coke cans that he’d also use for ash trays.

C never cleaned, because cleaning was ‘women’s work’.

MySpace: where good webdesign went to die. When Tripod was still around, I thought we’d seen the worst that amateur “web designers” could inflict on the web. Boy, was I wrong.

Luckily, this Greasemonkey MySpace Style Remover script quietly cleans MySpace pages of their screeching embedded emo music, their 90 hot-linked animated photo albums, their 2MB .bmp background images, and reduces them to the boring, quiet, ugly MySpace default.

Because I am a hopeless slut for Apple, I got the AppleTV a week or so ago. I figured it’d be like most toys that I get — I’d play with it for a few days, then get bored and put it away. Wii. After a few hours, no freakin’ way. This thing rocks.

First, I didn’t realize how nice it was to have something that seamlessly integrated iTunes with my component stereo system. I have my Tivo set up to do this, but the Tivo/iTunes navigation is painful and slow. Now, listening to iTunes via my stereo works great, and it works with my regular Harmony remote for my TV and stereo.

I stumbled across Sagefire’s post of a collection of Classic Mac Sounds.Yay! I now have the original “Wild Eep” sound!

Yay! For Income Tax Return Day, Heather got me a Balt Seatflex office chair.
I sit in one of these most of the day at work, and they’re awesome. The bungee-cord-like seat material provides great support, and since there’s not a lot of it, the seat doesn’t get hot or uncomfortable.

Thanks, Heather!

James commands me to post the Emo Song.

What’s this emo stuff anyway? Reheated goth? Why aren’t the cool kids listening to Scandinavian death metal, like I am?

God I’m old.

Or maybe I’m emo.

James also wants me to post Hitler Rap, which is just terrible.

Blame him entirely.

Supposedly, this page will tell me how to make Red Hat work with the Adaptec SATA RAID controller on my new IBM x3550. We’ll see.

Update: well, no, not really. From what I found, the only way to get RHEL4 to see that controller was to download the single disk image, of about 30, that worked with both that particular controller and that particular version and release of RHEL.

Also, a hearty “screw you” to IBM for lumping all their drivers on a single page. Also also, an even heartier “screw you” to IBM for requiring floppy images for servers that don’t even ship with floppy drives.