Joseph sent me a great link to a working BBS: Lower Lights. Check out its true ASCII-art glory.

Networkgeek.org is back up. Full / Abbreviated story is on networkgeek.org. yaay… new servers rule…

Sometimes it strikes me that Huntsville is a little unlike any other southern city. Today, on our return trip from visiting my family for Mother’s Day, Megan and I saw a car for sale. Its amazingly low miles and reasonable asking price made this ’96 model tantalizingly within reach. The moment demanded action: I dialed the telephone number, recognizable as a powertel prefix, as we drove away.

The woman that answered was pleasant, even eager to describe the car. We agreed to meet later in the afternoon so Megan and I could check it out from behind the wheel. As we closed the conversation, I realized I hadn’t introduced myself…

The Linkfodder box is getting fairly sparse. Do any of you six readers have a favorite weblog-type site that I should know about? Please comment below.

My twelve-year-old brother is my primary source of movie reviews. When I asked him about The Mummy Returns, he said it was “really, really cool.” I watched it with Kayvan yesterday, and my little brother was correct: it was a really, really cool movie.

Ugh, too much to do, and too little inclination to do it.

I’ve finally gotten most of my banking problems straightened out. You never realize what a disruption moving is until you actually do it. Particularly nice is when you find out that your bank of four years has no branches in Georgia. Deposit a paycheck? Where?

It’s also critical to change over my Alabama driver’s license and tag. Which means that I have to contact North Carolina for a copy of my birth certificate, which was destroyed in a fire.

Do you have stairs in your house?

Props to Tara for pointing me to Gas Price Watch. Legions of local “spotters” note their local gas station prices, and you can search the results based on your ZIP code.

Marking a new low for Florence, Alabama, real estate sales tactics, someone is eBaying the Renaissance Tower.

It finally happened. My faithful flogeeks server crashed. NOT because of faulty hardware. But because of stupid people. As I had posted on networkgeek.org and others, the ISP was moving some facilities. I told the people to hook up a keyboard and give my server a control-alt-delete to reboot it, so that the drives would cleanly unmount. They couldn’t find a keyboard to put on it so they just killed the power. No call, I could have shut it down from remote. Jeezus…. what a crappy day. So now Jeff and I have to build this new server quickly, and I gotta go to HellaBama this weekend. FSCK.