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| Thursday, August 21st, 2008 | | 11:40 am |
QOTD
"George Orwell is banging on the lid of his coffin and screaming, "1984 was a cautionary tale, you dolts, not a motivational speech!" - 'snafubar', a poster on DailyKos. | | Friday, August 15th, 2008 | | 7:21 pm |
Meme
... and I hate memes. But this one came out just too cool.
Go over to Wikipedia and enter your birth date (month/day) and then pick 3 events, 2 births 1 death and 1 holiday that occurred on the day of your birthday. I'm using more than that because I just can't pick that few.
Events:
622 - Prophet Muhammad completes his hegira from Mecca to Medina.
1664 - The Netherlands surrenders New Amsterdam to England.
1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower the nation's first National Monument.
1962 - United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.
Births:
1725 - Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803)
1936 - Jim Henson, American puppeteer (d. 1990)
... and a preponderance of porn stars. Hmmm.
Death:
768 - Pippin the Short, King of the Franks (b. 714)
1991 - Theodor Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, American children's writer (b. 1904)
Holiday:
Late Roman Empire - start of the indiction year (at least since the time of Bede). | | Monday, July 7th, 2008 | | 4:42 pm |
Interpersonal Relationship Oddities
For as long as I've been in the business of creating ex-girlfriends, I've not really been able to deal with them afterwards. And "not really been able..." really meant "if I saw them, communicated with them, etc. my stomach would attempt to return lunch." Those who were products of the short-lived relationships between serious ones this didn't so much apply to, most likely because I never built up the emotional attachment that goes along with something that lasts years.
In the past couple days I have run across the LJs of two of my ex's, and in particular the ones who I have maintained the most attachment to... and while it felt a bit odd, I had no desire to lose the contents of my stomach. I assume this is related to now being married, but I have no idea how this change was effected. And since the effect is now gone, I expect I won't bother putting much effort into figuring it out after the initial curiosity wears off.
A welcome change nonetheless. | | Saturday, June 21st, 2008 | | 3:02 pm |
HEE!
We're married... | | Thursday, March 20th, 2008 | | 12:38 pm |
New Server
Few bits. One, I've settled on keeping the name 'iago', just for simplicity of migration. I've already had two, this'll be #3.
Second, the box came in with twice the RAM the auction promised, and a rack mount kit the auction explicitly said it did NOT come with. I'm glad I didn't buy on proactively.
Third, it's on the air and I'm starting work. There's a lot of work to do...
Fourth, I found a source of CPUs and a source of heatsinks such that the combined price is over $100 less than buying the two together. Anywhere I can save a few bucks on this... | | Friday, March 14th, 2008 | | 10:19 am |
Iago
New server was delivered at my office this morning, just in time for me to head out of town. | | Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 | | 5:16 pm |
More...
OK, no new problems today. The V240 shipped this afternoon, so I'll have a replacement server when it turns up. Then I get to start the migration... ugh.
So now I need a name for the new server. I figure I'll stick with theater, since that's the first role the server has... supporting Alpha Psi Omega. Probably ought to stick with Shakespeare, but not necessarily. I prefer short, as it's easier to type. Suggestions?
There's a part of me that wants to use Desdamona with an alias of Desi or Des or something just so when the migration is done I can say: "Iago is dead, long live Desdamona." | | Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 | | 6:55 pm |
The trials of Iago, cont.
Well, that CPU is dead. The machine dumped this morning around 3, and when it dumped again around noon it never came back. I tried just powercycling it and it lasted <3 minutes. I've now yanked the bad CPU, moved CPU1 to CPU0's slot, booted back up. The brackets for retaining CPU1 are bent, the chassis is toast. So even with a second 400 MHz CPU, I can't install it. If I have to go further on this platform I'll have to swap the chassis out for my spare. That'll be a couple hours of downtime. Of course, I just took 6 hours of downtime, so what's a couple more. | | Monday, March 10th, 2008 | | 9:59 am |
Again...
Took another E$ panic dump last night. New server is ordered, but I expect the transition will be 4-6 months so that isn't a solution. | | Thursday, February 28th, 2008 | | 8:49 am |
Grrr... Crappity, crappity, crappity. Many of you know that I host websites and mailing lists for a LOT of not-for-profit organizations. At the moment that means 15 NFPs have mailing list services and 23 have web services (and not all of the 15 are in the 23). I bought this server in 2003, and it was decidedly not new then. It has been an absolute workhorse. Drives have died, drives have been replaced. The UPS has died, the UPS has been replaced. The system itself has been @#$%ing bulletproof. Until last night. I get up this morning to see all my connections died. Generally means a network glitch somewhere, but I *always* check uptime to make sure. [jpl@iago] /web/homes (509) uptime 8:55am up 5:51, 4 users, load average: 0.38, 0.25, 0.27 That's 5 hours and 51 minutes of uptime. WTF? So I look in the logs. Parity error on CPU0's cache. (I apologize for the computer spew for those who can't read it and hid it behind a cut.) ( Errors )At least she did a clean reboot, but she is clearly dying. Next time it may be a hard crash, depending on what actually hits the error. I can't afford the replacement right now. If anyone reading this is in one of those organizations, donations to the cause would be very greatly appreciated. (Is it wrong to refer to a computer named Iago as 'she'?) Current Mood:  anxious | | Friday, January 18th, 2008 | | 10:10 am |
A passing... OK, he was a loon. But as someone posted on the BBC website: "He should be remembered for his wonderful 1972 victory over Spassky, rather than the sad and prolonged end-game of his personal life" Goodbye to Bobby Fischer. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7195840.stm | | Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 | | 10:39 pm |
Arisia
So Amanda and I won't be going, for a number of reasons. Hopefully any of you who were looking forward to seeing us there will see us at Lunacon or our wedding.
No, for those who are too clueless to READ what I sent to the TF list, Spence was NOT in any way the cause of any of it. If he weren't new to the job, maybe he would have kicked ass when he needed to. But since I left him very large shoes to fill, he's being made the fall guy. Please, folks, stop sending me messages throwing him under the bus. I am a far tougher customer than you or he is, and I'm on his side. | | Thursday, December 27th, 2007 | | 11:20 am |
| | Monday, December 10th, 2007 | | 1:50 pm |
| | Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 | | 11:01 am |
Should have stayed in bed
So to start off the day I get... a very, very flat tire. The same one I just had fixed two weeks ago. I realize it's flat after driving 2 miles on it. Now it is not very, very flat... it is very, very dead. And the morons who "fixed" it had SuperGorilla(tm)(R)(JusticeLeague)(etc.) tighten the bolts to the point where I totally mashed my ankle trying to break them free... and the NYS DOT help truck that showed up was almost unable to get them free, ether. I will be buying the 3' SnapOn breaker bar, as it was bending almost 20 degrees and was just fine... and got the job done.
My tires have been discontinued. The distributor locally had *1* left. WOOT...ish. $120/tire. | | Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 | | 8:26 pm |
I'm late! I'm late!
... actually, I'm not. But I DO have a very important date.
Amanda & Joel's Wedding
June 20, 2008
Crystal Cove whoseewhatsit, Averill Park, NY.
Obviously, more info TBD.
Current Mood: accomplished | | Saturday, September 29th, 2007 | | 8:58 am |
| | Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 | | 10:57 pm |
Hee...
| | Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 | | 12:26 am |
Life Update
Since Amanda has finally spilled the beans publicly, I suppose I'll hit my friends list, too.
I proposed to her 2 weeks ago this past morning. She said yes.
More as we figure it out. Wedding will probably be ~1 year out. | | Saturday, March 24th, 2007 | | 4:18 pm |
Bad weekend Sorry to trump you with the same subject, Justin... My great uncle Rob died this morning, fairly unexpectedly. He hasn't been well for a while, but in the general sense of being in his 80s rather than anything in particular. My grandmother is the last of her siblings, and she's 92. I'm really hoping to take Amanda out there this fall to meet the family. That was supposed to include Rob, dammit. I've always like my mother's side of the family more than my father's, for a number of reasons. Most of the deaths in the family so far have been on my father's side. At this point that didn't have any choice but to change. This is the first to really hit me immediately. *sniffle* Current Mood:  sad |
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