I realized today that I’ve been using a pad of yellow sticky notes as my own little PDA. It’s got lots of ram, and the battery life on it is fantastic. Occasionally the handwriting recognition breaks down, but that’s my own fault. The only problem with it is synching it up with my desktop machine, but even that isn’t so bad, since I can just take entries from my little yellow PDA and put them right on my computer’s monitor, or case, or keyboard. Hey, it even interfaces with other people’s computers the same way. I don’t even have to worry about what OS they’re running, or anything.

I’ve even got a game for it, though it’s pretty boring:

X	O
X	X	X
O		O

There aren’t a lot of things that a cheap Palm can do that my PDA can’t.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “I have a watch with a minute hand.” - Bart

I managed to get a working desktop computer set up last night. It turns out that my problem was with the outdated BIOS not being able to recognize 40 Gig hard drives. After visiting the manufacturer’s website, I flashed the bios, and it came up lickety split. Makes me wonder why I didn’t think of it sooner, since I think I had to do the same thing on my old machine when I first got the 40 gig drive.

Anyway, so that means that I’ve got all kinds of things to do to get it up and running properly - set up the scanner, the printer, the CD burner. Should be lots of fun in the next little bit, burning CD’s of pictures and stuff. It’s been a while since I’ve had a CD burner at my disposal.

This article on 1984 parallels is disturbing. The funny thing is that I’m not too worried about it because at some point the “American Way” was bound to stumble. This could be the first great test for the American “democracy” - we’ll see if it functions properly, or if the interests of the few manage to overpower the interests of the many. What’s that saying? “Absolute power corrupts abs–” — We interrupt this post to bring you this special update: “I love George W. Bush“

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Marge, I don’t want to upset you, but you’re living in a world of make believe, with flowers and bells and leprechauns and frogs wearing funny green hats…” - Homer

The weekend seemed to fly by - I don’t really know why.

I managed to get my web mail set up using SSL, so now it’s actually secure and stuff (relatively anyway) It wasn’t even that hard. Beyond that, I spent an inordinate amount of time doing nothing all weekend.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Wow! It’s like Woodstock, only with advertisements everywhere and tons of security guards.” - Lisa

I was up until 1:00 in the morning last night, so consequently I think I’m going to go directly home after work and take a nap. To my credit, it used to be that if I stayed up that late several nights in a row, I would not be able to get out of bed at 6:30. Well, 7:00 anyway :) Gotta get that 10 hours a night in while I can.

Ultimate last night was interesting. There were significant rules squabbles, in particular, there were several rules that the other team just flat out ignored, claiming that they have been superseded by the 11th edition rules (which I can’t seem to find anywhere online…) No huge deal, since we won anyway, but it made the game less fun, when we were constantly arguing over rules. Next game I’m going to print them out and bring them along.

I found a couple of interesting pages today. First, do you remember those commercials that had celebrity “families” cooking and fighting etc? Apparently it’s being turned into the next reality TV thing. Mr. T. might be involved.

Second, this Powers of 10 thing is pretty neat. It’s a java applet, just thought I’d give you a heads up.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “I am so smart. I am so smart. S. M. R. T. … I mean S. M. A. R. T.” - Homer

When will I learn to go to bed on time? The server crashed yesterday afternoon, and I didn’t notice until 9:30 or so - so I decided to run some vulnerability checks on it, to see if it had come down unnaturally. The first one that I ran said I possibly had the apache chunkd encoding vulnerability still - I could have sworn that I patched it. So, I tried to exploit it, only to find that indeed I had patched it. The scanner apparently just figured that based on the version of the server it must still be vulnerable. Dumbasses.

So I wound up going to bed waaaaaay too late, which when combined with Tuesday’s very late night, I’m one tired puppy. Oh well, Ultimate tonight should wake me up, right? Brevoort Park South at 6:30 if anyone’s interested in coming out.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Since you are unfamiliar with sarcasm, I will close the register at this point.” - Comic book guy

So, I got my signals crossed up a bit regarding what field the game was at. I was back a game on the schedule, due to me being an idiot. It was kinda funny though, I went to Archibald, to see a couple of people in orange shirts warming up.

“A couple of subs” I thought. “Gee, they sure know how to handle a disc.”

I warmed up with them for a bit, and a few more “subs” showed up - several of them wearing what appeared to be a team jersey - not for my team though. Whoops! I drove home, and looked at the schedule again - Not Archibald, Brevoort Park. Oh well, I hadn’t missed much of the game - it was only 3-0 for the other team when I showed up - we managed to score the next two (to make it 3-2) and then let them take over the game - 13-4 I think. I stayed after the game for a bit to practice my throws with a handful of people from my team, and made some improvements to my technique. Thursday should be a good game, since we’re playing the only team we’ve beaten twice, and with all our subs - it should be competitive. Not to call down our subs, because they played admirably for a first game ever, but a half season worth of experience really shows. I know I played a lot worse than they did in my first game or so…

Like Superman? Always wanted to read the first edition, but could never afford the $1.8 million price tag? (approximately ;) Check out the Action Comics No. 1 that somebody posted on the web. Pretty neat.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Mankind has always dreamed of destroying the sun.” - Mr. Burns

It’s odd how the strangest encounters always occur on 2nd Avenue during the afternoon coffee break. The latest one was more sad than anything, but I don’t think I can convey it properly here, so I won’t.

I’m hoping that during the SED shutdown, we have enough players on the Ultimate team that I don’t kill myself running around. That’s this week and next. Come out tonight to the Archibald arena park, and get a taste of the game, and the team :)

Work has been pretty busy lately, and there’s not much going on that’s newsworthy (well, there’s one thing, but I’d rather not discuss it here…) so there’s not much to post about. We’ll see if I can come up with a good quote or something…

Simpson’s quote of the day:
Marge: “Homer! Did you tell the mafia they could eliminate my competitors with savage beatings and attempted murder?”
Homer: “In those words? … Yes.”