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I recently upgraded to a
Blackberry 8700g.
Email, cellphone, web
access, and PDA all-in-one.
I love Canon digicams.
I had an S330, then an S230,
now an SD400. They're solidly
made, they take great pictures,
and they're ultra-portable.
I've gone back to the dark
side. I once again have an iPod.
This time it's a 60gb iPod Photo.
The Dell Latitude D620
is my current work laptop.
It's a cleanly designed
Centrino Duo machine with
amazing battery
life and a nice screen.
My home laptop is a
15" Apple MacBook Pro
dual-booting both Mac OS X
and Windows XP. Hooray for
Boot Camp!
I recently upgraded to a 20"
Dell 2001fp LCD. It has great
image quality, and convenient
USB ports on the side.
My current PC is
a P4 system based on an Intel
D915GAG motherboard in an Antec
Sonata II case. 200gb Seagate
SATA hard drive, nVidia GeForce
6600GT video card, SB Live 5.1,
and NEC DVD-RW drive.
Just like with digicams,
I like Canon inkjet printers. My
i860 is quiet, fast, and produces
first-class color prints.
Not much to say here.
If you're an aviation enthusiast
and you have a fast PC,
go buy FS2004 now.
If you get hooked on
flight sims like I did, you'll want
a good flight controller. The
CH Products Flight Sim Yoke USB
is probably the best all-around
flight controller out there.
It ain't cheap, though....
My Current Reading List
Eastward to Tartary:
Travels in the Balkans,
the Middle East, and
the Caucasus
by Robert D. Kaplan
Falling Off the Map
by Pico Iyer
Great Bridge: The Epic
Story of the Building of
the Brooklyn Bridge
by David McCullough
The Polish Way: A Thousand
Year History of the Poles and
Their Culture
by Adam Zamoyski
Best of Europe 2006
by Rick Steves
2008
October (2 entries)August (1 entry)
June (1 entry)
May (2 entries)
February (2 entries)
2007
July (1 entry)June (7 entries)
April (5 entries)
February (4 entries)
January (11 entries)
2006
December (5 entries)November (3 entries)
October (10 entries)
September (6 entries)
August (4 entries)
July (7 entries)
June (5 entries)
May (7 entries)
April (15 entries)
March (9 entries)
February (7 entries)
January (15 entries)
2005
December (4 entries)November (6 entries)
October (15 entries)
September (4 entries)
August (9 entries)
July (18 entries)
June (10 entries)
May (12 entries)
April (19 entries)
March (18 entries)
February (10 entries)
January (20 entries)
2004
December (9 entries)November (21 entries)
October (9 entries)
September (15 entries)
August (7 entries)
July (7 entries)
June (8 entries)
May (10 entries)
April (5 entries)
March (12 entries)
February (18 entries)
January (9 entries)
| 01/31/2004 22:02 |
| A co-worker friend of mine and I have gone to Quizno's for sandwiches many, many, many times in the last few months. Mostly due to coupons which we exploit, but occasionally because we like the sandwiches. Anyway, the local Quizno's shop has decided that they need to get people's attention. They have someone dressed up in a big Quizno's soda cup costume dancing around on a street corner. Not just any street corner, but the corner of Cooper Point Road and Black Lake Boulevard -- the busiest intersection in Olympia. This guy (it's usually this slightly pudgy guy who has a tendency to set fire to the sandwiches) puts on the inflatable soda cup suit, then dances like a maniac on the street corner. At first I thought, "Oh jeez, how embarrassing -- don't look." But we watched the guy for a while, and it was oddly captivating. He'd do a little hip-hop dancing, then a little Riverdance-style leg flailing, then some other moves that he must have made up. He'll stop and wave for a while, and the big red plastic straw that sticks out of his costume will flop all around. The guy puts a lot of effort into his dancing, and I think that might be why it isn't quite embarrassing. If he was out there half-assing it, then sure, it would be pathetic and lame. But, he's putting effort into his work, and it shows. It's one thing to have a minimum wage job making sandwiches, where you're miserable and bored, but this guy is at least working hard and trying to make his job enjoyable. I don't know that it will make me buy any more sandwiches, but at least I don't feel like looking the other way. |
| 01/30/2004 21:21 |
| You always assume that the tech people you deal with at other companies know more than you do--they're the ones helping you, right? Well, I created a support request with Sonicwall, manufacturer of the firewalls that my company uses. I was trying to download and install Viewpoint, their software for monitoring and reporting on various types of Internet traffic. I couldn't get Viewpoint to download, and it was a large file (something like 28mb). I wanted to find out if there was an alternate download site, or some way to get a CD instead. Anyway, helpful tech support guy responds with "I'll email you the software." Huh? It's 28mb, you shouldn't be emailing anything that big. Well, bless his heart for trying. Over, and over, and over again. I kept an eye on my inbox size at my mail host's site, and it would roar up to and past 28mb, I'd purge everything, and it would come right back. My good friend at Sonicwall must have really made his email system admin's day, because he sent me the entire Viewpoint .zip file 4 or 5 times. There's no way I'm going to even try to download a 28mb message, so I just kept wiping out my entire inbox. I think bandwidth must be cheap in India, because that support guy used up a couple hundred megs sending me something that I ended up being able to download myself, once Sonicwall's download server came back up. The moral is, don't assume that the support person knows what they're talking about just because they're trying to help. |
| 01/28/2004 19:52 |
| Man, I can't get enough of the BBC. They stream all of their radio stations over the internet, so I can listen to BBC5 (news/talk) or the World Service any time I want. They're never going to report on things going on in Thurston County, WA, but I'm not aware of any breaking news stories going on here that I needed to hear about. Well, we did have a big earthquake a couple of years ago, but it was pretty obvious what was going on at the time--I didn't need to be told what was happening. |
| 01/27/2004 19:26 |
| At work, we're building a new building to merge two of our clinics, and add some new services. I'm working on network design and picking out hardware for this new 29,000 sq. ft. facility. Tens of thousands of dollars' worth of switches, racks, servers, cabling, and so on. This is especially cool, since it's the first time I've had more than about 60 days' lead time in setting up a clinic. I can have voice/data jacks wherever I want them, I can plan out the network far in advance, and I can take time to compare quotes and get third party opinions when necessary. We're going to have a real server room, for crying out loud!
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| 01/26/2004 23:21 |
| Some of the greatest baseball injuries of all time: Tom Glavine breaking a rib while vomiting on an airplane Glenallen Hill walking through glass while dreaming of spiders Ken Griffey Jr. suffering a pinched testicle from his athletic cup Bob Ojeda cutting part of his finger off while trimming his hedges Ricky Bones injuring himself while changing channels on the TV Kevin Mitchell missing a game due to a strained eyelid Aaron Boone tearing his ACL while playing basketball, and thus voiding his contract as for the George Brett picture, well, think back to the 1980 World Series.
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| 01/26/2004 18:15 |
| Okay, thanks to the awesomely talented Jeph, I now have the ability to create and manage dynamic content on my website. I can die a happy man. Anyway, my intent is to use my site to offer useful and/or amusing pieces of information about travel, flight sim, and so forth to my friends and family. This will prove especially handy when I'm on vacation or otherwise out of town. I can just hit admin.wyzik.net and record the news of the day. We'll see how much truly useful information I can come up with, and how much time I spend just banging out useless drivel. Either way. |
| 01/25/2004 23:41 |
| Let's try uploading a picture. That would rock!
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| 01/25/2004 23:29 |
| Let's try this again. I have set up the navigation pane, cleaned up the layout of the home page, and uploaded the files to ye olde FTP site. Should be working, yet I don't see anything on my journal.php page. Hmm... Darn these newfangled computers... |
| 01/25/2004 23:07 |
| Okay, so anyway, I'm standing there, minding my own business, when this guy comes up to me and says... so, he says... like... Oh, dinner's ready. |
