In the middle of the night I threw what I had left in my apartment into my rental truck and took off for New Jersey. 650 miles later I’m at the Tennessee/Arkansas border lying in a kind of gross motel room bed. At least they have free wifi :).
Will I visit Texas again? Maybe. It [...]

Well, I’m changing jobs again. The job seems pretty interesting this time. It’s working on high performance computing clusters for the Department of Defense.
I haven’t done that type of work before but they seem to think I have enough Linux experience for the position.
I’ll get paid a small fortune so maybe if I work for [...]

I went ice skating the other night and was watching this older guy skate. He was spinning and twirling like a little girl. Judging by his age and gut I wouldn’t have expected it but he was actually pretty graceful. Here’s an image I snapped from my phone.

Can’t sleep and thought I’d write something. Listening to Owl City who I’ve just discovered. They sound like Death Cab. Very relaxing.
Met a girl. Probably won’t work out long term but it’s nice to have someone to hold.
I like the way short sentences sound in my head. Do they sound nice in your head too? [...]

Had to replace my phone with another and lost all my contacts. If I know you and I should have your number, leave it in a comment. I won’t publish it I promise

I don’t know if enough people get just how random things are. Today was a perfect example of what I’m talking about.
For the past several days all I’ve been hearing is how much it’s going to rain on Saturday (today). Hurricane Ike was coming and we were supposed to be in its path so the [...]

I’d like to marry a woman who can sing. I really enjoy female R&B vocals. It’s very relaxing .

Several months ago the company that I work for was purchased by another. News of this event triggered several people to quit and morale around the office dropped considerably.
During this period I was on tilt and my work ethic suffered as a result. I was focused on future prospects at another company instead of working [...]

It’s been over three weeks since I’ve had a drop of coffee. I just had a sip and it’s sooooo fucking good. I still plan to cut back but I don’t think I can ever ditch this love affair.

Finally back from my NYC trip. I purposely left my laptop here as to not mix any work with pleasure. It feels really odd typing on it but in a good way. It’s like I’m reconnecting with an old friend.
I got fucked coming and going with my flights though. Flight to NY was canceled due [...]

Flight to NY this morning got canceled due to bad weather. For the low, low price of $230 I was able to get another much later flight that isn’t direct. I’ll be in NY in 9 hours from now.

Or at least they seem to more than any other demographic around my neck of the woods. On my trips to the library and Barnes & Noble I always notice that a large portion of the patrons tend to be of Asian decent especially in the sections that I frequent.
I have no hard data of [...]

I really dislike sex. I seem to like the idea and the act to some extent but once it’s over I feel dirty and want to be alone with a Philly steak and a good movie.

I posted an ad on Craigslist for my couch which had me in the picture and got the following response
“are you up for getting sucked?”
Really? I wanted to respond to see if they had ever gotten a positive response from anyone. I was too worried that my real email address would get out and I’d [...]

A regular at the Austin Linux Users’ group recently passed away. He was a good writer and passionate about Linux and FLOSS. I’m glad I had the opportunity of meeting him.
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Here’s his blog

There’s a lot of Microsoft haters in my world. While they aren’t good at everything, they have some damn good niches. Trying to duplicate Active Directory in Linux is really, really hard. I find OpenLDAP one of the hardest to understand application I’ve seen.
This article isn’t about the IT realm though. It’s about the Xbox [...]

After several weeks of working out, I’m finally under 200lbs again. I’m at 199 now which is right on the wire but it’s still a cool milestone.
I’d like to get back down to around 180 at some point. I could probably reach that goal shortly if I gave up my poor eating habits but I [...]

Somewhere in my life I became one great big ball of stress. I get cysts on occasion when it really starts to build up. I’m not sure if you’ve ever gotten one of these cysts but they’re really painful and appear in the worst areas.
I had one on my eyelid once and now I have [...]

I decided to stay inside for the 4th. I did go out for dinner but I really didn’t want to see any fireworks or hang out with anyone. It’s partly because I have a killer toothache that is making it tough to enjoy anything.
While I’m sitting in my office I keep hearing the pops of [...]

I did it! I finally got myself sick of fast food and I mean literally sick. I’ve been trying to eat healthier over the past couple of months and that means less or no fast food.
I’ve been pretty good about it and only eating at decent places when going out. You know, places that serve [...]

At the start of this month I wrote about getting rid of some excess stuff I had around here. I was turned on to this by another blogger and a Time Magazine article. You can read the original post here.
I tossed my bed but only because it was super old and not really worth selling. [...]

I interviewed three weeks ago for a position that I’m just now getting the offer for. That seems like a really long time. I was certain that I didn’t get it after a few days had gone by.
The question now is do I take it? I’m still unsure about the whole thing and am taking [...]

I received an email back from Seed magazine. They were very nice and admitted the error. Here’s the reply.
Thank you for your interest in and your email to Seed.
The information regarding the possible diversion of U.S. funds to the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran was reported in a February 6 letter and February 7 [...]

I can’t stand being in an office. Everyone’s such a fucking pussy. People look at you crazy if you raise your voice or use profanity.
If you fuck up, I’ll say “you fucked up”. Don’t try to come back with some retort about how I’m somehow wrong. If I’m your superior, I’m always right even if [...]

The worst thing about getting older is all the responsibility and decision making. The real shitty part is that all the decent jobs come with responsibility.
One of my favorites jobs was being a janitor at a grocery store. It was super simple and it took almost no effort. Of course I made just above minimum [...]