Author: chuma

I just retired my IBM Modem M keyboard. I rescued it myself from my old high school, and popped off every keycap and cleaned them individually with a toothbrush.
Unfortunately, someone who I live with obtained for me this Logitech Cordless Freedom keyboard/mouse set for Christmas. I like my old Model M’s noise, but I also like having the extra shortcut keys on the top of the keyboard. The cordless optical mouse is nice too — I just can’t figure out why sometimes, when I leave it alone, the LED on the bottom of the mouse flashes in time with my SCSI bus activity light. Anyways, it was a lovely gift. But if I happen to break this keyboard (which I have done before — I am hard on keyboards) the Model M is coming out again.

Semester’s over. I’m on vacation. That is all. See you December 28th.

Damn, it’s been a while.

Things I hate right now:

• Canada Post. After mailing at least a hundred UNNA CD sets in the same padded mailing envelopes using lettermail postage, this week they decide to return my latest two mailings because they do not conform to lettermail specifications. They’re actually “oversized lettermail”, meaning I get to add an extra $0.70 postage. Thanks for telling me now… I need smaller mailers.
• Rogers Cable Internet. I thought the transition was going great, but then today they’re having massive problems with DHCP. Should be fixed tomorrow, they say. gah. ‘scuse me while I set up a cron job for DHCP…
• Mozilla builds have been sucking hard lately.

Okay, that bit of venting is done. Things that are good right now:

• One exam down, three to go. Only one nasty exam to go.
• Many Buffy VCDs. Yay.
• Related to the above, I got my ATI TV Wonder card the other day. Works great for recording to VCD files. Kickass.
• Oh yeah. The semester’s over. And I might just pass and get decent grades in all my classes, for the first time ever.
• This page now over 15 000 hits. w00t.

That is all.

This morning I downloaded today’s Buffy episode, 10 hours before it will be broadcast. Yum.

…is the sound of the new washer/dryer. It’s a good sound. Except that our stove isn’t hooked up yet. But it should be today. When your landlord goes out and randomly buys a new laundry centre for your unit, you know they’re good.

This is entry #400. Cool. We’re just under 15 000 hits on the front page. Nifty. I guess people do read this.

Sandy bought the Barenaked Ladies “best of” disc. In my opinion, I already own their “best of” albums: Gordon and Maybe You Should Drive. The only song I really like after those is Straw Hat and Old Dirty Hank. Sure, I’ll listen to their older stuff, but I greatly enjoy giving He’s Not the King of Bedside Manor a spin.

Dream: myself, Sandy, random characters from that damn movie, in some kind of WWII espionage plot. Weird.

Fujitsu hard drives are all cursed. That is my final conclusion. All of them. Utter garbage. Do not buy a Fujitsu hard drive, ever. I think I’m going to start a new policy of “no Fujitsus.” If your machine has a Fujitsu hard drive, I’m not going to touch the bleeding thing. No. Away with you. Go buy yourself a nice Quantum or Maxtor. A Fujitsu died in my hands today. It had important data on it (not mine). It should not have died. I did nothing wrong (independently verified). Now it will cost hundreds of dollars to recover the data.

Mr. J. Brad Hicks’s resume gives some pretty compelling reasons for not going into LAN/WAN/IT administration. Wow. Ouch.

A while ago, I bought a ZNAP set for $19, just to get another Technic motor and the cool flexible shafts. Now I’ve finally found a use for the actual pieces.

So the other day I called Fido, my cell phone service provider, to cancel my service since I really haven’t been using it enough in the past few months to justify the cash. As usual, when you want to cancel any service with anyone, they’ll want to know why you want to do so. So I’m giving the phone drone on the other end of the line some line about how I’m in school now, and not using it as much as during the summer, when I was working. Suddenly he says “well, it’s statistically proven that people use their cell phones less over the winter, and we really want to keep you as a customer, so we’re willing to give you three months of free service.” After I picked up my jaw, I said “well, I guess I can’t turn down that offer” and that was that. Insane. I wonder what combination of database triggers and items allowed him to offer me that…

Yesterday was Rememberance Day. Sandy and I went to visit my parents at their cottage for the day, which was really really nice. A nice way to end a very busy week.

Three days before Rememberance Day, I had a sudden urge and registered flandersfields.ca. I’ve put up a very simple page there for now but I’m not quite sure what else I want to do with it. I’m open to suggestions.

Cake. Cake is good.

I need you here with me Not way over in a bucket seat I need you to be here with me not way over in a bucket seat

But when we driving in my Malibu It’s easy to get right next to you I say “Baby, scoot over please” And then she’s right there next to me

I need you here with me Not way over in a bucket seat I need you to be here with me Not way over in a bucket seat

Well alot of good cars are Japanese But when we’re driving far I need my baby, I need my baby next to me

Ah..well

Stick shifts and safety belts Bucket seats have all got to go When I’m driving in my car It makes my baby seem so far

I need you here with me Not way over in a bucket seat I need you to be here with me Not way over in a bucket seat