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August 22nd, 2005 @ 21:29 by NormMonkey
From the doubleplus-undaily-updates department:
When we last left our intrepid hero (geek) he was valiantly (lazily) trying to recover (beat into submission) his ailing NetWinder. Alas, the NW refuses to budge, and I lose fiftyteen geek points (it’s an imaginary number, see…) for failing to solve a computer problem.
In the meantime a good friend has loaned me a machine to act in place of the NetWinder while I prepare to dunk it in a vat of The Dip (obscure Roger Rabbit reference here … man, it’s been awhile since I saw that one). I gain fourteenty-five geek points for provisioning a mail, DNS, web, irc and other-stuff server (under debian! another twelvety points).
So, while I didn’t totally work my way back from the fiftyteen point loss, I’m on my way. And I haven’t given up on the NetWinder yet; it’s just on the back burner for now. And while I was cruising teh intarweb for NetWinder and Debian help I came across some pages about getting Debian on my Cobalt Qube 2700, so I might get back into that project for extra geekpoints. I’d love to have that thing in my car playing MP3s (just ’cause it’s blue, you see. It’ll even have blue LEDs replacing the lame green ones on the front — whoever thought to put *green* lights on something that’s totally cobalt blue in colour, instead of perfectly complementary cobalt blue LEDs…).
Oh, waitaminit. Time for some clarity for those of you playing along at home who are all like, “WTF is this NetWinder and/or this Qube that this guy is blathering about?” Well, a NetWinder is a computer that uses a StrongArm processor (very powerful for the low resources it consumes) and a Qube 2700 uses a MIPS processor and runs on 12VDC — very adaptable to car power. In other words, both very geeky and obscure computers. I’m sure Google will show you some pictures if you ask it nicely.
In other news, it’s Monday, which is worth negative two hundred non-imaginary number attitude points. However, I wandered into Leishman’s, an independent bookstore near me, and ordered three books I’ve been wanting to read for awhile (two on the recommendation of a great friend), plus I walked out with the beginning of an Anne McAffrey series I’ve been wanting to read for a long time so that’s worth at least a hundred attitude points. Then on the way home I tried out the nearby shawarma place for the first time. It’s better than the shawarma place near my old residence, but that’s not saying a whole lot. Twenty attitude pluspoints for adventures into new places.
UPDATE: I’ve just learned that “Dragonflight” is the beginning of the “Dragonriders of Pern” series but it’s not the beginning of the Dragonrider books. It seems there’s an earlier trilogy that started the whole thing off. What can I say? So now I’ve got this book that I’m not sure I want to start before I get my hands on that earlier trilogy.
On the other hand, I do have two books that I’m midway through: “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” and “Legal Handbook for Photographers”, so I’m not totally without procrastinating material some literary goodness. And I’ve got one cat dozing on the back of the couch above my head, and another nearby relaxing on the floor, so fifty attitude pluspoints for cat proximity.
UPDATE: I just banged my glass into the nearby lamppost while taking a drink of my ice-with-a-little-lemonade, which of course frightened the cats. Minus thirty attitude pluspoints for scaring the cats, but I’ll make up for that with pets before bedtime.
And now, before this blog gets even more chock full of mundane, lame no-life detail (you’re thinking, “How could it possibly get any worse?” Just wait ’til next time, my reader friend) I’d better end it here.
