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What a shitty day

23Oct08

I spent 6/7ths of my day waiting for my fileserver to actually serve files to me and the rest of the office and it got so bad that people could barely get work done. The interaction went something like this:

9:30AM, Interior, Office:

Jake: Goodmorning Snap! I’d like my desktop please.

SnapServer: …

Jake: Ok. I can see you’re busy. I’ll just go make myself a bagel and-

SnapServer: Goooood MORNING!

Jake: Oh awesome, can I have my-

SnapServer: ….

1:30PM:

Jake: Hey Snap..I was wondering if I could maybe look in the Clients folder for Hoby? You apparantly stopped talking to his computer.

SnapServer: No I didn’t.

Jake: So the big “Server Disconnected” message on his mac is just a coincidence?

SnapServer: Well maybe if he wasn’t using a mac…

Jake: What?

SnapServer: Nothing, look. See, right there. I have him logged in over 60 times.

Jake: Well that’s just it, he can’t possibly be logged in that many times it must be your problem. It should just be the once. Right? Snap?

SnapServer:…Fuc…Fuck offffgaa…

…

I can only image what the fuck it’s doing during those pauses. Seriously, the thing has to serve data to 9 people for 7 hours a day. I could do it’s job with a filing cabinet and a bottle of scotch. The filing cabinet to help me look the part and the scotch to help me become catatonic and unresponsive to people’s requests for data while I occasionally gain consciousness to announce to the world that I, Lord Urine, must make a mighty oration. With my kingly scepter.

So there you have it. My job is taking care of the town drunk.

Let’s hope the king keeps his pants on tomorrow.

Edit: I would be remiss if I didn’t post this classic:

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Ameribama

22Oct08

In related news I sent off for my absentee ballot today. I’m quite glad to be voting with pen and paper as I feel like it has a decent chance of being counted.

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And then for a moment

21Oct08

I thought about the past:

I felt ok about the future.

I don’t feel like being cynical at the moment. I’m going to go to bed thinking this could be big. And real.

Also, I’ve had this song on repeat a lot today. I seem to be doing that more and more.

Cut Copy - Autobahn Music Box

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In response

20Oct08

To this: (from Joe)

I have only this:

Joe’s picture is a thousand times cooler.

In other news.

1. If you use Firefox and aren’t using it’s built in support for image color profiles, you may not be seeing images’ such as these full potential. To enable it, follow the simple steps here and then check to see if it worked here.

2. I’m going to start blogging daily again. My original goal was 180 days or 180 posts, whichever came first.

I recently read that people often fail at meeting goals because they are inherently problem solvers, not goal meeters. I consider myself a problem solver but in this case I’m definitely in search of whatever it is that needs fixing. To start I have a mountain of images that hold incredible memories, images that I’m sure friends would love to see and I would love to share. The second problem I have is that I’m incredibly lazy. Astonishingly so. In fact the main source of sustenance this weekend was 2 boxes of Life cereal. Something I as recently as Wednesday described as “incredfvlble.” This misnomer created because I was shoving my face full of the stuff. It should also be noted that I have a grocery store 2 blocks away from my house.

So there you have it. My problems stem from God knows where but manifest themselves in 2 dollar a box (Awesome deal, I know) wheat-sugar.

I have a lot of things to share. And if I can’t think of anything good to go along with it I’ll keep the ramble to a minimum.

I keep writing because I can’t think of a clear ending point but also this stupid picture of life is formatting weird and is leaving a dumb space at the end of the post.

So uh…..stuffstuffstuffstuffstuffstuff….

Goodnight.

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Things

29Aug08

Thing 1. Nikon has finally dropped details on the D90. Pretty ho-hum upgrade to the D80. Bigger sensor, live view, anti-dust vibration on the CCD. But the big new feature this time around is 24FPS video recording. I think this feature is great for two reasons. One is that it sets up this feature to be distributed throughout Nikon’s product range, making the transition from cheap consumer digi-cams to Dslr’s that much easier for people who’ve grown to love the convenience of taking simple movies. Second, it will allow people like me who’ve missed out on grabbing little moments here and there because all we’ve had is our Dslr. Plus taking movies with sweet lenses will be…sweet. ‘N stuff.

The downside will be whatever format they choose to compress it with will probably blow. Though being able to shoot 720p is nice. Also, audio. How are they gonna handle that?

Anyways since I can’t embed any of their demo videos, here’s a link to their page.