The Net Monkey

[This article has been retroactively posted from my Kuro5hin Diary.]

“He’s poked his pecker in some sorry trash bins.”
– Libby Holden (Kathy Bates), speaking about Jack Stanton (John Travolta), in the movie Primary Colors

Did anyone else like that movie? In my opinion, the great quality of the film wasn’t necessarily the plot or acting, but all of the really great lines.

Anyway, here are a few little snippets of news.

• The server situation at home is working out very well. All I need to do is backup the data on Jupiter, the old system, for safe keeping and turn that box in to my new router / firewall / IDS / etc. Some day I will get around to doing it.
• On a related note, I got a cheap CPU upgrade card for the old PowerMac 5400 off eBay. It’ll bring it from a 180 mhz PowerPC 603e to a 300 mhz PowerPC G3. At some point here soon, I will get around to installing it. I’ve got NetBSD on it for now, but I may restore Mac OS 8/9 and use it as a jukebox in my bedroom. I have yet to make up my mind. I do have an older Performa, which can’t use NetBSD, that might serve that purpose instead.
• I have a couple people in my life who are always forwarding me e-mails. One of them is my father who will occasionally send me something funny that one of his friends sent him. I guess he gets a shitload of jokes in his inbox on a daily basis. The other person is a former schoolmate from high school. She and I have recently kept in touch and now I get an e-mail from her every day. While I appreciate what she is trying to say, I really don’t need an e-mail telling me that the most powerful channel of communications is prayer, the most contagious spirit is enthusiasm, and the most important thing in life is God. So, I may have to act on this and send her (as well as other people, of course) some negative e-mails about pestilence, violence, and death. I can be the yin to her yang (or is that the yang to her yin? Whatever.)
• Well, yesterday I wrote about getting my old job back. Yes, I got really stressed and burned out the last time I worked there, BUT there are some advantages to working there instead of here at Cummins.

• I will only have to drive 5 minutes to work instead of 45 minutes.
• I will be making more money; the most I have ever made.
• I will certainly not get bored.
• I will have job security, whereas now I am unsure where I will be at the end of the Summer.
• I will get to have my own slave assistant.
• I will have full health and dental benefits.
• I will be able to sleep later in the morning.
• I will have more flexible hours, in general.
• etc. etc. etc.

That’s all for now, folks.