Modern Soapbox

The fact is that you can never have enough hard drive space. From backing up your DVD collection to expanding your MP3 collection, you won’t want to find yourself running out of disk space.
The good news is that storage has gotten very inexpensive. I remember paying more for a 40GB IDE hard drive about six [...]

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The challenge has been conquered. With a less than two hours left in the day, I am writing the thirtieth post for April.
I’m gonna try to keep this short, and I’m sure I will since I didn’t post too long ago. This month [...]

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A DVD is backed up over the network. The data is transferred to Diode, the alway-folding Debian system that hums quietly all day.
Work went by fast, but it was busy enough to be considered a stressfest. I’m glad to be back at the [...]

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April has come and gone.
I’m hoping that May is more productive in my realm of creativity. I would like to do more writing that doesn’t involve spending more time on what you’re reading here than I should. Then again, I offered up the [...]

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Over the weekend, I went over to my favorite computer-shopping heaven on the www, Newegg.
For the past couple weeks, I was itching to build a Beowulf cluster, but the passion died down a bit after reading through some of RGB’s Beowulf book. The [...]

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After the Dynamite Boy show, Neil, Mare and I drove back north and stopped by Wally World [...]

Dynamite Boy played a reunion show this past Saturday at Emo’s. They were greeted by a venue full of fans that was impressive for a show featuring all local bands. They’ve been one of my favorite pop-punk bands, and I’ve seen them multiple times over the years.
We showed up a little late, because parking in [...]

During the evening portion of work this past Friday, one of my co-workers was leaving early to participate in what she called a play. She showed me the flyer online and invited to go. I was reluctant to attend ’cause I was under the impression that Mary was going to be getting out of work [...]

Last Thursday was a headache. I couldn’t get to sleep the night before, because I was dreading having to get up at 7AM to be at work by eight.
I made to work fine. I was going in for a half day, because I was selected to attend jury duty at 1:30PM that day. I did [...]

Thrice played an amazing show at Stubb’s BBQ on April 23rd. Their next two volumes of The Alchemy Index was released the day before, and the set they played a great selection from their three latest albums: The Artist in the Ambulance, Vheissu, and The Alchemy Index.

I was being a total shutterbug at the [...]

A short text exchange between myself and my good friend M2X:
Sig: Weezer ripped off your R2D2 riff on their new single Pork and Beans.
M2X: First we get raped with drinko* and now weezer’s kidnapping my baby r2?!
*Drinko refers to a drinking game we constructed out of wood and coasters that is much like Plinko from [...]

When your social circle has creative minds with prolific ideas, these types of thoughts will run through your head.
A mixture of passion and effort is a key ingredient to making something creative happen. Whether it’s art, writing, music or some other creative outlet, expressing talent to the public requires hard work.
When hard work is involved, [...]

My Debian machine completed a F@H work unit but wasn’t able to send it nor could it obtain a new work unit. I figured that Stanford’s F@H servers might be offline. When I checked, they were fully functional.
I figured that something was up with Diode, my Debian machine, when it couldn’t connect to the internet. [...]