Category: ramblings

…I could get rid of the very loud car stereo from all the way across the parking lot that woke me up this morning.

I’d been meaning to scan this in ever since my San Diego trip, written by my friend Dave’s girlfriend:

I’m a little fuzzy on the exact circumstances, but I believe I gained ‘hero’ status because I agreed with her on some point during dinner that Dave didn’t. Still, nice to be a 5-minute hero every once in a while. 😉

Man, what the hell was I thinking letting this sit on my shelf for ten months? (…and yes, I think that’s a record for being a lazy-ass with my Netflix rentals.) Sure, it’s a feel-good tear-jerker, but man is it a good one. And it’s got rockets! That blow up! And it’s funny! C’mon!

NASA! Rockets! Geeks in the 50s! You know you want it!

*****

Well, we just lost power in the house for about fifteen seconds, but it’s nice to the that the UPS that the server is running on actually works. I should probably remember to install the PowerChute software on the new machine soon, so if I happen to be asleep at, say, 1:53 am, it’ll turn itself off if the battery runs out.

P.S.: Remind me to buy a bigger UPS at some point, so it’ll run on battery for more than 16 minutes.