goofballs

Once the lawsuits have settled, I think I am going to write a book about working the worst outage in recent Internet history. An outage that is a real game changer. Microsoft. Danger. Sidekick. October 2009.

* use of jargon * slowmotion + mood music * gate dial / wormhole opened * jive talk / wise cracking wacky ethnic person and/or alien and that's just the cold open! * any member of the original SG1 team on-screen, double for Jack * "the hammond" * beaming anyone up (double if to the hammond) * radar (radio guy) * space sex

It pisses me off to no end that this shit is not search-able on sun.com: SUNW.SPARC-Enterprise # Sun M5000, M6000, M8000, M9000, etc SUNW.Ultra-80 # Sun Enterprise 420R, V420R(?) SUNW.Sun-Fire-T5220 # early model T5220 SUNW.Sun-Fire-T5120 # early model T5120/T5220 SUNW.SPARC-Enterprise-T5220 # late model T5220 SUNW.Sun-Fire-T1000 # early model T1000 SUNW.SPARC-Enterprise-T1000 # late model T1000 SUNW.Sun-Fire-T200 # AC200, DC200, Netra T200 SUNW.Sun-Fire-V125 # Netra V125R

As I type, I am acting out the most stereotypical (and stereotypically lazy) Unix/network admin behavior in my very own home: My Macbook in the living room is on the Internet via my Airport (yes, I love Apple), I have a terminal open to my other Macbook (the one that my job bought for me for work), which is sitting on top of a machine racked up in a 4-post 19" rack in my bedroom, which in turn is connected to a HP Procurve switch and a 4u, 16-bay, 2 3ware raided FreeBSD machine whose only purpose for the time being is to jumpstart a 1u Rackable PC that is destined to become my new home firewall. Let me repeat.. inet -> airport -> personal mac, work mac ( -> raid box ) And just to gild the lily, I'm running the copy of data from my laptop onto my server in screen. I'm such a nerd.

Much hash has been made lately of the "death of so-called Conservatism". Anyone who believes such nonsense is as deluded as Karl Rove when he speaks of the "permanent Republican majority." I blurted this short missive out in response to an article on Salon.com (whose track record for delusion is worthy of note): College Republicans and the Millenial Generation I have faith that a new generation of right-wingers [are] waiting in the wings. After all, feel-good "Positive Self Image" schooling has profoundly damaged a generation of children, producing selfish, narcissistic little sociopaths whose lack of critical thinking skills combined with their inflated egos are primed to gravitate to the self-affirming message of modern "conservatism". We live in a nation that tolerates the shallow platitudes of charlatans like "doctor" Phil McGraw, and suffers the theatrics of smug, self-serving Ayn Rand freaks and fringe idiologues like Rush...

2008, good riddance. I have been the deadly (and blog unproductive) combination of sick and busy at work. But, I am still alive. Oh, oh. So alive.

Letter sent to my Republican cousin: I agree with two major points you make: (1) The Republican Party, as we know it, is at a crossroads (2) We need to get out of Iraq ...