wtfwasithinking.org

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David Bowie - Space Oddity (Ardis on mars cover - blame Josh and Zach)
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GROUND CONTROL TO ad-DOM
GROUND CONTROL TO ad-DOM
Take your protein pill and turn your servers on

GROUND CONTROL TO ad-DOM
Commencing countdown, powering on
Check your con-prompt and may the force be with you

Spoken:
Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Powering-on

This is GROUND CONTROL TO ad-DOM
You’ve really earned your pay
And the admins want to know which static-strap you wear
Now it’s time to enter on the command line if you dare

“This is ad-DOM to Ground Control
I’m stepping through the door
And I’m pinging in a most peculiar way
And the tracroutes look very different today

For here
Am I booting up this tin can
Running Solaris 2
Console isn’t true
And there’s nothing I can do

Though I’ve flown a couple hundred miles
I’m feeling very ill
And I think my packet knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much (she knows!)
GROUND CONTROL TO ad-DOM
Your circuit’s dead, there’s something wrong
Can you hear me, ad-DOM?
Can you hear me, ad-DOM?
Can you hear me, ad-DOM?
Can you hear….

“ am I’m booting up this tin can
Running Solaris 2
Console isn’t true
And there’s nothing I can do.?

backstory:  Adam had to go work on some servers in Middle River (MRAS).  things went well, contratry to the song, but still… the possibility of doom for the server conversion was just too much for josh and i to let go.

So I got an e-mail from NEWEGG last night.  Kind of surprised me as I had not ordered anything.  Lo and behold, it wasn’t an invoice, but a PSA for NY State customers.

So Tonight I had the pleasure of experimenting in making wraps. Milady came up with the notion for dinner and i just ran with it. I can’t believe how good they turned out. Sooo tasty!

Here’s the breakdown: (from the bottom up)

• Spinach
• Ranch dressing
• Provolone slices
• Spinach
• Sliced steak
• Sliced portobello mushroom
• Avocado

The sliced portobello mushrooms were sautéed in the sauce that they came with. I added water to help thin it out so it would last. All in all about a 1/8 to 1/4 cup of water as

The sliced portobello mushrooms were sautéed in the sauce that they came with. I added water to help thin it out so it would last. All in all about a 1/8 to 1/4 cup of water as needed.

The steak was left over from the night before. I had been cooked over low heat on the grill living it ping but not raw in the middle. It was then lightly sautéed in the remains of the mushroom sauté. Just enough to warm them. Lost some/most of the pink in the middle but it was worth it.

The ranch was very lightly put down ad an accent. I didn’t want it to overpower the other flavors, as ranch dressing is want to do usually.

no, not me, allly.

and not in that way

my lovely little girl had a tongue tie. more simply, the piece of skin on the underside of the tongue extends too long towards the tip. this has a tendency to hamper speech, cause problems with eating, among other things.

today, ally had hers clipped. it was a really short procedure, but worth it for her in the long run. its already helped her speech.

as normal, she’s a little off and trying to get used to the extra movement and stitches. but she’s pretty much back to being my little ally-girl.

pretty sure i’m next… mine isn’t as bad, but it has been a hassle for a while.

Its been a long while since I’ve last participated in wardriving. Today i made up for it though. I had to reinstall gpsdxconfig and the drivers for my usb gps unit.* After that though, its all working fine again, even on leopard. after checking to make sure i had the latest version of kismac, I hit the road.

My first outing for the day was up the Cohoes bike path. I put Ally in the stroller and my powerbook underneath. After getting the gps positioned on top and kismac fired up, I turned the brightness off. Even with the gps and wifi card on, I still had plenty of battery life for about an hour and a half of warwalking. I’m hoping to get in a good two hour walk tomorrow.

The second outing went very well. 128 wifi points with coordinates traveling by car from Cohoes to albany then Colonie. It probably would have been higher, but i used a lot of highways.

It felt good to get back into wardriving. There is a feeling of satisfaction, seeing the data i’ve collected and the path marked out on google earth.

Some Resources:

• wigle.net
• kismac
• http://www.wardriving.com/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardriving
• http://www.wardrive.net/

Before you ask… No, I don’t wardrive to find access points to connect to. I don’t wardrive to break the wep key on users routers to get into their systems. I wardrive to see what is out there and to see who has been smart enough to lock down their signal. You can get a lot of insight as to the type of people are in your neighborhood by looking at ssid’s and access limits.

* It appears that the Holux GM-210 USB GPS unit is discontinued. If you should be able to get your hands on one for cheap, I paid about $12, don’t use the drivers on the disk. Find someplace to download them from. I’ve got the OS X drivers saved if a mac user should need them.

i can finally say that all of our systems are being backed up.

the windows boxes are backed up to each other with the spare drive carrying an extra copy of each. the linux boot side of my tower… i’m not worried about… the mac is finally able to be backed up thanks to the upgrade to leopard. apples Timemachine has allowed me to finally back that up.

computing with a safe mind.

i can honestly say that i’m not so worried about any of the computers going down in the house. its really a nice feeling.

we finally wrapped up a D&D game that we started about 7 years ago.

near the end of the encounter my halfling pulled a spectacular move. he was picked up by a construct then hurled over the edge of a tower. managing to make a use rope check, he snagged a spire with his troll-gut rope. sadly the inertia cause him to collide with the wall, causing 15 points of damage and unconsciousness.

all in all the event could be described as spectacular.

i’ve decided i need new dice. i’ve never rolled that many 1’s in one night and three times i rolled above 10.

finally finished porting my posts over to the new format.  

really liking the new wordpress.

ok, thats enough for the night… my brain is dead.

sweet looks like the pic insert will be pretty easy now. gee, i remember when this was a pain…

this pic in particular courtesy of maria form back in the day. yes, she’s actually hiding behind me.

she was such a petite little lady back then.

so i’ve gotten tired of the flat file system and the limitations that are becoming more and more apparent to me.

don’t get me wrong, i’ve really liked the simplicity of it. i just need a little more. not a whole lot, but a little.

this updated site won’t go live any time soon, not until i’ve migrated my posts over. once that’s done though, i’ll be using ecto for posting and wordpress for the blogging.

as a side feature, looks like i can set it up to update when i add pics to the gallery. way cool. i’ll have to see how that goes.

EDIT:  I’m really likeing wordpress.  its much easier to deal with now.