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I got my car back today. I don't know if ironic is the right word or not, but, if it is, I find it ironic that the past couple of weeks the weather has been very cold for the DC area--sometime as cold as 16° while standing waiting to catch the shuttle bus to the Metro--and the day my car is ready it's in the fifties! I walked the two-and-a-half- ( Read more... )

A lot of real geeks started out in the pre-internet telco world, doing things like blowing
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I'm getting one of these:


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Well, back when I was younger I thought nothing of spending an entire weekend futzing around building a linux box or some other such geeky endeavor, but I value my time more than that now. However even though I can think of other ways I'd rather be spending my time beside spending 12 hours to do something on a linux box that is trivial in Windows ( Read more... )

It's all cynicism and bemusement.

I work for very busy, slightly chaotic Internet Service Provider as Tier I and moderately Tier II tech support, mostly over the phone and via e-mail. Occasionally, I get called upon to support network engineering, or at least trouble shoot it, but to call myself an engineer would be a conceit.

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I heard a heart breaking story on All Things Considered this evening about a couple who found the their son dead in the rubble of their apartment with the bodies of his grand parents. I really needed to see this picture.


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