I like snow. I even like ice. I just think it should stay off the road and keep out from under my tires. Mandy and I left for Nebraska on Thursday afternoon, and hit the worst weather ever near Pierre, South Dakota. We drove 45 mph for the next eon, and finally arrived in North Platte on Friday at 3:00 AM. Almost went in the ditch once, and that was exciting. At least the bad roads kept me awake.
We spent the majority of the weekend doing wedding “stuff”. It wasn’t too bad, and I’m still alive. I was actually excited to get back to work this time. We got all the parts for our new storage server, as well as 2 Kodak DX7630’s. It was awesome, and we had lots of fun today playing with our new toys. The edn (sorry, edn killed end in a drive-by shooting on Saturday).
Tag: work
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toys
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massive
We took 1.43 tons of computer parts out to the dump today. Wow. I can’t believe the three of us moved that much weight around. In other ‘massive’ news, I finished watching volume three of Invader Zim (the ‘massive’ being the flagship of the Irken empire). It was pretty good, although not quite as stellar as the first two volumes. It got pretty morbid, and not so funny anymore. There was one about Zim getting rebanished to Food Courtia. That was pretty funny. The Christmas one was a little dark, but among the better episodes. Zim Eats Waffles wasn’t quite as good the second time around, but Tak was stellar in her own evil little way. The one’s that focused on Dib tended to just go on and on and on and on…well, you get the point. He’s always out to prove Zim is an alien, and he always loses, horribly. That plot only works so many times.
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surge
We had a power outage today, and it was fun…
Ok, actually, it was kind of crazy. Fortunately, we have battery backup systems for all of our servers, and we were able to go in and shut them down the right way, so that we lost nothing. Hooray for battery backups! -
mod_musicindex
This is officially the coolest web server plugin ever. No really, it is.
We are taking all of our tape archives from the library, and converting them to digital format. While this is cool, and we can just set up your basic ftp server, I wanted something better. Enter mod_musicindex. It allows you to stream files, download them, stream them in shuffle mode, and search them. When you’re dealing with 7,000 mp3s, that can be a little slow (around 45 seconds), but it still works. -
promotion
Last week was also my first week working full time at Trinity Bible College. I work in IT (Information Technology, a fancy way of saying “I work on computers”) and am quite excited about my promotion. Right before the baby mollies were born, two of my bettas got in a fight, and one died (leaving me with 2). So I put the babies in the compartment where the betta was. Yesterday, we had a blizzard. It was awesome, since I love snow. It was unawesome (yes, “unawesome” is a word, because I just created it), because I had to haul my computer out in the cold for some LAN gaming at the school. The End. No really, stop reading. I mean it. Sorry, couldn’t resist typing one more sentence. Now I’m off, for real…and stuff.
