{"id":87614277,"date":"2008-11-05T23:00:08","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T06:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614277"},"modified":"2008-11-05T23:00:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T06:00:08","slug":"napmo-5-this-is-going-to-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614277","title":{"rendered":"Nap’mo 5: This is going to suck."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m changing the titling so as not to offend KarlaBabble<\/a> (like SHE ever comes HERE any MORE), but mostly ’cause yeah, I agree that the vast majority of my own “I’m going to write every day for X days” challenges are deeply depressing to myself, ’cause I don’t usually get past day three before skipping a day or two, and then doing one more day, and then giving up, assuming nobody noticed in the first place.<\/em><\/p>\n

Karla has this to say about it:<\/p>\n

Do us all a favor and vow NOT to participate in NaBloPoMo<\/span> this year. If you’re already committed to it, then at least remove the word “NaBloPoMo<\/span>” from every post, because that’s like announcing, “This is going to suck” in big letters across the top of the post. Allow us the temporary illusion that you blogged today because you were inspired, and not because there’s a national bore-a-thon<\/span> going on and you’re determined not to be left out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is why I don’t use something like Twitter (or Twittr, or Twitr, or Twtr, or whatevr they’r calling it this wkr,) it’s just too much pressure.\u00a0 I’m afraid people would actually start to get annoyed by what I’m tweeting.\u00a0 See?\u00a0 I’m already annoying myself by talking about it.\u00a0 Shut UP<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Lots of high-fiving at work this morning, and just general feeling of “Whew.”<\/p>\n

I built a Minspec cart today, which is a bunch of machines that are near or slightly above\/below minimum specifications for one of our games.\u00a0 While not terribly interesting, it did give me an excuse to do some other stuff while watching Windows reinstall on some older gear, and see how well our recently-upgraded imager could deal with hardware that is not<\/em> made by a tier1 company.\u00a0 After a quick update to September from our current July, everything’s schmoove.\u00a0 Nice.<\/p>\n

Also tried to figure out how to make Ubuntu be a router.\u00a0 I’m about 95% there, in that the Ubuntu box is now a DHCP server, and is multihomed (two network cards in one machine, so there’s an inside and an outside), but I’m not quite there when it comes to the DNS and Gateway stuff.\u00a0 I *think* I’m just missing the DNS (which was always my downfall in previous attempts at building “everything in a box” machines).<\/p>\n

The ride to work this morning was COLD.\u00a0 Raining hard.\u00a0 Big fat drops.\u00a0 About four degrees out (that’s 38 for you USofA types, if my Bob&Doug-to-metric is correct).\u00a0 Soaked the thighs of my jeans almost before I got to the corner.\u00a0 I brought my bike in so I could adjust the brakes.\u00a0 Had to.\u00a0 My commute is a short 8 blocks downhill, but when your brakes only sorta\/kinda slow you down a little, things get sorta sketchy.\u00a0 I was all “Oh geez, I’m gonna screw up my brakes, and then I’ll have NO brakes, and how’m I gonna tell Arwen that<\/em> when I get home?”\u00a0 Know what?\u00a0 It was one allen-key turn away from adjusting them.\u00a0 Amazing what happens when you actually try.<\/p>\n

I was going to try to find some helpful information for all of you to do this little trick on your own bikes, and ran into this<\/a> in reference to my particular model (but not the same year) and have one question:<\/p>\n

What the hell are “spoke nipples?”\u00a0 (scroll way down on that link).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nobody answer that.\u00a0 Okay, maybe one person.<\/p>\n

I was going to write all about what kinds of lights I have now, and show pictures and stuff, and then thought better of it.\u00a0 There’s a lot of ’em, I think partly to be seen in the dark on the way home, and partly ’cause the kids love the lights.\u00a0 I almost bought a pair of blink-when-they-spin lights to go on my wheels this weekend, just so I could be that guy with the stupid spinners on his bike.\u00a0 Managed to restrain myself from buying more of those little tiny “turtle” lights for $3.50 a piece<\/a> (although the UFO “spinner” mini lights almost got me).<\/p>\n

Parenting Tip #317: If you have kids, and you’re thinking of buying one of those little lights for yourself, do everyone<\/em> a favour, and buy 3 of them for every person in the house (and one per cat).\u00a0 The burn rate on these things is very high.\u00a0 Not burning out<\/em>, but getting stepped on, or lost under the couch, or under the bed, or into the cat box, or hidden in a book shelf because if you two can’t share<\/em> then nobody <\/em>gets them.<\/p>\n

Aside: Arwen’s looking at the site for the “New First Dog<\/a>,” and we’re talking about GoldenDoodles YorkieDoodles and Shitzpoo, and Poodoodles.\u00a0 When it comes to entertainment, we’re pretty easy.\u00a0 We’re not proud, we’re just tired.<\/p>\n

That headache I had yesterday?\u00a0 It’s still couch-surfing with me, and hasn’t offered to pay for anything yet.\u00a0 Jerk.\u00a0 Maybe if people offered unexpected houseguests nothing but coffee and headache remedies, those “Maybe we’ll just head home after breakfast… tomorrow…” people wouldn’t be such a problem.<\/p>\n

“And for dessert, a bowl of Liquid Gel Ibuprofen!\u00a0 I made it into a mold shaped like a jellyfish for you!\u00a0 With marshmallows and carrots!\u00a0 Wheeeee!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The front desk at work has birds.\u00a0 Chirpy birds.\u00a0 That chirp.\u00a0 This would made me insane.\u00a0 Just to tease them, we have big tree trunks in the lobby that the birds don’t get to play on.\u00a0 There’s even a big wooden swing like the cool kids had in their back yard, but people sized.\u00a0 Birds don’t get to play on that, either.\u00a0 Maybe they’ll get us a big mirror in there one day, and then one of the Russian Programmer contingent can fight with it.\u00a0 To.\u00a0 Ze.\u00a0 Deth.<\/p>\n

Oh, I mention the birds because We (the IT we, the little cluster of us) have an R2D2 USB hub<\/a> that’s plugged into one of our monitoring stations.\u00a0 Joe brought it back with him from Japan (I think) and then Allie showed up a few days later with bobbleheads (I got the Clone Trooper, sweet!)\u00a0 The fun thing is that the R2D2 chatters once in a while, with what is probably not licensed noises.\u00a0 They’re great.\u00a0 It’s like having a bird, only geekier (and you don’t need to feed it).\u00a0 Michelle’s got one of those usb lavalamps (as do I) and I’m thinking we’ll need to make someone buy one of those usb “fish” that has a magnet somewhere inside it to make the plastic floaty fish move around.\u00a0 Creepy.<\/p>\n

Oh, usb news from Japan?\u00a0 Humpy dogs<\/a>.\u00a0 They’re everywhere.\u00a0 For the record: I do NOT want one for Xmas, mmkay?\u00a0 And keep them away from R2D2, all right?\u00a0 Nobody needs to see that.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I think that’s all I got for today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m changing the titling so as not to offend KarlaBabble (like SHE ever comes HERE any MORE), but mostly ’cause yeah, I agree that the vast majority of my own “I’m going to write every day for X days” challenges are deeply depressing to myself, ’cause I don’t usually get past day three before skipping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,4,1,8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87614277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brainfarts","category-friends","category-general","category-hardware","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87614277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87614278,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614277\/revisions\/87614278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87614277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87614277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87614277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}