Well, I had a few days downtime on Zach (Shuttle + XP MCE 2005) for the last couple of days. Culprit: chronically faulty fan controller. These Shuttle’s have a nice, adjustable-voltage fan controller. The problem is that mine occasionally quits and I have to move the plug over to the other controller. Then that controller quits and only the other one works for a few months.
I only have three data points to work with here, so I can’t be sure why this is happening. It makes me want to trade up to an LGA775 socket, 16-lane PCI-X graphics beast with a bigger HDD, but that would encroach upon my Intel-based iMac budget for next year.
Not that doing both wouldn’t be that bad. It would just be hard to justify.
I got a job offer today to go back to Port Arthur (a bit more windblown than when I was there last summer, thanks to Katrina). And, heck, they sweetened the deal financially quite a bit to make it even better. I haven’t made my final decision (I was originally hoping to be working in the downtown office this summer), but I would say the likelihood is pretty high I will take this one.
My fan is puttering along at a few hundred RPM. We should be fine until Christmas. groan
By the way, MCE goes nuts when it’s down for a while. Something about a 100 channel database to crosslink and schedule. Meh.
I really want to work on that Bible study wiki I have up there on the menu, but it doesn’t ever seem to happen. Maybe later!
Things are overall quite good. I can’t complain. In fact, I won’t complain. This is the result of a settlement I have reached with myself. Especially with this job offer; there just isn’t any justification to gripe. If some of the work seems pointless, just be glad it’s being paid for by the Great State of Oklahoma.
By the way, if you ever see some of this, you might want to pick it up. Yes, that is $6 for a bottle. Yes, it is that good. Yes, they said to put beer in a champagne glass.
The bottle is corked, for goodness sakes. I have the bottle on my dresser to prove it.
Well, better go. Until the weekend.
OpenOffice.org 2.0 rocks my world. If you’re going to get it, you better find a torrent. It’s not even up on Slashdot and the site has been thoroughly Slashdotted.
There must be opiates in the air, my friends, because I have had a flash of insight and prescience. I was watching Hannity and Colmes while tying up some work, and I heard a word in my head that I knew I would hear again. What might that word be?
Condi-crats.
Yes, my friends, Condi-crats. My prediction is that the media will adopt this term for those Democrats (especially African American) who break party lines and support Condi Rice in the Presidential race.
We’ll see about that.
New #1 Effective Commercial: Dentyne Fire
Very creative.
Gosh, I need to write this Organizational Behavior case.
I can’t say there isn’t some Pavlovian disappointment over the outcome of the game, but we honestly didn’t do too badly…all things considered.
We’re playing the #2 team in the nation, after all, and our defense held up pretty well on most plays, but we did give away a junkload of big plays.
Offense is a disaster. End of an era? Too soon to to tell, but probably not.
Who knows?
Sports injuries in general bug me to some extent. It seems so sad to take all this incredible talent, pick a sport, and throw everybody at each other until they break. I know real atheletes would have something else to say about this, but it’s hard to understand from a non-sports enthusiast’s point of view.
Not too interested in sleeping or waking up for school tomorrow. Fallout is now installed on my MCE computer, and it looks good and plays well. Very impressed. The installer showed signs of XP incompatibility, but the game runs like a top. Thanks, Kristin.
I’m running the “Deer Park” (1.5 Beta) version of Firefox on this machine, as well as the 1.5 Beta version of Thunderbird. They both look excellent and do not seem to crash. This is a good thing. My first (and probably only) observation about Deer Park so far: Mozilla moved the optional stuff (like the Quality Feedback Agent) into extensions that you can uninstall from the extensions applet, rather than having to fix them at setup time. This is probably a result of having the non-installer auto updater (meaning you cannot on-the-fly change what optional components are installed at every version upgrade).
Now that we have a real update engine, I’m actually excited for a new beta version to come out.
Anyway, off to sleep. Whatever. What a pointless week coming up.
Lord,
Please help me to avoid preoccupation with both the most trivial and the most critical issues of my life.
Please place in me a heart of worship that keeps rhythm independently of the preoccupying influences that confront me.
Please give me the patience to see past what distracts me today, and the wisdom to avoid overlooking the joys that exist in the present.
Please encourage me to realize my blessing in comfort and prosperity, but not to associate my blessing with only these luxuries.
Please show me a path that has both peace and challenge.
Please grant me peace when the path is challenging.
Please allow me the courage to turn to You.
Please turn to me.
Amen.
Requiem for a Dream has robbed several movies of their old effect on me. It’s just that good. I think that’s a good thing… it keeps me from having to watch movies that aren’t as good just for some point they made.
Currently…
Most psychologically effective commercial: eHarmony
Most artistically creative commercial: Vytorin
Most crooked mainstream software type: MPEG decoders
Best freaking thing ever: XP Media Center Edition 2005