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2005/04/21
 17:56:30

People start complaining about lack of updates. I say update your site then. It also has come to my attention that people are coming to this site looking for music downloads or porn. If that's you, you may as well go elsewhere now. And it's probably best to not look for porn from your high school...

Anyways, life has been busy. It's spring and starting to get nice out. I can leave the windows open at home all the time now, which is about the only time they ever get opened because I'm too lazy to open and close them all the time for no good reason. Some people just get antsy and want to do crazy stuff. Like Ross wanted to walk to Wendy's for lunch last week. We drove instead but since we got back in a half hour rather than 3, we ended up walking up to Seminary and stuff. He was still jumping around the hallways in his usual manner after that too - crazy kid. He also comments about how it's nice outside but doesn't want to work outside because it'd degrade the outside. :)

With work I have had more and more projects appear and just go on the stack. Spring also means planning for summer, which brings about its own issues. Then there's routine issues, already planned upgrades, checking on/fixing stuff that's breaking, figuring out why stuff breaks for users, and trying to keep everyone on the same page with things. We've gotten into the mode where every non-trivial decision is getting looked at in a more general sense and either has been or is on the list to be documented. Hopefully we can start getting people to look at more, and other people will add stuff too. If all that wasn't enough we just got approval yesterday for a project to replace the infrastructure at a campus which had been put on hold indefinitely a couple months ago due to budget issues. The catch is it has to be done this fiscal year, which means everything has to arrive in the next three weeks, and we want to get most of it in a PO by tomorrow. I'm glad I'm not working today. Should be an interesting next few weeks. Tomorrow night I get to watch a fileserver chkdsk (well, more watch and make sure it comes up OK afterwards), maybe I can catch up some work without people around to make more of it for me.

For those of you who like me don't get a lot of art, you'll probably find this amusing. And more gas sign antics. I've been not doing much outside work other than sitting around and relaxing. It's been nice. I watched Bad Boys II last weekend, which I liked better than the first. For those of you who insist that a movie has to have a good plot, avoid this one - it's just for the action. The weekend before the bonfire at Nick's turned into watching Closer. It's good, but pretty much in the opposite way. Monday was moving TV night. Have you ever tried carrying a 40" direct view TV? 270lbs. Basically you get one person on each side. The catch is that it's barely narrow enough to go through a doorway, so the people on the front and back have to let go. Bulky heavy stuff is no fun. There's a reason it's the biggest ever made and there's only one production model that big - 50+ inch rear-projections weigh under 200... Sunday was a day with the family. After church on Sunday Ang and I met them over at Qdoba before heading to the parents' place. I really like that place, and it's been forever since I've had to actually pay for food there. I think a year and 3 months or so. And next time I go I get a free burrito and free chips and salsa. I think I'm gonna go get some good food tonight. Hopefully all that will make you people wanting updates happy. :)

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By schdav on 2005/04/21 at 21:00:28

I disagree with Lileks on some level, but he makes some good points. If it wasn't a building who's purpose was to entice people into viewing modern art, I would love it. But since it's supposed to instill in you the desire to see things that you've maybe never even considered could possibly be beautiful or intruiging or somehow valuable works of art, it might be a little overbearingly mechanical in form. But I'm just a lay person. I don't actually know anything about art.

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By Mike S. on 2005/04/22 at 08:46:52

Those same Art freaks that built that thing are the same people crying about budget cuts...
Where is Qdoba? It's Mexican food I assume?
Did you get a new TV like TheNick?
And Lastly, you have highschool kids looking for porn on your site... what is that all about?

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By Jeremy on 2005/04/22 at 09:27:35

Qdoba is at www.qdoba.com. It's like Chipotle, but better. Actually they were the same company, but split about 9 years ago (I think) and each took half the name, and Chipotle was bought by McDonalds and Qdoba by Jack in the Box. I didn't get a new TV, just moving them around for family. I don't know about the porn, other than looking at searches and the comments on old entries about getting girls on the site.