:: nothing in particular ::

:: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 ::

...and your prize is...a new car!

I'll be rolling down the street in style again. I just got a 1988 Volvo 740GLE sedan. B230F 2.3L inline-4 engine, M47 5-speed manual transmission. She's a nice dark metallic blue-green color, but the paint is kinda sunbaked. Drives great. I need to think up a name though, any suggestions?

A pallet from DHL arrived for me at work yesterday. It was a dream come true. For evaluation, I got a brand spanking new Sun Fire T2000 server. 4-core 1.0GHz UltraSPARC T1 processor (16 virtual CPUs), 8GB RAM, 2x 73 GB 2.5" 10k RPM SAS drives, Quad-gigabit ethernet, running Solaris 10. I just wish I could fix Xnest and xdm so the stupid X sessions won't reset all the time. Too bad I have to give the machine back in May.

Today was William's birthday and I got to hang out with Drs. Roskam, Barrett, Hale, and Wetzel. Good times.

:: Nick 10:36:00 PM [+] ::
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There is debate as to whether or not the 76mph winds this morning that ripped Lawrence apart were from a tornado. Its bad enough that uprooted trees blocked streets and millions in damage was done to KU shutting it down tomorrow. I was without power for a while and took a shower in the dark, but thankfully electricity came back so I could listen to the KU vs. Texas game. Yeah, that was great.

It turns out that KU's Computer Center went down hard today in the storms. Network resources are coming back up now though. In contrast, at 12:04pm, all services at DAR were 100% functional. Victory is mine.

(18:21:11) Nelson: I'm glad my weather generator is working
(18:21:17) Me: hahaha
(18:21:40) Nelson: I was thinking of drawing a radar map that in red/green says "pwned"
(18:22:01) Me: lawrence got 0wnz0r3d by m07h3r n4tur3
(18:23:05) Nelson: heh
(18:23:18) Nelson: I think we should blame it on the CReSIS people
(18:26:56) Me: nah then it can come back to you
(18:27:12) Me: make all the tinfoil hat people happy and blame it on HAARP
(18:27:33) Me: or if you want to be truthful
(18:27:37) Me: blame it on Chuck Norris
(18:27:42) Nelson: heh
(18:28:03) Nelson: he should not have seduced mother nature, that motherf*cker
(18:28:38) Nelson: oh well, not that he could help it

:: Nick 6:31:00 PM [+] ::
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"This town is full of babes!" -Allwyn

This came after seeing some jocohos in the cars next to us in Lawrence, and a few hours after ogling the supreme hottness of the girl at the car rental place. Let me put it this way: light colored suit, black thong. Therefore, God exists.

:: Nick 8:33:00 PM [+] ::
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