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>I’m not sure about my posture, but damn if I don’t feel like I’m really doing something with this laptop topped on my lap. I’m tapping off emails like there’s no tomorrow, no wires, click — email, click — type type type reply, click — no new email, click click — blog blog blog. I really like this keyboard, it’s so small and compact, yet not at all. It’s got all the keys I need in all the right places, I’m able to perch it almost vertically on my legs as it’s so light, and can type type type a…
>Job Ramblings
>Man — what am I getting myself into? I need to supply my own cable, RJ-45 jacks, cable management supplies, etc. I have to purchase all this stuff retail, today, to be ready for tomorrow. I’m going to try Radioshack first, then Lowes and see if I might be able to get some contractor rates. I’m currently listening to an hour long web conference, pre-recorded, slides, etc. I’m waiting to call the addendum phone conference as I’m over my phone minutes again this month. With T-Mobile I can change my plan from 600 to 3000 minutes for $10 more a…
>Well, wouldn’t ya know it? I’ve got them beating down my door! 😉 Actually there’s a technician that dropped out in the middle of a project for RollOuts so they just called me up. There’s about 6 jobs this week, 4 hours a job, scattered around CT. It’s most likely at a mall, it’s POS, some cabling… and that’s all I know at this point. I’m waiting for my login info to be reset so I can accept the project and start downloading the info I need. I suppose this laptop will come in handy after-all and as long as…
>I could have had a job today (for Fleet) — but I’m not going to cow-tow. I can’t go out to Boston with only 4 hours notice. Granted: there’s nothing going on today, but there could be. I am still recovering from being sick, so it’s just as well I don’t go out there. I guess the jobs are on a day to day basis now? I don’t like that, and was hoping that not being available tonight might just force him into planning ahead. I need work, but I’ll be damned if I’m gonna jump through hoops when they…
>I had to watch American Beauty the other night after thinking about the dancing plastic bag(s). The bag wasn’t as dramatic as it once was. Maybe I wore out the bag’s novelty =] In any case I had a surprise while watching it. When the neighbor’s Jim & Jim are outside at the beginning with their little dog they scold it — “Bad Fitzi, that’s a bad dog” I wonder if I had that in my subconcious, or it could simply be a convenient cooincidence. They’ve reworked the map just in time for the election.
>iMac => XP Pro
>I’ve done it, I’ve installed WinXP on my iMac. Connectix Virtual PC 6.0 allows me to load any operating system. If you can boot from the CD, you can install it. You could probobly use a boot disk too, but who uses disks? =]~ I’m amazed. I’ve got a 1ghz and 786mb of RAM running OSX. The virtual PC it creates has a basic soundcard and video card (Trident S3) and whatever hard drive space you have currently. It uses the other hardware just as a PC would (DVD Drive, etc), although it’s got a software layer inbetween so it’s…
>I thought of this while driving home from the AE job this morning: I can’t see a plastic bag fly by or dance in the wind without thinking of American Beauty. I loved the movie, but also appreciated “Not Another Teen Movie” spoofing it… where the bag follows the “weird kid” around all the time. When I was finishing up the job this morning, I had a thought, a hit of deja-vu (again, yes) and I could swear that I dreamt about this before. When I arrived home, I searched my site’s entries for “dream” and came up with some…
>There’s nothing like a new 3D Mark to make you feel the full depth of ineptitude that is your computer’s 3D abilities. At least my main machine will play it. All the laptops either had AMD processors or ATI chipsets, no ideal combination of Intel & NVidia. So I have a measly ATI 9200 in this thing… incapable of pixel shading, aparently. So I am stuck with a 720 3D Mark 2003 score. The desktop kicks ass in 2003, and runs 2005 — sub 10fps… can’t win ’em all 😉
>I wanted to see Team America: World Police last night… there was only 1 showing at 7pm! I was bummed because I was working, however — I believe I may have missed a sneak preview. It doesn’t open until the 15th according to all the ads. Hmmmm, incorrect theater posting, or sneaky preview? I may never know cause I didn’t go. I got myself a new To(y)ol, I need it for these contract jobs, the newest of which is setting up the wireless access points for American Eagle. It’s a tiny little laptop — Sony PCG-V505. I’m impressed, such a…
>There will probably be a lot of people who have the same thing to say about Rodney Dangerfield: no respect, I tell ya. The greatest interview I ever heard was Howard Stern and Rodney, I learned a lot about the guy… and he really didn’t get any respect, it wasn’t just an act — he worked with his life experiences. He was an artist, same as many other comics. He got to live out his life (for the most part), where many burn out and go pop. There’s a pressure to always be funny, a lot of people can’t handle…
>My apologies to everyone — guess who forgot to renew their domain registration! So it’s all back now, and I figured I’d update a little. I have done an audioblog here and there ineptness — unfortunately I forgot to hit pound, and 1… So it never saved and/or posted. .:sigh:. One was a giant pumpkin sighting on my way up to VT for my brother’s 40th birthday. It drove by me on the highway going the other way, and was quite a sight. It was giant, orange, a bit like a parade float — possibly on the way to the…
>I had a dream I was in a factory. My dad had just gotten a new job as head manager or something. His new apt/house was really nice, large, with glass walls everywhere. I had a job at the factory, I think… or I just hung around at the factory with the people who worked there. The factory turned out to be a reality show/movie where they spent the whole movie just doing normal factory stuff, people mad at bosses, working hard to impress… until I figured out it was a show when I looked under my bed at home…
>Post: Dream
>I had a dream I was in a factory. My dad had just gotten a new job as head manager or something. His new apt/house was really nice, large, with glass walls everywhere. I had a job at the factory, I think… or I just hung around at the factory with the people who worked there. The factory turned out to be a reality show/movie where they spent the whole movie just doing normal factory stuff, people mad at bosses, working hard to impress… until I figured out it was a show when I looked under my bed at home…