2 Bit Hacker

• Saw a car as I was leaving the apartment complex this morning with a Strongbad sticker on it’s rear bumper. I thought it was kindof funny, since I ordered those shirts yesterday.
• Passed a car that had swerved off the road with the license plate METRON1, I kindof wonder if it has any relation to metron2001, one of doornail’s friends.
• Been thinking of writing a conduit to post specially formatted memo’s from my Clié, maybe I’ll tackle that over the weekend. I don’t think it’ll be hard, but I’ve never written a conduit for coldsync before.

Had a fairly eventful weekend. Started off somewhat late on Friday night, heading over to doornail’s to start watching The 10th Kingdom, which has got to be one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever seen. Funny though, just need to find the time to see the rest of it now.

Saturday I had a late lunch with Delia then picked up Tim, Dan, and Amanda to head back to my apartment for the afternoon. Upon arriving at home, I found my kitchen sink full to the brim with a somewhat murky water and the remains of what appeared to be rice. This was rather odd, since I hadn’t even used that sink in the past week or so. Called up maintainance, the first guy attempted to plunge the thing, but it did nothing, so he called in reinforcements. The second guy brought some heavier ammunition, and ended up vacuuming the liquid out of the sink and pouring some sort of acid in to break the clog. I guess the people in the apartment above mine dumped out something stupid, and it clogged the drain, causing it to flow back into my sink.

Eventually, after the kitchen was finally usable again, Amanda made us linguine with a vodka sauce, which I thought was quite tasty, despite her repeated claims otherwise. At some point in the evening I picked up Delia, and she joined us in playing Jenga and Scategories for a while. A good time was had by all.

For Sunday, we had planned to do a Godzilla marathon as a sort of anti-superbowl party, but I ended up sleeping through most of one Godzilla movie (I hadn’t gotten to sleep until about 7am the previous morning, and even then didn’t sleep very soundly) and woke up to the sounds of Dan and Tim playing Soul Calibur 2. Around this point Delia showed up, and we proceeded to play a game of Star Wars Monopoly. I didn’t do so well, and Delia eventually won, after Tim eventually surrendered.

Today was a fairly standard day at work, got some stuff done, nothing terribly exciting. This evening has been spent doing some minor cleanup around the apartment. It’s kindof odd being here alone after having people around all weekend. And to think I used to like being alone.

Oh yeah, Friday I also made up a little graph of the interconnections between my friends. Remember when LiveJournal used to have a link to do that? I’ve been thinking of having it display a different color for friends depending on how many interests you have in common with them. Just a fun little diversion.

Also, I’ve completed the first month of my diet, and have decided to share my data with the world.

Well, it’s been a rather busy week, let’s see if I can remember it all…


Last Friday Tim and I went down into Boston, didn’t see anything I really wanted to buy at Tokyo Kid or the book store, so we just kindof wandered around the city for a bit before heading back. On Saturday, Delia and I went geocaching, hitting one cache in New Boston and another in Milford. This doubled my number of found caches, and I hope to get out and hit some more soon. We also picked up her computer from her aunt’s house, which turned out to be horribly slow. I felt it was my duty as a geek to use up some of my spare parts to build a better one. I ended up using the board I pulled out of Magus last week, so it worked out pretty well. Glad to see the old board still getting used, rather than collecting dust on a shelf someplace. I’ve had that board since high school, I think.

Tuesday evening I went with Dan, Tim, and Amanda to the Kucinich post-NH-primary party (almost alliteration, aarg!) which was pretty cool. I even got to shake his hand. Delia ending up finding me there, and we hung out for a while afterwards.

Wednesday… hmm… I don’t remember it clearly. I think I may have had a headache. I seem to recall building up the new system for Delia, and I may have hung out with Tim for a bit.

Thursday night I went over to give Delia her new (old) computer and rip some a part or two out of her old system, get Windows installed, and generally get it all happy. It took longer than I expected, but I got a back massage out of it, which was cool. She also introduced me to these grape gummy things from the asian market. So very tasty. I have two left, trying to make them last. Oh, she also let me borrow her Squee! book, which is cool, since I’ve never read it. Yay!

Many events of the week have lost their place in time. I seem to recall a couple games of Uno, a few rounds of Jenga, a couple of turns at Mastermind. Somewhere along the way this got taken. I’m thinking of submitting it to ThinkGeek as an action shot. I seem to recall a couple of late night grocery shopping trips, which is cool, because I didn’t realize we had a 24/7 grocery store.

In other news, work has been rather annoying as of late. The project I’ve been working on is beginning to go online, so we’re finding a lot of the little annoying bugs. At least I didn’t have to go up north again today, I manage to get Mark to let me stay in the office and work on the system via modem. I’ll be happy once this place is up and running.

Oh, and in geek news, in addition to putting together that other system, I’ve also got Interceptor, my SPARCstation 10, up and running NetBSD 1.6.1. I’ve got a couple of issues to work out, since it likes to crash when I insert a wireless card. I hope to replace my Netgear router with it soon.

Well, that’s about all I can remember at this point. I know I’ve left out a ton of stuff, but my brain is drawing a blank on a lot of it.