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9 o'clock, January 28, 2003

Yes, Morlock (morlock.chrononaut.org, the server this is running on) was inexplicably down from about one this morning till a couple of hours ago, or at least its Ethernet connection was. This is what I get for buying five-year-old refurbished hardware. One of these years I will decide that a new server is as reasonable an impulse buy as, say an intercontinental airplane ticket, and maybe this will stop happening. (Times like this it would be handy to be able to channel the fifteen-year-old self that actually enjoyed taking computers apart.)

Comments

I think a David who buys an intercontinental plane ticket on impulse is much more interesting than a David who buys a new server on impulse.

—— Greg van Eekhout, 8:26 AM, Wednesday, January 29, 2003

Me, too.

—— David Moles, 9:58 AM, Wednesday, January 29, 2003

My hubby tends to go a little wacked in Fry's. He'll pick up a new sound card on this trip, a new video card the next time, a second hard drive to set up a RAID array....

Our house is full of Frankenstein machines, cobbled together from the old parts of updated computers. He's currently in the process of wiring the house so we can have networked gaming in every room (except the bathrooms -- I hope!)

—— Rachel Heslin, 10:28 AM, Wednesday, January 29, 2003

Y'know, I used to enjoy tinkering with that stuff. I really did.

Now I just want it to     ing work already.

(And yet I work for a software company.)

—— David Moles, 2:31 PM, Wednesday, January 29, 2003

The ability to buy plane tickets on impulse, or even with some planning for the purpose of things like going to toad the wet sprocket reunion concerts, is one of the things i'll miss if i get into a graduate program and stop working.

Doesn't mean i'll miss it enough to not do it, though.

—— aphrael, 11:19 AM, Thursday, January 30, 2003

Well, you could do what I did, which was just put it all on Visa. :) I still haven't decided whether or not that was really the right way to do.

—— David Moles, 11:25 AM, Thursday, January 30, 2003