The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

Live from Cali

| January 13, 2004

Weather is warm – 60's-70's and sunny. LA is a smoggy, dirty city. I cannot believe that people grow up and live and die here. We headed north, out of the city, up the Pacific Coastal highway. That was nice. Lots of interesting houses up on the hill. Of course, I have no idea why [...]

Off to Cali

| January 13, 2004

And I have made a discovery – there are hours between 2AM and 7AM. I don't think I like this 5AM time….

Heh. It's like one of my mom's 40k tanks, only bigger

| January 12, 2004

http://www.cubittartists.org.uk/mirpink.html

Microsoft commercials

| January 10, 2004

So, these “we recognize people and their potential” MS commercials piss me off. If they feel that then: – Why do they not include a real office suite with their OS? (Most Linux distros do) – Why do they not include a compiler/IDE with their OS? (OSX and Most Linux distros do) – Why do [...]

Bad computer movies

| January 8, 2004

Fatal Error is the worst computer movie ever.

Fun's over…

| January 8, 2004

I need to quit my job and find something else to do. Maybe jump on the IBM bandwagon, considering that they want to do a corporate migration to Linux over the next year. Meanwhile, where am I? I was working for a company where I thought I could make a difference. It was a daily [...]

Long time, no writes

| January 4, 2004

Sorry folks, been busy having fun. I've managed to only work 4 1/2 days in the past 2 weeks, taking only 3 days of vacation time. This basically gave me 2 4 day weekends in a row. It has been quite relaxing. I cleaned my apartment, played Playstation 2 hung out with Liz, , Sabin [...]