The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

OooOOoOOoOOo…

| May 31, 2004

So, I'm bored (waiting for Liz to finish her shower so that we can make fondue), and I start looking at cars (specifically the Toyota MR2 Spyder – midlife crisis mobile), and I find: Toyota's future vehicles site. It has: Alessandro Volta Hybrid Supercar 0-60 in 4 seconds, while getting 435 miles out of a [...]

The best quote

| May 25, 2004

From Simon on Friday night: Matt, this is what I love about you. You buy Bombay Sapphire, which is probably one of the best gins on the market, and mix it with Shaw's Tonic Water. That just screams Rhode Islander.

Liz is so awesome

| May 23, 2004

She took such good care of me being sick this weekend. She made me broth, and brought me stuff, and lent me her nice blanket named “winty”, to keep me warm. Today, we saw Shreck 2, got me some shorts at Old Navy, and picked out paint chips for the new apartment. Liz was surprised [...]

Christ, I feel like shit…

| May 22, 2004

's party was last night. I didn't really drink that much last night. Sure, I was drunk, but nothing that would explain this. I had 5 drinks in 4 hours – by the end, I was mixing them strong, so maybe it was more like 7 or 8. So, I was lit. Then we left. [...]

Strange week

| May 8, 2004

Started out normal enough, dealing with customers, like that. Then lots of various important people came out for the quarterly review meetings. Okay, not a problem. I have some meetings about products, all pretty normal. Then, a bunch of sales guys corner my boss and get him to agree to something that, while not very [...]

No paintball this weekend

| May 3, 2004

My mom twisted her knee when she was vacationing, and she seems to have re-injured it, so we won't be playing paintball. We're going to do something else together instead. I was going to post pictures of the mechs that I painted last week, except someone returned my camera with the batteries all drained, despite [...]

A collection of rants

| May 3, 2004

Before you read my LJ, read this essay about Why he hates weblogs. I think I'm a combination of his “Obsessive-Delusional Ranter” and “Tragically Geek”. Why Gentoo is super cool It's the only distro I've used where I can do the installation via ssh from my living room. My latest experience with proprietary software I've [...]