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87,648 hours….

My oh my look at how time flies.

Yes ten years ago my parents came kicking and screaming into the 20th century. They got the internet. We were far from the last family in town to get the internet but the first of the people I knew and worked with.

Curtis you don’t count… I didn’t start dealing with you until after this event.

How do I know this much less remember this? It’s easy. I was helping my dad try to find “the damned election results” for two people he knew that were running for office. I think both of them lost but that is my first definitive memory of helping someone find something on the internet.

Yes in those days we were styling with our 80486SX/8MB/220MBHD w/ a 12inch color monitor. Windows 3.1 and Dos 6.2

Yes it was ancient even then… I got my first computer that was truly mine about a month later as a early graduation gift.

OH and don’t forget the 28.8k modem on both of them 🙂

7 computers later…. I think I need another upgrade.

So hug your loved ones and remember it could be worse we could all be using some mix betweenm minitel and aol

The love below

The love at work… the following is a email exchange from work… I know I have a strict don’t talk about work error.   I’m going to make a exception in this case since I got a good chuckle.

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Tom, I need to find you a XX Chromosome fast.  Thinking like this will give you ulcers.. Then again, so will an XX chromosome, so you might be OK>>

Nathan
 

—–Original Message—–
From: Tom
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 8:27 AM
To: ‘VICK’;Greg; Nathan
Cc: Victoria
Subject: RE: bonjour from france

It’s 5am according to this email…

So that means it’s about 2:15 pm local time in France…

Which means that your flight probably leaves after 2:45PM local time… In France

According to Yahoo there are 5 direct flights from Paris to Houston… I know that you try to do direct flights whenever you can…

There are two flights that leave France after 2:45… One is a Air France the other is a Delta flight.  

We know that typically you like to fly American based airlines when you can… So I’m going to say your on a Delta Flight…

That flight arrives in Houston at 7:35 PM –> 5:35 Az time…

So after that… I’m going to guess that it’s a 8 or 9 pm flight from Texas to AZ… So 6 or 7 local time. 

That puts you at sky harbor at ~9pm local time. 

…….

Your going to be late to work tomorrow aren’t you?

Tom

—–Original Message—–
From: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 5:10 AM
To:Greg; Nathan; Tom
Subject: bonjour from france

online at Chas De Gaulle airport waiting for Air France flight to Houston.
Ready to sleep in my own bed, sad to leave Italian countryside, definitely not ready to return to work. Dan has kept me up to speed on the snails pace for test system, but you guys have been very quite…hope that,s a good sign. This Frence keyborrd is the worst, the A  is a Q, the M is a , the Q is an A… sacre blu!!!!! vick

My god captain it’s massive!

And I’m not talking about Curtis….

Son of a Ardvark…. I feel icky…. I haven’t this icky since I heard the term “He fondled the box of chocolates”

Ok if you are really confused… read the post just below this one then read the opening line again… it may make more sense, just know that it’s me and that it’s just this thing I call a personality.

Who knew I had one?

And no this isn’t not a “beer flavored blog” this is brought to you with me hopped up on water and saltines.

So I haven’t talked about EVE recently… EVE the Game not Eve the blogger. You really should read Eve the bloggers blog though… it is insightful and unlike mine she posts stuff that you might actually find useful.

OK so getting back to EVE the game, as you all know (or maybe not) this is a space based game with various types and classes of ships. The largest and most powerful of these ships is called a “Titan” they cost 100’s of billions of in game currency and several months in real time to build. This week the first player produced Titan was revealed (keep with me I promise it’s going to get better). So in the unveiling video they have this song going on in the background…

Hey that song is pretty good I think to myself….

Hey it’s the opening music to House! (about the only show I watch other then CSI that isn’t on Sci-Fi)

I fastforward through the video… the ships impressive but once you’ve seen on big ass ship you’ve seen them all. The song is by “Massive Attack” now I have heard of them before I just have never listened to them.

So I do what any self respecting music lover does… I jump on iTunes and sure enough their entire catalog is out there. I find the song in question (it’s called “Teardrop” if you were wondering). I proceed to buy the album.

Yes I know it’s iTunes… I know I can buy just the song I want but I find that I enjoy the music much more if I get the entire album. Some of my favorite songs were never released as singles… Heresey by NIN, Like Suicide by Soundgarden, You Are by Pearl Jam, No Quater (cover) by TOOL (Odd that my favorite TOOL song is a cover of a Led Zeplin song huh?)

Anyway I’ve been digging the album as a whole… I don’t have any “Trip-Hop” but this is generally in that vaine of electronic music that I like. It’s not as in your face as The Crystal Method were with Legion of Boom… more Vegas on a couple of those tracks… The one with the moon clips comes to mind off the top of my head.

OH and if you would like to see the really big space ship that is in the game I play follow the link: http://dl.eve-files.com/media/0609/newdawn.wmv