Rollingskull

NICKEY NICKEY YEEEEE HAAAAAA!

that is all.

Ya know I think my absolute favorite music is the kind of music that just fills a room with complex rythms and seems equally at home front and center as it does in the background.

A good example of this is Pink Floyd (which just happens to be qued up in iTunes right now) another example of this is TOOL… OK most of TOOL’s stuff doesn’t fall into this catagorey. But when I’m alone (as I often am) and I’m needing something loud to play it’s TOOL. Another good one is Led Zepplin. Didn’t really get into Led Zepplin until after College but I find it some times is just the thing I need to have on in the back ground when I’m doing something.

Little known secret when I’m working in LINUX I generally have Led Zepplin cranked.

Sure sign you are a geek and the people you are hanging out with are geeks.

So there I was, Phoenix Arizona at Curti’s apartment we have just finished a 6 hour game of Axis and Allies (last time it was 12 so we are doing really well this time). We get done playing and it’s still really early so we say lets play poker. Then a most odd thing happens we all look at each other and go. “Do you know how to play poker?” Quicker then you can say Quake 3 death match laptop is out and Curtis is on his computer. A quick googling of “Texas hold em rules” turns up the rules for Texas hold (gee imagine that) and one click down a description of the various types of hands you can have. SCORE!

Mind you there were 4 of us and Don used to goto Vegas on a regular basis. Of course he played the Craps tables. Oh and in true Engineer fashion Don and a roommate figured out what bets on the craps table are the best and the amount of money you should be playing with.

No I won’t tell you… You have to do the math yourself. And it’s alot of math so you had better get cracking.

The power that is the geek at home alone with materials at hand and time…

Yes I know I only hung 2 pictures… however I’ve lived in my house for damn near 3 years.

Get off my case… it’s not like I like to decorate.

Ever look through the bottom of a empty bottle of guiness? No? You really should… it’s very intersting to see what is on the other side of bottle of guiness.

Mainly the thing that worries me is the “sprocket” in the said bottle of guiness, has that every fallen out and some one choked on it? I’m mean I’m sure it’s been tested by the fine folks who make guiness to make sure that it doesn’t come out.

Really what does the sprocket do? I know it’s supposed to give guiness that straight from the tap taste however I can’t tell a diffrence between guiness from a tap and guiness from a bottle… OK so maybe they did succeed…

Mmmm guiness in a glass… now that is truly heaven on earth. Or at least heaven in a glass.

I’m sitting here watching tv with my laptop setup on the coffee table and I’m watching videos on launch during the commercials…

OK now if I can do this today with a crappy internet connection why can’t Curtis who has a decent internet connection que up something to watch while his shows are on commercial?

Even better yet why haven’t hit the point of on demand Television? I mean above and beyond the on demand movies you can get with “digital cable” seriously. More then a few people that I know just download their television shows they don’t even watch Tv anymore… appointment television is not where it is at.

A solid 1mb connection and you can watch a show streaming in real time.. and I know the technology is out there hell real player and apple have it… I should be able to stream a catalog of Battlestar Galactica shows to my TV from Sci-Fi to my TV when I want I shouldn’t have to wait until friday at 11 o’clock.

it’s not that hard we have the technology we have the infastructure we can do it.

AND NO A PVR/DVR/TIVO WILL NOT DO IT FOR ME!

You know your a bachelor when….

Hemostats aren’t just for stopping massive amounts of bleeding, they also make handy clips to close your tortilla chips with

A Guiness for dinner is perfectly acceptable

A Fat Tire for Desert is also equally acceptable

You house has a strange odor and you think nothing of it.

It’s no longer a matter of having enough computers it’s now a matter of having to many computers

Not having any mail, phone calls, email, or any type of outside communication is not unusual (ok this may just be a me thing)

Chips, Cookies, Beer, and Water are the 4 major food groups

Appointment television is for squares (ok this is really more of a geek thing then a bachelor thing)

Cleaning the house is a bi-monthly event

Cleaning the bathroom is a bi-weekly event most of the time

You talk to yourself

You have arguments with yourself

And lose

Playing EVE tonight….

Got my ass handed to me… not so much of a fight as this other player just came up on top of me and started pounding my ship.

The only reason I’m writing about this is because it took me two weeks to get the ship set up like I wanted it… and it was blown to pieces in less then 30 seconds.

Back to the drawing board.

In the spiritual not the physically sense of the word…

NO I’m not talking about God either.

Though if you listen to nine inch nails you may have your own thoughts as to whether or not God is dead. But I digress.

I had the task today of cleaning out Adams office at work today. It sucked rather badly for me… Not because there was a lot of stuff to go through or I just didn’t want to do it. More it felt like I was taking down the last reminds of the dept that was.

When I came to the hospital 3 and a half years ago now… Adam and Shawn were the ones who took me under their wings and tried to make me feel welcome. Granted they had known me previously but still it was the effort that counted and I was always thankful for that. I think had they not been there I wouldn’t have lasted a year at KRMC. Being fresh out of school I knew enough to be dangerous but not enough to be helpfull. Adam workd to rectify that over the course of several months teaching me things not only techinally but socially and politically that I value beyond accord today.

I thought of Adam as not only a coworker but also a friend.

When Adam left KRMC for a new job I took it particularly hard. In retrospect I probally should have seen it coming. I always figured I would leave before Adam would. I didn’t think he would leave first. Since Adam left in September I’ve talked to him a few times. But something changed and I couldn’t figure it out until today.

So while cleaning out a office filled with sales materials and half used legal pads full of notes I today realized that I should be thankful for the time I had and make the most out of my experiences from the past in the future.

Adam if you ever happen to read this… Next time I will show you how a real operating system works 🙂

DAMMIT I LOVE GOOGLE!!

http://www.kalsey.com/tools/buttonmaker/

This is what I was babbling about earlier.

So there I was… surfing the internet. Yes I know real exciting. But it’s my blog and your the one reading this drivel. Anyway I was over at Wil Wheaton’s blog… and I notice these “buttons” and they are links to other sites he blogs for. Now a while back he posted a link to a place on the internet that would generate these buttons for you. I gotta say I’m really happy that I didn’t follow the link, I’ve been seeing them more and more in the ol’ blog o’sphere more on blogspot then in livejournal or any other spots. Mainly they seem to be a some sort of cutesy way to affilate yourself with another blog or two.

Ok I will bite says I after getting pissed off at half-life tonight. So I put in “blog stickers” into google and come up with http://www.blogstickers.com/ great… and it’s not even what I thought they would be. OH well that is what you get when you are strung out on hershey’s choclate, have been playing to many video games, and generally have a very quiet night geeking out.

Yeah don’t you feel special…