Month: January 2005

Jessica said this today:

(13:49:57) Jess: now I am looking at dogs
(13:50:00) Jess: and I am hungry

Why has the worlds power gone amuck? First Livejournal goes down for a 2 days because of power issues. Now I am reading on Slashdot that a satellite is lost in space because of a power “anomoly.” And at a job I was doing, somehow, the MAIN breaker tripped. Oddly enough, they were all on the 14th to the 15th. I think its a government conspiracy. Go out and buy UPS’s!

I ordered an IBM laptop earlier this week. Tracking info said it would be here Monday, well, today, I walk up to my door and see a box sitting on the steps. I stop for a second, and my mouth drops. I walk up to the box… I quickly bring it inside, and tear it open, then I see it. The IBM logo. I heard angels above me singing. Oh, its sooo nice. Its a P4 2.4, 256MB (but I doubled this already), 30GB, WiFi. Its running XP, but I made room on the partition for Linux. My main OS. My friend also got an IBM laptop a few days ago (but his is a little older). We both played with them tonight. It was funny, someone should have taken a picture of us sitting on the couch staring at our IBMs. I’ll have to post pictures or something.

Did you know that Chuck E. Cheese’s uses Linux?? One of the guys there had opened up a machine (one where you have a screen and you draw or something like that) to reload the paper in the printer (which is just a standard HP LaserJet). Well, he went ahead a reset the machine too I guess, and I couldn’t believe it, on the little screen, it said “Loading Linux…” I was just blown away. It was running RedHat Linux, I am unsure of what version, but I am assuming 6/7/8. The computer looked like a plain Pentium desktop machine. I didn’t get too see much past the beginning of the init loading, because I had to go play a game ;-).