April 2005 Archives

I was looking through the old archiver and found one of the first versions of this site. I'm going to see if I can convert that to a WP template. I love WP. WP is awesome. Thoughts?

I am so totally humiliated, but in a good way. Mike sent me flowers at work while he was away giving that speech in Boston. That was awesome. :)

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Mike's in Boston right now, giving his speech at Harvard. Did I not mention it before? It was up in the air until a few days ago, but they decided to send him down. He's talking about the IPS industry in front of a bunch of Harvard and MIT people. He seemed pretty nervous about it last night. I'm so proud of him, though. How many people can say they've been invited to give a speech at an Ivy League college when they were only 23?

We started talking about engagement rings earlier this week. I was poking around on The Diamond Trading Company's website. They have a neat ring-builder page there, where you can design your ring and find ones that are simliar to it. We aren't getting engaged yet, probably not for quite some time. We do talk about it quite a bit. Mike even knows my idea of the perfect ring - Princess cut, single stone, platinum band. All of that talking got me thinking though, and I decided to do some research into engagement rings.

The original ring wasn't a ring at all. People would tie themselves together with corded rushes in a circular symbol of unity. Eventually, most sources agree that it became more a symbol of slavery. When a man put a ring on a woman's finger, it was because he 'owned' her. Slaves in the Roman empire wore iron rings, and freed slaves wore silver rings. Rings were also once used as part of the dowry, back when the practice of giving a dowry was common. One page even hinted the ring was a bribe for the bride.

Rings weren't always made of precious metals. They've even been known to be made of hair in some cultures, although I'm not sure how long they'd last. Some symbol of eternal commitment, eh? It wasn't even until the 12 century that Pope Innocent III ordered that a band be used in the wedding ceremony. Diamond rings didn't even come into the picture until 1477 (that was the earliest year I could find). For obvious reasons, only rich people had diamond rings.

De Beers was founded 18 years after a diamond mind was found in South Africa, in order to protect the investment of diamond holders. The number of diamonds increased so that it was much easier for the common man to buy one. When sales started dropping, De Beers stepped in and started an advertising campaign, basically saying that an engagement ring isn't an engagement ring without a diamond.

So basically, it's all marketing propaganda. We knew that already, though. I asked a few friends what they thought of engagement rings. Quite a few rejected the idea that an engagment ring had to have a rock to be worth something, but suprisingly, most went along with the idea of spending quite a bit of money on a simple piece of jewelry. It's the most important piece of jewelry a woman ever gets. When a woman tells her friends that she got engaged, the first thing they always ask is to see the ring, and no newly engaged woman wants to hear her friends use the word "cute" or "quaint" when it comes to her ring. In other words, if you're a guy and you plan on getting married, save your money. You'll need it someday. :)

bash.org linked to my code! It's on their xml about page, first link. Well, I'm happy. :)

Today, I get to play angry screaming white bitch. That's my role in this telephone conversation. It's going to go something like this:

Doctor's office: "Hi, how can I help you?"
Me: "RAWWR. RANDI WANTS DRUGS."
Doctor's office: "Excuse me?"
Me: "I have been calling you for TWO FUCKING WEEKS trying to get a fucking refill to my fucking medication, which I kind of REQUIRE due to my EXTREMELY PAINFUL degenerative disc disease. MY FUCKING SPINE IS FALLING APART AND YOU WON'T GIVE ME MY GODDAMN PILLS."
Doctor's office: "Ok, the doctor will call you back to confirm."
Me: "Oh hell no you don't, dumbass bitch. That's the line they've been feeding me every time, if they bother to even answer their fucking phones. I want the doctor on the phone right now, or you better call up Walgreens and give them my prescription information. It's not like I'm asking for Valium. I'm asking for anti-inflammatory. They aren't addictive, you're just a stupid bitch."
Doctor's office: *click*
Me: "fuck."

I desperately need a new doctor, but for that, I'd have to have new insurance. Mike thinks he might be able to get me on his. We'll see.

Tomorrow's my mom's birthday. I ordered her a couple of things online that will appeal to her green thumb. Crabtree & Evelyn++. Anyways, Happy Birthday, mom.

All I do on my weekends is sleep. Last weekend, I know I slept 30 hours in bed. This Friday night, I slept over 14 hours. Saturday night, I slept 12. I always wake up feeling as tired as I was when I first climbed in bed. I hate going to sleep, and I put it off for as long as I can until I just can't fight it anymore. I feel sick almost all the time now. It's like being slightly hungover, an affliction that even my daily guzzling of Pepto Bismol won't solve. I've been having random hot and cold flashes - more hot than cold, but they come on so sudden and so strong.

I don't want to go back to the doctor. They can't tell me anything I haven't already heard. Doctors are only there to give you pills, and pills don't fix anything. Pills are just that last dernier ressort, when it gets so bad I think I'm about to go insane, they offer that brief moment of ataraxia, perfect peace. It's easy to feel like you could go insane when you're always in pain. It's even easier when you hate closing your eyes because you know you're going to fall asleep, and then the dreams will come that you can't make yourself remember, and you're not sure if you want to, anyways.

So there's some drama going down at work. Oddly, it doesn't have to do with the Atlanta crew.

Someone from the Pennsylvania crew has been posting on my blog and mentioning where I work. The last time this happened (a few weeks ago), I had to get HR involved. I've had issues with stalkers showing up at former places of employment, and I really didn't want to have to deal with that bullshit here. Taking a gun to work isn't fun, nor is it generally approved of by management. When I took all of this to HR, I asked them not to do anything yet, I just wanted them to know of the situation. I didn't really want to take it to HR at all, but my boss was CC:ed on an email I was throwing around, and when it was known that the posts had inflammatory remarks about the company I work for, legal had to get involved as well. Comcast has been contacted - oh, did I not mention IP's on this site are logged? Hi, 67.165.73.109. It's a big fuckfest here, folks. Pay $5 to see the show.

Well, they just posted again. They're starting to mention names, and it's really childish. I can understand their hatred of me. They got let go, and I took their jobs. Look guy, I'm sorry that you don't have a job anymore. But why are you attacking me? Get over it, find a new job. Or, if you do want to flame me, that's fine. Join the crew. I also suggest you join #nanog on EFNet. They *love* talking trash about me. They're my own personal hate club. However, mentioning the company I work for and giving out internal information like server names is highly unprofessional.

In short, it's no wonder you're out of a job. Get over yourself.

I wrote a teensy perl script, mainly to get back into the habit of writing in the most annoying language known to man. Oh, and don't even bother commenting on what language you think is worse. I don't care. perl is my personal hell.

Anyways, here's the first little script I wrote in it. It's kind of cute - it pulls a quote from the bash.org db dependant on what args are given. It doesn't use the XML Parser, mainly because I don't like requiring too many perl modules for so small of a file. Here ya go.

Download here: parsebash.pl.gz

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

# getbash.pl
# gets a quote from bash.org
#
# Randi Harper <sektie@freebsdgirl.com>

use IO::File;
use LWP::Simple;
use Getopt::Std;

use strict;

# getBashURL
# creates a URL based on the given arguments.
# takes args:
# type - [random || latest || n]
# args - (args to type, as needed for n.) (NULL is default)
# returns: URL to be queried, 0 on error.

sub getBashURL {
 my ($type, $args) = @_;
 my $bashurl = "http://bash.org/xml/?";

 if ($type eq "random") {
  $bashurl = $bashurl . "random";
 }

 elsif ($type eq "latest") {
  $bashurl = "$bashurl" . "latest";
 }

 elsif ($type eq "n") {
  if ($args ne 0) {
   $bashurl = $bashurl . $args;
  }
  else {
   return;
  }
 }

 else {
  return;
 }

 $bashurl = $bashurl . "&num=1";

 return $bashurl;
}

# getBashFile
# Retrieves the XML file from the bash.org website.
# takes args:
# type - [random || latest || n]
# args - (args to type, as needed for n.) (NULL is default)
# limit - [1 - 5] (1 is default)
# returns: URL to be queried, 0 on error, 1 on bash.org being down.

sub getBashFile {
 my ($type, $args, $limit) = @_;
 my ($content, $bashurl);

 unless (defined ($bashurl = getBashURL($type, $args, $limit))) {
  return;
 }

 unless (defined ($content = get($bashurl))) {
  return;
 }

 return $content;
}

# parseBashFile
# Takes the content of the bash file and parses into a readable format.
# takes args:
# type - [random || latest || n]
# args - (args to type, as needed for n.) (NULL is default)
# limit - [1 - 5] (1 is default)
# returns: URL(s) and quote(s)

sub parseBashFile {
 my ($type, $args, $limit) = @_;
 my ($url, @quotelines);

 my $content = getBashFile($type, $args, $limit);

 my @tmplines = split(/\n/, $content);

 foreach (@tmplines) {
  s/^\s+//;
  s/\s+$//;
  if ($_ =~ /\<item rdf\:about\=\"(.*)\"\>/) {
   $url = $1;
  }
  elsif ($_ =~ /^\<description\>\<\!\[CDATA\[(.*)\]\]\><\/description\>$/) {
   @quotelines = split(/\<br \/\>/, $1);
   foreach (@quotelines) {
    s/\&gt\;/\>/g;
    s/\&lt\;/\</g;
    s/\&quot\;/\"/g;
   }
  }
 }
 return ($url, @quotelines);
}

sub usage {
 print "parsebash.pl v. 1.0\n";
 print " -- Randi Harper <sektie\@freebsdgirl.com>\n";
 print "Usage: parsebash.pl -t <type> -a [args]\n";
 print "\t<type> can be random, n, or latest.\n";
 print "\t[args] is used to request a specific number with n.\n\n";
 print "Examples: parsebash.pl -t random\n";
 print " parsebash.pl -t n -a 42253\n";
}

our ($opt_t, $opt_a);

getopt("ta");

if (!(defined $opt_t)) {
 usage();
 exit;
}

if ($opt_t eq "n" && !(defined $opt_a)) {
 usage();
 exit;
}

my ($url, @quote) = parseBashFile($opt_t, $opt_a);
print "URL: $url\n\n";
foreach (@quote) {
 print "$_\n";
}
print "\n";

I have a job interview today. I'm not really all that nervous, I usually rock the interview. It's only a phone interview, thank god. I just didn't have the energy to get into interview clothes this morning. My "Scan my network and die." tshirt and gap jeans are the standard attire for this Friday. I would have prefered staying in my pajama pants, but that would have been kind of cold. Black silk pants just don't work well in the office.

It's not that I really want to leave my current company, but they aren't giving me much of a choice in the matter. The insurance here sucks. I've probably laid out about $1k this year in medical bills that my insurance wouldn't pay for, and now I'm looking at an obscene amount in dental bills. According to my dentist, my mom took me to some 'crackpot dentist' when I was younger, who did some really horrible work. Now I've got to get 2 root canals. Do you have any idea how much 2 root canals + crowns & caps + misc other stuff costs? I could buy a new motorcycle. If I'm going to be spending this much on teeth, they better be gold plated with spinners. In other words, fuck that shit.

I emailed HR, asking them if there was anything I can do. Since Mike and I are getting this house, all of my spare money is already going towards something else. I told them I'd be willing to pay the difference if they would be willing to contact Aetna to get a better dental plan, or else I was going to need a raise to cover third party insurance. They pretty much told me to bend over and open wide (both ends).

I feel bad that I'm leaving. I haven't put in my 2 weeks yet because I haven't confirmed where it is I'm going. I don't want to fuck over my coworkers. I'm sort of like, THE person for this project, and the other guy is leaving, and I can't be the only person with a knowledge of how to deal with this stuff. I'm going to have to train someone else. I'm also going to have to finish up all of the documentation I've been working on. I just feel like I'm fucking Paul over by even thinking about leaving. Once I leave, if they don't find someone else, all of this is going to fall back on him, and he's already really overworked. Of course I worry about him, he's a coworker and a friend. It's not healthy to be that angry and stressed all the time.

But, wish me luck anyways. If I do get this job, I'm going to have to buy a car. ick. I don't want to own a car. Mike was going to be giving me the Explorer, but that's at least 3 months away. I don't know what I'm going to drive in the meanwhile. Anyone in the ATL have a ghetto-cheap car they want to sell?

I found the pics I put up on the CL ad for my troll. These are (obviously) not me, to all you newcomers.

Oh, but tell them how I really feel, eh?

I am not pleased, not one bit. I was hoping for something revolutionary, but instead we're stuck with another sexist homophobe. I'm looking at possibly converting to catholism, so this irritates me more than it normally would. It's not like I desire to be a female priest, or that I'm gay and want to be accepted by the church. I just think it's wrong. The catholic church needs to catch up with the modern times which within we live. Do you think this pope is going to condone the use of birth control? Hah! As if. Down with women, up with apathy of sexuality!

Fuck the pope.

- Edit -

After writing this, there was some talk in #freebsddrama/EFNet:

[12:32] <sektie> lets see how much hate mail i get for that one.
[12:33] <sei> who cares what catholics think
[12:34] <seinfeld> what's that?
[12:43] <sektie> well, i'm going to be a catholic.
[12:43] <sektie> i want to get married as a catholic to mike. his family is catholic.
[12:43] <sektie> god is god, i guess. religion is just the shady guy that comes to your house at 3 am to drop off the 8ball.

I must have one of these.

I feel poopy. Friday, Mike and I had a fight. I was worried and stressed out because I had just found out that my dad was in a car accident, and I took it out on Mike. My dad is ok, but it was still pretty scary. He's lucky that he didn't come out with worse than a few bumps and bruises. He was in Alabama on a business trip, and 4 high school wrestling team kids were crammed into a little Kia or something. They ran a red light and hit my dad straight on. Dad was going about 25mph and the kids were going 45mph. Everyone came out OK.

Saturday, I was still feeling really tired, and my jaw was hurting. I'm probably going to have to get a root canal on Monday, fun fun. I took Mike's car and went and picked up some goodies, and then we dropped by Mike's house to check on the animals. Dumb whore Christine finally left Matt, good riddance. She went to Arizona, apparently. Her dumb whore mother decided to take her back. Oh, this is going to be great fun. I give her 2 months before she's back whoring to Matt again. After we left the house, we drove to Riverside Park. We had yummy tuna fish & cheese sandwiches and IBC Creme Soda (the kind that comes in a glass bottle). We watched the kids run around, and laid down on a grass hill together to read. He read Maxim, I read Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons, by Lorna Landvik. I was expecting it to be another dumb grocery store girly book, but it's turning out to be pretty good. In some parts, it reminds me of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. If the subject matter isn't necessarily something I'd normally be into, the authors character development and empathy with her own characters more than makes up for it. Totally a worthwhile read. Chad called to let us know he was on his way to drop Nathan off, and after he got lost due to Mike's directions (honestly, I'm not sure why I told Mike to give Chad directions in the first place. Chad would have been better of just consulting the Magic 8 Ball. Mike isn't exactly well known for his sense of direction), he finally showed up and dropped off Nathan. We had a great time at the park, and we stayed until it got dark out. By the time we got home, I was in fairly bad pain due to my spine problems and my wretched jaw, so I fell into bed and passed out for a few hours. I woke up in not much better shape, so I stayed up for a few hours and went back to sleep next to Mike. I love sleeping next to him. He's a big snuggly snoring furry farting teddy bear, and he's all mine.

I don't remember waking up this morning. I was in horrible pain all night. I think I slept for about 14 hours, if not more. When I finally woke up, it was almost time for Nathan's nap time, so when he fell asleep so did I. I've been falling in and out of sleep all day today. I just don't feel myself. Mike isn't here right now. He had to go home to take care of things. Understandable, really. I still miss him.

RJ-45 got poison ivy. If there's not one thing going wrong with her, there's another. She's finally not oozing pus from her skin problems, and now her neck is swollen and horrible from poison ivy. wtf? I didn't even know that dogs could get poison ivy.

Mike and I went to the park for a picnic on Saturday, and Chad dropped Nathan off. Luckily, I had brought my camera along.

riversidepark2005

Small Wood Massager With Two Balls

Here's something to keep an eye on. A bill has been introduced to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to exclude the Internet from the definition of public communications. link. What kind of effect do you think this will have? It's curious to think about. From all that I've found, it appears the bill is likely to go through.

Congrats to GreyBrimstone on his recent engagement.

And now, a IRC snippet for your enjoyment:

<sektie> too many cocks spoil the broth
<sektie> s/cocks/cooks/ or take it how you will
<demian> there is no such thing as "too many cocks"
<sektie> one only has so many orifices
<sektie> although the female body is much more suited for lots of cocks than the male body.
<demian> and people say Intelligent Design is bunk

The troll:

My name is Olga. I just move to Atlanta from Russia for school and to find a husband. I have the attractive figure and know maths very good. English not so good. Email me if you are interests in me.

I was hoping for more penis pictures. Oh, well. Here's some of the emails "Olga" got. I'm ommitting names and emails. Pictures are included.

From: C.W.

I saw your ad on craigslist. I am studying russian, I would be
willing to help you learn english if you help me with russian... also
I am a sweet guy. I am a student at Emory. Let me know if you are
interested in that, we can meet for turkish food at the end of the
week.

From: A.F.

Olga,
you are so beautiful, so sexy, let's have lunch. reply back soon.

From: J.P.

I am very interested in you and would like to meet you sometime...I am 28
and in Atlanta...attached is my pic...

From: J.B.

Hello beautiful lady. Included is a pic, can’t wait to hear from you. –peace-

From: J.C.

Hi Olga, I thought I was going to have to go to Russia to find a woman and here you are. E-mail me back if you want some.

From: G.S.

Yes, I am interested. tell me more

From: J.D.

Would like to know more about you- please email me. I'd like to take you
out, I think. . .

From: J.M.

Hey,

I think you look very pretty in your pictures. I am looking for a wife, not too hard, but still looking. I haven’t really been very impressed with American women. Maybe we can get together for a drink or some coffee. I’m at work right now, but if you want I can send you a picture when I get home.

From: T.T.

Hi Olga...welcome to Atlanta...

You look lovely in your picture...

I am out of town the rest of this week but maybe we could do a lunch when I get back...

From: U.S.

hi olga,
how old are you?

From: C.R.

Olga,

You seem very nice. I bet you have received a bunch of emails, and I hope you get lucky and find a good man.

I have a bunch of great single guy friends, and I also enjoy spending time with foreigners as friends. I have spent a lot of time travelling around europe and especially scandinavia. I receive foreign friends here all the time, and enjoy the different cultures.

We have a big group of friends that goes to baseball games, music, dinner etc. It would be fun to introduce you to them.

I am enclosing my photo just so you can see who I am.

From: R.W.

what are you looking for?

From: J.S.

Hi,
I thought your posting was cute! You did not state what type sweet man you are looking for? Height, Weight, age etc.

I am probably a bit old for you. I am a nice man who treats others with respect. You should not have any problem finding some one.

Take care and good luck.

From: T.J.

i'm interested in seeing those titties. that's for sure.

From: T.C.

Very attractive would love to meet but would like to know a little more about you before I sent a picture

From: J.F.

where are you going to school?

From: I.T.

where are you going to school?

From: M.W.

Hello Olga,
I am visiting the area is a couple of weeks, here is my picture, love to see more of you (pictures), and get to know you,

From: T.P.

You seem to be a true Russian beauty. For what are you looking?

From: R.L.

Hello,

I just might be that person you are looking for. Would you be interested in meeting for a cup of coffee?

From: T.S.

Hi Olga,

I’m sweet and would like to meet you

From: M.H.

Hi Olga,

was browsing through craiglist and happened upon your post, and would
be very interested in getting to know you.

From: P.N.

i like the post, hopefully i will hear back from you !

From: A.B.

Hi Olga,

I have lived in Atlanta for about a year. I don't have a girlfriend and was wondering if you might want to grab a drink. I am 28, 6 feet tall and slim. Where do you live?

From: D.S.

Hi Olga,

Given that you're a very attractive girl, I'm sure you've gotten a bunch of emails already. I figured I'd at least reply even though this is the case. My name is Daniel. I'm 25 years old, and I live in an intown community in Atlanta, GA. I finished college about 2 years ago and started a job in the Atlanta area with a company here in Atlanta. I enjoy camping, snowskiing, playing the piano, and dancing. My faith in Jesus and my involvement in my church are also very important to me.

You said that you don't speak English that well. My church offers a FREE colloquial English class on Sunday nights. The class is specifically targeted towards international students, so it may be a good fit for you. If you are interested, I'd be happy to give you more information. The church is located in midtown and the class is at 5:30pm.

So, how old are you? Where in Russia are you from? What are some things you like to do?

Maybe I'll hear from you soon

From: D.S. (again)

Hi Olga,

***My email is acting up, so if you get more than 1 email similar to this one, I apologize***

Given that you're very attractive, I'm sure you've gotten lots of replies already. The odds that you'll even read this is quite low I'm sure. However, I consider myself at least somewhat of an optimist. My name is Daniel, I'm 25 years old, and I live in the Atlanta area. I've been out of college for about 2 years and now work for a company in this city. I enjoy camping, snowskiing (wish I could do it more but there aren't mountains nearby), playing the piano, boardgames, and church activities. My faith in Jesus Christ is also a very important and integral part of my life.

I noticed that you said you don't speak English very well. Would you like to get better? My church offers FREE colloquial English classes on Sunday nights. They are specifically targeted at international students such as yourself. You may find that this is a great way to meet people and practive your English. I'm actually one of the teachers and would be happy to give you more information if you're interested. The class is at 5:30 pm in Midtown.

Other than that, I can't think of a lot to say. How old are you? What part of Russia are you from? What do you like to do?

Maybe I'll hear from you soon,

P.S. I attached a picture. I'm the one on the right side in the orange shirt.

From: D.C.

Hi, my name is Derrick and my lovelife is at a stand still. I would love to meet you one day. Let me know if that is possible.

From: A.G.

Hi Olga,

I've been in this coutry for quite sometime and am a university professor (29, 5' 8"). You seem to have a cute and nice face. I'd like to know more about you.

Let me know if you're interested...

From: A.B.

Welcome to Atlanta….

Need any assistance with finding your way around this great city?

From: W.J.

Hey there,

I'm very interested. I am a professional model residing in Atlanta.
Here is a link to my homepage with my info/pic.

www.geocities.com/billyboytoy70/homepage.html

I hope to hear from you soon. And yes, I'm very serious.

From: G.B.

Hey Olga, I am very interested. Tell me more about yourself.

From: M.A.

Id eat ya all up... interested? if you are real I would love to meet...we can drink from the samovar

From: V.A.

Hi,

I am a 25 year old professional who is interested in meeting you sometime for a drink. If you are interested, please respond. Thanks.

From: C.D.

You are aware you are going to recieve a bunch of weird messages right? Sorry, this might even be a weird message. No really, how long have you been in Atlanta? Why Atlanta?

I shouldn't really talk, I have only resided here for a short period, I just completed my second month a moment ago. Either way, I would like to chat with you if you contact me back.

From: R.M.

Hello Olga,

I am going to work in Kaliningrad. I need your help in Russian language. I also would like to take a wife. How about we get to gether this week. Please respond.

You look Awesome and clean.

From: F.B.

Nice ad, you sound interesting, if you want to talk let me know.

From: T.J.

saw your ad on craigs and would love to chat with you some more - if you are interested, let me know...i hope to hear from you soon! t

From: J.S.

You seem like a very interesting person that I would like to get to know. I'm looking for a nice girl to get to know and eventually be serious with. I'm a successful businessman here in Atlanta. I'm 25 years old and have my own business that does real well. I do travel around the country and would like to find somebody I can take a long with me. I would def. like to get to know you. You seem like a very nice girl. I like to find someone I can talk with and just be myself.
How old are you if you don't mind me asking? Either way, I'm 5'10 about 155 lbs, atheletic build. I have to hit the gym a little longer to get to where I want too. I've been told many times that I'm good looking and a nice person. I don't have a problem meeting women but I just thought I would give this a try. Let me know if your interested. Thanks. Hope to talk to you soon.

From: M.Z.

Olga,

why don't we go out for some drinks, and save the math issue open until the end of the evening? :-)

Please reply, I am curious enough.

From: B.W.

Hi I just read your ad on Craigslist. I am 5'6 and 135 pounds. I am 26 years old. Many people say I look just like Jet Li. I am located in the Gwinnett area and can come out to see you. If you are interested in a casual encounter please email me back.

From: M.L.

Hello Olga,

My name's Michael. I've been told by a fellow Russian that I have an European education, even if all my classes and learning has happened here in the US. I'm Canadian-American, with an English/Irish/German/Danish background. Are you here from Russia on a student visa? Do you like house and trance?

From: D.B.

Are you still looking?

From: G.J.

I will be in Atlanta for memorial day weekend, it would be nice to see you.

From: R.A.

is this ad for real? If that is you in the picture.. wow.. I am at a loss for words. Welcome to Atlanta. We need more beatiful women here :)

I look forward to hearing back from you.

From: R.C.

Olga you are very beautiful. I live in Gainesville, Georgia just 45 miles north of you.

From: J.H.

Hello Olga!

I am quite a bit older, so you may not have an interest. I am a very sweet and loving man, although I don't make lots and lots of money. I am a writer and teacher and activist; I believe we need to work together to save the world from people.

The following is my text from a Craigslist ad.

Great Heart, Job, Body, and Mind, & I'm Very Good at What I Enjoy - 50

Hello!!!

Note that except for "Great Heart," which anyone sane would put first, my order of evaluation, or priorities, would be the opposite of what I posted, unlike 90+% of women, for whom 'success' is so important, and 'cute' is better than smart, 9 times out of ten, at least at first.

I have a wicked sense of humor, and I'm a fabulous fun companion for all but reactionaries and nazis and anti-intellectuals. That last is a kicker, for a lot of people, I know. The truth is, I'm not interested in women who can't think conceptually, who don't enjoy grappling with the big picture.

If you'd like to converse and see about the possibility of a coalescence of our essences, write to me. Your picture gets mine.

I'd love to meet and hear your story. I'll be glad to send a photo if you think we might have enough in common to try a meeting.

Ciao for now!

From: S.B.

Olga,

Dobro pozholovat v Atlanta! Ya chital vash "personal" na Craigslist i chotel sebya predstavit'. Ya amerikanyets i zhivu v Atlanta, no ya rabotal i zhil na Ukrainye i v Rosii 1989-1996 (i po-etomu govoryu nemnoga po-russki). Ya navyerno slishkom starij (34 goda) byt vam interesno, no menye vsegda interesno vstretit novikh druzyei.

Vsego dobrogo

From: J.N.

Hello Olga,

I am a 43 y/o, div., white, prof. male, 6 ft., 195 lbs., short dark hair, and blue-green eyes. I enjoy working-out, playing tennis, seeing friends, and going out to eat.

I would love to talk further with you and see how things go.

From: B.H.

I would like to find out more about you. I own my own business here in Atlanta. What exactly are you looking for? Hope to hear back soon.

From: M.L.

I would like to find out more about you. I own my own business here in Atlanta. What exactly are you looking for? Hope to hear back soon.

From: P.B.

Hi Gorgeous

Welcome to the U.S. I am looking for a younger girlfriend, and I love spending time with international women. Do you have any interest in a mutually rewarding affair?

From: M.D.

Olga,

I saw your add and I am interested in learning more about you. I am a 27 year old attorney that lives and works in midtown Atlanta. Send me a note and tell me a little more about yourself if you are interested.

From: R.B.

Hi,

You have a very pretty photos, and would like to know more about you. Where are you going to school, where do you live, etc.

From: V.H.

hi Olga,

i moved to atlanta late last year but i do not know a whole lot about the place yet. my brother and i are roomates and for now just working. before this i lived in new york, and before that, ukraine. anyways, if you're ever interested in hanging out, maybe a chat over coffee, i would be interested.

i'm 24 years old, 5'8 tall and i live in alpharetta.

did you move here just for school? what are you studying? how old are you - if you don't mind me asking?

hope to hear from you.

From: R.A.

Hello,

27 single looking to meet someone for fun.. found your id on craigslist and would like to spend
time with you... Love to spend time with russian girl heard many things about them..but not experienced any...so let me
know...

From: R.W.

Hi Olga,

I would definitely like to learn more about you, if you are for real. I studied Russian literature in college, and have always been fascinated by Russian women. I'm 24, 6'3 and 185 lbs, dark hair and blue eyes, and good looking. I would like to hear more about you, and hopefully meet!

From: T.L.

I would be interested. If you have an email adress I can send a picture and you can let me know what you think. Im 5'10" , single , work out daily, a business professional that makes a good living. I am very interested in the Russian culture and you.

From: S.D.

how are you? I liked your picture and would love to learn more about you. where in russia are you from orignailly and where in atlanta are you living now

hope to hear from you soon.

From: R.M.

I would be interested. I was born here..but my Parents are form Lituwania. How old are you? love.

From: L.J.

i was married to a Russian woman before, please email me with your phone number,

From: L.J. (again)

You are beautiful. I would love to marry you. I'm 45 years old and have a Russian Wife before.

From: B.G.

Hello Olga, i am a sweet man, from atlanta. 5'10 170 brown hair blue eyes..over 39. jewish, romantic, adventourous,spontanious, very passionate and affectionate..should i go on.....single and great sence of humor..looking for the same in a women...is that you? if you want to respond to my e-mail you can e-mail me back: [edit] ...take care ...i am very upfront and candid...if you want, you can call me [edit]. got your pic.very very attractive....here is
mine....hope you like.............

From: D.L.

I'M VERY INTERESTED IN SPEAKING WITH YOU.PLEASE LET ME HEAR FROM YOU.I HOPE YOU WON'T FORGET ABOUT ME,SINCE I AM SURE YOU WILL GET MANY RESPONSES,BUT I AM SINCERE.JUST GIVE ME A CHANCE.THANK YOU

From: D.T.

hey whats up ... tell me more about you ... give me a number or something

From: L.A.

Hi Olga!

My grandfather came here from St. Petersburg, although I have grown up here. You're very beautiful, and I'd love to meet you. I've attached my photo. I hope to hear back from you.

From: W.S.

Hi! If you like to make a new friend, feel free to drop me a note:)

From: S.B.

Hey Olga,

I adore Russian women...ya'll are just so real and genuine. I would love to hear more about you.I live in midtown,where do you live. Let me hear from you.

From: R.G.

Hi Olga.

Welcome to Atlanta. I have been living here for 2 years now. Originally from the northern part of the country.

I am currently single and looking. I love the outdoors and like to roller blade, bike and hike. I work as a computer support technician for a medium sized company.

Would love to get to know you.

From: J.H.

I'm
29
5'10"
160
college grad,
good job,
let me know if you're interested?

From: C.H.

hello
Georgus you are

From: N.O.

Olga,

My name is Nick. I've enclosed a pic. I'm interested in knowing more about and I'm in a position to help you financially if you need it. What are you looking for? Let me know.

From: G.B.

Hey Olga, I am very interested in your posting. Tell me more about yourself and send me some more pictures...I'll send you more too.

From: M.C.

hi,,,I'm very interested in perhaps talking to you..my number is [edit]......call me and lets chat. I'm in atlanta.

From: C.B.

Hey there Olga,

You are looking very good, do oyou want some help learning english?

From: B.F.

I am very sweet. You are beautiful! When did you get to Atlanta and do you plan on staying here permanently?

From: J.B.

Hi there....38M, 6'1", 180, brown hair blue eyes.....you open to getting together for drinks & dinner tonight?

From: R.L.

I am interested, would you like to meet?

From: J.G.

I am a 25yr old law student from Acworth, GA. I am 5,10, 150lbs and have red hair and green eyes. I would love to spend the day with y face buried in your pussy sucking on your clit while all of your juices fill my mouth. Or perhaps slowly spreading your lips with the head of my cock and sliding it all th way down inside of you until my balls press
against you lips and your cum squirts out and oozes down my balls. I would love for us to chat more. Feel free to email or call me> my # is 770-367-3396 [not edited because he is gross.]

From: M.B.

I need a wife...... Are you her?

From: E.E.

hello....
when can we meet?

From: J.D.

Olga,

You are a stunning beauty in those photos you posted on Craig's List.

You seem too good to be true!

How long have you been in Atlanta? What type and age of men are you looking for?

From: G.K.

Are you interested in black men?

From: R.A.

Too good to be true but oh well. Hi I'm randy

From: T.S.

I DONT EXPECT TO HEAR FROM YOU BUT I ATTACHED A FEW PICS ANYWAY. IM 29 6'2'' 170 LBS BORN AND RAISED IN GEORGIA

From: S.S.

Hi sweet girl.

I am interested to find a wife and best friend. I live in a very nice beach community in Panama City Beach Florida. I am very romantic and kind. Write back or call soon.

From: W.F.

Hello Olga:

When you finish with the weirdoes, fools and freaks and would like to chat/speak with a southern gentleman then please email me: [edit]. Please do not waste my time!

From: W.F. (again)

I am surprised! This must be a cruel joke! if not email me at: [edit].

From: B.G.

Hi Olga,

I was online planning a trip to Mexico and just popped in to Craig's list to look around. I was suprised to find such a beautiful woman.

Welcome to Atlanta. I have lived in Atlanta for many years and would be happy to give you advice on our city. What will you be studying?

From: J.R.

Is this a marriage of convenience or are you really looking?

From: A.S.

Hello:) whoever you end up with will be a very lucky man. Would love the chance to get to know you. Have a good day and hope to hear from you soon.

From: R.S.

Hello,

I email you from San Diego. here is my pic If you like it Email me.

From: S.H.

are you kidding...reach me immediately

From: S.W.

Hello Olga,

I am interested in a friendship first.

From: J.L.

OLGA
WHAT PART OF ATLANTA DO YOU LIVE ? I WOULD LIKE TO MEET YOU

From: J.D.

You post caught my attention.I'm a sweet guy and I'm good with English. Call me if you wish !

Someone find me a KDE theme that isn't ugly. I don't want to make one myself. It needs to be pink, but not neon pink. And none of that gay linux stuff either. No penguins on my desktop, please.

Mar 31 12:54:05 mojo kernel: umass0: Sony PSP Type A, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2
Mar 31 12:54:05 mojo kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
Mar 31 12:54:05 mojo kernel: da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device
Mar 31 12:54:05 mojo kernel: da0: 1.000MB/s transfers
Mar 31 12:54:05 mojo kernel: da0: 238MB (487936 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 238C)

Neat.

So, I bought a PSP a week or two ago. It didn't come with a USB cable, but it did have a standard mini-USB jack, so I hooked it up to FreeBSD for a bit of hack-and-see. That was surprisingly easy. The memory card can be mounted with the standard mount_msdosfs after you format it with the PSP. You can then copy mp3's or mpeg-4 (providing you have a memory stick big enough to hold a video) over to the appropriate directory. I also transfered over a few jpg's with success. Keep in mind there's the 8.3 filename restriction, proving to be a huge pain when transfering over large numbers of mp3's depending on your naming scheme.

Everything else you've read in a gazillion other reviews. I'm not going to bother to elaborate on my thoughts of the PSP. Suffice to say, I'm selling it to a coworker. I don't just want a gaming machine, I want a portable media player. the PSP is a funktastic portable gaming device, but is more than a little lacking on the media front. Fuck that, I'll buy a new one when the second or third generation hits the streets, and that's only if the price of the 1GB memory duo sticks goes down.

Joel from Gizmodo has talked me into seriously considering the Archos AV400 as a portable media device. It's going to be a while before I buy anything. I've got people to pay, a house to buy, and furniture to drool over. Mike and I worked out our budget last night and picked out some furniture for the new place. I think we're probably going to try to get Nick to move in with us. It'd be nice to have the extra money to buy crap for the house. Blenders and shit. You know, domestics.

Sigh. Domestics.

FreeBSDGirl: Please, please, make buildworld in less than 2 hours. Pretty please?
Server: LOL DONGS.

I blame zb.

I hate gmail. The service by itself isn't bad. It's nothing spectacular, but it's hardly something to jump up and down about. Since the time gmail came into creation, everyone has been jumping up and down about it. OH MY GOD, WEBMAIL! A WHOLE TWO GIGS OF SPACE! HOLY FUCKING CHRIST! BUT DUDE, LOOK AT THE JUNK MAIL FILTERING! Ok, but who is actually going to use that much space with webmail? It's understandable if you've got mailing lists, but using that interface to filter through a lot of mailing list traffic would just completely blow. If you are using up that much space and bandwidth for email, you should be using more than a webmail service to manage it.

The webmail client itself isn't all that fabulous. It's not bad, but nothing I'd write home to mom about. BUT DUDE, LOOK AT THE JUNK MAIL FILTERING! Whatever. Spamassassin does just fine for me. And spamassassin is just so much more fun to say. Spamassassin. heheheh.

The only somewhat cool functionality that came out of all of this as far as I can tell is gmailfs. It's got limited uses, but it's still nice in theory.

GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium. GmailFS is a Python application and uses the FUSE userland filesystem infrastructure to help provide the filesystem, and libgmail to communicate with Gmail.

GmailFS supports most file operations such as read, write, open, close, stat, symlink, link, unlink, truncate and rename. This means that you can use all your favourite unix command line tools to operate on files stored on Gmail (e.g. cp, ls, mv, rm, ln, grep etc. etc.).

What bothers me is that everyones mentality is that google can only shit golden nuggets. Yes, google is cool. It does not mean you need to slit your wrists if you aren't part of the beta group for the newest meme. Better yet, do slit your wrists. Remove yourself from my radar.

<3 sektie@gmail.com <3

I arrived at work late. Let's not even get into what happened last night/this morning to keep me from getting to work on time today. It's long and complicated, and not anything you haven't heard before. Back pain is fun!

Our keyserver's hard drive started spitting out all kinds of fun read errors the day before, so I had already started on building a new server. I finished up most of it last night. Updated it to 5.4-STABLE, cvsup'ed ports, moved the proper keys over, updated the hosts file, etc. I started the make world/kernel, which took all of 6 hours. You'd think that for the beast of a box (4U!) it appeared to be, it would have had more processing power than a PIII 500 - nope. It'd make a great server to throw at someone though, maybe with a crane. Or maybe it could act as an emergency break - throw it out the window when the brakes in your car fail. I could probably fit my dog inside there, or use it as a box to keep hats in. It would make a good chair for a midget, although slightly uncomfortable. At least it had a 60GB HD in it. Anyways, when I got to work today, all that remained was for me to setup procmail and the nightly cron jobs and aquire and set up a new server. Before, our keyserver was also acting as our cvsup server. It wasn't the best idea in the world, and it's probably what caused the hard drive to crap out even faster. CVSup isn't exactly known for being easy on disk read/write's. Work with what you've got, I guess.

So I start asking around, seeing if we have any spare hard drives. That way I could use the existing key server (still a piece of crap, but at least I knew it mostly worked) and pop a new hard drive in. It turns out all we had were SCSI drives, and that box (an IBM desktop) only took IDE. I just want some freaking 1U's. C'mon. Cheap ass 1U's. Desktops should not be made into servers. Anyways, so no go with the HD's. I looked into maybe stealing one of the spare servers. I started pondering popping FreeBSD/sparc on one of those sun 220r's, but decided against it. I plan on using those for my UNIX WALL OF BEWILDERMENT AND DEATH. I'll talk more about my UNIX WALL OF BEWILDERMENT AND DEATH some other time. Herm plopped a Dell PowerEdge 1300 tower down on the floor and told me I could use it. Hot! It's a PIII 600mhz. Oh boy, we're really working with the bestest technology evar! Unfortunately, it had a 10GB HD in it. While I could technically use that as the CVSUp server, I'd rather not.

Herm: You have to fill out a purchase request.
Me: What for? We didn't have to purchase anything.
Herm: No, we need a purchase request so we can buy a HD for the old keyserver.
Me: Cool, ok. So then I can use that server for something else.
Herm: I was going to take it...
Me: Then you fill out the goddamn form.
Herm: I don't want to, I gave you the other server.
Me: I want the old keyserver.
Herm: Then give me back that other server.
Me: WHERE IS YOUR KNIFE, I'M GOING TO START CUTTING.

So now, I've got some work cut out for me tonight. I got 5.3 installed on this wannabe server, and I'm going to attempt to get it updated to 5.4 tonight. Let's hope the build doesn't take 8 years. CVSup-mirror is installed on the new server that was supposed to be the new keyserver, and now this server is going to end up being the keyserver. God, all of this is such a pain in the ass. At least it gave me something constructive and somewhat mind-numbing to do. It's far from being difficult work.

I got to do random things today, too. We moved the ultra10 I was working on into the DC, fixed some dumbass perl script, and talked about tentacle sex and made fun of olene. Tomorrow I have to work on building a sun server to get used to the build process for one of our bigger companies. I'm not looking forward to it. I'm really starting to hate Solaris a lot. Maybe it's just because I'm not used to it, or because I think their keyboards are weird. I can't keep myself from hitting capslock. CTRL IS SUPPOSED TO BE THERE, TWATS.

Oooo, nice thought. I still have that Netra T1 at home that I borrowed from work. I could pop FreeBSD/sparc on it, and use it at work. That would be grand. I can't remember, isn't the Netra T1 headless? I'll bring one of the serial cables home with me. Yay.

Setting up the boxes with all the little custom crap I do isn't that straining. I've written shell scripts to handle most of it - installing the proper packages, cvsup'ing, setting up the make.conf and rc.conf. The pain is just waiting for stuff to compile. Gnarr. Looks like I'm going to be stuck here for a while. My coworker/roommate is taking bloody forever. Important meetings, pfft.

Also, konqueror sucks ass. I don't know what they were thinking.

Mike came back into town yesterday, and I finally got laid. Yay! During post-coital snuggles/shower, I came up with this idea which at the time I thought was great. Turns out it isn't, but it's a little glimpse into the wonderful crap infested pit that is my mind. Remember the clapper? You'd clap your hands and the lights would turn on and off. What if the same idea was applied to the volume on the TV? Any time a clapping sound was made, the volume would get higher. This would be great for wife beaters. Every time you hit her, while her screaming would get louder, so would the volume on the TV....

They'd call it the slapper.

Ugh, it's not nearly as amusing now, but it was at the time. I guess you had to be there.

Anyone know much about this site? They seem unbelievably cheap. They are an amazon.com associate, for what little that is worth. $200 DVD sets for $20 seems a bit too good to be true to me.

I think that's what this is. I'm not actually sure. I haven't really done anything since Friday night, and even then it wasn't much. I feel like I'm about to jump out of my skin, I'm so aggravated. Maybe I've been through withdrawal before and just not noticed it. Being around people seems to make it better. None of my friends were able to come over last night nor tonight, so I'm stuck by myself again. All of this combined with the beginnings of a cold and missing Mike is making my day supremely suck. I want drugs. No, I want people. Who cares, it's all the same thing.

http://atlanta.craigslist.org/w4m/66884851.html.

And the responses keep pouring in. Penis pictures soon to follow.

After an excess of frustration on the okcupid community, I posted to the "Booty Call" message board.

*** New IM from boomjosh.
boomjosh: have u ever had an orgasm
FreeBSDGirl: Did you even bother reading my profile, or are you being deliberately obtuse?

Would you rather be safe or interesting?

Heard on TV: "Now, we are going to mount the wench with quarter inch nuts."

Rock!!!