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April 2006 Archives
If you google for "self loathing" (including quotes), I'm result #8. I saw this and nearly fell off my desk. Well, I guess I can't bitch too much. I'm the first result for Egotistical FreeBSD Female. Can't win 'em all.
Some of ya'll might find this handy: alt.seduction.fast FAQ. It's actually pretty true, which is the sad part. Die, stupid females.
Made it through the first Google interview. Have a second Google interview tomorrow morning at 10:00 AM. As if it wasn't bad enough that I'd been up all night coding before the first interview, now they are really going to think I'm tardalicious since I don't ever make much sense before noon. Go me! The first interviewer actually read my blog before interviewing me. I guess I can't say much, being as how I googled him.
Well, the Google thing has been explained. The person scheduled to interview me was someone I knew from #freebsdhelp/efnet, so he couldn't interview me. Bias and all. It's probably for the best, as I think I've managed to piss off everyone in that channel at some point when I used to frequent it a few years ago.
My interview is rescheduled for tomorrow with someone here in Atlanta. If I do take a job there, it means I'm going to be stuck here at least another year, until I can get them to transfer me to California. I'll be putting myself into a position I won't be able to escape. I don't know how I feel about that. I've been kicking around the idea of leaving here for quite some time. I'm not big on the idea of running away, but sometimes it's the easiest way out of a situation. This place hasn't felt like home in a long time. I haven't started over in a new place since I was 18. It feels like it's about that time.
I haven't bothered buying my return ticket from BSDcan yet. I'm thinking about taking an extended vacation, flying around to see various friends here on the east coast. I work from home, so it's entirely feasible. Airtran is pretty cheap.
I guess I'll see what happens in the next few weeks. I wish everyone here would just stop talking. No one understands the value of silence, and they keep questioning why I never say much anymore. I'm just tired, and I need a vacation.
Being as how they are now running 20 minutes late, I'm thinking this is the second time they have "forgotten" my phone interview. The first time was the day Google Calendar came out. (heh.) I mean, it's not like they even gave me much advance notice this time. I got the email at 1 AM. I've been busting ass all day on other things, so I had to move a bunch of things around so I'd have time for this bloody interview.
Yeah, so Google, what's up with that? Are you angry because I dissed your support team as well as gtalk?
Going to all the effort of fixing this crap makes me think of mall grannies. I know you must have witnessed this phenomenon. They dress in bright blue nylon windsuits year round, almost as if they're trying to damage their health so they have even more things about which to complain. If nothing else, you can't miss the swoosh swoosh swoosh of their nylon clad thighs as they hurry past all the disgruntled shoppers.
What are they hurrying for, anyway? Maybe they feel compelled to walk 8 laps before Matlock so they don't feel so bad about sitting around watching TV as their bodies degenerate even further. Maybe they just can't get enough of the excitement and bustle of so many people, or maybe they walk to catch another glimpse of the brightly lit window displays, in the same way that a goldfish keeps getting excited about the little scuba guy in the bottom of his tank. At least if you lack the ability to remember anything past a few seconds, you'll never be bored.
They aren't all that old, though. The age group is usually between 50-75, although sometimes you'll see a lone harried looking soccer mom getting an early start... or maybe she's just trying to get to her car before her kids find out she's left them at the KB Kids Toy Store.
God, I'm tired.
Well, the moral of this story is that fixing bad perl is just like speedwalking in the mall; there's little to no point in it, and I'd rather be shopping.
root@fs01 ~> df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/twed0s1a 496M 56M 400M 12% /
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
/dev/twed0s1e 496M 40K 456M 0% /tmp
/dev/twed0s1f 292G 262G 7.3G 97% /usr
/dev/twed0s1d 1.4G 637M 716M 47% /var
/dev/ad4 184G 169G 326M 100% /exports/hd2
/dev/ad5 111G 39G 63G 39% /exports/hd3
/dev/ad6 226G 196G 12G 94% /exports/hd4
/dev/ad7 226G 208G 623M 100% /exports/hd5
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /var/named/dev
fs03:/exports/hd1 82G 62G 20G 76% /host/fs03/hd1
fs03:/exports/hd2 233G 233G 124M 100% /host/fs03/hd2
fs03:/exports/hd3 93G 74G 20G 79% /host/fs03/hd3
fs03:/exports/hd4 75G 52G 22G 70% /host/fs03/hd4
//SEKTIE@TART/HD2 559G 549G 10G 98% /host/tart/hd2
//SEKTIE@TART/HD3 149G 41G 108G 28% /host/tart/hd3
greed:/mnt/sdb 458G 282G 153G 65% /host/greed/hd1
It's hard to write a blog entry in console. Links just doesn't give full justice to the wordpress admin panel, and I can't install the guified version due to svgalib not being supported on AMD64.
Story of my fucking life. Nothing is supported for AMD64. For example, take the nvidia driver. I'm being forced to use the xorg nv(4x) driver, which is just gross. I can't even get higher than 1280x1024 because it's "larger than BIOS programmed panel size". There's no way to force this, from what I've been able to tell so far. Gross, gross, gross.
What good is having a shiny new Samsung SyncMaster 204B if I can't run it in 1600x1200? Hm?
Flying back to Charlotte today.
*grunt*
It's too early.
Gotta get a ride to the bank to deposit some money; I heard that the airlines won't let a ticket be purchased in cash. I need to put some money in my account to pay off a few debts anyways, so the trip won't be only for that single annoyance. This trip shouldn't take too long. I'm consulting for the same company again, probably a 4 week project, but I'll be able to do it from Atlanta. This makes me happy, because that hotel room in Charlotte was getting pretty boring.
Understanding the Linux Kernel, Second Edition (Bovet & Cesati, O'Reilly)
Learning Python, Second Edition (Lutz & Ascher, O'Reilly)
Twisted Network Programming Essentials (Fettig, O'Reilly)
I've got a job interview coming up that requires I have knowledge of Linux and Python. It's been a few years since I've really used Linux, and I think the Linux book I got could help me in some other non-linuxy aspects, as well. I've never even touched Python, but I already know Perl, so how hard could it be?
Write Great Code, Volume 2: Thinking Low Level, Writing High Level (Hyde, No Starch Press)
I don't have Volume One, but I'm a smart girl, so I can probably get by without it. ;)
The Templar Legacy: A Novel (Berry, Ballantine Books)
Because the Knights Templar were badasses.
Tanis: The Shadow Years (Siegel & Siegel, Wizards of the Coast)
Dragons in the Archives: Celebrating 20 Years of Dragonlance (Weis & Hickman, Wizards of the Coast)
... I put on my robe and wizard hat ...
The Dogs of Babel: A Novel (Parkhurst, Back Bay Books)
The Wedding (Sparks, Warner Books)
Vanity Fair (Thackeray, Penguin Classics)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde, Penguin Classics)
Emma (Austen, Penguin Classics)
I meant to pick up more Jane Austen - she's one of my favorite authors - but Thackeray won out. I've never read Vanity Fair, but I heard they are making a movie out of it. Let's hope it's not another typical classical-work-gone-Hollywood tragedy. Of course, no one plays Romeo quite like Leonardo DiCaprio. That's the only hollywoodization I've ever been able to stomache.
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Maguire, Harper Collins)
While I was searching for this at Amazon to link to it, I found links to a few other cool books that I'll have to pick up. Wicked Cool Perl Scripts and Son of a Witch: A Novel.
I also picked up Naked (Sedaris, Bay Back Books), but Mike is borrowing it. I guessed he would love Sedaris, and judging by him almost running us both off the road while I was reading the first chapter aloud to him, I was correct.
...you wake up and you have no link light.
I sure am. I feel like a 4 year old going to her first Easter Sunday at church. Looks can be deceiving.
I'm buying my plane tickets for BSDCan 2006 Monday. This means I also have to go apply for a passport - fun stuff. Passports have gotten expensive! I think I may have to get a rush order on one, and I don't even want to think about what that's going to cost.
So no, I'm not getting married at BSDCan, but I'm still going. I'll be going by myself. Fuck yeah. This means I've got to go shopping... I don't have anything suitable to wear. And I need to get my hair done. My roots are starting to show. I seriously hate this time of year. My hair grows absurdly fast. I started eating a lot of bananas because I remember reading something about it helping with excessive bruising, a problem I've always had with my glow-in-the-dark skin. Apparently bananas also make hair grow really fucking fast. Hell. I preferred the bruising. At least bruises don't cost me $120 every 3 weeks.
Because I'm kind of splurging on this trip (let's face it, it's not the most responsible thing to be doing since I'm unemployed, but I need something to cheer me up), I'm not getting a laptop. This means I've got to find a loaner laptop to take with me. I'm not putting my poor powerbook through more abuse. It barely turns on as it is. That poor thing has seen more abuse since...well, since me when I stayed with Alfred in SF for the 10 year anniversary FreeBSD party. Heh. Remember that? Good times, good times.
