May 2006 Archives

I'll be the first to admit, I'm not the most patient person in the world. I will gladly sit in a queue for Warsong Gulch for two hours to get my Alliance ass-kicking on (FROST SHOCK!), but sitting by the phone is not my thing.

I had my Google on-site interview last week. These guys have the most drawn out interview process ever. I've had 2 phone interviews, each lasting an hour, and the on-site interview lasted about 3.5 hours. I felt like I wanted to start crying near the end of it. One of the guys found my weak point (networking) and started nailing me on it with questions asking about packet headers and whatnot. I want to work with him, now. I want to eat his brains. So I sit here waiting somewhat patiently. I know that with the exception of the guy that nailed me on networking, I did pretty well. I was feeling pretty good about all of it up until that point. Hopefully I'll know something by later this week.

My Macbook Pro has its first dent. Google Boy knocked it off the end of the couch, then lied about it, telling me that it was fine. He changed his story a few seconds later, saying that it didn't fall, it slid. He's a shitty liar, and I'm pissed. I'll be the first to admit that I'm hell on laptops, but I've been very careful with this one since I first got it, and he's the first person to damage it in any way. He drops his sometimes and it's no big deal, but that's because he didn't spend 2.5k on his. No, work got it for him. Fuckhead. I can't even look at him without wanting to rip his head off and feed it to a murlock.

karma from #bifemunix on EFNet clued me into some new behaviour introduced in FreeBSD 6.1: rc scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d must end in '.sh', or they will be ignored at boot. I wondered why mysql-server hadn't started after updating to the latest version and rebooting. :)

satu from the FreeSBIE project pointed out the MacSaber to me. Turn your Macbook into a Light Saber. Cute!

EFI is cool and all, but it would be nice if I could get FreeBSD working. Also, fuck the dock with it's bouncing icons, and fuck Finder which has so many annoying traits that I don't even know which one to pick on first.

I installed Boot Camp and succesfully installed Windows XP (um, yay?), but then it occured to me that since WoW has an OSX port, there's hardly any point to running Windows anymore.

I popped a 6.1 CD into the drive and rebooted, then pressed the option key during boot to bring up the boot prompt. I selected the CD-ROM drive, got past the loader and boot menu, but shortly after loading the initial modules (acpi), the spinner froze. I didn't think it was an ACPI problem - after all, ACPI usually makes things crash in a horrifyingly spectacular fashion - so I disabled ACPI from the boot menu, but the results were the same. Although I'm fairly certain the cdboot patch was for the 6.x branch, maybe I should try -CURRENT?

This is going to be a fun day.

I'm tired of being sick. Fucking ovaries. I don't need 'em, anyways.

Pictures from BSDCan

It appears I passed my two phone interviews with Teh Google, so now I've got an in-face interview...sometime. They still haven't given me a time. Mhmm. I thought I did pretty horribly on my second interview, but it's not like I know what they are looking for. It's a SA position, and I'm more of a coderish person now, but I'll probably hear more about it when Italk to the team. NDA's galore.

I'm finally on skype (sektie), so I suppose I've unsuccessfully ignored Yet Another Internet Fad. Only troll me if you're entertaining.

<sektie> the glare of the sun off my own skin is triggering the sensor in my macbook that dims the display
<sektie> this is fucking with me
<MrZodiac> submit a apple support request
<MrZodiac> "I'm too white to use apple"

Airport Security - "Can you please follow us? We need to search your bags. You've been randomly selected, it's nothing to worry about."

FreeBSDGirl - "I'm always randomly selected. Last time they wouldn't give me a full cavity search. Can I get one this time? And I'd enjoy it a lot more if it could be out here, in front of everyone. :)"

Airport Security - "Uh, no. Do you have drugs on your person?"

FreeBSDGirl - "Only Valium. Why, do you?"

Airport Security - <blank stare>

I'm leaving to catch a plane to see Brian in DC in just a few hours. Packing a weeks worth of stuff is harder than I thought it'd be. I keep remembering more things I need after I've already struggled to close the bags, like my thermal straightener, daemon horns, pink diesels, phone charger... it's getting crazy around here. I may have to pay to have another bag on the plane with me. Argh!

<h8> wow the new xbox 360 model looks like shit
<cyberfr0g> url?
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<neoimp> h8 what?
<h8> http://images5.theimagehosting.com/Xbox360_blue.jpg
<neoimp> oh no thanx
<neoimp> thats gay porn
<neoimp> thats pretty well known on efnet
<h8> i know im bored :
<h8> :/
<Snarsh> asshole
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<Snarsh> that was the first gay porn i've ever seen
<sektie> Snarsh: generally that body part is used in gay porn, yes.
<sektie> you seem sheltered.
<sektie> what are you doing on irc?
<sektie> are you afraid that your heterosexuality may now be compromised?
<Snarsh> not really
<sektie> h8 will gladly explore that option with you, if you'd like.
<Snarsh> i've had a threesome with 2 chicks
<sektie> i hear he's a top, though.
<sektie> sure you have, buddy. ;)
<sektie> did the chicks have penises?
<Snarsh> nope
<sektie> are you sure? was the room dark?
<Snarsh> not that i care if you believe me or not
<sektie> i hear that gay sex can be very enlightening the first time. some guys even cry.
<sektie> but it's a manly type of tears.
<Snarsh> yea, i hear mangina getting popped for the first time really hurts
<sektie> i think it's more of a mentally induced crying. you know, letting yourself come out of the closet, etc.
<Snarsh> hell if i know
<Snarsh> i've made out with a guy for money
<Snarsh> no crying there
<h8> oh my

Boring people get shrinks to tell them that they have some mental issue so they can brag about it to their friends. Fun people already know they have issues, so they don't bother with a shrink unless it's court mandated.