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new stuff! plus, what i did today
Aug. 11th, 2004 09:38 pmHoly acquisitions, Batman!
Today I got the following schwag for !!FREE!! from a recently-departed coworker, as he left it behind in his cube and said I could have it:
* O'Reilly & Associates titles: Sendmail, Learning the vi Editor, DNS & BIND, Learning Perl, The Perl Cookbook, and The Sendmail Pocket Reference Guide
* Cisco Network Implementation Guide Vols. 1 and 2
* Around a dozen recent issues of 2600 magazine
Finally, and best of all, I got a new computer. It's sort of what you might call a "novelty webserver".
Yes, I have a Cobalt Qube 2. It's a small cobalt-blue cube-shaped Linux webserver, about the size and shape of one of those miniITX cases you see at Fry's these days. You give it its network settings on a little LCD panel on the back, and then you can administer it via HTTP or telnet (no SSH, no SSL, which makes it more or less obsolete, hence the 'novelty' part -- though you can disable the telnet daemon and administrative http access and run the thing via serial console as well). Anyway, it's pretty darn cool looking, and it's a fun little toy.
And, I mean, free. Dude. That's even better than the Sun SPARC10 I got for eight bucks on eBay.
To top the day off, I had a very pleasant evening watching They Might Be Giants at the Woodland Park Zoo with Allyson. It was a short show but they opened with Istanbul (Not Constantinople), played "Birdhouse In Your Soul" for an encore, and John Flansburgh got down off the stage while he was playing and made this asshole security dude quit hassling the people who wanted to dance in front of the stage by kind of just shouldering his way in between them. Flansburgh was hyperactive and opinionated, and Linnell looked absolutely gleeful jumping around on the keyboards like a sort of six-foot attenuated ape. They made references to favoring any political pairing made up of two fellow Johns and terrified the emus, which ran squawking from the performance.
They also played "Particle Man", which was my first TMBG song back when I was a wee little nerdling of thirteen on a class trip to San Francisco, and they even did the eighteen-part song from the end of Apollo 18, which I certainly never expected to see live.
It was pleasant and cool as the sun went down, and I felt more content and alive than I had in weeks. And as we rode the bus down from the zoo, across the Aurora Bridge and into downtown, the sun set over the shining glass towers of the city, and splashed orange on the lake and the lochs leading out to the bay. It looked like paradise, and it reminded me why I love this place. Which is something I needed.
Oh, and we had Slurpees.
Damn good day.
Today I got the following schwag for !!FREE!! from a recently-departed coworker, as he left it behind in his cube and said I could have it:
* O'Reilly & Associates titles: Sendmail, Learning the vi Editor, DNS & BIND, Learning Perl, The Perl Cookbook, and The Sendmail Pocket Reference Guide
* Cisco Network Implementation Guide Vols. 1 and 2
* Around a dozen recent issues of 2600 magazine
Finally, and best of all, I got a new computer. It's sort of what you might call a "novelty webserver".
Yes, I have a Cobalt Qube 2. It's a small cobalt-blue cube-shaped Linux webserver, about the size and shape of one of those miniITX cases you see at Fry's these days. You give it its network settings on a little LCD panel on the back, and then you can administer it via HTTP or telnet (no SSH, no SSL, which makes it more or less obsolete, hence the 'novelty' part -- though you can disable the telnet daemon and administrative http access and run the thing via serial console as well). Anyway, it's pretty darn cool looking, and it's a fun little toy.
And, I mean, free. Dude. That's even better than the Sun SPARC10 I got for eight bucks on eBay.
To top the day off, I had a very pleasant evening watching They Might Be Giants at the Woodland Park Zoo with Allyson. It was a short show but they opened with Istanbul (Not Constantinople), played "Birdhouse In Your Soul" for an encore, and John Flansburgh got down off the stage while he was playing and made this asshole security dude quit hassling the people who wanted to dance in front of the stage by kind of just shouldering his way in between them. Flansburgh was hyperactive and opinionated, and Linnell looked absolutely gleeful jumping around on the keyboards like a sort of six-foot attenuated ape. They made references to favoring any political pairing made up of two fellow Johns and terrified the emus, which ran squawking from the performance.
They also played "Particle Man", which was my first TMBG song back when I was a wee little nerdling of thirteen on a class trip to San Francisco, and they even did the eighteen-part song from the end of Apollo 18, which I certainly never expected to see live.
It was pleasant and cool as the sun went down, and I felt more content and alive than I had in weeks. And as we rode the bus down from the zoo, across the Aurora Bridge and into downtown, the sun set over the shining glass towers of the city, and splashed orange on the lake and the lochs leading out to the bay. It looked like paradise, and it reminded me why I love this place. Which is something I needed.
Oh, and we had Slurpees.
Damn good day.