that’s whacked

when is swap not swap?

Thursday, Aug 12. 2004  –  Category: Sun

i find it very unfortunate that the same partition type used for Solaris UFS partitions shows up as ‘Linux swap’ when booted into Linux.

i also find it very unfortunate that the Linux installer asked me if i wanted to format the invalid swap partition it so fortunately found for me.

what an unfortunate evening…

bmw 3-series sneak peak

Tuesday, Aug 10. 2004  –  Category: Linkage

photos of the new BMW 3-series were leaked….

i think it looks quite sharp…. i like it

what’s so special about japan anyway?

Monday, Aug 9. 2004  –  Category: Photos

what’s so special about japan anyway? (in case you can’t read, it says: NOW SELL IN JAPAN!!! 100% JAPAN DESIGN, 85% PARTS FROM JAPAN)

i am techno

Monday, Aug 9. 2004  –  Category: Linkage

Erik made me do it.

You are techno!

What kind of techno music are you?
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well, not really. but he’s the one i’ll blame if my boss asks me where 2 minutes of my afternoon was spent…

catchup

Friday, Aug 6. 2004  –  Category: Musings

haven’t blogged in a while, but haven’t had much to blog about really. first up, some good links:

• Everyday Photography (found from Dan Lacher’s blog at b.s.c). this is a really cool photography site…the guy just takes well… everyday photos of everyday objects. neat to see things like bubblewrap from a different perspective.
• for everyone that i’ve been pimping Solaris 10 onto, Bryan Cantrill (one of the guys on the Dtrace team) wrote a good blog entry entitled Demo’ing DTrace. it’s ostensibly a tutorial for us wise and all-knowing Sun engineers to demo DTrace to the ignorant heathens out there. that being said, even Sun has some unknowing heathens within (yes, that’s a link to myself) who could use some DTrace help themselves. it’s a great quick one pager (well…3 really, it’s quite a long post by Bryan) tutorial to DTrace. there are, no doubt, more thorough DTrace tutorials out there, but if you’ve only got 5-10 minutes, read it. it’s well worth the time.

links aside, what else have i been up to? (besides increasing shareholder value, that is). playing a ridiculous amount of frisbee… we of course had our customary tuesday & thursday noon-time games where i continue to get my ass handed to me on a silver platter as i desperately try to keep up with everyone else who all seem to be improving, while i continue to launch discs into the wrong zip code. tuesday afternoon, my manager gave me 4 mini-frisbees. great fun ensued for the next 10 minutes as poorna and i attempted to master the art of wrist-flicking a mini disc so it will fly straight and true down our hallways. ah…fun times…good times… even with the bloody lip i had afterwards thanks to poorna’s unique ability to make a disc home in on my face.

night frisbee on wednesday was great… got to play with some people who don’t make it out to our tu/thu games like my dentists (a.k.a. my sister and zac). some people have improved insanely since last i saw them play. the night ended with a somewhat perplexing 7 cones, instead of the 8 i set out (to mark the endzones).

i went back yesterday morning to the field to try and find the missing 8th cone… and i found it…. in the far corner of the field…. missing the top of the cone. somewhere out there is a very stupid coyote with no tastebuds, and severe indigestion.