Tales from the Geek

Summer thoughts…

A lot has been on my mind lately, and with certain things that have gone on I need to vent… While good things have happened in the past couple months that have kept me really busy, (bought a house, getting married in a couple weeks, etc.) Some bad things have come my way, and even if it doesn’t affect me personally, it affects the people I work with that I view as friends. I know with the economic situation, even government is having to cut back, and who I work for is no exception. I just don’t like the fact that they don’t feel like our positions are important enough to warrant going into reserve funds to keep us around. What is worse is they talk about how it was hard to lose 8 positions in the central office, but they saved everyone elses job. No where do they mention cutting 14 of us. No where do they have heavy hearts, no where do they have any remorse. One board member actually alluded to the fact they they don’t need us. If they want to go back to paper and pencil, feel free to get rid of more of us. When your computer doesn’t work and no one is there to fix it, maybe then you will realise what you have done. Last year these techs were hired because the board was not satisfied with the level of support, and now you are going to cut them this year. That is just a slap to the face if I ever saw one. Some people just don’t get it until it is too late. But the board isn’t the only one to blame… management definately had a role in not sticking up for us. Our CTO should have put the fear of God into that board saying we can’t afford to cut technicians. With all the technology being added this coming year, we need all the support we can get, but no, he just kept talking about unrelated projector bulbs… sigh…

It is just sad to see 14 people be let go because of the stupidity of people in charge that have no clue what technology is about….

Weeee new internet speeeeeed

well after a month of headaches and almost going postal with AT&T, I finally have my upgraded speed and service in place… you should see a huge improvment in the speed of the site, and more reliability… weeeee

trippy

gets stuck in your head… but still trippy

Finals are OVER !!!!

Well finals are over for another semester. Couldn’t be soon enough… A good couple of weeks to not have to worry about tests or projects.

I got the new water pump on the mustang and now just to put the fan and alternator back on. Two body panels and two wire harnesses left, then it is up to Ben to get it painted.

neat animation

Cute video, nice take on sleigh ride.. pretty good animation

Relient K - Sleigh Ride from gotee on Vimeo.

wooo less spam for a while

A Washington Post article got ISP’s to take notice and get a colo facility cut off from the world and immediately anti-spam vendors Iron Port (IronMail) and spamcop saw almost 75% decline in the number of messages sent….

linky

Rough day…

Man its been a rough day… Found out this morning that one of my favorite web comics will cease to exist after the beginning of the year… (You’ll Have That) I’ve enjoyed it a ton and it relates to life so well… It will be sad to see it go…

Work was ok… took all day to reimage two macs… ugh they take forever…

get home start to prep the mustang for a little paint… got it rubber coated on the bottom, but ran out of time (sunlight) to prime it the rest of the way…

so as I am cleaning up the fiance called to say her car shut down for no apparent reason in the middle of the road… great… so on my way she calls back saying it cranked again and is heading to the closest dealership… I pull in to the dealership and as I am coming around a corner my back tire decides to go flat with a bang… yay me… so as I’m getting my spare on (with no help from the service lane mind you) She’s getting them to take in her car… only there are no technicians… They go home at six even though the service lane itself closes at seven WHAT IDIOCY IS THAT?!?!?! so now I have the spare on, since there are no techs they won’t patch my tire, and start to close up…

I can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings when I have to go to my dealership to get a new tire, have then check my sunroof that has been acting up lately, and get an oil change + alignment. whew…

I’m a PC

I’ve been seeing a lot of ads for Microsoft’s I’m a PC campaign… trying to compete against Apples’ I’m a Mac campaign… Mac is going after stereotypes and Microsoft with anyone they can find… They would probably sign up their own grandparents… I just have one thing to say about this… I’m a PC and I’m a Mac… why? Because I have to fix both of them at work… Doesn’t matter who you are, people destroy computers… I have 16 boxes in my office from Apple laptops that I’ve had to ship to them for repair (because they don’t have a parts program like Dell) and on the other hand I’ve had to order more power adaptors from Dell than I can remember…

I’m a PC and a Mac, and both break contrary to popular thought.

ugh..

well I’m fighting off something… dunno what, but I can’t even pop my ears… on top of that I’ve been doing a lot of body work on the mustang… looks like I need a new valance, had to get a new fender, gonna have to get a new driver side door, passenger fender, and possible a passenger door… not positive on that yet. It also needs a good weather seal kit all around… the rest looks pretty good…

Now to get to work on those invoices to get some cash to pay for these parts…

random thoughts…

Saw this today…

in other news… the guy that I bought the brake kit can die in a fire… slowest. shipping. evar.

carry on