Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 26th, 2007
Where have I been? Today’s mental exercise was plotting where I’ve traveled in my life. The result is a map with a bunch of squiggles. Rather than say “I’ve been to these states,” I wanted to narrow it down since most states are a few inches across. For this I count places I’ve actually set […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 22nd, 2007
I spent some time today tracking down RFI in my truck that appears when I’m listening to 6-80 meters. I re-mounted my HF antenna, fixed some annoying problems and installed a line noise filter. The good news is, the line filter killed the majority of the noise I get when the truck ignition is in […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 15th, 2007
80 miles today, down past San Marcos on I-35. I got quite the blochy sunburn from it. The first 20-30 miles I felt great, but by mile 60 I was bored and very ready to be finished. My legs were getting pretty heavy, I came home and crawled in bed for a couple of hours. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 10th, 2007
It’s been 72 hours without any soda. Sunday hurt like hell; I was in bed for most of the day with a pounding headache. The last time I stopped, it didn’t hurt at all. Tea has filled the vacuum. Not your ordinary Snapple or instant iced tea, but good o’ British Empire black tea (minus […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 7th, 2007
I did my VO2 test today. I should have my full formal results back from a pulmonary specialist in a week or two after they go over the spirometry and EKG data. Turns out I have small lungs; the prediction was 7.3 liters, but I only measured 3.7 liters. Since I don’t smoke, they were […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 2nd, 2007
This weekend was an adventure in building a new closetserver. I was working with LDAP so I tried installing Fedora Directory Server on my box. When I ran out of memory, that was the last straw. Saturday I went to Fry’s to find some decently cheap new kit. I picked up a Gigabyte motherboard, an […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 22nd, 2007
Yesterday afternoon, a colleague was in my cube talking to me when out of nowhere water started pouring out of the ceiling onto my desk. I put a trash can underneath it, but apparently overnight the cleaning crew removed the trash can. The resuming waterfall destroyed all the papers on my desk. At some point […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 17th, 2007
In Oklahoma, visiting the parents. Or, disecting their IP TV serice. I’ve spent the better part of tonight figuring out if the television-over-IP service they get will do HDTV, or at the very least playing with it to see what it can do. It’s provided by the local telco, who I’ve been at odds with […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 11th, 2007
I am in the market for a Mac Mini now to replace my Xbox + Pentium II box in closet solution for media storage. Before Christmas, they were somewhat plentiful on craigslist at good prices, now they’ve dried up or people are throwing more memory in them and they’re going for more than retail. The […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 11th, 2007
[bryan@staff1 bryan]$ date Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 CST 2007 [bryan@staff1 bryan]$ date Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 CDT 2007 Electricity is still on, TV still works, water is still on. Our patched Linux and Solaris systems rolled just fine. My Fedora Core 2 systems in the lab have the 2005 tzdata package installed, but they never […]
