Shit * Says
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 31st, 2012
@lindvall: Feeling a lot of déjà vu from Shit Silicon Valley Says at Seattle Beta.
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Adventures in winter moving
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 25th, 2012
This has certainly been an adventurous move, mainly because of how open-ended it was, which then turned into “oh shit, what” when the snow storm hit Seattle. Despite the panic about last minute obstacles, so far they’ve been overcome. I’m not complaining, just what a ride! I initially put off moving a week because I […]
Moving to California
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 16th, 2012
So I’m moving to California to seek out new opportunities. This should be no surprise to anyone who’s known me, since I’ve rattled on about it incessantly in one form or another (not to mention basically driving/flying down every chance I get). I’ve wanted to live there my entire career since that’s where the action […]
Continental Airlines, I miss you
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 27th, 2011
On a less serious note, I miss you Continental Airlines. You never angered me, not even once, in 90,000 miles of travel which is pretty amazing. Being from Austin made it super easy to catch your flights out of Houston. Your express customs lanes and priority baggage loading were so awesome! Even international coach was […]
Goodbye, Patch – Jul 16, 2010 – Nov 22, 2011
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 22nd, 2011
The past 24 hours have been surreal. I unexpectedly had to put Patch to sleep this morning. Over the past month or two Patch had slowly been losing weight and being more reserved. I always attributed this to Felix bullying her, since he was getting big enough to push her out of the way at […]
OpenNMS Experience Redux
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 5th, 2011
I’m doing my second greenfield OpenNMS deployment, and so far it’s going a lot smoother than last time. This time it’s server-centric which is a whole new can of worms to figure out. I don’t yet know how feasible it will be to monitor services like Exchange or SQL Server. My last setup never really […]
A petabyte is just another unit, right?
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 28th, 2011
# zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT rpool 136G 32.0G 104G 23% 1.00x ONLINE – tank 47.1T 45.9T 1.26T 97% 1.00x ONLINE – tank10 48.9T 48.1T 870G 98% 1.00x ONLINE – tank11 48.9T 48.2T 783G 98% 1.00x ONLINE – tank12 48.9T 48.0T 922G 98% 1.00x ONLINE – tank13 48.9T 47.8T 1.12T […]
LIFE magazine
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 26th, 2011
Sunday I was wandering around Pike Place Market and wound up in the paper store. I was flipping through their racks of LIFE magazine and was fascinated by the headlines/covers of the issues from the 60s. There were several issues about space, Vietnam, McNamera, Nixon, and Johnson. It’s one thing to read so much about […]
Time Capsule
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 25th, 2011
I just dug my old Dell desktop out of the closet to see if there’s anything on it I want to keep before tossing it. Looks like it was last fired up in September 2006 and I was in ham mode, messing with MixW. It’s running Windows 2000, Firefox 1.5.0.7, QuickTime 7.0.4, Yahoo! Messenger 7.0.0.120, […]
Felix
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 4th, 2011
I have a new kitty in the family, 2 months old. His shelter name is Shaun, but I’m not sure if I’m keeping that. (Update 9/17: I’m calling him Felix) He’s very vocal, spent all night meowing like murder was happening. He’s a little better today, but still gets very lonely. I laid in the […]
