Archive for October, 2005

I’ll have pictures of the party posted soon, but for now, go here to see pictures

At work, I made my own little server room near my desk

I call it “The Furnace”, because it generates an amazing amount of heat, and will keep me warm in the winter. All these computers plug into one massive monitor switch, and a giant hub.

As bad as this is, it was much worse before I got my hands on it.

Thru magic, I was able to turn this:

into this:

My house is now a super modern energy saving machine.

Being a programmer COMPLETELY sucks when you try to attempt to do anything in the real world. I’m spoiled. If I’m working on a coding project, and I realize that what I’m doing just isn’t working out, or I decided to follow the wrong path, no problem. I can always just undo checkout from my source code library, revert to my original version, and start over. Two quick steps. So simple, so nice. Real world, not so simple.

This weekend I installed a new dining room overhead light. The problem is, when I would screw up, which was every possible second, I would have to undo like 20 minutes of work to get back to a point where I could start over again. I did this 3 times, where I get to the end of the project only to discover that after I threaded all these stupid fucking wires through all these widgets and grommets that I forgot like one secret piece of metal that I somehow needed to be in the middle of all the mess. But I don’t get undo checkout. I just get bloody fingers full of shredded bits of copper and tons of hate. Took me ~90 minutes to wire in one stupid light.

In happier news, my new voltage detector works like a champ, as evidenced by the fact that I’m not dead.