Linux

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 @ 9:43am

So I’ve gone where I’ve never gone before. I’m finally about to use another operating system other than Microsoft’s Windows. I had an old PC in my closet that was just sitting there collecting dust, so I came up with the decision to install Linux (Open SuSE distribution) on it. I’m not sure exactly how I feel about it yet, but I think it will be a rather interesting experiment to see how everything goes. Doesn’t this look like the coolest logo ever?The SuSE distribution is a massive 3.5GB download, but thanks to bit torrent it was a rather quick operation that only took about 3 hours to download. Pretty nice eh? I’ll be working on installing that over the next few days, so I’ll let you know how it goes and I’ll probably even post a few screenshots of the operation too.

On a somewhat unrelated note, I’ve finally been admitted to UAB. Woohoo! (Yes, I’m still going to Samford… it’s just a real complicated issue, I just have to take one class fall/spring at UAB this next year in order to graduate)

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It’s about time…

Friday, June 16th, 2006 @ 12:06am

…to make another post I suppose. I guess there really hasn’t been too much going on, or really too much to say. Sleep, eat, work, eat, sleep. That almost describes my day(s) in a nutshell. Work’s going a little more smoothly than in the beginning, and I believe I now have a slight hang of it yet. I’m still not sure if this is exactly what I want to do for a living; but for the moment it pays the bills so I can’t really complain. But the weekend is coming up, so that’s exciting!

Clint and Dana have been over on various nights so that’s actually not too bad. It can get quite lonely if you have to spend several hours by yourself in the apartment. So I’ve been doing a good bit of reading and errands here and there when needed. I’ve gotten a good deal of piano practice in as well, and am working on an arrangement too so I suppose that’s not too bad. I haven’t been able to practice any saxophone yet since I need to get some reeds… but I suppose I’ll get those when my next paycheck comes in…

Oh yeah. I found a little song called Code Monkey that for some reason reminds me of my job… except my manager’s name isn’t Rob… and he’s not really boring. And I don’t really care too much for Mountain Dew, although Fritos are okay…

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Wear Your Seatbelt!

Friday, June 2nd, 2006 @ 9:23pm

So I had an interesting lunch today, and I figured it would be blog worthy. Our group (at work) had decided to go out to lunch to California Pizza Kitchen. So we sat outside to enjoy the nice weather. Out on the patio outside of where this restaraunt is located is right near a really busy intersection. So we were finishing up our lunch and had started to pay our checks when we heard out of nowhere a loud sound as if a bomb had gone off, and I turned my head to see a car flying through the air doing a sideways flip to land on a mailtruck. Of course, that obviously got everyone’s attention and people rushed to the scene. Thankfully, the woman in the flipped car was wearing her seatbelt and she walked away from the scene.

And in the process, they took my leftovers away. So I complained and got a free meal. So goes the interesting afternoon…

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