I have had an epiphany which has resulted in a theory, which follows.
Bill Pullman is pretty good at what he does, and he has a tendency to be in good movies. A League of Their Own. While You Were Sleeping. Spaceballs. However, he seems to not make movies that qualify as "great". I came up with this theory earlier today when something made me think of it. I don't even remember what. I was content to leave it at that, but then Amy embarked on an effort to make her own list of "the greatest movies". She mentioned both While You Were Sleeping and A League of Their Own as being very good but not "great" in the sense of the list, and I reminded her what I had said earlier today about Bill Pullman. Interesting.
Anyhow, Saturday I tested in Flower Mound. The test was the exact same one I took in Lewisville and got a 94 or 93 on. Somehow, despite putting the same answers, I got crapped on. I have no idea how I got a 79 on this thing, but I guarantee I did not miss one in five questions. While I am on the list, it's not near as high as I expected. I saw Dewayne late the other night and he also seemed confused. But as I mentioned to him, even if something went wrong with the scantron machine, being the whiner who demanded a re-check does not get me the job. All it does is make me the whiner who second guesses them.
Finally got my wok good and clean, which is good. Made General Tsou's chicken (yes, I am aware of the culinary lack of authenticity of this dish) and was very pleased with the results of the washing. Seasoned cookware used to make me paranoid, but no longer. I now have mastered the zen of carbon steel wok maintenance. No Volkswagen maintenance mastery, but I get by.
27 March 2006
24 March 2006
Stupid Foreigner ばか外人
Applied in Flower Mound last Friday, and tomorrow is my test and physical agility test. Looking forward to it, somehow. I want this one to count. It's been a slow week, been playing Final Fantasy VIII now that I finished Final Fantasy IX, and afterwards I may end up trying VII again...VII frustrated the hell out of me when I somehow managed to get my game stuck in a place where I could not continue. Don't ask how it happened, according to everyone I asked, I should have been able to continue but the game was not doing what it should have been.
Recently, I tore down my whole home network and rearranged things, including changing from a desk to a table, since having two monitors makes having more desk space a must, provided you lack flat panels. These old Trinitrons are huge. aoi-chan (my Athlon T-bird) is now under my table, and instead of being on the right of me with amy on the other side of it, miyuki (深雪, my file server, an HP Kayak 400MHz Pentium II with 1 processor, 2 once I find a matching one) is now on the right-hand side of my table, with my old switch-box on my old desk next to it. To my left is Amy with puddleglum (her Athlon XP) on her desk. Aoi-chan now has the monitors running at 75Hz, which is a nice upgrade since it wasn't working out previously thanks to the switch-box. It turns out that my switch-box did not support 1280x1024 at a higher refresh rate than 60Hz. Amy now has a 5-port switch on her desk, and over on top of the switch-box by miyuki there is a Netgear modem router, with a 5-port 10/100 switch, on top of which I placed a wireless b/g access point with four 10/100 ports. My old monitor is attatched to the switchbox, which rests atop an old Belkin surge unit. Miyuki, mahoro (まほろ, a Dell Pentium III 500, our token Windows box) and two openings for computers I am working on are attatched to that setup over there. I left half the desk open for use as a work bench.
Physical layout aside, the cool part of what I did was I made Miyuki the print server and the scanner server. Print-server stuff is normal, which most people are probably used to seeing. My black-and-white laser is now run through miyuki. My scanner, on the other hand, is different...my entire network goes through miyuki for scanning now too. I have the Epson flatbed scanner hooked up and configured to be used by any box on the network, which is something cool that I ran across as an idea one day on google. Turns out Linux loves it.
I read an interesting column on Townhall today by Col. Oliver North. While in Heidelberg, Germany doing a documentary on Gen. George Patton, he encountered a group of students in an internet cafe. Hilarity would ensue, were it not for the fact that these kids are serious:
«Though hardly a scientific sampling of European public opinion, these students' perspectives on the U.S. role in defeating fascism, communism, in bringing down the wall, of standing up to Islamic terror were both shallow and twisted. According to them, Germany would have rid itself of Hitler without "terror bombing German civilians"; the Americans "created the 'Red-Scare' to divide and punish Germany; the wall would have come down decades earlier but for the presence of U.S. bases in Europe; the Sept. 11 attack was concocted by the Bush administration; German troops should never have been sent to Afghanistan, and -- because this is much on the news here right now -- U.S. troops in Iraq routinely commit atrocities and human-rights violations. They were unaware of this week's forceful presidential speeches, press conference and question/answer sessions -- perhaps understandably, because they have been little covered in European TV and newspapers.»
These students did not know who Col. North was, or I doubt they would be so open with him. It's well worth a read.
In other news:
I am studying the Japanese language.
日本語を勉強しています。
Recently, I tore down my whole home network and rearranged things, including changing from a desk to a table, since having two monitors makes having more desk space a must, provided you lack flat panels. These old Trinitrons are huge. aoi-chan (my Athlon T-bird) is now under my table, and instead of being on the right of me with amy on the other side of it, miyuki (深雪, my file server, an HP Kayak 400MHz Pentium II with 1 processor, 2 once I find a matching one) is now on the right-hand side of my table, with my old switch-box on my old desk next to it. To my left is Amy with puddleglum (her Athlon XP) on her desk. Aoi-chan now has the monitors running at 75Hz, which is a nice upgrade since it wasn't working out previously thanks to the switch-box. It turns out that my switch-box did not support 1280x1024 at a higher refresh rate than 60Hz. Amy now has a 5-port switch on her desk, and over on top of the switch-box by miyuki there is a Netgear modem router, with a 5-port 10/100 switch, on top of which I placed a wireless b/g access point with four 10/100 ports. My old monitor is attatched to the switchbox, which rests atop an old Belkin surge unit. Miyuki, mahoro (まほろ, a Dell Pentium III 500, our token Windows box) and two openings for computers I am working on are attatched to that setup over there. I left half the desk open for use as a work bench.
Physical layout aside, the cool part of what I did was I made Miyuki the print server and the scanner server. Print-server stuff is normal, which most people are probably used to seeing. My black-and-white laser is now run through miyuki. My scanner, on the other hand, is different...my entire network goes through miyuki for scanning now too. I have the Epson flatbed scanner hooked up and configured to be used by any box on the network, which is something cool that I ran across as an idea one day on google. Turns out Linux loves it.
I read an interesting column on Townhall today by Col. Oliver North. While in Heidelberg, Germany doing a documentary on Gen. George Patton, he encountered a group of students in an internet cafe. Hilarity would ensue, were it not for the fact that these kids are serious:
«Though hardly a scientific sampling of European public opinion, these students' perspectives on the U.S. role in defeating fascism, communism, in bringing down the wall, of standing up to Islamic terror were both shallow and twisted. According to them, Germany would have rid itself of Hitler without "terror bombing German civilians"; the Americans "created the 'Red-Scare' to divide and punish Germany; the wall would have come down decades earlier but for the presence of U.S. bases in Europe; the Sept. 11 attack was concocted by the Bush administration; German troops should never have been sent to Afghanistan, and -- because this is much on the news here right now -- U.S. troops in Iraq routinely commit atrocities and human-rights violations. They were unaware of this week's forceful presidential speeches, press conference and question/answer sessions -- perhaps understandably, because they have been little covered in European TV and newspapers.»
These students did not know who Col. North was, or I doubt they would be so open with him. It's well worth a read.
In other news:
I am studying the Japanese language.
日本語を勉強しています。
02 March 2006
Mike Adams for President!
The best news I have heard in a long time, even though I strongly suspect it of being satire, is columnist Mike S. Adams announcing intent to run for President in 2008. I would, without a doubt, vote for Dr. Adams if he is on the ballot for the primary.
In other news, my temperature is back to normal, from its peak around 102.9 last night and 101 or so in the afternoon yesterday. Hoping my head and throat stuffedness ends soon, it's really quite annoying.
Aside from this, I have had very little going on lately.
In other news, my temperature is back to normal, from its peak around 102.9 last night and 101 or so in the afternoon yesterday. Hoping my head and throat stuffedness ends soon, it's really quite annoying.
Aside from this, I have had very little going on lately.
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