I think it’s odd that if I run the a/c too much, my engine will overheat. I know why that happens, of course, being an engineer and all, but you’d think if we were going around creating all of this cool air, we could do something about that.
Looks like somebody has a case of the Mondays
It’s just one of those days: not particularly bad, not particularly good, just bleh. Bored at work today, as I’m unfortunately waiting on some boards from the hardware group. The waiting is exactly as thrilling as it sounds. This gives me plenty of time to ponder the intricacies of Life. Primarily, whether or not I want to cross over yet another dork-barrier and build one of these. My sources say yes… yes I do. These are primarily LAN-based gaming PC’s; the thinking being that Generation’s Z”s equivalent to the comic-bookstore dorks can carry there PC’s to LAN parties of Unreal Tournament, or that MPG Star Wars game I’m nerdy enough to be aware of, but not quite nerdy enough to remember the name of.
Lest you think I’m criticizing, remember I’m an engineer and have a website… how cool could I possibly be? Then again, I have a beautiful girlfriend, so there’s several inexplicable points towards cool. Very inexplicable. But I digress.
My only concern is whether or not these mini-systems can stand-in for my tower. I run processor/memory heavy things like Pro/E and Photoshop on a regular basis, so I need something with endurance. I’m thinking a P4 with 1-2GB of RAM can handle pretty much anything I throw at it, right? At any rate, should you have any expereince with these systems, or something similar, let me know.
In even further tech-related news, I’ve been “invited” to test out Gmail, Google’s answer to Yahoo! Mail and the like. It seems like a cool concept, incoporating google’s search capabilities to effectively negate organizing any of your mail ever. Just search for “nude farm animal sex” and that awesome MPEG clip your college roommate sent you three years ago will pop right up. They’re also pushing the 1 gigabyte storage limit as being terribly convenient, as you should effectively never have to clean out your e-mail again… which I agree with… but how many people can they support with that kind of storage?
One of the other things that bothers me about co-workers is when they send e-mails with high importance that aren’t really all that important. Are you so full of yourself that you thin keverything you write is world-changing? Are you so insecure that you have to put that red exclamation point on your e-mails because you are otherwise afraid that we won’t read it? Get over yourself, you’re making me bitter.
I have this folder in my Bookmarks called “Blog”. Under it, I have links to my site, my hosted e-mail, my ftp site, my comments administrator, etc. Besides that, though, I have a number of blog links that, for the most part, I don’t know where or how I came across. I have a list of links on this site (drag your eyes to the right if you’re able, realize that’s the wrong way as I just did, and go to the left) comprised mostly of people I know or know of, admire, or (in some admittedly sad cases) are link-backs that I haven’t had the heart to get rid of, yet. At any rate, this list of links is really for me, making my page my own (albeit lame) portal to the net. [Note to self: make my page more like a portal, that might be cool].
So it puzzles me why I have this list of secondary links in my bookmarks. To be sure, I do go to most of them throughout the day, so they certainly qualify as frequent reads. Maybe some of them I don’t want the public to know that I know; or maybe I don’t want to know I know them. One site, at least, is someone I know that doesn’t know that I know they have a site, and I don’t want them to see floorpie.net in their referrals list, click on it, and then I’ll know that they know that I know they know. You know?
Maybe these were links of links of links, that I happened to like. Or someone I picked up in my referrals list to check out later. Or someone I stumbled on in a Google search for John Stamos, stupid or just insane? (which also led me here for an embarrassingly long period of time, by the way). Whatever the case, I found them; and, many of these deserve recognition when I get around to it. For now, though, check them out, tell me what you think:
.: kitta.net
.: FRESHLYcut
.: birken
.: dirty fez
.: Big White Guy
.: Stacy Austin
.: thinkish
PS It is also slightly likely that I may be pathetically hoping to someday get their recognition. One can never be completely sure.
I cannot, for the life of me, ever seem to be able to spell “seperate” correctly on the first try.
Damnit.
“Ironic,” I thought to myself as I scanned the subject line that read: At last, smart filtering technology that works, “That’s exactly the kind of e-mail that I wish I didn’t get.”
After some 25 days, my time in Taipei (for now) is drawing to a close.
Nearly a full month is a long time to be without your stuff.
Or the stuff that you keep your stuff (and stuff… sorry) in.
Having said that, I am still sad to leave my friends here. Especially considering that I have spent 2 of the last 6 months in Taipei, on and off. That’s siginificant I think, and enough time to develop interesting relationships, despite the language barrier.
And oh what a barrier.
It’s funny how people (and you know who you are) assume that others are less intelligent than you are just because they don’t speak the language. Like English is the be all and end all of languages or something. Here I’m struggling to communicate with people where English is their third language whereas I barely have a grasp of one. Bug ups to all a-y’all.
So of course I now want to learn Chinese… if only to understand what my friends are saying about me. I see them smiling, but are they smiling with me is the question. Oops, there’s my flight…
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Much Love,
Cletus
Here is your answer: (to your question, “Dave, what’s something that bothers you about The Office in which you work?” That was you, wasn’t it?) At any rate, your answer is: people who send out e-mails to everyone in the department that the will be going on vacation, and out for a few days.
Are you that important?
Do I even interact with you?
So I just dropped nearly $200,000NT on my 4-week stay at the Grand Hyatt, Taipei; and the first thing the nice receptionist asked me is: “Did you take advantage of any additional ammenities from the mini-bar since last night?”
