Posted 8:38 AM by Unknown

White & Nerdy

Fabulous! Weird Al has created my theme song.

Posted 10:35 AM by Unknown

Saturday Morning Meeting Notes.
The Alamo Drafthouse is a topic of the morning. Apparently, the owners are being forced out of downtown, due to the the rising property values.

The owner of the Drafthouse, Tim League, and his wife have started a foundation to preserve this cinema as an icon. The Heroes of the Alamo Foundation is their attempt to preserve the local theatre.

In their explanation, you will find that they are not the only business facing skyrocketing property costs in Austin.

New Conversation
Conversation shifted to film, The Aviator, and then to the possiblity of driving a Formula one racer upside down

Our conversations on aviation and g-force started while talking about an increase in fear of heights that Rob and I attribute to age. As an example of a moment of pause related to height, Ray reflected on his climb of the The Lost Arrow.

Posted 9:51 AM by Unknown

The Making of the American Sense. By Daniel Howe. I would like to find and read this book.

Posted 9:40 AM by Unknown

Experiencing Chicago for the very first time. "The Taste" as my friend Chris Tooley puts it. The Taste of Chicago. It was a perfect opportunity to enjoy foods from a large group of medium quality restaurants. Now I did have a nice piece of Cheesecake goodness from Eli's Cheesecake that was memorable. A fine piece of chocolate-dipped, chocolate cheesecake.

The next step was Equinix. We spent four hours unloading servers and parts. We found ourselves without several small, but key elements of racking the servers. Of course, the workers at the data facility made it impossible to get anything done due to their requirement of a service ticket for each step in the process.

Equinix required one service ticket to run a cross-connect between us and a service provider. But connecting the cross-connect to the known port on the provider net required a separate ticket.

Now, the service provider instigated the ticket., gave the port number and all of the information necessary to establish the cross-connect. That just isn't enough. So now we are waiting for that to be completed.

We spent four hours in the data center. From 10:30PM to 2:30AM. We didn't return to the hotel until 3:00 AM. I didn't wake up until 8:30 this morning. Now I am twiddling my thumbs waiting for the moment at which we are prepared to leave. Chris is busy typing a discussion with work colleagues and filing an expense report. After that, I hope we are going to find some breakfast.

Posted 8:03 PM by Unknown

Posted 2:38 PM by Unknown

According to the BBC News Vitamin D has been linked to healthy Lungs. Wow! I am going to spend all of my time outside in hopes of making up for all of those stupid years I spent smoking. I hope there is some sort of correlation and I hope that it makes a difference in my health.

Posted 6:44 AM by Unknown

I like this artists' use of graphic fetish to represent frustrations that extend from the distended way that we approach our personal differences - but especially the ones we percieve as shared. It is no surprise that the majority of her viewers are Male. The content lends itself to those most prepared for corruption. What I enjoy is that, though my own perverse curiosity led me to this page, I managed to come away educated to the perceptions of self that the model experiences. I hope that more people see this work. Way to go Alicia!

Posted 11:31 PM by Unknown

Oh My GODDD! Is this not the way it should have been? Thanks to the Family guy for making Warner Bros cartoons look like they really should have.