Category: geekery

I Have Nothing To Say

July 19, 2006 / / 0 Comments

Seriously… nothing to say.  I’m just stunningly bored at work, and I thought this might entertain me for a bit.

:: indifferent shrug ::

I have Thursdays and Fridays off (weird schedule, remember?) so I’m going to be spending my “weekend” rewriting my resume.  Mikey offered to try to get in contact with a Google or Amazon recruiter for me; hopefully he’ll be able to do that.

So, at the moment, here’s the master plan:

  • Update my resume.
  • Get a fantastic job on the other side of the country.
  • Move to Washington.
  • Get a two bedroom apartment with Megan.
  • Be happy.

<geekspeak>
My server is coming along quite nicely.  I’m still getting some errors on boot from the hard drives, but they seem to be ok.  I installed Fedora Core 5 today with software RAID1 across two 40GB drives.  I might get a third just because I don’t trust either very much.

Mikey gave me an old stick of 256MB PC133 RAM which, if it still works, would max out the server at 512MB.  The odds of it still being good are slim at best… he didn’t know if it worked when he gave it to me, and I threw it sans anti-static bag into the front pocket of my luggage.  Assuming it wasn’t destroyed by baggage handling or static (and was good to begin with), the bottle of massage oil on the opposite side of the pocket burst open, soaked through the dividing fabric, and coated it.  I’m concerned that even testing it might trash the motherboard I put it in.
</geekspeak>

That is all.  Go about your business.

New Phone

January 13, 2006 / / 0 Comments

I finally bought a new phone. The one I had is an incredible piece of shit, and I’m thrilled to be rid of it. I’m trying to decide if I should dispose of it via smashing, disassembly, or baseball bat. Right now, I’m thinking disassembly.

I’ve been living in the 608 area code for a year and half now, and I decided not to transfer my 262 number. 262 is also a local exchange in Madison (as in, 608-262-xxxx), so it was a pain in the ass every time I told someone my phone number.

Also, there are a number of people who still have my old phone number that I’d prefer never to speak to again.

I’m not posting my new phone number here for obvious reasons, but you can call my old number up until the thirtieth to get my new number.

Post-Interview

June 1, 2005 / / 0 Comments

Well, I had the interview yesterday. I studied my ass off, changed around my work schedule, meditated to calm myself down just before it, and went through a mock interview all to prepare: and it was six minutes long.

Yeah. Six minutes.

Contrary to the reports I’ve read about initial phone interviews with Microsoft, my conversation was not an hour long, and didn’t have questions like, “How would you test a toaster?” My interview consisted of “Can you legally work in the United States? Will we find anything on your criminal record if you permit us to look? Do you have any questions for us? Ok, I’m going to forward you a technical questionnaire for you to fill out and send back.”

I took last night off to calm my frazzled nerves, but tonight I’m going to start on the questionnaire. I’ll freely admit that there are several things on the test that I don’t know and have never dealt with before. I’m hoping to have it done by Sunday night. I plan on learning them all between then and now.

This is going to be the most important take-home final I’ve ever had.