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Life update
As much as I talk here about my gruesome habits or obsessive compulsive behavior, I rarely touch upon what is actually happening in my life at any one time, as I have no interest in turning this place into a “dear diary” kind of thing.
Howeveeer…
So many things have happened lately that it’s time for an update.
Firstly: New job — fucking awesome. I’ll be developing a number of websites for a corporate group that dates back as far as 1908, as well as working out rules of engagement for all web related company endeavours. This fills me with no small amount of glee. I constantly catch myself browsing web design related sites and thinking Mmmhh… I should stop wasting time and get to work…, only to realize that now this is my work!!!. Lovely, huh?
The work site is Apple only. Now, on first notice, you may peg me as a Mac hater of sorts, but I assure you that is a common misconception. I actually love the little buggers ever since they slapped a lickable interface over Unix. Opening a terminal to type “ls” every once in a while has become one of my new rituals.
Regarding the ‘puter at work: Used to be a 450 Mhz G4 with 640 Mb Ram and an 80 Gb HD running Panther (Sekhmet). I don’t know if it was my PC karma, but it crapped out in a week. Apps crashed, kernel extensions bonkered and even Flash and Java went awol (On hindsight, it may have been an ill-fated decision to name her after a goddess of destruction). So she has been replaced by Hathor, a 733 Mhz G4 with the 21” Apple CRT (“turtle”). The package includes one of those nifty buttonless rodents Apple makes (I keep fighting the urge to take a bite from it).
Hathor is running beautifully, and has already been subjected to the addition of Quicksilver, Desktop Manager and, of course, Firefox. Unlike Sekhmet, this one has a video card that supports Quartz Extreme (that would be the flim flam velocinator). It feels like running through fields full of candy coated strippers, I shit you not.
At home, my lowly GeForce 2 has been replaced with a sleek ATI All In Wonder 9700 PRO. After a false start in which I almost burned my processor due to overheating (note to self: Always check how tight cabling is around the processor fan, and never ignore screeching sounds coming from the ‘puter), I find myself selling my soul to Far Cry, and enjoying every minute of it. Whereas in the Geforce it looked like regurgitated dogshit, now it looks like what can only be described as a visual handjob of the most prurient persuasion. I had already become pretty good at getting headshots on the 4 pixel tall squiggly lines that I figured out were soldiers, but now the little buggers are actually scary. I won’t discuss the trigens save to assure you that they are the stuff that fills my nightmares.
Other news: Read Neverwhere. Fucking loved it. Reading Stranger in a Strange Land. Grokking it. Doing major rehaul of room furniture and life habits. Thinking seriously about restarting work on the comic.
Oh… and we have free coffee at work. freecoffee freecoffee freecoffee freecoffee. Right now theworldisablur and I’m standinginthemiddleofitall. It’s beautiful.
And that’s about it.
— sergio on August 10, 2004 
Comments
You’re welcome, Not that you care to mention some thanks….
Fu&%ing ungrateful prick!!!
(had to take that off my system, sorry….)
BTW…you also failed to mention your new wireless headphones
Oh, and all of this was in part thanks to Elroy, who passed me the tip on the job and helped set up Sekhmet and then Hathor.
Beers are on me next Friday… you fucking crybaby.
OOOO K, that will do…..
hahahaha, mac freaks
Girlfriend out of town for whole weekend, I offer you a deal, while out drinking beer with Elroy, me plays with new video card, that way you not feel guilty for abandoning computer.
Enjoy it!
Ha I can’t believe it freecoffe?.. is that can be true?… do you think is it justice?.. I have to pay 10 MX Pesos for a coffe here. BTW. Beers applies to gdl folks ? or just Elroy?…
Greetings!.
Comic? freecoffee-freecoffee-freecoffee? Good Idea. How about calling it Over-ca..ffe… okay, this one’s lame.
Glad to hear/read that you like your new job.
I’m sorry about Sekhmet…as cool as it sounded, I think it was the name. I hope the freecoffee is good; not sock juice like they do here. Why can’t we just have an espresso machine at the lab? And a massage parlor downstairs?? :-D
BTW there ARE places that do have a massage parlor/gym and espresso machines over here…
I just don’t work for one of those :-(
Congrats on the awesome new job. Would love to see the comic, if you do decide to hit it again. A change in pace is almost always worth the struggle to get there… Congrats, again..
Hay un comercial -no me acuerdo cuál- que dice que las buenas noticias también son noticias. Me agrada verlo en su más pura ¿cómo decirlo? “expresión geek” aquí, contigo.
Y aunque la onda del “dear diary” no sea tu hit, sería lindo saber -de vez en cuando- cómo es que interactúas con lo que te rodea fuera de las computadoras. Weirdo! =)
Sin embargo y de todo corazón: Enhorabuena!
oh man thats sick. i’m not a big mac fan but the job sounds awesome, good luck with it!
Neverwhere was the first “real” novel I read in French. I remember thinking that reading in a second language was awesome — drama was more dramatic, suspense was more suspenseful. I paid more attention and cared more about the characters and descriptions and what the author was trying to say.
As it turns out, Neverwhere was just a great book.
Congrats on the job!
Sergio, Salamastre, et al:
we should organize a LAN party. It’s been ages since the las time I had the pleasure of kicking/shoting/dismembering my friends.
:) Bienvenido a las filas de Macadictos sin esperanza de recuperación. Que bien suena el trabajo. Ahora solo falta el jacuzzi y con quien compartir.
Yo soy fan de los “dear diaries”… Por mi, puedes contarnos cada instante de tu día y sólo te volverás más adorable.
Fixed the voltage fluke?
Cant wait to play Doom3
Congratulations! Anywhere with free coffee is a Good and Holy Place.
Ooh, start the comic again! I loved that. I subscribe to the linkdump, and ocasionally rea the articals (hence why I only just saw this).
Well, I’m glad to see that I was wrong about that whole “sekmeth devoured sergio’s soul” thing.