mario and sonic to usher in the apocalypse

2007-03-30T21:02:00

I was reading the other day about how they (the giant ants^[1]) were going to make a game featuring both Sonic and Mario. Not only that, but they were both going to be featured in the title of the game. Growing up with the Nintendo vs. Sega rivalry, this would have once seemed like the moral equivalent to having Darth Vader command the USS Enterprise-K in the Next Next Generation, or having Captain Kirk pilot an X-wing. Times they are a-changing I guess, and where there is a business case anything can happen. Just today I was reading that Dell was going to start selling PC desktop systems with Linux pre-installed, which further confused me: this can’t be the same reality that I’ve lived in for the last 30 years. All of this is way too early for April Fools, so they must be ice skating in hell for sure.

Speaking space opera, I always had this fantasy of quitting my job in corporate America/Australia by declaring “I am a programmer. Like my father before me.” (Tyler can correct me on the inaccuracy of that quote) All this with the Visigoths about to storm Rome in 410, and bring an end to the Empire^[2]. The trouble is, my dad is actually a chemist. A pretty damn good one, but although he knows Fortran I wouldn’t really describe him as a programmer. I hope that if it ever does come to that, fate will forgive the necessity of a nice dramatic statement in place of a factually correct one.

Damn you Tyler, I can’t use the word “they” or “them” without thinking about giant ants!
so my fantasies are historically schizophrenic

Violent Rant

2004-10-07T16:29:00

Question:

Given: two computers one is a PII 500Mhz, the other a P4 notebook sitting not more than five feet away. The PII is on a 10MegaBit Ethernet, the notebook is on a 100MB Fast Ethernet network. First of all... why the hell can.t my stupid company shell out a few bucks and give for a 100MB hub which I can plug into the wall so that both computers can run on the fast Ethernet. No... that might violate arbitrary security policies... that might be too efficient... I might actually be able to get something done. Secondly, why is it that it is faster to copy a file from my notebook to my computer at home, and then from my home computer to the PII, than it is to copy the file DIRECTLY from the notebook to the PII. Just to give you an idea, my home computer is twenty minutes away (by car)... BUT in order to get there electronically, you have to go through my server in Austin Texas to get into the virtual private network in order to get there. So, send a file to Texas, then back to here in New York, do it twice... and somehow that is FASTER than just copying the thing directly. What the fuck. I guess The Company hasn.t figured out how to do computer networks. The STUPIDITY of it all is that people pay us to set up their networks.

Idiots.

The Twilight Report

mario and sonic to usher in the apocalypse

Violent Rant