The Friday Five, actually on time...

You have just won one million dollars:

1. Who do you call first?

Wife, best friend, accountant, lawyer

2. What is the first thing you buy for yourself?

Fully loaded F-150 4x4, pay off house and bills...

3. What is the first thing you buy for someone else?

College for my children

4. Do you give any away? If yes, to whom?

No, not exactly, see below.

5. Do you invest any? If so, how?

Yes, traditional mutual fund/money market accounts, start my software company, and help my buddy at work start his construction business. I figure I'll end up with 300K invested and the rest eaten up by taxes, spent, saved, or otherwise allocated.

"Do you have the time to listen to me whine about nothing and everything all at once?" -Basketcase, Greenday

Once at a party everybody was standing there singing Basketcase, including me incrediably off key and drunk...I'm blaming alcohol for that one...really...

Actually written 1-09-04, around 9:00 am EST...I have been so busy this week that I completely forgot to put this up here...I need to tweak my pictures and upload them but right now I'm just taking a break from reading...anyway, on to the week late post:

Somewhere over the mid-west, just because I can…that’s why I’m writing a journal entry right now, even though it won’t be posted until after we land in Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada. Christa is trying to take a picture of the clouds and it came out pretty darn good. Yeah, I’ll have pictures to post…three particularly hideous wall hangings in Detroit’s Berry Terminal and at this rate about a dozen cloud pictures. Those may have to wait until we get back to Toledo and DSL, tho.

Today actually went pretty well, all things considered, despite an almost 1 hour wait to get checked in and a two odd hour wait to board the plane. I dunno who came up with three hours before a flight (to be at the airport) during an orange alert but it was still… the boarding clerks didn’t even show up until two hours before the flight. It sucks right now I’m so tired and so wired at the same time, I’m going to end up awake the rest of today and totally screw up my schedule….d’oh…

Still, writing a blog post which will be posted today while on a plane is still pretty nifty….I’m more and more happy with the iBook the longer I have it…I don’t think I’ll ever buy another OEM PC that’s not a Mac…

The Friday Five about 20 minutes late...

1. What does it say in the signature line of your emails?work - name, title, phone, e-mail; home - nothing

2. Did you have a senior quote in your high school yearbook? What was it? If you haven't graduated yet, what would you like your quote to be? I don't remember having one

3. If you had vanity plates on your car, what would they read? If you already have them, what do they say? ETFF

4. Have you received any gifts with messages engraved upon them? What did the inscription say? No, n/a

5. What would you like your epitaph to be? "I'm doomed"

Okay, I can't seem to post pictures and it's late, and I need to go to bed...

sweeeeet, I have located the Apple store and am now posting in Las Vegas from a 15" Powerbook...this is good...I have another post (probably two) to put in when I get back...I would have grabbed my iBook but didn't make it back to the hotel and didnt feel like having it in the car all day while we went to the Parumph Winery and test drove an RX-8...that car kicks major amounts of ass....very nice and the back seat is quite useable....worst part of traveling is no internet access by far...on the the other hand, we've done stuff all day, so I don't have time for internet...

woo-hoo, got the battery fixed on my iBook finally after a fluke dead cell as far as I can tell, worked fine tonight and charged normally. Looking foward to the end of this week and getting out here to go to fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada. Then going to the Detroit Auto Show on Thurs...

I've been insanely busy with the holidays, that's why I haven't posted of late. Between that and school, I haven't had much time at all to post...not much going on, bought Office Space in wide screen, got a digital camera for christmas (most excellent), counting down until the Detroit Auto Show...that's the five minute run down, I think, may post later...

Thanksgiving has come and gone, we ate way too much and then came and collasped into bed. Today was actually kind of sane, didn't get up until 8:30, then threw on clothes and got some christmas shopping done. After that, we did school work for the rest of the day...and now cooking dinner.

Posting from lynx for no particular reason other than I can...there's just something cool about text based browsing and I can't put my finger on it. (edited in safari...cop out tonight)

On the Mernovigain, there's something weird there, him being married to Persephine and all (Hades reference). After plugging "Mernovigian" into Google, I found two things: 1) Gave Frankish throne away to "mayors" who ran kingdom/court and eventually became Caroligians and 2) Gnostic sect claiming descendence from Christ. Okay, so I think the Mernovigian ran the Matrix creating Agents to make his job easier. The Agents took over and he lost his kingdom. Hence his collection of rogue programs and why the Agents didn't attack the Twins. Now to maintain any kind of power, the Mernovigian is forced to traffic in information and create "mystery"...I think my thought is half done but that's the gist.

Yea! Blogger has returned to the old post/publish screen...but I digress, I fear...

I finially saw The Martix and Reloaded after beginning woefully behind pop culture for a while. Nifty, although I understand the Big Deal about the first one, Reloaded was cool in a detached, intellectual sense and an action sense...it didn't have that je'nesequois of the first one, tho....and what's up with the Mernovigian being married to Persephine? All my googling just muddied it further, other than saying he's Gnostic (traffics in data) and is some kind of gate keeper...maybe Revolutions covers this one better, maybe not...not I have to figure out when to go see that...

I have a semi-complete working thesis on the Mernovigian to be released at a later date....I need to write that one down...

It is now a week later...I have not much to report...work and school, same old, same old...

Okay, so I installed Fink Commander and it's easier to see what I have installed but it still won't do tex so I can install KDE stuff...damnit...have to mess with this week end, I guess...but I really, really, really like Jaguar...very nice...

Blast from the past on my now dearly departed domain name...the Internet Archive project is cool...

ugh, I'm tired and don't feel like doing anything which completely blows...bad, bad, bad...I need to work on my laziness and I just lost AIM which is very bizzare, as I know I have internet and it just got right on...

I have two mid-terms to write (no big deal, I don't think) and reading to do...I want to start programming, haven't got to that between school work...very annoying...

DSL is setup and working, running through a 10/100 Router/Switch now....much better, I had it setup on the XP box and shared and it was crap for the laptops. Now everything works like it should (lost iTunes and Sherlock for some inexplicable reason) plus everything is behind a firewall...we'll see how it does but right getting 120K/s or there abouts (!!!) downstream...don't really upload that much, so I dunno where that is now...

Unintentional double post deleted...may post tonight, may not, dunno...

greetings from lynx...this is cool, i am running lynx in terminal window on a mac...dig it

I went war driving with the iBook today...all I have to say is sweeeeet...I was semi-surprised at how many networks were on my street (2-3 not including ours)...here's the breakdown:

- Went from house to UT Library, turned laptop on about half there - 8 networks (2 WEP, 6 wide open)
- Got needed items at library
- Drove from UT Library to pick up Lee from Volleyball...14 networks (5 WEP, 1 hidden SSID, 8 wide open) (15 if you count our WiFi network, which I had to drive by to pick her up)

Anne really got into the war driving thing, probably because I had her running the iBook...on the other hand, she does take a moderate interest in computer stuff, so I dunno...

i have been rather lax in posting of late...been busy with work and school and illnesss mon and tues...which sucked totally...

I have too much to do and not enough time, and right now I've being lazy...at least I have Mon and Tues next week off school, so I can hopefully get reasonably caught up.