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Playing around on Davis Wiki, [livejournal.com profile] koyote and I discovered they had an IRC channel.

On this IRC channel, we met [livejournal.com profile] tarzxf.

Then we ran into him at Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry's, where he recognized us because I was wearing the Davis Wiki shirt which I'd won (well, Leif won actually, but it is too big for him) the night before at the Linux User Group of Davis meeting, where the wiki happened to be the topic.

[livejournal.com profile] koyote friended his LJ. He read our profiles, and asked how we knew [livejournal.com profile] funjon, [livejournal.com profile] kikikimi, [livejournal.com profile] zenshadow and [livejournal.com profile] snapdad (old IRC friends from elsewhere). Turns out he worked with them.

And then it turned out that he had also worked with [livejournal.com profile] koyote before [livejournal.com profile] koyote and I met.

Then I read through his journal, and found a link to an article about a guy who he'd gone to high school with, who had died in a plane crash recently. This guy was the first friend I made in Davis. He left a while ago, and this was the first any of us here had heard about him dying.

So yeah, small world.
ocelot: (bunny)
This almost makes up for the fact that I hate talking to people on the
phone....

> grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
<gdm> ocelot?
> people at work emailing me to demand that i call them
> if they can go through the trouble of emailing me, can't they just explain
what they want in email?
<gdm> heh. good question!
* ocelot calls SGI instead
<Cymru> Talk to Dafydd. :-) (David ********, does telephone support)
> heh. it's an idea
<gdm> sgi is a doomed company.
<gdm> just ignore them. :P
> i just love when people tell me to do my job in ways that are not possible
:)
<kcm> yay, claim for my fucking car is finally filed
<kcm> I'm glad they didn't enforce a statue of limitation :)
<kcm> er, statute
* funjon sighs and needs to call sun and get new USII cpus
<funjon> "CPUs. Lots of CPUs."
<funjon> *woosh*
> I'm mad at Sun today. And SGI, too
* gdm just nails himself to the cross, to spare ya'll the trouble.
> oh, not you. whoever it is who can't get our address straight
<kcm> SGI makes poopy-looking machines
> heh, I got someone named David
<Cymru> Ask him if he is David *********. :-)
<Alaric> no, ask if this is Dafydd. :)
<Cymru> dd = th sound
> sorry, I'm a wimp
<Cymru> And f = v
<kcm> Cymru: so you meant "Davyth"?
<kcm> the gay David?
<Cymru> Ken, that's the way it is pronounced in Welsh.
> gad, I'm not even sure if I ordered updates for us or some other company.
<gdm> kcm: Heh. Yeah, you have to say it with a limp wrist and a lisp.
<funjon> heh
<kcm> gdm: does that mean I'm Welsh?
<funjon> the Gay (sun)Blade?
<Cymru> Yeah. Can just imagine the rather large husky firefighter/EMT doi
that. Uh-huh.
<funjon> heh
<kcm> Cymru: sounds dreamy
<Cymru> Ken, I know of several women who would agree with you.
* funjon waits for an extreme engineer to tell him whether this highly
unsupported feature will work
* ocelot calls the person who demanded she call them
<kcm> on another note, one of our machine rooms is looking ultra-sexy wit
the
<kcm> it's really really attractive when there's a) a lot of it, b) it's
pretty new, c) the lighting is set for the mood
<kcm> the old stuff just doesn't compare
<gdm> Heh.
> he had a fucked up voice mail message
<kcm> wow, I got a lot of shit done today, I might be able to relax for 3
min. tonight
<kcm> woo
<gdm> fucked up?
> yeah. there was a buzz, and then about 20 seconds of quiet, and then the
<Cymru> <Cymru> Hey! Are you on the phone with a Jessica from UC Davis?
<Cymru> <dafydd> As a matter of fact, I just got off the phone with her, yes! ;-)
> dude, weird
<Cymru> Small world.
<kcm> tell him he's got an admirer
> do they have like 2 tech support people or something?
<gdm> basically, yes
<gdm> and they might have one engineer
<Cymru> <dafydd> Well, yes, in the last hour of the day...
> ah
<kcm> gdm: ITYM "CUSTODIAL engineer"
<gdm> kcm: Heh.
> Oh well, at least that's confirmation that I had the right contract number
:)
<gdm> "Sanitation engineer." :-)
<kcm> heh
<Cymru> <dafydd> (In my thread. We have people in COMM, LANG, GFX,
(Multimedia), etc. But, we just have two people in my particular group this
hour.)
> tell him I apologize for being a freak. I'm awful on the phone :)
<kcm> as opposed to?
<kcm> :)
* ocelot kicks kcm
> ok, fine. I'm more of a freak on the phone than I am under most other
circumstances. happy?
<kcm> I'm kidding :)
> i'm not being entirely serious, either :)
<kcm> are you sure?
<kcm> :)
> yes
* gdm chuckles. kcm, i sense...great pain...in your immediate future. :)
> immediate? nah
<Cymru> <dafydd> She's far from the worst call I've ever had. (She
to get on the Authorized Caller list for her account, though.)
<kcm> gdm: always, oh psychic one
> yes, I do need to get on the authorized callers list. I thought I had.
<kcm> like THAT'S hard to predict for an EECS major

I still wonder where my last entry disappeared to...
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rainy/sleet just checked in on IRC. We thoroughly bitched him out for not checking in sooner.

Apparently he was busy with work (as expected), moving, and was unable to check his email.

:)

The other day, I (finally) wrote a halfassed little script to check to see if the samba server is accepting connections, and restart smbd if it isn't. It seems to work. Hurray, one less problem to worry about. It's a total hack solution, but should do until we can do something real about it. Like move to a reasonable operating system ([livejournal.com profile] koyote, don't dare say anything. I know your opinion perfectly well :).

They're doing apartment inspections tomorrow. Something about needing to assess the budget needs for the next year. I'm a bit concerned that they're going to bitch about the cat-proofed porch, the hacked up door frame (had to remove part of it in order to get my desk into the room. Not anything that can't be covered up with a little paint - we just didn't anticipate having to do anything about it until I moved out and therefor hadn't taken care of it yet), or something. Going to try to stay home from work until they're finished (mainly because I don't want to have to confine the cats to one room for the whole day).

On the good side, maybe this means they'll get around to fixing some of the stuff that was reported when I moved in.

Had a math test today. I think I did pretty well, considering that most of this chapter is stuff I'm very good at. I was very lucky - in class on Monday, she announced that the test would only be on chapter 5, and we'd only have to turn in the homework from chapter 5. Had this not been the case, I would have been doing math for about 48 hours straight, as I'd done very little of the work for chapter 3 and 4.

I really need to force myself into better study habits. I have to pass this class (if I don't, I'm switching back to a major that doesn't require math, strictly to avoid taking this bonehead class AGAIN). And it would really be better for my GPA if I did well in it, since I forgot to switch it to pass/no pass. I'm not all that worried about passing it - I don't think I've screwed up enough for that. But anything less than an A will bring down my GPA.

If you noticed that this entry is growing every few hours, it isn't your imagination. I keep thinking of things to add, and don't want to start a whole new entry. But, as I really need to get to sleep, I suspect that this will be the last edit.
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I hate it when I don't get enough sleep.

Of course, it's totally my fault. I knew I had to get up at 6:00 AM, so I shouldn't have stayed up till 11:30.

[edited because I accidently submitted before I was finished.]
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Original: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/6/23/0518/18941

Random k5 question of the day - anyone know where #genx is located these days?

That, and homelessness, frivolous lawsuits, and other things that can ruin your day.
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