We just finished replacing the old comms-style 650mm deep rack up in the Sky Tower with a 1000mm deep rack, so that we can actually install full depth equipment (like most modern UPS systems, Juniper routers, etc). This involvled unloading all the equipment from the rack, piling it up in…
Okay, so, back from the Dresden Dolls gig. And it was very good. It’s always excellent to see a really tight band, you know? Skilled in their craft and art, not sloppy and whatnot on stage. Not that the DD didn’t have issues during this gig, they surely…
I was woken up at some ungodly hour this morning by, of all things, a bailiff of the court wanting to see me. I mean, what? A BAILIFF? I was totally flashing back to my mid-20’s at this point.[1] Turns out that he was here to either clamp…
Annette: “How much do you love me?” JSR: “Baby, I love you sooo much that ….” Annette: (Interrupting) “Do you love me enough to go to the shop and get me chocolate?” Did I go and get it, gentle reader? Of course. I’m whipped.…
It’s been a long long day to cap off a long long week. So, much work today during work hours, not crappy work, regular work. Actual productive work, just lots of it. The whole week has been like this. Then, off to the charity benefit of Serenity, bumping into…
The power outage mostly didn’t directly affect me at work, because I work for a major hosting company and ISP and thus we have big-ass UPS systems and generators and shit. I was mostly bewildered by the traffic chaos that ensued. You see I had to drive crosstown to…
Amusing conversations that have cheered me up in the past few days: Co-worker: “Your hair is getting long, dude.” JSR: “It’s like a wavy river of silver, flooding the 1970’s directly into your soul.” [I step into a lift to go down to the car park. I’m…
[A man who crept into a lion cage at Kiev Zoo] “…shouted ‘God will save me, if he exists‘, lowered himself by a rope into the enclosure, took his shoes off and went up to the lions,” the official said. “A lioness went straight for him, knocked him down and…