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Making Music, not Babies

The journey continues...

For the last 3 days, I have been a good little consumer, helping Germany's economy out.

New computer, new guitar, new blanket for my bed

I hate Russo-German keyboards though. Note the placement of 'Y' and 'Z'

I burned through more cash than I wanted to, but that's okay because I have more left than I thought. The computer there is a P3-500Mhz, 256MB RAM, Adaptec 2940UW scsi controller, 2x10000rpm 9.1GB scsi hard disks, scsi cdrom, riva tnt2 video card, 2x3c905 NICs, and a BT848 video capture card. The whole system (minus the capture card, which I got in the states) costed me $300. I got the monitor out of a dumpster downstairs. So it's quite a nice ltitle system. I'll probably buy another one or two though, naturally.

Oh yeah, and I bought a toaster.

Wednesday night, we all (Roland, Martina, Andres, Thomas (new person) and Franciska (also new person)) went out to a Goth Club on the East Side of town. The place was called the Werkpalast, I think. It was pretty cool. I consumed 3 Liters of Ale.

Roland and Martina sucking face

I actually found out that Roland and Martina are ENGAGED. Scary shit to be engaged at 21 years old, I tell you. She showed me her ring, which lacked a diamond. I think that's a good thing.

The club started pumping at maybe 1AM. Suddenly I looked up and there were people everywhere (it was empty when we got there).

With the hippin' and the hoppin'

Andres continued to regale me with tales of growing up under communism. He's a smart guy, I think he's going somewhere.

Thursday was downtime. I've been looking into work on the GNU/Hurd. I'm hoping to collaborate with an old friend at Syracuse University on the project. I will be working on software verification of some parts of the Hurd's microkernel probably, as that's the sort of things Computational Logicians do. I've also been playing my guitar a lot. I'm starting to get some serious calluses back on my left hand.

Oh yes, and as per my friend Doug's request, I went over to Blogchalk, a nifty little place that's creating a blog search engine based on location and interests. So now you see a little icon guy way up there on the top of my blog. That's my blogchalk....

Anyway I may move my physical server from my friends' (Stephen and Steve) apartment to here. But, there's a 3Gig a week limit for transfers. It doesn't sound like a lot, but it adds up right quick, I tell you. Maybe I can figure out a way to defeat the system by doing tunneling? We'll see....

Posted by reid at October 10, 2002 08:37 PM