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BlogDigerati \dij-uh-RAH-tee\,
plural noun:Persons knowledgeable about computers and technology.
This came across on the
word of the day today and I realized a good 75% of the people I associate with fall into this category. Apparently the word has been around for some time but I've only just now heard of it. I interpret the word to encompass geeks and nerds, but you aren't necessarily a geek or nerd if you are a digerati. Now that I'm armed with this new word expect me to overuse it immediately.
Today I assisted the
Morlocks in their move from my basement to
Beta (the house that will never sell). Due to lack of furniture, their cable modem is currently
setup on a chair and the DVR is
hooked up to a 12" TV, both perfect photo opportunities. After having them in my basement for over a month and a half, Missy and I will be going through Morlock withdrawal for awhile. Fortunately
Ron has volunteered to visit from time to time and play Planetside in my basement to help us deal with this painful withdrawal.
Tonight
Stavos,
Mark and I decided to secure a tow strap to my truck hitch and
pull each other on an inflatable sled. What better way to enjoy the snow than risk death for the sake of entertainment. We rotated driver, cameraman and sledder for the better part of an hour until our faces went numb from the flying snow. Afterwards we did some good old fashioned donuts in a parking lot. There was so much snow today it knocked the
Gnome Cam offline when some shrubs fell over and pulled the video cord out. It also
disabled my anemometer until I was able to shoot it with my super soaker. Missy was
very excited about the whole event, especially the
botched "Brad died" attempt.
You probably won't get it unless you know at least one person in this photo. Many thanks to
Stavos for this comedy jewel, I laughed for a good 30 minutes:
Lloyd 911.
Checking the
Gnome Cam for this morning, it seems the Morlocks forgot to logout of
PlanetSide lastnight and the game spilled over into my front yard. One of the players must have decided Missy's Trailblazer was a
Lightning Tank and threw an EMP grenade at it. The grenade subseqently knocked out my camera while the player most likely discovered it was in fact a passenger truck and not an enemy vehicle. Stupid n00bs!
I asked them to turn off the lights/snowman because I'm an electricity snob and Steve had the following to say:
The
most disturbing Gnome ever finally made a friend with the
second most disturbing gnome ever thanks to
Ron and Jen's birthday gift to me. Both Gnomes share a passion for gnome/squirrel relations and are perfectly positioned to share long rides together. 2MDNE almost didn't make it due to the
inclement weather, but fortunately Ron's
FRONT WHEEL DRIVE minivan was able to spin and slide through the snow with ease once he activated the
FRONT WHEEL DRIVE feature by pressing the
FRONT WHEEL DRIVE button on the dash. We decided to celebrate appropriately by playing
Need for Speed Underground and Most Wanted.
CORRECTION: 2MDNE is Missy's present, not mine.
At lunch today my friend Dan handed me a book called "
George Washington's Rules of Civility" and told me I should follow them. So, starting tomorrow I'm going to make my effort. I already have large bets wagered on it lasting less than 20 minutes, but we'll see how it goes. Additionally, here's a
giant inflatable grinch for no apparent reason. Enjoy.
You may have noticed the snow-blob monster in my yard
take form a few days ago. I was at first puzzled by his appearance. Puzzled that is, until
Stavos crossed me by taking my
Snappy support traffic. He funneled a support request into his FTP site robbing me of a precious 320 kilobyte addition to my
massive web stats. I was so furious that my rage was able to bring the snow-blob to life. Temporarily ambulatory (apparently for only 5 minutes) he immediately found and attacked Stavos leaving him with a new respect for frozen snow-blob monsters. I got an online apology within seconds, and an email from "Blobby The Exterminator" informing me Stavos "won't be a problem anymore." Naturally he's now for rent. $200 gets you a "clarity reinforcement" against a person of your choosing.
After almost 3 weeks of waiting since my
last SATA RAID attempt, my replacement
WD Raptor 74GB drive finally arrived. I wasted no time in setting up the SATA RAID and quickly ran the benchmark in case another drive decided to die. As you can see from the
high tech animation my random read went from 14.9ms to 7.8ms and my average read went from 63MB/s to 114MB/s, both of which represent almost double performance. Not quite the 150MB/s I was hoping for, but definately a nice improvement. I then proceeded to do the fastest WinXP load of my life on the new RAID, requiring only 13 minutes from start to finish. Now even internet browsing seems faster and the drives are whisper quiet (I can only hear fans now). The true test of archive decompression comes soon, but so far the increase in speed is well worth the reduction from 240GB to 140GB. The extra 100GB was used for softcore porn anyways, and we all know hardcore is the only stuff worth keeping.
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