I should really eat sometime today… Allegedly we are going to see Minority Report tonight, which should be fun, I guess…
I’m hungry.
It turns out that ALL of the memory in morimoto was bad, so I hijacked some from a currently unused machine in the house to bring it back to life. I ran memtest86 through 3 full loops and this memory seems solid…
I’m bored.
This interview with Mike Patton has some really funny things in it, but this cracked me up:
“In fact, Patton is so esteemed Down Under that he was actually asked to be the singer for INXS after Michael Hutchence died. Few things make Patton laugh harder than that one, though it sounds suspiciously like one of his stories. “Absolutely it’s true!” he laughs. “I couldn’t make something like that up!”
The band, however, didn’t appreciate Patton’s amusement over the invitation, nor that he was laughing about it in the press. “They got all uppity,” he says. “From that point on, I just tried to make fun of them at every available opportunity, I tried to talk as much shit as I could.”
He even went so far as to badmouth the group on Australian radio, making a tasteless joke in the process. “The DJ kept pressing it and pressing it,” Patton recalls, mimicking an Australian accent: “‘What do you mean you said no? You didn’t even consider it?’ And I said, ‘Would you?’ And he said, ‘Of course, they are one of the most prestigious Australian acts,’ blah blah blah. He’d ask me a few other questions, and then he’d go back to it. ‘So really, about that INXS thing …’ I said, ‘OK, look. I did consider it. I told them that the only way I would do it was if I came on stage and could rig up a noose and hang myself while I was singing.’”
That little joke went out on national radio. During National Suicide Awareness Week. While Michael Hutchence’s parents were listening. Oops.
Patton seems to regret hurting anyone, but isn’t sorry he said it. “I was rough, but hey, you can come out snarling when your back is against the wall,” he says. “And plus they suck!” he adds, laughing. “Fuck them! They are fucking godawful! And not only that, I turned them down and they didn’t want me to talk about that fact? Kiss my ass! Dingo-loving sons of bitches!”
I ran memtest86 on morimoto (our firewall/file server) this evening and it turns out that one of the DIMMs was bad… So I yanked it out and hopefully that will fix the stability issues…. The machine is down to 128M of memory now, but I don’t think that will be a problem. Especially since we will be moving the firewall over to a seperate machine soon (since it is the “right” thing to do).
On a whim I searched for the name of the director of my department when I worked for Warner-Lambert, Dennis Fowler… I found an article about him in CIO magazine.
What the article doesn’t mention is that he was asked to resign from Warner-Lambert because he was a big waste… I remember sitting in meeting after meeting with our whole department (sans him) and HR trying to convince his higher-ups that he needed to go… I’m sure that vaguely remembers these events, as we were just getting to know each other back then…
Heh, I wonder if what he is doing these days…
I did absolutely no work today. I spent several hours talking to on AIM tho.
I want to go back to bed…. I was woken up by street work and jackhammers at 7am…
Our fucking firewall/file server has been locking up every week or so for no apparent reason and it happened again last night. What really sucks is that the network closet is in Adam’s room, so i can’t fix the problem unless he is awake… I wish I knew what was wrong… Any linux experts have similar problems?