Catching Up
June 2nd, 2009 at 22:12 by Eseell in Blagging and Guns and Networking
Here’s some stuff I meant to post about but haven’t:
- I guess I’m losing weight, because my old belt doesn’t fit me anymore on the last hole. I headed over to Galco‘s website and ordered a new belt 4″ shorter than my old one, and all is well again. I can wear my gun and my leatherman without my pants falling off. I guess walking everywhere and not eating so damn much is working out well this year.
- HB2474 – the guns in parking lots bill – passed the Arizona House and both of my representatives voted for it. Hopefully it gets a fair shake in the Senate and passes this year. Gov. Brewer will certainly sign it. The way I (and the law)Â see it, my car is an extension of my home. Making it illegal to ban guns in private cars doesn’t seem like an invasion of privacy to me.
- Hopefully this weekend I’ll get around to liveblogging a Fedora install on my EeePC. I’m going to try KDE because I’ve only ever used GNOME before.
- Rock Band is getting some Iron Maiden DLC next week! Finally, no more shitty covers of Maiden songs; we’ll be able to rock out to the real deal. Also, next week is the release of Iron Maiden’s new live DVD/documentary Flight 666.
- I think I’ve finally figured out why AT&T is the worst backbone service provider. Level 3 and Qwest have a lot of automated processes for managing BGP policies and such, but AT&T has an understaffed team of fools who do all that work manually. Example: I want to update some policies on 100 Level 3 circuits at once, it takes them less than 24 hours, and only that long because the automated process runs during a maintenance window. If I want to do the same thing for 100 AT&T circuits, it’ll take their team a month to manually make the changes. Then I have to go through and check their work because they inevitably miss something or otherwise cock it up. Even one circuit takes a week if you don’t call and harrass them. The difference: AT&T is a union shop. Unfortunately, I’m not 100% sure that Level 3 is non-union. It’s possible that AT&T just generally sucks.
- Here, more Maiden:
June 9th, 2009 at 23:28
Excellent choice of Maiden songs. VH1 has had Iron Maiden concert videos in heavy rotation lately to promote Flight 666. Ms. VRWC has been getting up to speed on their discography now too.
Congratulations on the weight loss, its not an easy thing for people to do.
June 10th, 2009 at 19:08
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