13 posts tagged “geek”
5:24:30 PM liz: you been working too much
5:24:53 PM frank: hahaha
5:24:57 PM frank: VENDOR LOCK-IN
5:25:02 PM liz: how romantic
5:25:06 PM liz: is that how you got tiff?
5:25:07 PM frank: im proud of that little saying
5:25:23 PM frank: i said "will you give me a lifetime service contract?"
5:25:34 PM liz: LOL
5:25:51 PM frank: and she said "Only if your ROI is higher than your TCO"
5:26:01 PM frank: and i said "Are you a turnkey solution"
5:26:02 PM liz: wow
5:26:22 PM liz: this is too funny
5:26:22 PM frank: im awesome
5:26:26 PM frank: actually i didnt say any of that
5:26:30 PM liz: u r teh awesome
5:26:33 PM liz: i'm gonna blog it!
the boy got me an incase hardshell for my new macbook pro. it is teh sexy to put over teh sexier with a smooth rubber touch finish and great fit.
in plum! you can see an evil bunny sticker i mounted on the reverse of the case. i'm pretty psyched because you can't buy the incase hardshells for mbp yet and i really wanted one. thanks, B!
i'm not sure why i didn't see this earlier (probably the 1000+ unread emails still in the inbox?) but now it's easier than ever to add OpenID support on your own domain with JanRain's OpenID for Domains (free) service. it took less than 10 minutes for me to set up liz.unknown8bit.org, and thanks to modern DNS technology that includes the time it took to propogate and resolve.
my schedule and internet prowess are full of fail when i miss such deliciousness:
the ansi gallery opening last saturday was rather
unexpected. it turned out that R was superoldschool ACiD Productions
former co-president whatchamacallit (and apparently we're married now
heh) and even bought a modem off of Chris/RaD Man back in the day. they
met at the mall for that. it was probably 2400 baud. and it was probably in san jose.
wow, awesome blast from the past. i was modifying my résumé for an online-oriented employer, and out of curiousity i wanted to see how long Prodigy had been around (or *P, for those who remember) to see if i had gotten my dates/years straight in my head. for those keeping track, i was on around 1991.
i ended up switching to AOL (version 1.6!) at around 1993 because they had ftp access without needing a shell account (which meant first web site!), it used the windows 3.1 UI so i didn't have to download a whole new gui every time i wanted to look at something else, and it also had archie/veronica searchable access so i could get guitar tab from sunet.se. or maybe that was a little later? i do remember the stigma of having been an aol.com email holder by internet "elitists" however (then mostly compuserve and university students). i think i had flashed my 2400 baud to 33.6 by then. does that sound right? or maybe it was 1200 to 2400.
so in 1995ish i got my first "real" dial-up service from netcom, who was subsequently purchased by mindspring, who later merged with earthlink. at least my email address didn't change through that time. enter blazing-fast 56k modem.
the rest is uneventful: earthlink DSL in 1998, interquest/ygnition T1 in 2002, and now a cable internet connection.
uh, yeah, that's enough about internet tubes for now.
* i had set up accounts for everyone in my family, but i was the only one who used the service. hence, the lowly "D" account.
driving -- i miss it. as an sf denizen i thought it prudent to leave the car in seattle. this past weekend i took my trusty car around with matt, michelle, and dave. we had brunch, went to the seattle art museum, and grabbed cocktails and sushi. afterwards, i dropped misha and matt at their hotel -- they should be in spain now for their 3-week honeymoon!
yes, that is an old-school apple sticker still on my car. it was very popular on the microsoft campus when i was doing some encarta usability testing in the mid 90's.
i just received an invitation to my company's annual summer BBQ:
Please join us for the [$company] Summer Picnic! Featuring BBQ ribs, tri-tip and chicken professionally catered. We'll also have games, prizes, frisbee, bocce ball, croquet, and the competitions you have all been waiting for:
- 12:25 PM: [$company] Fastest Person Contest
- 01:00 PM: Server Power Supply Shotput Contest
- 01:30 PM: Challenge JK to anything contest
- 02:00 PM: The ever so popular CAT 5 tug of war
- and more as we make it up!
i <3 geeks.
