I decided to take advantage of my brithday holiday today to just say no to windows. One of the most important things was that I could natively run IE to test web sites and that the new Flash Player 9 came out for linux the other day.



It was so satisfying to just delete the windows partition. Now my vaio is much more like its running OS X without the apple crap or hardware and it is so much faster than when it was running windows. Windows is usually fast for about the first three days and then it just starts going downhill from there. I wasn't in the mood to do YAWR (Yet Another Windowds Re-install) when I saw the Suse site that compared the features of the new Suse to Windows Vista.

I have to say I really like this Suse Enterprise Linux 10

I figured what the hell, the only thing that was holding me back before was running IE and cinema 4D. I am pretty much done with Cinema 4D and I can get IE to run.

This is probably the 10th time I installed linux on a proprietary laptop and this time it went great with no hitches right out of the proverbial box. This is the first time I ran Gnome desktop with Suse but it is their default window manager now so I decided to give it a try. The last time I had used it was with Fedora back when (e:ajay) helped me install it on this same laptop.

I wish I had something important to say at the end of being a 20-something.

Flashback to January 21st, 1997: I am locked in my dorm room in Flensburg, Germany totally dissatisfied with the thought of turning 20. I somehow thought it was going to be the end of my adventurous life and that everything would change the next day. What really amazes me about the difference between then and now is the omnipresent internet which was nowhere in my life at the time. I had only began to use it the year before in 1996 and in Germany my only access was in a special computer lab once a week.

The night of my twentieth birthday I was not online chatting with my friends in the motherland but rather locked in my room tripping on mushrooms by myself.

Eventually, I ended up wandering out into the park and if I remember correctly, I had a good time.

I don't remember my 21st birthday. Does anyone else remember it. I think I might not have one single friend in my life now that was there then - or maybe I just don't remember it because it was so fun. Actually maybe chris was there. Maybe (e:hodown) but I think she was in New York. Or maybe I was in Arizona? If only I had a journal. I think I was probably in Arizona.



Back to 2007 -
My blood pressure was ridiculous the other day. Although, in fairness I was really angry at the moment.


Last night we celebrated my birthday at my parents house.







My family got me so much candy. In fact (e:mike) wrapped my gift in candy. The gift was a set of these four keychains that attach to stuff you lose. Then when you press a button o the basestation the things make an alert noise so that you can find them. What a great idea. I wrote about it a while ago when I was on the plane to San Francisco to visit (e:twisted). They had them in the skymall magazine at the time.



(e:lilho), a big part of the last ten years.

Missing Image ;(

I love this vaio series. At over 4 pounds lighter than the macbook I think I will need one, once the tax returns come.

The mactops are so freakin hot and heavy. That would be much better if I was describing a lapdance instead of a laptop. But the keyboard is pretty nice. Au Revior Pomme.

The jerk chicken sandwich at Betty's on virginia was both priceworthy and delicious. It had pineapple, jerk chicken and banana garlic mayo. Yes, banana garlic maya and it tasted good.

I also drank orange juice. I have been consuming citris like mad as I am very concerned it will be gone after the california icestorms.

Washington Market Philly Cheese Steak - not that great the cheese was more like nacho cheese from lasertron or puttputt.


Panos Sirloin Salad - Nameless Bitch ordered it first and then everyone else at the table ordered one. I have never eaten anywhere, where each person got the exact same thing.


Everyone got one


Don Pablo's Shrimp Enchilada


We ordered Buffalo Style Calamari at Pano's by accident. It is gross


Today at lunch I could not resist eating this chicken wing as a desert with my mashed potato bar meal.