Jim's Journal

01/28/2008 21:02 #43069

The American Dream
Category: life

I want to buy a house so freaking bad.

I just found out I am going from 20 hours a week to 30 hours a week for one of my contracts, which is an extra huge chunk of money every month, and so home ownership this year is looking like a great possibility. It also seems like I'll be staying in Buffalo for a few years at least, if James can get a job around here too.

I can't wait to move back closer to or into Allentown. Seriously sick of the Elmwood Village - I miss the grime and dirt!

matthew - 01/29/08 15:34
Grime and Dirt? I think you meant Culture and Class! :) Congrats on the new job!

01/28/2008 20:22 #43067

Give it up Edwards supporters!!
Category: dailykos lol

carolinian - 01/28/08 22:07
Edwards is a fellow NCSU alum. Wolfpack in da' white house, baby!

james - 01/28/08 20:24
Christ, I have stopped reading Kos since primary season began.

01/25/2008 13:23 #43029

Excess.
Category: work

Had to stay home to sign for this today.

Now I can have the following windows open and visible all at the same time:

3 terminal windows
- One for autotest
- One for server log
- One for actual CLI work
Firefox
Text Edit
Mail
Chat
Twitter
ITunes

I'm a happy camper.

enknot - 01/25/08 15:42
Jim...

Before you read the rest of this comment I need you to point at your stomach.

Those are them. Those are the gutz I hate....

I was very happy with my crappy 2 CRT monitors for quite a while, but I'm ready for more space on screen and on my desk.

Blast you Jim, blast you all to heck...

james - 01/25/08 14:52
nothing succeeds like excess.

paul - 01/25/08 14:51
Wow, I am totally jealous of that space. Terry, this is what I want.

01/24/2008 21:01 #43020

penis_enhancement.diff
Category: funny

The best screen cleaner ever:

The best bug report, ever:

01/24/2008 16:27 #43015

Totally Worth It
Category: technology

OK, so I've had this new laptop for a week (upgraded from a MacBook to a MacBook Pro). At first I was really nervous that I just wanted to upgrade because I wanted the latest and greatest, but didn't really *need* the latest and greatest. It turns out that it was totally worth it.

4gb of RAM. I can run all the programs that I need at the same time instead of starting them up and shutting down throughout the day. In the case of making web graphics, this is a huge time savings. Text editor, App Server instances, Photoshop, Fireworks, Lightroom, MS Office, News reader, FTP client, Safari, Firefox, SQL client, iTunes, iChat OmniFocus, Mail, and half a dozen other programs all open all day long. And - I can leave one or two Windows VM instances running in the background all the time. Again, huge time savings in testing web apps.

Rock solid. This laptop just doesn't seem to hesitate. It is always ready to go when I need it. No hardware trouble, sleeps and wakes up fast.

Bigger screen. Awesome, more room to work.

Metal enclosure. Feels more rugged.

Firewire 800. Super fast external storage.

Dual DVI out for a large external monitor.

This is my most favorite computer of all computers that I've ever owned in the last 20 years.