"Better Vulpines through Technology."

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New Email	Sept. 30th, 2001
Got a new email alias, thanks to Hasufin for the email alias. That makes 66 :)

Just cause...	Sept. 27th, 2001
WesM asked. Here's a post. Ok, now get going, nothing to see here...move along...move along. HEY !!! You, no loitering....get outta here !!!

New DVD's

Sept. 24th, 2001

Well, yesterday I went by Suncoast video and picked up a pair of new DVDs. I got The Dunwich Horror and Big Trouble in Little China Special Edition. I've been wanting BTLC on DVD forever, just haven't been able to afford it. So I got my first paycheck on Friday, and well..what can I say it called my name. And I just had to get the Dunwich Horror, which was one of the best adaptations of an HP Lovecraft story.

Big Trouble in Little China has a ton of add ons, including the capper. A music video of John Carpenter (the director of the movie) playing the theme song. :) Very cool. John Carpenter always does the best (weirdest) movies. Now, Dunwich Horror is campy horror at its best. Hey, it's a Roger Cormanmovie. Demonic child of an Elder God meets girl. Demonic child of an Elder God falls for girl. Demonic child of an Elder God straps girl to altar. The dvd box actually has this quote "Single white warlock seeks beautiful blond babe to join him at the altar...the sacrifical altar." *grin* Gotta love it.

Work, work, work

Sept 19th, 2001

Well, I'm coming to the end of my first full week on the phones at work. So far, s'okay. Kinda dull, but not so dull I go insane. I do come home rather pooped, but I think alot of that is winding down on the train ride home. Been trying to get friends of mine hired, which will make work even more amusing :) Here's to hope. :) Here's also to promotions off the tech floor and $75K a year. Well, I can dream. ;)

New Email Address	Sept. 18th, 2001
Just a quick note, I added a new email address to the Email page. Well I work at Airmail.net, I should have an airmail.net email address ;)

Fennec Lives

Sept. 14th, 2001

Well, after swapping out the power supply, I'm proud to announce that Fennec is back from the grave and providing mp3's. I added a stick of 128 megs of ram, and I'm going to up the processor to a 533 celeron (currently fennec has a 366.) Why the power upgrade, well I'm going to set Fennec to also act as a secondary DNS server and a few other things. And a little extra power would be nice. :) Next, I need to find another large hard drive so I can combine some of the drives. Money money money, I need money.

Fennec Down

Sept. 13th, 2001

Well, I woke up to a fairly bad thing this AM. Kitsune (my main workstation) had a bunch of NFS errors. I mount the drives on the fileserver (Fennec) via NFS, mostly to listen to mp3s. Well, the fileserver occasionally looses connection and needs to be jumpstarted, no big deal. Except when I switched the KVM switch to fennec, no screen. Not good, no humming sound either. Very not good. After a little tinkering, no dice. No post, no power supply noises, nada. Which could mean dead power supply. Or dead motherboard. Either way, bad. :( I think I have a spare powersupply, so I'll try that tomorrow. If that doesn't work, then I have to get creative. Bleah. Not been my year for computers.

Terrorists.

Sept. 11th, 2001

Just a short post tonight. I spent most of today in one form of shock or another over the plane crashes in NYC and Washington DC...mostly over NYC. I know that area, I remember walking around it as a kid. I can't grasp that the buildings are gone. Nor can I imagine how many people were killed or injured. This is horrific. *sigh* Personal, I think the people responsible for this are cowards. They claim this is war, then strike at civilians. Not even at civilians near a military instalation, but in the middle of one of the most populated cities on earth, just to cause terror. I'm not Islamic, and I don't know if the people are responsible for it are Islamic, but if they are...I'm fairly sure Allah will be pissed over this one. *sigh* My faith in humanity is really really gone now. :(

Ok, Testing again	Sept 10th, 2001
Well, I'm trying to see if I got vim's color crap working. Well, with that link it looks like it works. Cool.

Great Old Ones and Child Naming	Sept. 10th, 2001
If your stumped for names for your child... here's an idea. Yes, I'm twisted.

Hosting Page	Sept. 10th, 2001
Well, since Arwen and the LinuxWench have mooved on to bigger and better things, or webservers at least, I've taken down the hosted sites page. I still host a few websites, but not as many as a year ago. How things change.

Musketeer

Sept 9th, 2001

Well, on Friday I saw Musketeer. Think bucking swashes with a nice marital arts mix. It's supposedly based on Dumas's novel, but I'm thinking they took the cast of characters from the book, and dropped the rest. Now with these flaws...it's still fun. Not bad acting, very good fight scenes, a few good jokes. The fights were classic Hong Kong action, which seemed to work. The climatic scene, a swordfight on ladders...is stole whole cloth from Once Upon a Time in China. But it's still cool. Go see it :)

Changes, they are a coming :)

Sept 9th, 2001

Ok, I've got a few changes to announce. 1, as you may have guessed from the previous news posts, I have a shell script for posting to my website. It's not unique, other people have written them, or have neater ways to do it via php or perl. But this works for me, and I wrote it from scratch. I may post the code later tonight, when I'm more awake.

Also, I've started to migrate my office out to the living room of Chez Vulpine. Mostly so I can use this big living room, and watch TV. TV is good. Now to finish cleaning house so I can migrate everything else in here. So far, all I've moved is Kitsune and Foxgate. Ethernet connects the new office space to the server rack. Eventually I'll have it moved out here. I need to decorate more first ;)

The Fox Has Landed

Sept 5th 2001

Well, I survived my whirlwind tour of the Southeast. :) Dragoncon was alot of fun. I got to meet alot of people from the Tamson House email list, saw some bizarre things at the 'con, drooled over things I can't afford. Hmm, lets see how it went.

Ok, flew out on AirTran Airlines on Thursday. Got to Atlanta fairly early, then took MARTA (Atlanta public transit) to near where my friends live. There 'song picked me up and took me back to her place. Settled in, met everyone as they staggered in, watched a weird scifi movie called 'The Specials'. Sorta like Mystery Men, with a better plot and more weirdness. Rather enjoyable. Settled in and slept. (Mental note: never sleep on a loveseat if you have a choice, I'm short but it was still cramped. Oh well, beat the floor.) Friday was the start of con. Registered, and proceded to wander around. Dear gods was it a crowded place. Lots of scifi freaks, and people in costume, like this Lovely. The hotel it was in was bizarre, it looked like it was organic instead of built. Hard to describe, but think HR Giger. Hmm, highlights of the con...I got to see Harlan Ellison and Peter David paroding Iron Chef. I thought I was going to blow a gasket...it was funny as hell. Also got to listen to Peter David and Laurel K. Hamilton do readings. Peter was so funny I thought I was going to pass out. Laurel was just fun to listen to, nice voice. Hmm, what else...saw two lectures done by the Georgia State Medical Examiner, in which one person fainted. What can I say, I'm a bit of a gorehound ;) All in all the con was fun, minus some horrid planning flaws...like trying to crowd too many people into too small of a space (I hate crowds). But all in all I had a great time. Hmm, I wonder if I can go again next year.

For the curious, check out the Pics.

Internet America	September 5th 2001
Started my first day at Internet America today. Slow day, training on the databases they use to store customer info. Some stuff on how things are layed out. Slow day really. The train is a good idea, easier than driving... if kinda pricy from here in arlington. Oh well. It's a job.