Pete's Log: many random thoughts...

Entry #528, (Life in General)
(posted when I was 22 years old.)
Looking at my latest VISA statement, I noticed my credit limit has been increased by $200. Which is cool, I suppose, except I never maxed out the old limit, and I've not used the card in close to two months... oh well, it's nice to have.

Plex86 now boots Linux, which is excellent. It still has quite a while until it is a full-featured as vmware, but it's good to see them making progress. And to top it all off, it looks like they're offering some emulation modes in addition to the virtualization stuff, which may prove useful to us kernel hacker types.

Did laundry today. mmmm.... clean clothes.... but somehow it seems appropriate to be doing laundry while working on a test about pipelining...

This courtesy of "Kevin":
There once was an EE named kevin
Proper email formatting put him in heaven
He demanded it so
But pete dicked him o'
And now he's regretting his actions


In yet another entry in the "playing CD's I've not listened to in forever" category is "Smoke 'em If You Got 'em" by the Reverend Horton Heat. Anytime I hear the term rockabilly, this is the CD I think of. It's fun. Brilliant guitar work. And tons o' fun. And track 10, "Eat Steak" is just classic... Also listend to a Spin Doctors CD which was good fun. Reminds me of my first summer living in the US.

History Channel's been playing a series on the hitler youth this week. It's pretty scary. It amazes me what they were able to get people to do. I remember during a trip to Belgium during my sophomore year at ND Dad took me to a German WWII cemetary in Belgium. It was an experience. You could climb stairs to the top of the entrance structure and look out over the place. An uncountable number of crosses stretching into the distance. Then you walk among them and more often than not the age of the person buried in front of you was less than your own. War is truly evil.

Dad is apparently going hunting tomorrow with Richard and Rudy Rozman. Of course, he says he's only going along for the walk. The only person who may shoot at anything is Richard. I remember having elk jerky from an elk Richard shot some time ago. Very good stuff. Dad should have a good time.

Went to senior bar. Was an entertaining time. I think I had more to drink than I intended to and was in less than good shape for the political discussions I proceeded to have. grrrr.

Some choice quotes of unrelated origin:
"Destination: unknown, ruby, ruby, ruby, ruby soho!"
"You just can't mess with a man's salad." -- "word up"