This ones for the nerds....(Walter)

How many super super-saiyans does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Just 1...
but it takes 30 episodes.


Thank you! I'll be here all week!
(I over heard some nerds talking and one of them told this joke)

Joe's Future Career

Last night, while walking Una, Joe was explaining to me how HTTP Proxy Servers work. Now, of course, I don't have the faintest idea why I asked, but from this conversation we have discovered Joe's calling.

As the discussion waned Joe stated wistfully, "If I ever live out in the country I think I'll make a server farm."

So many questions came to mind. How will he harvest his crop of servers? Will a heavy frost reduce his server farm's production? Will I be needed to help plow the server field? I literally fell to the ground laughing with all the silly server imagery floating about in my brain.

Joe's future is clear, he will be a fabulous server farmer.

Controller Progress

These actually aren't the latest photos, those are on my phone and I am still working out how to get those up here. Nevertheless, this gives everyone a taste of the project's progress.

Oh, and check out my Flickr account for a few more photos.

For those in my life...

Many people I know love MST3K so here is a link to a new interview with Mike Nelson

More "Fun" at a Boring Job

At first, having a job that allowed me to surf the internet all day was fun, until I ran out of ideas of things to look at. I would have research days, where for example, I would research all the serial killers I could think of. Or some days would spend hours watching movie previews on IMDB . I also have listed about three hundred books I have read on LibraryThing (which is fabulous). Because of our shared boredom, my coworkers and I, faced with nothing else to do, began finding increasingly tedious things on the internet to amuse our selves with. Which is the explanation for this:

Una Elizabeth Fizgig Martell

Yes, that leads to the dog's web page... Not only does Una have one, but so do several of my coworkers' dogs and one of my coworker's cats on dogsters' sister site, catster. Maybe it is a good thing that tomorrow is my last day...

Despite it's ridiculousness, which I realize is glaring, I have got a few useful tips from the corgi group discussions page (oh yea baby, she is in a discussion group) and Una already has some internet pup pals (that, although written with the intent of being funny, is actually true). So, if you are bored, make your animal a website, and maybe Una will be their internet friend.

On to something a little more fun. If you are a fan of the Office, watch this amusing and well edited Office/Nelly music video:



Thats all for now!

Behold...The Joe hath arrived!!!

As Casie pointed out in a previous post, I am neither dead, nor ill, nor incapacitated in any way (although i know some people that would argue some of those points). I am officially making my presence known on the blog. I can feel the collective sigh of relief from all of my friends and family.

I have been saving up all of the interesting tidbits of my life so that I could post them in one amazingly fantastic debut blog! This is that blog...

...

My life is not exciting and in no way amazingly fantastic so we are left with the rather mundane and pedestrian details of my day-in day-out routine. I will divulge what I have found to be the more interesting points of my life in the past few days:


I have installed an instance of Debian on a virtual machine on my Desktop PC.

I have made great progress in programming a machine monitoring program at work.

I have rebuilt my computer after an unfortunate USB incident caused the cataclysmic failure of my last mother board.

After some online research I have discovered schematics enabling me to build my own audio amplifier which, I am sure, would prove itself to be lower in both overall quality and value than a commercially available counterpart.

Nerds will be rejoicing at all that I have divulged. My friends and family (for the most part) will be reminded of how strange I really am. Either way, my first post is concluded.

P.S. - This is specifically for Colleen: I have filled out my profile. After much soul-searching, I have discovered who I am and filled out the questionnaire. It is posted for your review.