Sad day for me, I've put my Manta Montage on eBay.
Other than that, let me quickly catch-up — Badur and I have spent far too much time in the last week over at the BME co-lo. Here's a photo of our server room neighbors (they do email solutions I think)… Their setup is much, much more impressive than ours so I'm posting a picture of it instead of ours. I don't know if that's a violation of the intense security at the facility… I hope not!
We went there because of issues with one of
BME's (as in
www.bmezine.com) drives. You may have noticed though that a while after
BME went offline,
IAM (as in iam.bmezine.com) went offline also. In the left photo below you can see a recreation of the explanation — instead of cycling the power on the main site, I accidentally recycled it on
IAM — oops! And then it had to do a drive check on reboot because of the unexpected death (no errors), so it took a few hours to come back… Sorry…
I had the sense to bring a book the second time —
Adventures from the Technology Underground, all about rail guns, pumpkin launchers, Tesla coils, and so on. It's a lot of neat stuff and a fun read that luckily took pretty much exactly the amount of time to consume cover-to-cover in the time I was there. Thanks to the
wishlist elf who sent it my way along with another fun book.
Err, I look kind of morose in that picture? Anyway, today I went down the street to
Yasi's Place with Blair where Saira was spinning records (lots of dub and reggae). It's fun getting to go out with people that I don't really know (I'm talking about Saira's friends, not Blair of course) again after a long time of seeing just the same people over and over and over (not that there's anything wrong with that).
Yeah, that was a dull entry with uninspired writing. Putting the Manta on
eBay was a little emotionally draining… I never really got to enjoy it as much as I'd have liked to; I wish it was easier to move unusual cars into Canada.
Oh, and I also got to see Orbax and make plans for the (delayed) release of his book and DVD.
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