June 10, 2005

AAHHH.. it's so hot. I am so cranky. I just biked arond this montreal-imitating-calcutta-before-the-monsoons hell-hole, I am due to call MKs "leash" shortly, but first, instead of eating, it's too hot for that, I am going to write a blog. It's like feeding the soul.

#1/ Laurens mom says funny things about computers; "Oh!Oh! *mouser* over to that banner ad I want to win an ipod!" - That's right people, mouser - the verb. Usage example; I was mousering around the internet today and I found an awesome post on rabbitblog about being an honest person. Why don't y'all mouser on over there and check it out yo.

#2/ I spent a bunch of hours with Norbert of XTlabs and a tech from the IT dept. trying to set up an LTSP lab that would run on top of the windows on Concordias standard IBM laptop.

Okay I didn't really do anything except bitch about the time, argue with the tech about whether Smartboard technologies would be better if multiple people could input on the boards from various devices at once (better better! Think corporate win lose or draw but you can attack/alter you clients and colleagues drawing as they are doing them. I digress)

Anyways, hours and hours and eventually I was like, "Dudes it's not going to work lets use knoppix and just set up a dhcp server for the internet connection."Okay maybe not the dudes part and maybe without such careful use of technical language - maybe I said, "let's not make this too fancy I want to go home before 7." Talk about dedicated to technological advancement, I just wanted to mouser on over to a cold beer okay.

So we do that, and then I boot up the laptop and suddenly it's working and getting a linux network boot and no windows to be seen anywhere. So we have functional laptop LTSP set- up for thurdays workshop yippee. Of course there is really no way of saying what tiny peice of the puzzle fell into place. I think it was a DNS problem and Norbert disagrees and maybe I think I am just magic with computers.

So I go and get google up and Norbert says; "Be careful, it might be cached go search for something." So then I am dithering over what search to term to use and the tech says; " look up your boyfriend" and I say " he doesn't exist" and tech says: "Well, if he's out there google will find him for you." (as if)

I think I should refer to google as my primary partner. Its the only thing I can count on to see every day - ooh I am so cranky.

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