links for 2008-06-16
Written by shawnmor on June 16, 2008 – 12:32 am-
Wow… I still can’t believe Tim Russert passed away. I’ll miss his voice on Sunday mornings…
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Best Memory of Dad - Happy Father’s Day
Written by shawnmor on June 15, 2008 – 6:49 pm
“Would you like to see what I do when I go to work?” After I finished peeing all over myself, I raced out to the car. Dad was taking me to LTV (aerospace company in Dallas, TX). I knew he did something with these things called computers, and I had no idea what that meant. I received the full treatment - guest badge and all. I got to sit at Dad’s desk, call Mom (just like he did), and even write all over the walls (two of the walls in his office were dry-erase boards). I got to write all over this cool green-and-white striped paper, and draw funny boxes and triangles using these really cool green stencils that had “IBM” on them.
Then the moment that sealed my professional fate. I got to go into the computer room. Just like the gal in the picture, I got to sit at a teletype terminal, and play a game on the computer. I got to load a tape onto a tape drive, and see where the disk drives were. I was in heaven. The soft hum of the A/C system, the whir of the disk drives, the zzzt-zzzt of the tape drives, the smell of the room - I can remember it all like it was yesterday. The icing on the cake - I got to take a stack of cards from the card punch home with me. Years later, when I found a box of unused cards from an old card punch when I started working at IBM, no one could figure out why I was so excited, and I had a hard time telling them, since I had instantly been transformed back into an over-stimulated 7-yr old geek.
Thanks for making that day special, Dad. I hope the mainframes in Heaven are even more fun. Happy Father’s Day, fellow dads.
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links for 2008-06-06
Written by shawnmor on June 6, 2008 – 12:33 am-
How do you say “Holy Sh*%” in German??
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yea - i can finally install ff3rc2…
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links for 2008-06-04
Written by shawnmor on June 4, 2008 – 12:32 am-
This site makes it really simple to plan a commute using public transit - know exactly where to go to get on the bus, where the closest bus stop is to work, and exact schedules for those stops. It even tells you how far you have to walk to get to the bus
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