I’m gonna be a mobster

| August 24, 2003

Well, I’m going to talk like one anyways – like an Italian mobster – Something like, “Sit down Jimmy, have a sandwich or a cream soda or sumthin”. Yes, I stopped at a channel showing “Midnight Run” and I caught a glimpse. It is amazing how tough idiotic statements can sound based on the person [...]

Real men do inspire

| August 24, 2003

I’m watching this program which chronicles the Apollo 13 flight/problems/recovery. The head at Mission Control (Gene Kranz) was an absolute rock. I see him interviewed and I think to myself, “This is a real man, with real convictions. And failure truly is not an option”. It is quite remarkable for me to see. Folks like [...]

Memories of memory – And disk too

| August 24, 2003

I remember back in 1994, Joe had just started his ISP in Santa Clarita, Ca. and needed to buy a main system with some disk. I think the 9Gig HDD was nearly $10K. Back then RAM cost ~$40/MB. I would have never guessed that I could eventually buy 160GB HDD for $100 (after rebates of [...]

Nevada Pics Up

| August 23, 2003

I did not yet comment on them or even bother to give them titles but they are up for now… in all their ugliness and lack of context. Check it here.

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