"Tin"

I hate when I can't tell when I'm hungry. It can only lead to over-eating. And other unpleasantness. Hopefully you don't know what I mean. Maybe you do I don't know. Lets just say it's bad.

Today was a pretty good day at work. I won't bother going into detail but I will say there was tin foil involved. Lots and lots of tin foil. Apple...Macs...Tin foil...it's so obvious what I'm referring to ;-).

It was just a very laid back day. I got free lunch! Well there ya go. Also I recognized a former classmate from a class I took 5 years ago. And he recognized me. I have no idea what his name was. But he looked virtually identical to five years ago.

Last Friday I think it was I did learn at least one amazing thing about Mac OS 9: you can assign any folder you want to be the folder the OS will boot from. All you have to do is copy two files to a particular folder, the folder icon will change slightly indicating it is "blessed" and that's it. With Win98 for instance it's a little more complicated to put it mildly (as documented in prior entries of this blog, see archive for details). I don't know about Win2k, haven't messed it up enough to find out. I know it can't be that simple however. OS X is much more difficult to screw up and you can't really "bless" a folder to easily boot from that one however it is insanely easy to change for instance the root password. Which doesn't really make sense security-wise. What's the point of a secure UNIX environment with root user if you can change the password effortlessly without even need a user account or anything else? But I digress.

One thing I actually did learn on Monday: for some reason Macs don't like the DVD+R/+RW format. They spit those disks out, oddly enough. I don't know why. They just do. Seems like it's just a laser that has to be tweaked and the CD-ROM drives are more or less off the shelf parts anyway so why go out your way to make your drives read only DVD-Rs in a world of drives that do both dash and plus? Don't ask me.

And another thing: what's the deal with bumper stickers on a Lexus? At some point of 10's of thousands of dollars shouldn't a rational person say "that's too expensive and/or nice for a bumper sticker"? Bah. But wait! There's more: not only a Lexus with a bumper sticker, a Lexus with a John Kerry bumper sticker. Aren't you a little upper class to own a Lexus? Am I the only person in the world finding this so incredibly ironic?! Yes, probably. A John Kerry bumper sticker on a Lexus. That's going to entertain me for years to come...

Oh, and I got a cubicle.

  ¶ 6:48 PM