Request timed out. That shall be my epitaph. Its probably the phrase I see most in my life. Request timed out. Request timed out. Sputter, grind and crunch are your words Request timed out. BEEP BEEP BEEP is your scream Request timed out. The odor of smoke in your wake Request timed out. Just a chkdsk away. Request timed out. An easy way of saying good bye. Request timed out.

Okay I was thinking, since I am waiting for a Server to finish going through a check disk... This according to Dictionary.com is the definition of entropy: en·tro·py n. pl. en·tro·pies 1. Symbol S For a closed thermodynamic system, a quantitative measure of the amount of thermal energy not available to do work. 2. A measure of the disorder or randomness in a closed system. 3. A measure of the loss of information in a transmitted message. 4. The tendency for all matter and energy in the universe to evolve toward a state of inert uniformity. 5. Inevitable and steady deterioration of a system or society. Now formerly being an Electrical Engineering major I had to take a class on Thermodynamics, so I can follow that first example, but what it IS stating is that there IS thermal energy. The second definition describes DISORDER, which could be called order that is un reproducible, no definite pattern. I like definition number four, inert uniformity, though that is different than definition one, as inert means lack of movement, and if there is any thermal energy there would be some movement. So I think two and five tend to give the more accepted meaning of entropy with one being the more scientific, but still accurate. But I actually feel that four is really what we mean when we say things "tend toward entropy", cause think about everything in this world, that if left with as little outside UNNATURAL influence as we can give it, tends to go to the number four definition. Think about it leave a system, like a car running or even sitting without any UNNATURAL influence and after a million years it will not be there, but even after 50 or 100 its likely to be unable to move, inert. Its the way of the world, not randomness, that implies some sort of action. INERT, thats the way of the future. Common theory is that eventually the universe will stop expanding and start shrinking in on itself, to one miniscule point. Everything will become inert!

Athletic women (in FULL glory).

That brings up the question, seeing that Tull has a new DVD out "Living with the Past", and that they are touring again this summer, should I go see them? I have a bit of time to decide as they do not come to New Hampshire till September, and I do not think they will sell out. I have not seen them in a few years. And I am running out of Tull shirts as well!

Ahhhh.... Tull Nothing is easy. Though time gets you worrying my friend, it's o.k. Just take your life easy and stop all that hurrying, be happy my way. When tension starts mounting and you've lost count of the pennies you've missed, just try hard and see why they're not worrying me, they're last on my list. Nothing's easy. Nothing is easy, you'll find that the squeeze won't turn out so bad. Your fingers may freeze, worse things happen at sea, there's good times to be had. So if you're alone and you're down to the bone, just give us a play. You'll smile in a while and discover that I'll get you happy my way -- nothing's easy.

Ahhhh its summer, well almost. At least its supposed to be, but we are having weather we should have had in March and April now, and the weather we should be having now we had back then. I don't get it... Sleep, why is it if I get more than the usual amount of sleep in a night I end up wanting more, but say I get 5 hours I am fine, at least to start the day off I can wake up and get started. *sigh* bloody well frustrating it is. At work we have this "BBS" system, they call it the talk rooms, its more of a post and response system like usenet. Well before the layoffs I spent umm about 0% of my time doing anything other than keeping the server running. Now I get complaints and complaints about so and so doing X and Y, and you need to kick them off and ban them. Its amazing they are more like kids then my kids. And of course their rational is always its OUR board. HELLO, how much did you pay to use it? Are you helping with the bill? Did you give us money? I do NOT think so. It goes to show you what people think they can act like through the computer. I can bet that 75-80 percent of those people would never do or say some of the crap they do now. I suppose that goes with being a faceless persona, remembering back to my college days I used to like to terrorize a IRC channel called #hotsex. (Really there was no sex on #hotsex, it was a breeding ground for guys with lots of testosterone to prove themselves.) Myself and other made what they were called at the time 'bots, via programming C or scripts or in my case REXX, then we would essentially have what amounted to wars that left any and all actual talk on the channel in tatters. Really ego boosting. Of course I would never do that in real life. I am just a sensitive artist. :)

Geek Note Do you have a Linux mail server? Do you have a shell account? Do you get lots of spam? I recommend setting up SpamAssassin. SpamAssassin allows you to filter out the spam in your email. I set SpamAssassin up the other day, and its been working pretty good at work. I actually had been using SpamBouncer but it has not been updated in a long time, so I switched over. Well if you do decide to install SpamAssassin, make sure that you have at least procmail v3.22. I had procmail v3.21 and was running SpamBouncer fine. But when I switched over to SpamAssassin procmail decided to start dropping the F from 'From'. I at first thought this was a SpamAssassin issue but it turns out its procmail, upgrading to 3.22 fixed it. Also, SpamAssassin can be setup to do individuals like I am right now or to handle the mail for an entire mail server, quite flexible.

This is hilarious!!! Actually quite a few are, its a contest about "real life" far side pictures.

What guys really mean when they talk.

Screw patches for quitting smoking, here is a patch for having better orgasms. Sorry women only.

Women lots and lots of em. Pretty attractive too... If you are into that sort of thing...

Hahahaha MtnDew.com is a software consulting firm!

I like this cartoon.

Today apparently was the day for Indian people to message me and flirt over IM. Although I guess I should take this as a compliment all three of them were guys, quite possibly the same guy but since I told each of them I was busy working and not interested in talking to them in the least, I would hope it was not. But can I really take it as a compliment since they no doubt just grabbed a ID out of the blue to message? Does my charm and charisma just flow through the wires and out the routers to all these people? Or did they just think it was some idiot at the other end they could get kicks from? Maybe I should have asked them if they could please stop with the Pakistanis cause the arms race nuclear war threat is so 80s. We did that 20 years ago, not worth the time or effort. But I guess the 80s are back in fashion.

Ahhh how the mind works... This type of situation ever happen to you? You have the opportunity to know something, say your company is going to have layoffs and you have the opportunity to know who is going to be hit in your group, except for whether or not you will. Do you want to know or not? On one hand that could be helpful, on the other it could just make you stay up night, what do you do? Or ever wanna ask someone a question but not really want to know the answer unless its the answer you want. Like say you want to ask your boss how your doing, but really you only want to know if you are doing well, if you are doing shitty and he is about to can your ass, and there is nothing you can do, well thats not something you want to know. I was told by my wife once that she had a similar circumstance in a previous relationship. She was gonna ask her boyfriend at the time whether or not he loved her, and I think she said he told her, "Do you really want that question answered." Kind of harsh, but I suppose in that situation you gotta ask, do you really want to know or are you just looking for reassurance that you might not get...

So here we are at another week. What have we learned so far this week? Apparently I am a "baby" guy. I.e. I like babies. Its true I guess, babies are a favourite, though younger kids are cool too. Why am I a baby guy? Cause there is nothing like cuddling with your baby and having them fall asleep on you, and then if you are lucky you falling asleep too. Yeah I know too mushy, lets move on. Observation, a manager at an internet company that thinks the following sentence is confusing is an idiot: Declude Virus caught a virus with the subject "Introduction on ADSL" from xxx@xxx.com to: yyy@yyy.com. And then claiming that anyone would find it confusing, should be taken out and shot. Women who wear too much perfume, especially bad perfume should be shot. If you are covering up BO, then just take a freakin shower, if you think it makes you smell good, well it just makes most of us wanna retch. And where exactly did the word retch come from?