This is not a mundane detail, Michael.

I have determined, through scientific methods, that iPod popularity is at an all time high. Especially on Western’s campus. Since I doubt anybody is throwing their iPods away, this statement will be true tomorrow as well. So each day iPods exist, it’s on their most popular day ever.

I was walking through Red Square earlier and passed 2 girls in a row that had their iPods out and were picking songs. I probably noticed about 20 sets of white earbuds on my way from the new comm building.

Mike :: Oct.13.2004 :: General :: Comments Off

I few days ago I was working on the filters from home. I was trying to become another user in order to debug some error emails I was seeing.

sudo su - SOMEUSER

should work great. After typing in my password, I see the following message:

         *** System shutdown message from root ***
 system going down in 60 seconds

I start freaking out, and eventually realize that I should reboot the dang server before it is shutdown. This is one server that I don’t want powered off while locked deep in some telecom room on campus. So it reboots just fine, the CARP failover works great, all is well. I kind of forgot about this mystery until today, when I realized what had happened:

mike# fortune

        *** System shutdown message from root ***
system going down in 60 seconds

IT’S A FREAKING FORTUNE MESSAGE. WORST JOKE EVER. NOT FUNNY AT ALL.

Mike :: Oct.13.2004 :: General :: Comments Off