The Zereps

you gotta read this article from businessweek online entitled “wal-mart’s giant sucking sound’. *so* true!

Wow. I never thought I’d see a ‘PC-enabled’ cassette tape player, but here it is:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/6908/

For those of you wishing to convert your old tape collection to MP3s, this is probably the coolest solution. 😉

Today I didn’t go in to work until about 1pm. The reason being is that our web site is being moved from one co-location company to a different one. We had to do some of it later in the day to lessen the negative impact in case something didn’t go smoothly after we moved the servers. Luckily for us, the two companies are in the same building–they’re just on differenty floor. The building takes up and entire city block though, and each company happens to be on opposite sides. Take a look at this map–it’s pretty amazing. The behemoth building to the lower-left of the ‘address baloon’ is where I spent most of my day today. Billions and billions of dollars worth of equipment are housed in there. I thought it was all pretty facinating.

It’s been a tiring day, but I learned a lot. For one thing, it was the first time I had been to a world-class data-center/hosting site. Our servers are housed in the same place that is host to mega-companies like Time-Warner and Sprint. Only thing is that they use entire rooms filled with 500 server racks and we only use three (racks).

boy oh boy we walked a long way today. eric and i decided to go to the shopping district of steinway street. we originally were just going to pop into goodwill and the salvation army, but ended up spending more time in payless shoe source (woohoo!) and gap. eric got a new pair of tennies since his were a year old and a little too ratty. they’re acutally really cool and normal looking. payless is getting alot better, but you can always find velcro shoes! good ‘ol payless…eric also got some more work clothes from gap. ::sigh:: i’m so proud of eric! after 5 years of my patient and subtle 😉 hints he’s taking my fashion advice! yay! 🙂 i also got a green sweater that was on sale. then we headed back home. oh, we also stopped by bath and body works to get a nice pumpkin air freshener to make the house smell festive. overall a very productive and relaxing day. and now for star wars!

here’s eric on steinway patiently waiting for me to get out of bath and body works.

a very exciting picture of the freeway from the bridge on the walk home.

here’s a picture of eric on the aforementioned bridge.

Star Wars never looked or sounded so good as it does projected onto 90 inches of your living room wall and accompanied by 5.1 digital surround sound. 🙂 In June, Candice bought me the Star Wars Original Trilogy DVD Boxed Set for a graduation present and we never had time until now to watch it.. and boy does it look good. I have to give it to those guys at THX for doing a bang-up job in restoring these films. This weekend we’re going to have a Star Wars marathon (not one right after the other, but one each evening this weekend.) Should be fun… even for the hundredth time I’ve seen them.

i just gave jabba and bath and he’s wiggling and squirming around the house trying to eat his towel…anyhoo…just thought i’d post a couple pics of him. if you’re sick of pictures of our dog, too bad! 🙂 he’s our baby!

here’s jabba’s new irish, chunky knit sweater. he actually likes it!

here’s his trench coat for when it rains. it’s a little big, but i’ll fix that. i got it cause he *hates* the rain and doesn’t like to go out in it. it’s super cute when i flip the collar up.

jabba would also like to give a good face licking to his cousin mickey, who has to get surgery on friday!

oh…..my…..gosh…..i’m actually watching ‘firefly.’ somebody……please hire me!! this is a desperate call for help! i just laughed at a pun made by the captain….::shaking head:: this is a dark day in the life of moi.

😉 hehe

star trek forever!!

just thought i’d post a picture. this one is of jabba sniffing the loaded granny basket after i went grocery shopping this morning. since we’re on a 2nd floor walk up i have to take the bags out of the basket to carry them up the stairs unless the basket is under 50 pounds or so. but it beats a 4th floor walkup!! 🙂

this last weekend was nice. we helped lorrie set up a new entertainment center and take down the old one. she fed us some yummy pizza and yesterday we had a nice run about town. we also signed up for the cheapest netflix plan so we have a dvd, garden state, to watch tonight. yeah! 🙂