he was fun to watch, cli on an overhead. after a few years constantly signing things it becomes a time waster writing out each letter. my full signature is 23 letters. no readable letters since army. kids can’t read cursive anymore.

in Germany with $50 you can legally rent quality legal prostitute for an hour. every town has a ‘red light district’. in the states with $50 you can get drunk and frustrated at a strip club. was in the Army and drank a lot of beer.

some professor gave me a windup bauble walking hat.

desk junk pile

favorite wall cartoon around same cubical;

maybe from scratch. i started on Slackware in 1995 and had experience. this was a week class in a hotel conference room.

spent about a week listening to this guy talk. test day given a junk, blank x86 machine, install media and a list of services to setup with about 4 hours to complete. pro tip, learn to install rhel with no gui bloat. machine was so slow i spent half the time waiting for slow hardware, cdrom to hdd copy. checked it from his laptop. got results emailed. was relieved i somehow passed. don’t remember what it cost. employer paid. knew how beforehand. some people got done hours before me. no hat

type the first digits, auto-scrolls to your epoc

probably turned off after use. only way to track down intermittent lag issues. i’m a virgo so immune to marketing

like the stare I got when I told a grandson he should shovel snow for his grandma. did as much for my grandparents, regretably.

ultra 1040 without lawyers to drive buses through loopholes

replaced an IBM mainframe with a rack of linux DB2 and app servers. they wanted a cert to keep legal happy. a week paid vacation for the cert.

is centos still around? jumped on ubuntu to escape rpm corruption. don’t care to know anymore. shutdown -h now; not in the menu? wtf

spent a couple years somewhere in Europe. stuff i always thought should be normal goes without saying. strip clubs in the states aren’t normal. blame the blue-laws and 3.2 beer.

small town near here got some notoriety for a stop–sign altercation. somebody got a potato shoved up their ass. diffused a tense situation. i can see why.

thumb drives don’t need no ssd. backup my mp3 collection and give to friends for safekeeping. $5/32gig

got expelled for not showing up. showed me how to work the system

hope the code could be modded. search options often looked harmless until combined in a shortcut oneliner function. lol

scary thing is most people have no idea. scroll cats 🤷

shocked there’s spying going on… https://youtu.be/vxnpY0owPkA?t=24

checks out.