2004-09-17 - 10:47 p.m.

I booted my brain in the safe mode today morning. [Not a typical geek day] That is with all the non-Apple extensions disabled. ('Food? What...?'). So brain on the work mode for all day. The morning was fine, my brain processor was working correctly. But in the afternoon I felt I had some kind of kernel panic in my brain. Seeing the 'please switch off your brain' error message in front of my eyes when trying to read anything, 'switch off your brain', and of course in 4 languages of which the last obviously was in Japanese. O_o

I ssh:ed to my Chris's Mac and tried to figure what fun could I do... I was thinking of chmod'ing something, but ended up simply opening a few files .. (movies), and later launching pacman and some other games when he wasn't suspecting anything to happen.

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More geek stuff of the recent times:

- Swipe a CTA (train) card to the clock in machines to see if it works. When it didn't, start thinking how to make it work.

- Localize geek terminology. E.g. "w00t" > "w44s" in German ... localize unix commands too, e.g. "man" > "mann", "uomo", "hombre"; "sudo" > "i sweat" ..

- Spend a lot of time shopping clothes. I mean browsing thinkgeek, trying to desperately find the most geek t-shirts. When the geek t-shirt list just keeps being too long, you obviously end up printing your gpg (gnupg) keys 1024 and 2048 bit long, with full comments, wondering which email address would you use for the public key .. and one shirt with your .. ahem, personalized shell. And then keep discussing the topic for days, finding out your friends had printed their pgp keys on shirts... well, dressing correctly is important. Always.

- You forget your physical address. "Nah, just use my mailstop. Or [myfirstname] c/o [afirstname], [thenameofthecontinent]" ...

- Try to piss off software, insulting Eliza to be just "the emacs psycho with a terrible face and software PMS".

- You want to create an application that would have all the data of the people working within your industry (or whatever), with their details and .. .well, basically a geek dating catalog. And sort your mails to trash everything that has red font, big letters and comic sans and "keep up good work" to go automatically to trash.

- You find out what XP really stands for.

- You lol on Windows viruses and security. And laughing on cycling and computer in the future ...

- Make "And the dogcow went moof!" become an Apple internal hit and try to get it to iTMS ...

- Knowing the exact size of your room (space for a single bed, a 12" Powerbook and a flat 17" or under LCD monitor).

- Mastering the jargon of Radar, and knowing what you would want to 10.5. :)

- On the gadget list: feng shui motherboard, bluetooth vintage phone, Kung foo t-shirt for the geek gym.

- But there still is the 100 % possibility to switch off the geek mode, e.g. going somewhere you enjoy offline, like Cape Clear.

- World suddenly starts to feel small, when you talk to someone on the other continent who knows your next boss(es) and neighbor... and the mail then arrives you on the address format mentioned above (and you get an email telling you got physical mail..)

- If you still feel like reading more geeky rants, instead of randomly browsing around, index of stuff here, and on lj: 09/04, 08/04, 07/04>, 06/04, 05/04 - and more random stuff. Or browse my photos.