Daylight savings time in MN. It is a gift of an exteded day by one hour, and then a six month curse of long dark winter nights.

lately I seem to hate everyone around me. I have this bad habit of despising the people that I see on a daily basis. Makes it hard to work anyplace for too long, or to live with anyone for extended periods. It's been that way forever. People on a whole just really get on my nerves after a while. We are arrogant, thoughtless, self centered, needy beings, and we need to stay the hell away from me after a while.

And so another great McDonald's lunch today. Greazy salty artificial goodness (this is what it will read on my tombstone). Nothing says healthy like Cheese Food.

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They are just computers, and it is just software. Take that Linux fish off of your car. This is not religion. Apple computer does not think different. They want your money as bad (or worse) than Microsoft. Linux is not a revolution, and it will not take over the world. NT is not new technology, and it is not a great leap forward. Sun did not put the dot in dot com, and they want your money just as bad as Apple/Microsoft/RedHat does.

We should care about things that matter. Love. Hate. War. Sex. Death... Rise up from our parents’ basement, and wash our pale white skin in the warm glow of sunlight. Stand up from our fluorescently washed cubicles and yell "I am sick and tired, and I'm not gonna take it anymore".

I don't think people really recognize the genius of George Harrison.

Man does our network access here at work suck. To get across town we have 23 hops. Looks like we route through Chicago, then DC, then NY, back to Chi Town, and then to Mpls...I took the road least traveled, and that made all the (incredible slow and crappy) difference.

1 <10 ms 10 ms <10 ms bort002.bl.techies.com [172.17.1.2]
2 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 172.18.1.10
3 10 ms <10 ms <10 ms bort003.ed.techies.com [209.211.189.1]
4 30 ms 20 ms 20 ms 205.171.54.21
5 20 ms 10 ms 20 ms chi-core-03.inet.qwest.net [205.171.20
6 30 ms 40 ms 40 ms wdc-core-01.inet.qwest.net [205.171.5.
7 60 ms 40 ms 40 ms wdc-brdr-03.inet.qwest.net [205.171.24
8 60 ms 50 ms 60 ms a6-0-2.vienna1-nbr2.bbnplanet.net [4.2
9 60 ms 80 ms 50 ms p4-0.washdc3-br2.bbnplanet.net [4.0.1.
10 * 60 ms 50 ms p3-0.washdc3-br1.bbnplanet.net [4.24.4
11 120 ms 70 ms 70 ms so-2-0-0.washdc3-nbr1.bbnplanet.net [4
12 80 ms 70 ms 60 ms p6-0.nycmny1-br1.bbnplanet.net [4.24.6
13 50 ms 70 ms 60 ms p4-0.nycmny1-br2.bbnplanet.net [4.24.6
14 90 ms 91 ms 90 ms so-4-0-0.chcgil2-br1.bbnplanet.net [4.
15 80 ms 90 ms 90 ms p6-0.chcgil1-br1.bbnplanet.net [4.24.9
16 90 ms * 90 ms p4-0.chcgil1-br2.bbnplanet.net [4.24.5
17 161 ms 130 ms 100 ms p7-0.chcgil1-ba2.bbnplanet.net [4.24.5
18 90 ms 110 ms 80 ms p2-0.chcgil1-cr4.bbnplanet.net [4.24.5
19 100 ms 110 ms 101 ms s3-1-1.minneapol1-cr1.bbnplanet.net [4]
20 120 ms 240 ms 281 ms s0.vector.bbnplanet.net [4.0.246.74]
21 100 ms 101 ms 100 ms fa0-0.c7200-3.border.mpls.visi.com [20]
22 110 ms 100 ms 110 ms exception-gw.visi.com [209.98.248.182]
23 110 ms 121 ms 100 ms dizzy.exceptionmedia.com [208.42.6.1]

Today in the news of non-smoking...I %$#@& hate it...I come from a long line of smokers. Its in my blood. Its the only thing I've ever been good at.

puff...

Quite smoking on Monday Oct 3, 2000. And so it goes. I keep going round 'n' round the cigarette roulette. Smoking, and then not. Been going on for years. My girlfriend and I have this bad joke that goes, "I'm a dick ted!", and she says, "Your a dick ted!". Non-stop hilarity.

I wrote this on the mini-whiteboard in my cube today, "Mark has replaced the empty hole that once was filled by cigarettes with cheese". I figure I can mix quiting smoking with the Atkinson high protien diet, but just cheese, no meats. I have become a dair-a-terian. The nice thing is I will save hours because I will only be able to poop once a week.

This is the first blogger entry...a test as it were of blogger and all things web logged. I am working on a simple publishing app for a friend, and we are hoping to use blogger as the front end to the system. And so here is the first step...