Below are the 3 most recent journal entries recorded in technogeek1's LiveJournal:

Saturday, August 12th, 2006
10:49 pm	not another b-day ah, I guess I have to admit it was a good day after all, but I don't really care much for birthdays. It's the one day of the year that you have to admit that you are getting older. I'm only 38... (but don't tell anyone that's in hexadecimal) already over most of the interesting hills i guess. Had to do a bunch of bureaucratic stuff like renew my health card and drivers licence, both of which needed a photo taken. Not that I ever look good in those pics. Oh and the car plates too for another year. Then the fun stuff began. Peggi had gotten us tickets to the theater in Toronto to see Monty Python's Spamalot for my birthday and it was a lot of fun. Good silly stage gags in the usual Pythonisque fashon with a lot of singing and dancing and even sillier conversation it was a good laugh all the way thru. I got a tshirt with "I'm not dead yet" on it and Peggi got the killer rabbit toy. I had to talk her out of the slippers because they would have scarred the cats too much. Dinner after at the Spring Roll restaurant was excellent. It was nice to find a new place to eat that was different and enjoyable. Now back to normal(?) whatever that is. Working on the mixing of Judith's new recording and learning a lot as I go on that. Also started reading a recent book by Bruce Sterling called Zenith Angle. It's about a computer geek that gets caught up in some hi-tech spy stuff in post sept. 11 america. Just the thing to bring on my next airplane trip next week when I have to travel to the states for a business trip. If they let be bring books on the plane that is... Current Music: Spamalot and the Ruttles (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
9:48 pm	Snow Crashed... Well I finally got around to reading Neil Stephenson's original geek novel called Snow Crash. It was an interesting story written in the early '90s speculating on the near future which is almost now and what computers and the web and virtual realities and gameing might all become. Some close some missed but a good read for its time. I had enjoyed his other big novel, Cryptonomicon a few years ago too. He writes from multiple points of view, thru different characters and even across may different time lines. I also get into the techie stuff with lots of computer talk and in depth mathematics too. Now I can look forward to reading his next opus the Baroque Cycle which is a trilogy of 900 page plus books from the age of enlightenment. Wait didn't that already happen? Aren't we supposed to be enlightend already? or did I miss something? I think I'll read something a little lighter (in Mass anyway) first... Current Music: Cockburn - Speachless (Comment on this)
Monday, January 16th, 2006
8:36 pm	New Computer I finally bit the bullet and got myself a new laptop. It's a fairly basic model, Compaq Presario V2410, with AMD Turion 64 mobile processor and a measley 1/2 G of RAM. But it has all the latest bells and whistles - DVD burner, firewire, USB, cardreader, and wireless network. But that brings up a slight problem. I can't seem to get the wireless network to connect. So that's what I'm working on now, and I'm sure it will keep me busy for a few days, configuring and installing everything I need to make it a true technogeek machine. Current Mood: excited (1 Comment |Comment on this)