It’s October 2nd, and that means it’s “Airplane Dance Around the World” day!

So… do your part to help promote world peace… do the Airplane Dance today!

Oh… and for those who care, it’s also my birthday today. 39 stoney grey steps to the grave. Miftah (of mrmoth fame) wrote me the following:

My “Mr. Deeds” attempt at a Hallmark Card sentiment

For answers to quandries by the score
For discount web hosting and parts galore
For being patient through silly forum wars
For not taking a cut above cost at the cafepress store
I always use you like a $3 whore
But I probably love you a whole lot more.

Happy birthday, Biobutt!

PS: I’ll still be doing the airplance dance, but thats typical of most weekends anyway.

The “Name my kitten” contest is over, as we’ve finally come to a decision.

It was hard, but we’ve finally settled on “Seven”.

Huge props to Jen and Zipper for both coming up with the little tube rat’s name.

Of course, my eldest son refuses to call her that, stating it’s too “Trekie”. He insists her name is Oreo.

My wife called me from the animal shelter last night. She wanted to pick up a new kitten to help fill the void in our home by the untimely demise of our cat, Darwin.

Of course, I said “yes”.

When I got home from work, I was greeted by this little fuzzball:

She’s very energetic and has a few extra toes (a total of 7 on each foot). Of course, we are now searching for the perfect name for her. I suggested “SATA” and “RAID”, but my wife put the smack down on me with the geek names (besides, I’ve already had cats named “Modem”, “Icon”, and “Switch”).

So… have at it… suggest names for the little tube rat. If we like it and choose it, you’ll get your name in lights on the website for at least 30 seconds 🙂

My very best friend on the internet, Google, is 7 years old!

They have been, in my opinion, the hands down best ever search engine out there. I use it daily and can’t imagine life without it!

So… to Google: Happy birthday, and thank you for being there!!

As you may recall from the time of lore, this little website and the others I host were living on a little server I had named “Overkill”, an HP Netserv LH3 with dual PIII 600 processors, an 8GB system drive, six 18GB SCSI drives in a RAID-5 array, dual NIC’s, and redundant power supplies.

You can see why I named her Overkill.

Of course, Overkill developed a problem (it can’t seem to keep track of the damn time and would lose 3 minutes per day) so it was to be replaced with Woody (the current server).

When I was asking for donations, the deal was that the person who gave the higest dollar amount could have Overkill. Of the two people who donated $100 to the cause (*sniff* I love them), neither wanted the server, so it’s been sitting in my house collecting dust for about a year.

Someone finally said they wanted her to use as a file server in their home.

Today, I opened up the box, blew out a few years worth of dust and cat hair, and fired her up. Of course, she had blown her SCSI array when I shut her down last, so I have to wait for that to rebuild. Then I can scrub the box, install Ubuntu, and find someone who’s willing to help me lift all 225 pounds of her and haul her up the stairs and into my car for delivery tomorrow.