It's a Small World after all
Well now. It's Day 0 at the conference in Anaheim, California that I stowed away to in Tubby's car. It's a whole lot of wandering, wiring, and testing at this point, but things jump off tomorrow. When he's not doing that, I've been making him take me to Disneyland and around town (but so far more of the Disneyland, less of the wandering around). Last night was sort of neat - we got to see them filming (one of) the Disneyland Resort's holiday commercials. But we're about to begin a new day (and figure out what we're doing today).
    :::   09.13.03 @ 09:17 AM Pacific Time [link]   :::

Living large in a nerd's paradise
I really need to figure out how to set up streaming audio for some of my conversations with Tubby. During the course of the evening, which did encompass a few movies, the following actually occurred:
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Tubby: Woohoo!
Me: What...?
Tubby: I managed to move the two web servers from the WAN to the DMZ.
Me: Why is worth a woohoo? Most anyone with thumbs can move a network cable.
Tubby: Oh, it's not that simple. I also had to open two ports in the firewall.
Me: That doesn't answer why the woohoo. Again, anyone can do that.
Tubby: And know what ports to open without looking them up?
Me: You're kidding, right?
Tubby: Nope. Ever since we had that virus attack, I know now the port numbers.
Me: If you knew the winning lottery numbers, that would be worth a woohoo.
Tubby: You don't understand.
Me: You're right. But if I knew those port numbers, I'd be Duck Einstein, right?
Tubby shakes his bald head and walks away.
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We can only hope he never has children.
    :::   09.10.03 @ 09:22 PM Pacific Time [link]   :::

Blog: Blah
The weather is crummy, I'm a mix of boredom and anticipation between two upcoming trips, back-to-back (Southern California for about 8 days with Tubby, then my 21-day Don't Tread on Me tour to the New England states). I've packed everything I can find, but still feel like I'm not even remotely ready. I think I'll just squat the day away and go to movies.
    :::   09.10.03 @ 08:35 AM Pacific Time [link]   :::