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THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY EVENING: FINDING OUT I MISREAD THE STUPID PAYDAY SCHEDULE.
NO, WAIT, THAT'S NOT IT. THAT WAS THE LOW POINT.
THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY EVENING: CHECKING THE "IT'S OK TO CONTACT THIS POSTER WITH COMMERCIAL SERVICES" BOX ON A POST ON CRAIGSLIST AND THEN RESPONDING TO COMMERCIAL MAIL WITH TERSE YET CREATIVE PROFANITY AND THEN RESPONDING TO THEIR BEFUDDLED RESPONSE WITH EVEN MORE TERSE AND CREATIVE PROFANITY AND FUCK I THINK I'M GONNA START CHEWING ON MY LEGS TO STAY AWAKE PLEASE DEAR GOD CAN I GO HOME YET SHIT
OH AND THE JOB ISN'T SO STRANGE AS I AM WALK-IN HELPDESK AT A COLLEGE-LIKE PLACE. I LIKE THE HELPDESK STUFF BUT WEEDADAYS ARE VERY, VERY BORING BECAUSE MOST OF THE STUDENTS AND STAFF THAT ARE HERE ARE LAPTOPLESS SO TODAY I PLAYED AROUND WITH KNOPPIX AND PLAYED A BUNCH OF RANDOM GAMES AND SLOWLY STARTED EATING MY OWN SKULL AND SO ON.
OOH I DO HELPDESK HERE AT SCHOOL, TOO. IT WOULD SUCK TO HAVE TO STAY SO LATE. ALTHOUGH I STAYED AT WORK UNTIL 3 A.M. THE LAST THREE NIGHTS TO WORK ON FINALS PAPERS. THEN ONE OF THE STUDENTS TRIED TO CONVINCE ME TO PULL AN ALL-NIGHTER SO SHE COULD STAY IN THE LAB ALL NIGHT, TOO.
KNOPPIX IS COOL. BUT EVEN SO, I NEEDED A LIVE LINUX INSTALL LAST MONTH AND I USED UBUNTU. NEXT TIME I THINK I WILL USE KNOPPIX.
I HATE MAKING CRAPPY PICTURES IN PAINT! I HATE USING THE STUPID GENERAL COMPUTING LAB (but it's closer to my apartment)! I HATE BEING TIRED AND GETTING SICK.
THE HELPDESK OGRES AT MY SCHOOL WOULD HAPPINESS THEMSELVES BY FALSE-DESTROYING THE WORLDS (DATA) OF USERS AND RECREATING THEM FANTASIALIKE AT OUR POWDERBELCHING PRINTER.
My LART is a perfectly honed and balanced instrument of precision. Sometimes it goes by the multitude hoard names of "RIS", "RDS", "VNC", "GhostCast Server", "UNIBOOT" and "Unicast", or also: "That's unsupported and banned on this campus, and you know it. Give me your laptop, you're getting re-imaged."
Actually, this reminds me. This one place I worked at this guy actually made a really scary LART comprised of a haft made from rackmount rails, a head made of about 8 old drives bolted and braised together in a solid mass and a neatly braided/layered/coiled handle made out of blue cat-5.
It was this gigantic Thor's hammer kind of looking thing weighing about 20 pounds. You could have easily used it as a breach-entry tool for busting down wood solid core doors or even steel doors. He once turned an old, dead laptop into small pieces of confetti with it with startlingly few smashes.
I still want to make a high velocity friction-drive floppy or CD gun. Like those cool battery powered foam disc shooter toys. I figure a few rubber coated pinch rollers from a dead laser printer, a 12 or 24v lead-acid battery, a big ass motor and a few lengths of channel or angle oughta do it. You could make a gravity feed hopper for the media bullets and a simple trigger mechanism that just pushes the media forward a few cm until it gets gripped by the rapidly spinning rollers and flung out the end of the angle/channel rails.
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