YEEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAAW

I am NOT a fan of introducing unnecessary lead into the oceans but this looks like a heck of a lot of fun. Hopefully they used steel bullets and captured the ejected shells.

It's just me, the Roku and RoadRunner this weekend

I'm on-call again. Primary this time that means there is little chance I'll even leave the house unless something really breaks (please no, please, God, don't let anything break). My weekend will be spent trying to decipher the ramblings of people all over the world who can't copy a file from Hanoi to Addis Ababa or wherever they're trying to move data from A to B.

Funny story. Our offices in Nigeria are currently down. Why? No, people dressing up as state workers and tearing the road up to get at the cooper buried was a good guess. This time around the copper robbers broke into the local telecommunications office to steal all the copper cabling and piping they could find. And they found a lot. Instead of simply moving on to the next target they doused the place in kerosene and tossed a match to cover the evidence. Things went rapidly from bad to worse when the pipe to the underground fiber vault was not properly plugged. So it burned as well. And that vault was a major fiber intersection within the country. *NICE*

At least the Netflix 'Play Instantly' selection is increasing by factors of two and three a week (it seems). Being home alone and tried to said home at least I'll have lots of options of movies to watch. *HUZZAH*!!!

I need something

What I need is the following: a small, very inexpensive computing device that has a screen (color) a RJ-45 port and at least one USB (1.x or 2.x) ports. This way I could have my 2nd device on my desktop plugged directly into the Internet for testing of VPN devices and such. I could use a USB keyboard and mouse for input, no big deal there. I'd prefer Linux of some variety, hopefully a variety that has 'yum' or 'apt-get' to keep things nice and easy.

The device in question cannot ONLY support 802.11x for connectivity. I have to have Ethernet. This is an absolute deal-breaker. If I have to go with a USB Etherent adapter then so be it.

Any ideas?

I thought this was funny

:)

Be it known

On the 25th day of October, 2008 I finally defeated Slayer's Raining Blood on Guitar Hero III.

I voted today! Sort of.

Kelly and I had filled out our absentee ballots a while ago and mailed them in Monday - sans the necessary 2nd witness!! D'oh. Whoops. The good news is Kelly got it all sorted. She called the Franklin County Board of Elections and sure enough they had the ballots.

The Board was going to hold the ballots until we could get to the office in Louisburg where we would have to initial the ballots then they would then receive the necessary 2nd and 3rd signatures (since we already had the first signature in place but not the second the first signature was nullified, I think, and two more were necessary after the BOE checked our IDs and had us initial the ballot). There, got that? Are we square? Ok, good.

I know this is going to sound stupid

But I'd really like an honest-to-God RJ-45 Ethernet adapter for my iPod Touch.