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Markus. Always playing games. This one’s called peekaboo.

Posted in mauq! by josh on the September 28th, 2005

an oldy but a goody

Posted in mauq! by josh on the March 13th, 2005

This is a piece I wrote a couple pages into my brother’s journal when he lived with me at college in Minneapolis. It’s funny because it’s exactly opposite my sentiment. I like machines….(they’re watching)

I woke up this morning and to my amazement the world was completely different. The people were the same but the ever-present hum of the machines was gone. The roads, filled with people, no cars just people. The offices filled with not computers, but paper and people to use it. Everywhere there was a machine yesterday was filled with not void, but people doing the work of the machines. I went to the corner store; there was not a newspaper, but a man telling the news. What a wonderful world.

Now back to our regular programming.

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dealz dealz dealz!

Posted in mauq! by josh on the March 11th, 2005

I got a new ‘Puter-com today, in the weirdest of places. Anyhow, here’s the deal. I wanted a Mini-ITX machine, they are very cool, but fairly expensive for the cost-power relation. When I was on my quest for the white whale LCD monitor wait, lets start again. It all starts with a woman named Marla Singer… Ok so that’s a different thing all together. Anyhow myself and a runner were tasked with getting a 19-21″ LCD Monitor with Composite video input. Now typically I would not think this is a big deal, but Welcome to Canada! Here we have two choices, buy the one we have or don’t buy the one we have. What a selection, it’s like Georgia, without all the shooting… OK so we were on a quest to get a monitor and I found this beauty on clearance, new in box at an office depot. It’s pretty hot, I paid $499Canadian, which is like $30USD ok so it’s really $415, but it’s still a good deal. Here’s the specs… 2.8GHz Celeron (400MHz Bus) 512 MB DDR400, 40GB Drive, 52×32x52×16x Combo Drive, Digital Optical I/O, USB2.0, Firewire (on the front and back), IR and Remote. It’s a pretty sweet machine, for the price and size. Now, you ask, what the hell did he buy that for. And to you all I say two words. Per Diem. With 3 catered meals and 14 hour workdays you don’t need a lot of it, but you get it anyway. Actually I do have plan for it, I’m going to make a mobile file server for my road peepz, so they can work more like the hard-core office people they are.