the diary of antoine roquentin

My speech was MOTHERFUCKING GLORIOUS. It was a speech of praise, so I brought in my computer and hooked it up to an extension cord and plugged it in and it lit up and was so cool and they LOVED it and I had them laughing and everything, at one point they even (by themselves) turned off the lights to see it glow in the dark. SO cool. I was SO happy omg omg omg. And the coolest thing: it wasn’t damaged at all, in fact, I’m using it right now. I got 53 out of 55, BIOTCH. Oh yeah! Woot. Okay I’m bored now. Off to Josh’s house, if he’s done sorting out something at work.

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I’m freaking out that someone is going to take over my job, so I worked my ass off putting files into that database that my boss wants. I have all of February’s records, a grand total of A HUNDRED AND FIFTY SOMETHING records inputted. That’s not much, unless you consider that I put those in in TWO DAYS. But anyway, I just finished my creative writing excercises and my speech outline and as soon as Josh gets off the freaking phone I’m going over to his house to watch Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and to use his printer. I am Waaaay too lazy to try to set up the printer in the living room on Linux. Well, maybe if it had a working mouse I would try.

I installed a new distribution of linux with a cooler GUI and more features on the computer in the living room, I used the LiveCD of it and it was pretty sweet. So I guess I’ll call Josh’s cell phone. But anyway, check my fiction blog for my assignment. We had to describe an object making it seem beautiful and then one paragraph making it seem ugly. Enjoy!

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I’m simultaneously loving and slightly disliking the distribution of Linux I installed on the computer in the living room. It is cool, but it won’t let me log on as root (which you have to do in order to change anything), it has this whole system to avoid logging on as root, it’s rediculous. So I’m downloading the Fedora core and about two other distributions to try out at my leisure. My computer has been doing this weird thing where it won’t shut down. I just go to “turn off” and it restarts. It’s really annoying. But oh well. I’m supposed to go do something with Josh at seven. I want the new mouse for the computer in the living room to arrive. Now. So I can migrate from one system to another at will. I have decided that the next step in my computer evolution is to get a really good flat panel display. For one, it will mean that I will have a dual monitor system (which increases productivity tenfold) but when I eventually get my Mac Mini or iBook, I’ll have a portable monitor to use with it. I need to find a tape measure and see how big the monitor I use is (I think it’s gigantic) and how big the one in the living room is and see if I can’t come up with a compromise. The flat panel version of the monitor in my room is around $800. So yeah. Like I said:compromise. My wrists havnen’t quite recovered from last night’s Linux binge with the broken mouse, so I will sign off for now.

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I am simply amazed by how easy Linux is to set up. It took me three days of hell trying to set up a home network between my computer and Windows 98 (and it never worked), but in less than ten minutes I was sharing files from the computer in my room to the one in the living room. It’s crazy. My wrist is KILLING ME from using the stupid broken mouse in the living room but I had my dad order a new one from Tigerdirect.com a few days ago. It’s USB and optical, it should arrive in a few weeks. Here’s the tracking number. Okay, it feels like someone is attacking my right wrist and forearm with a steak knife, so I think I’m going to sign off for now. Yay for the Ubuntu linux distribution!

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> Nine Inch Nails – Piggy

Nothing can stop me now ’cause I’m installing Linux on the computer in the living room.

Just when I think that I’m totally bored with computers, I stumble onto a site about Linux. And so an hour later I’m downloading two Linux distributions. When I really think about it, I could ditch Windows XP altogether and sell my copy on eBay. The only thing that sucks is that I wouldn’t be able to use Musicmatch, Norton Internet Security, or Trillian. And I LOVE Trillian. Hmm. We’ll see. I absolutely love this distribution called Barnix, it looks exactly like Windows. Okay, I’m burning this onto a CD and I’m going to go into the living room. My dad was very into putting Linux on the living room computer, he was in this Linux frenzy three years ago, I think he bought a bunch of stock in Red Hat. I don’t know why. But yeah, off to the living room once this is done.

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