Sun Oct 13 23:26:17 CDT 2002

• Had a decent party this weekend. Lots of people showed up :) Wheee fun. Sadly we ended up with an extra party ball. It will just have to wait 2 weeks until Tony's birthday. The best from all of the pictures are Waddle's "happy" pics, here, here, and here.

• This weekend Richelle and I went to Henderson State to see David. It is a whole 300 miles away from Starkvegas so it took a while. I made great time in Mississippi because it was a straight shot across on highway 82. When I got to Arkansas, the roads turned to crap. We did pretty good though, in one of the little towns we got off on a highway 273 that was not even on our map. Luckily it ran back into the road we were supposed to be on. David's dorm is the nicest dorm I have ever seen. Besides the tiny bathroom, the actual design and materials used are way better than my apartment. The greatest thing is that he has classes in the same building. David is pledging Phi Mu Alpha and I went with him to a singing practice before the game. Their stadium is nice but rather small compared to stadiums that I normally see. I think it is actually smaller than Natchez High's statium. It is really neat though, it is in a bowl shaped depression and the stands are on each side of the depression. I think that their band is far better playing band than MSU's. Their pregame show is not too impressive and they do not play much at all in the stands, but their halftime show is the best show I have ever seen in person. Henderson even managed to win the football game even after a fumbled punt almost lost it for them. Both bands have the third quarter off so the Phi Mu Alpha chapters from each got together and sang a few songs. The guys from Henderson had asked me to sing so I got to participate too. David introduced me to their band director and it turns out that he is a Sinfonian too and we talked for a few minutes.

• I am officially working at ISIP again. Loads of fun. More tutorials!!!
• Yep, Auburn kicked our ass last week. I can only hope that this season will not be quite as crappy as last year.
• Put new tires on my car this past weekend. Wheeee, the wobble when I stop is gone. I had gotten so used to it that it is wierd to drive my car now. At least my mileage should be a little better even though I was already getting 17 in town.

• It has been a really long summer. Thankfully it is football season again. That gives us a reason to have a party.

• I went home this past weekend. Saw Brumfield. Wheee. Saw Angela Davis for a while. Joey Geter even showed up at the NHS graduation. I sat with Melissa Phillips at graduation; I had not seen her since my graduation. I even saw Leighton Edwards who I have only seen like once since graduation.

• Super bulldog weekend was awesome. College Park had its annual crawfish boil. Last year sucked but this one was great. There was an interesting wet tshirt contest, sorry I have no pics. Saturday night we saw Starsailor play a free concert outside the Hump and they were really great. They have a nice pre OK Computer Radiohead sound.

• Finally got the pic of Richelle and me up from the Mardi Gras party. See it here.

• So back to the Lubbock trip. We did not do much on Friday if I remember correctly, until the game. It was great kicking Boston College's ass that night. I ate at an IHOP for the first time after the game. I got an "International Burrito" and was expecting a reasonable sized burrito. But what I got was a huge monstrosity of a meal. On Saturday a few of us ate breakfast/lunch at a Mexican place close to the hotel. Then we went and watched part of the team's practice. That night we ate at a huge steakhouse that was outside of Lubbock. I was not really impressed with Texas steak. I have had much better steak cooked in Mississippi and for way less money. Later that night we went back to the Depot District. I spent most of my time in Bleachers because I was not 21. Sunday morning everyone got up and got packed. Then we were bussed back to Bleachers to watch the men's game being played in Dallas. It was depressing for most of the way but was a little better at the end. So we went back to the hotel to finish packing and got ready for the game. It was fun being at the game even though we lost. Thousands of Texas Tech fans are scary. The band played and cheered our asses off because there might have been 10 more MSU fans there who were not on the team, in the band, or a cheerleader. Considering that we were outnumbered about 500 to 1, the Texas Tech people were really civil to us, very different from LSU where you have to be an asshole to be a fan. When the band made it back to the bus, we loaded up our stuff and then made a tunnel and cheered the players and trainers as they came out in small groups. We were even nice and cheered the cheerleaders. Coach Fanning was the last one out and when she came out, she hugged every one of us who was in the tunnel. It was really nice. So from there we were bussed back to the plane, flew home to GTR at about 2 AM, got bussed back to Starkvegas (where there are trees, green grass, and hills), and sorted out our luggage so that we could go sleep.

• Spring break is over :( Where did it go? Last weekend I went to Natchez. I got a new tire and a rim for my car so it is happy now. Also Brumfield got me to go to the Confederate Pagent with him and I ended up being a soldier with the Knights of Columbus at the beginning of the show. Then on Tuesday I drove back up here so that I could go with the band to the NCAA women's tourney on Wednesday. We met at around 12 at the wonderful band hall. The men's band got to leave pretty quickly but we had to wait around until around 2. When we finally made it to GTR, the men's plane was still there. After a while we got on to our plane and flew out. It was my first time to fly so it was really neat. Almost as soon as we got in the air, we were over State's campus. I tried to take some pictures of stuff, but my pictures of campus did not turn out very well. I did get some good ones of the MS river though. We made it to Lubbock ahead of schedule and they bussed us to the Four Points Sheraton. We went out that first night to a sports bar called Bleachers that was in the Depot District downtown. It was pretty neat even though there were not many people there due to spring break. After a while we went down the street to a place called Tom's Daiquiris and finished out the night there. Thursday, we went to the mall. It was a huge mall, supposedlly the largest single level in Texas. After about 2 hours of wandering around, it became pretty boring so about 6 of us talked the bus driver into taking us back to the hotel. We ate at Joe's Crab Shack that night and I got the illustrious Richelle Baustian a neato shirt. Later that night we went to a place called Midnight Rodeo. Even though we were in Texas, I still thought all of the cowboys looked silly with plate sized belt buckles and pants pulled up to their necks. I'll write more later.

• This week was great. Monday night my left front tire decided to eat a brake pad. Turns out, my caliper was locked up. So I had to order one and after it came in, I got it replaced it with no problems. In this picture you can see the new caliper on the left and the broken one (see the piston sticking out) on the right. It feels good to save money.
• Had a party last weekend, had this many girls in my room.

• My brother told me that I should update my webpage so I am.

• I saw Vanilla Ice last night. It was a great experience.

• My wireless access point has been functional for a week or so. It is a Pentium 60 on a small square AT mobo. It has 32MB RAM which is overkill, a 10/100 Intel network card, and an ISA to PCMCIA adapter with a Orinoco Silver wireless card. The whole thing boots off of a floppy and is running WRP which is basically a stripped down Linux that has network drivers. I got the WRP image and packages from www.nocat.net. It was VERY easy to get the wireless card working, as soon as the damn thing booted it made the activity lights start blinking. However I had a hard time getting a wired card to work. I tried five net cards before I pulled the Intel card from Bill. I have ordered a pretty neat Compact Flash to IDE adapter that plugs right onto the IDE interface on the mobo. It and a 4MB Compact Flash card will let me get rid of the floppy drive, so the only moving parts will be the fans in the power supply. I am also in the process of building a plexiglass case for the access point. It might be done tomorrow.
• My new laptop is awesome. It is an IBM Thinkpad 770. The processor is a 233 Pentium MMX and I have upped the RAM to 256MB. It has a huge 13.3 inch screen (well it seems huge compared to my old 12 inch). I have Mandrake 8.1 working on it great. Its name is Mundie.

• I am sad. I had to turn Bill off to pull a network card that would serve better somewhere else. Right before he went down, this was the return of uptime: "6:24pm up 29 days, 7:51, 3 users, load average: 0.25, 0.12, 0.04"

• Bill has been up for 27 days, 13:23. Sadly I am going to have to reboot soon because I need to install a ISA/PCMCIA adapter for a wireless card. Hmmmm, I wonder if it would hurt too much to plug in an ISA card without shutting down. Most likely blow something up.
• I had fun at ISIP today fixing a page because it was actually a challenge. The page is for registration for the summer workshop and is a Perl cgi that generates a html page and validates the input. I had to add a few inputs so that taught me a lot about Perl and HTML forms.
• I helped Sesti set up the server at Human Sciences yesterday. I learned way too much about sendmail trying to get incoming mail to work. RedHat has one stupid line in the sendmail.cf that only lets mail work locally until it is commented out.

• Richelle and I went out and hiked the Noxubee wilderness trail yesterday. I am working on updating the images section with pictures of the trip.
• My mighty linux box has been up for 13 days, 11:02 hours. "Uname -a" now reveals "Linux bill.sesser.net 2.4.16 #6 Mon Dec 10 16:53:13 CST 2001 i686." So apparently I did something good on my birthday by installing a very stable kernel. Bill usually does not stay up much longer than about four days at a time because I'll do something stupid like unplugging him or needing to test out a drive of some sort.
• I have so busy. ISIP had the SRSDRW'02 this past week and I had to work my ass off. I am just thankful that the week is over.

• I worked a long time today :) Dr Picone took everyone at the office out to eat at Little Doey's. He was really suprised that I have never been to there before. The barbeque (sp?) was decent but I think that the Pig Out Inn in Natchez is better. Their baked beans sucked compared to mine (my mother's recipe) but the hush puppies were really good.

• About time for an update. I turned the big 20 last monday. I started the day off right with a Physics final. Wheeee. Definately been a stressful week.
• Last week I moved my site to a new server and some of my text was corrupted.

• I changed the way I did dates again. It is now the exact output of the 'date' command.
• I have moved my site again. It is now on my fightforyourrights server. Even though www.sesser.net points here, the "REAL" URL of this site is jim.fightforyourrights.net

• Berryhill, Chris, Jaime, and I went to Clinton to see Natchez High play soccer. Clinton beat the guys 13-0. That was expected (maybe not that bad) because Clinton is usually in the running for state champ every year. I did get to see Erin, who came over from MC, and Chad Jones, who had came down from DSU, so it was not a total waste :) I even got to see David lay out at least three of the Clinton guys without even getting a yellow card. The fifth is his birtday, so I had bought him a copy of Pink Floyd's The Wall on VHS. After the game the four of us stopped at the Olive Garden off of County Line in Jackson. Olive Garden sucks majorly compared to Old Venice in Starkville, the food was crap. Our waiter sucked too. So I will never go to another Olive Garden if I can help it. Richelle, being the sweet angelic person she is, had let me take her car, because I do not need to stress my car out too much right now. She could not go because she had a class in the late afternoon. I filled up her car, a 95ish Corrola in Starkville and again in Jackson. If my roughish calculations are correct, her car made close to 40 miles a gallon from Starkville to Clinton and back to northish Jackson which is pretty damn good. We made it back to Starkville around 1ish and now I am updating this page. I think I should go to sleep now :)
• The MSU BYU game was horrible. BYU did not receive nearly enough penalties. On aies. On almost EVERY play, they were guilty of very blantant holding, yet were never flagged. Also they lined up illegally for all of their field goals and extra point attempts and were only penalized the second time they did it; they only got a warning the first time. If there had been decent officials, MSU would have ended BYU's undefeated season.
• I have been so busy recently. Everything is so hectic, rush, rush, rush, turn stuff in now......

• Wheeee. State won the Egg Bowl. Looks like we will have a pretty good season next year with Fant. The statistics of the game are here. Basically the stats I like are that Manning passed for only 213 yards by attempting 36 and making only 16, not to mention 3 interceptions. Fant only made 21 attempts, making 14 of them and had NO INTERCEPTIONS. By my math Fant completed 66.7% and Manning completed only 38.8% while throwing interceptions 14% of the time. Maybe this will keep Ole Miss from a bowl game. I cannot wait until next year because without Madkin, State should go nearly undefeated.

• So now it is Thanksgiving morning. Wheee. Today pretty much felt like a holiday even though I worked at ISIP for a while. I fixed a lot of entries in the bug database. Good thing that we went over SQL in CS just recently :) I think I just might have impressed Dr Picone a little. I hope so. Something I have been wondering is if he ever reads my website. Maybe he will tell me now if he reads this. I have heard that previous web designers for ISIP have written not such good things on their personal websites while they worked at ISIP.
• Bell South DSL blows! Our upload bandwidth is so chocked that if someone is uploading a file of decent size, our latency to the next server out is 2.3 SECONDS!! That is absolutely horrible. Our latency with no with no uploads hovers around 22 milliseconds. I really bet that the problem lies in the crappy 3Com internal DSL modem we have. Probabally sucks at transmitting and receiving at the same time.

• Last night we went out close to the winery around 2 AM where there were not too many lights and watched the Leonoids. It was really neat.
• I have been trying to get a new OS on my laptop for a few days now. I tried Windows XP but the install locked up at detecting hardware. Tried Windows 2K but it locked up too. Then I tried Redhat 6.2, 7.1, and 7.2. Every time the Redhat install would get to the PCMCIA detection (which is at the very beginning of the install) and not do anything else. So I tried Mandrake Linux 7.2, 8.0, and 8.1. Mandrake apparently does not like mys not like my keyboard because it usually takes two presses to get a key to read. So then I tried Solaris 8. It installed perfectly. The only bad thing is PCMCIA support is non existant so no networking at all for me. Then I tried FreeBSD and it works absolutely wonderful, but there is no driver for my network card. NetBSD is supposed to have a driver for my card but it would not install correctly. Now I am downloading QNX which seems like a really neat OS. AND they support my network card. If it doesn't work I am going to be pissed.

• I had fun tonight. Berryhill made a pot of *really* strong coffee around 10 and we drank the whole thing. Then we went riding around and eventually made it to walmart. I bought a bunch of neat stuff, the most important thing was a roll of 16 guage automotive wire. When we got back around 11:30 I went out to my wonderful Camry with a flashlight and I rewired the speaker that used to be part of the alarm system. I grounded it to the firewall where the speaker is attached and I ran a wire into the car. I connected a hot wire to the lighter and put a push button switch between the two. Now whenever the ignition is turned on and I push the switch, it makes a really loud wailing noise. It's really great. Now I just hope that a cop neverp never sees me do it and gets me for my bluish headlights and siren for impersonating a police person. Anyway I bet I can scare the crap out of people once I get the switch hidden.
• Last week sucked. It was way too busy and I did not feel like I got very much done at all. Maybe I can be a lot more productive this week.

• I got to see the Boston Brass Thursday night. The trumpet players are just insane. The band is going to play Caravan with them today at pregame.
• I am now running the 2.4.13-ac6 kernel. This is the first time I have ever tried a patched version and not a main number version. Also this is the first time I have tried Alan Cox's source tree.
• My 256MB Micron RAM came in yesterday. That gives me a total of 512 MB of main memory. hehehe

• I had to make 100 four page double sided stapled brochures for ISIP today. Luckily after a few tries, I figured out how to make the almighty ECE copy machine do all of the hard work for me.
• I have the 2.4.13 kernel running now. I compiled my SCSI driver into the kernel so maybe it will get better performance whenever my hard drive comes in.

• This weekend was great. Brumfield, Berryhill and I rode to Natchez in Brumfield's Bravada. We left around 3 even though we were supposed to leave at 2. We stopped in a neat 50ish burger place in Jackson off of Lakeland and it was really neat. Then we drove to Monticello and went to the Boy Scout camporee so that Brumfield could see his dad. I got to see my troop for the first time in a year. We left and made it to Natchez around 10, so it took us almost 7 hours to make the trip. Saturday Berryhill and I went to Louisiana so that I could get a haircut at the place where I have gotten my hair cut since like the seventh grade. I rode around Natchez some and showed Berryhill some of the neat buildings. Brumfield had to take some stuff to his dad at the camporee so we met David when he got out of the ACT. My mom cooked for Berryhill and I so we had a really nice lunch. Then we went out in the almighty Jeep and drove around Kingston. After a while we went back to town and met Brumfield and David at Fat Mama's because Berryhill really wanted some tamales and a tshirt. Brumfield's mom had gotten us tickets to go to the Angels on the Bluff so we went to it. It was really neat because everything was done in candlelight and there were a bunch of people acting out dead people from Natchez's history. After that Burmfield took us on the grand tour of the roof of the Eola. Then we went bowling with Trae and Lisa. Trae beat me on the first game but I kicked his ass on the second. Lisa was pissed everytime I got a strike because she bowls with the league now. On the first game Trae had a turkey. After the bowling alley closed Brumfield, Berryhill, and I went riding around until about 2. Then today we left my house around 1, picked up Jaime in Brookhaven, and made it up here before 7.
• A song I have liked for a long time (cira 1998) turns out to be Way be Way Down by Catherine Wheel.

• I have a new chair and it is really bad ass. I had to get a new chair so that I could rearrange my computer. It is really organized now, the first time in a year or so. This is an "Executive" chair normally $212 but was on sale at Office Depot for $99.

• Chris and I drove to Jackson to pick up Jaime. I got to see Erin for the first time in a year because Chris called her and got her to meet us at Northpark. She seems so different now. I guess mostly because I haven't seen her in a year. Crazy but I guess I'm a lot different too. Just as long as Trae and Lisa stay the same, the world will still be a good place.

• We suck again. LSU played football and State's team watched, just like at Florida. I think the only game we have a chance of winning will be against Kentucky next week. At least for next year, Mrs Lance told the band that the LSU game will be a full band trip and we will stay in New Orleans.
• The Davis's made it up ok and I got to see them for a while. Richelle went home this weekend and Angela really wanted to meet her. Oh well, I guess we will just have to go down to Baton Rouge sometime.
• This weekend, Sesti and I were industrious and built a really nice shelf for our apartment :)

• This week was pretty good. It will be better if we kick LSU's ass. The Davis's are supposed to be coming up tomorrow so that should be interesting.
• My favorite emacs command right now is spook. It is a great command that inserts about three lines of random words meant to spark the interest of groups like the NSA and CIA. Here is some sample output: "plutonium Khaddafi terrorist Albanian Ft. Meade Uzi Legion of Doom security NORAD cracking supercomputer Mossad assassination munitions radar"

• Bill is happy again. I figured out that my moniter supports even higher resolutions so I am happier now too.

• I went with the pep band to Auburn Saturday. It was a really good game except for about the last minute. The officials made some REALLY bad calls against State. Probabally set a record in penalty yardage in the first two minutes of a game.
• I totally broke Bill this weekend. Running 'hdparm' and playing and playing around with stuff can break stuff really bad. I essentially nuked my entire filesystem. No mp3's no homework, no nothing is left. I made a new install of Redhat 7.1 and everything is running fairly well now.

• Today was a great day at work. Dr Picone hired another web designer, Micheal Peach who is in the band, is a native English speaker, and can code straight HTML. The last two web designers had NONE of these qualities. Another thing happened, isip002 just crashed this afternoon. I had an xterm open and it went poof. I tried to open another and I got a "/bin/bash not found isip002 NFS not responding." I think everything is fixed now though. Then tonight when I checked my mail I saw that Dr Picone had "terminated" Nitin. Nitin was an interesting web designer. He lasted almost two whole weeks. I was planning on ranting about Nitin some more but that wouldn't be any good.
• Phish's version of "Gin & Juice" is truly a great song.

• My apartment is clean. We cleaned it this weekend. Berryhill bought a $140 vaccum cleaner that is awesome. Then we moved all of the furniture and used a Dr Rug on it so almost all of the nast stains are gone. We pulled several pounds of dirt out of the carpet. Then Sesti and I bought several rugs, one for the front door, two for the kitchen, one for our bathroom, and a big one for the big part of the bathroom.
• Since we thought the game was going to be at 6 we missed it because we were still cleaning until around 5ish. It made me so sad to hear what the score was. I get to go to Auburn this weekend and I hope they play better.

• So we didn't kick South Carolina's ass in the football game. At least we still had a great pregame show that was nationally televised. Will another SEC school EVER see that? I don't think so.
• Berryhill and I went shopping today. I've gotten good enought so I don't have to buy food much anymore but I found this pack of chicken legs (4 or 5, I'm not sure) and it was on sale for only $1.05 and it had a coupon on it for $1 if you bought 3 cans of Grands biscuits. I thought this was a real deal because the chicken would be only $.05 after the coupon. The only thing though are that Grands were like $1.50 a can so it really was not a deal. But I still got the chicken because that is a lot of meat for $1.50. Then we saw Godiva ice cream for $2.00. THATS RIGHT $2.00 for about 12 ounces of lovely delight. So I got some Chocolate Raspberry Truffle and it is good and I have a lot left.

• Today has been another interesting day. Had CS this morning and had a quiz. I did not do very well because I did not exactly learn much in class Tuesday. I had a lot of fun reading the boards at www.info-x.co.uk There is this one guy who posts as Brom and he wants the US to go bomb whoever did it. Then there are these little faries who are saying "who is the US to boss around other countries." I think that is BS. I read some really neat points in other places too. Whenever there is a earthquake or a flood, who is the first country to go help? The US. The US goes out and helps everyone. When the US is flooded or has earthquakes or tornados or hurricanes no one comes and helps us. When other countries get invaded, who helps?helps? Usually the US leads the movement and England, Australia, and Canada join in and bring in the UN. There seems like there is a lot of anti US feelings in some people. But where would the wo world be if it weren't for the US getting involved in other countries problems? First there is world war one where the US bailed western Europe out. Then there was world war two where if the US had not helped, all of Europe would have been taken over by the Nazis and eventually all of the world would have been taken over. It looks like the US's foreign policy is going to be on the offensive like it was during Teddy's term because Colin Powell said that terrorism is a blight upon civilizatiolization and must be wiped out.

• Today has certainly been interesting. Being the responsible human being I am I got up early this morning and took my band uniform pants (which were somewhat muddy) to the dry cleaners. Sesti called me and told me that the Pentagon was on fire and smoking a lot. So I came back to the apartment and the World Trade Center was on CBS news. I saw a the hole in one of the towers and my first thought was how did somebody get a bomb that high up in the tower? Then after about five more minutes a plane (the second plane) flew in and hit the other tower. When I saw that plane, I was thinking it was around the size of a private jet and not an enormous Boeing. So I wasn't even thinking that there could have been THAT much damage. Then it was time for class, so I went to CS and was bored for an hour and a half. When I left class I heard on the radio that the planes were full of passengers. Until then I had th had thought that some crazy people had just taken some planes off of the ground and taken off. I watched ABC and CNN news from 11 when I got out of class until 5 when I had to go to band. So far the game is still on for this Saturday at least until we know for sure if the BYU people will be able to fly. After practice everyone who wanted to prayed on the 30 yard line of the practice field. I was really impressed because almost the entire band was there. In Starkville (in Natchez too because I tuse I talked to my dad) there is a gas shortage scare apparently started by rumors with people waiting in line 10 cars deep to get gas. Luckily I had a full tank of gas from last night so I didn't even worry about getting more. I just hope that all of the markets stay stable Thursday when they open. I am pretty sure that everything will be ok. If we go to war, that will help our market even more, but I hope we don't really go to war. Just as long as the US can figure out who helped and then bomben bomb the hell out of them and not have a draft. That would be fine for me. Anyway I have a Linear Algebra test tomorrow (it hasn't been cancelled yet) so it's sleepy time for me.

• It has been a long day. Today started out really nice. It was almost cold driving to class with the windows down. Physics was extremely stimulating as usual. I've got a linear test Wednesday. Wheee!! Actually I am not worried at all because we have yet to do anything that I was not taught in Algebra II. So I did my CS lab report tonight so that I can study a lot tomorrow. I told Berryhill that we are going to run again tomorrow and he told me that he thought he was just going to go lift. He's a pansy.

• Berryhill and I went running today. We ran two whole miles. I am so out of shape. My legs are really stiff now. My short term goal is to be able to run 2 miles in 15 minutes. Then I'll work up to a 5:30 mile :)

• I decided to change my date format to HH:MM:SS M.D.Y

• My classes are all still really easy.
• Yep, we kicked Memphis's ass. But not until the third quarter.
• I cleaned my room. It was a three day project but now it looks nice. I even cleaned up the entertainment center in the living room so there are no wires running out in front.

• The first game is today. We are going to kill Memphis. At least it will not be 120 like it was last year since this game will start at 6 PM.

• My brother just sent me a nice one lined email today: "You have nothing to complain about? Learn how to spell."

• Everything is good. I'm trying to think of something to complain about but for once I cannot think of anything.

• It has been a great week so far. Linear algebra is just like algebra 2 from the tenth grade. Physics is still in the intro stupid phase. In physics everyone has a keypad to answer questions asked in class. There was a really easy mass-volume-density-dimension problem today and only 40% of the class got it right.

• I've got RedHat set up pretty good on Bill. My video driver installed on the first try and samba was simple to get working. I even upgraded my kernel to 2.4.9. Berryhill and I figured out how to get samba to work right in Mandrake 8 today. That's one of the reasons I wanted to switch back to RedHat. My other reason was that I couldn't get a kernel that I compiled to work at all in Mandrake. My 2.4.9 kernel worked great after my second attempt because I left out my network and sound drivers the first try.

• Wheee, band camp is over.
  
  
• I got rid of mandrake last night and now I am working on getting RedHat 7.1 to my liking.

August 12, 2001

• Band camp started today. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! (with a just a hint of sarcasim) I got my uniform after about an hour wait. It takes a long time to find stuff to fit someone who is 6'4" apparently. At one point they gave me pants with a 32" waist and a 64" coat to try on. Hmmmmmmm. Anyway I endtry on. Hmmmmmmm. Anyway I ended up with ~40" pants and a 48 jacket so everything is nice even though a little baggy. There was a music rehearsal and I really sucked. I haven't played my trumpet but once or twice this summer. Then we marched from 6:30 to 9:30. I'm so tired now. Think I'll go to bed.
  
  
• Brumfield moved in today. His room in Hathorn (or Cresswell, I mix them up)
  
  
• Berryhill came down this weekend from Southaven. He was helping Becky move in. Becky's apartment is awesome. It makes College Park look like crap. Well, College Park is crap. We had a nice "house warming" party Saturday night.
  
  
• Most of the floor in my room is visible now. My sink and the counter around it shine. I just cleaned up the kitchen some too. Our garbage disposal has still not been fixed even though it has been a week since we reported that it was broken.

August 10, 2001

• I wrote an awful script last night to run as a cron job on bill that will write the ip of the Win98 DSL server on a page I can find on the net. First of all it ftp's to ra.msstate.edu as me and immediately disconnects. Then it fingers me at ra to see where my last login was from and echos the output from finger into a file. Then this horrible program I wrote in C extracts the ip from the file and makes an output file named index.html that has enough html in it to be useful. The script then ftp's to ra again and uploads the new index.html. This happens pretty regularly at 3 minutes after the hour.

• I have ALL of my mp3's organized now. All 2.5 GB of them. Every group that I have > 2 songs gets its own directory. Everything else was dumped into "misc." My Radiohead is the biggest at 244MB followed by Nirvana at 112MB and Collective Soul at 110MB. In doing this I cleaned up my /home partition a lot and have it down to only 46% used. Here is my current filesystem usage:
  
  

  Filesystem	Size	Used	Avail	Use%	Mounted on
  /dev/hda1	1.2G	53M	1.1G	5%	/
  /dev/hda8	9.3G	4.0G	4.8G	46%	/home
  /dev/hda5	3.0G	1.9G	1.0G	65%	/usr
  /dev/hda6	304M	40M	248M	14%	/var
  /dev/sda	2.0G	60k	1.9G	0%	/tmp

  
  
  I must be pretty bored to be taking time to write this stuff. Anyway in my file system setup I wasted a lot of space for /. Even with /bin, /etc, /lib, /root, /boot, and /dev it is only 53MB. That's crazy, but maybe some of those directories are linked from /usr. As far as I can tell they are not. I know why my /tmp directory is so clean, it is because I have a 2GB SCSI drive dedicated to it and there is nothing there at the moment.

August 7, 2001

• I wrote the most beautiful Java script for work today.
  
  
• I have began the great task of organizing my mp3's. I'm trying to group them in subdirectories by artist.
  
  
• The best "radio station" in the world is http://205.188.234.34:8002. It will only work if you have a nice connect to the internet though. Heark Cooks Brain by Modest Mouse just came on and sounds pree on and sounds pretty good.

• This weekend was interesting. I picked David up from the W last Thursday and he spent the night in Starkville. I went to work early Friday morning so that David and I could leave around 12. The trip home went pretty good even though my air did not work. When we got home me and my dad got one of the guys he works with to help us put some R-12 in my car. I saw a few people Friday night. I talked to Mr Donald until almost 3am. Heost 3am. He is fairly irritated about the upcoming parking policy for MSU football games. Then Saturday I cleaned my car and made it pretty. David and I went to Woodville to see our grandmother. I went to sleep really early Saturday night. I got up at 7 Sunday morning and left for Starkville a little before 8. My air was so cold. When I got back I had to go to Simrall and paint ISIP on the wall of the demo room. It took me at least 2.5 hours of prep time because I taped up everything really good andod and used an exacto knife to cut the letters out with. We did not finish the room until about 10pm.
  
  
• Hehe, lots of people are switching to StarOffice and away from that crap Microsoft calls software. Here's a story. I just can't wait until StarOffice 6 comes out.

• I guess Code Red has run it's course. Thank God that the internet is not held together by NT boxes. I keep getting "Ikeep getting "I need your advice on this so download this file I attached" emails. I think these are from the SirCam virus that hits Windows boxes. Back on Code Red, an "expert" said that it was going to cause $8.7 billion in damage. WTF? All it takes to fix is a patch and a reboot. How much does that cost? Maybe five minutes of uptime. And what is five minutes of downtime to a NT/2000 box especially if they have to be rebooted every week? So where does the $8.7 billion come from? The air?
  
  
  
  
• Tonight David (my brother), Sesti, Richelle, and I went running around campus. I am so out of shape. Maybe band camp in two weeks will help, at least if it does not kill me.
  
  
• Drove to Columbus and picked up my brother from PEP at MUW today. I get to go home tomorrow. Wheeeee. I haven't been home since right after the end of the spring semester which is only a week longer than my brother. Since he went to Governors School and PEP without going home. I just hope thst hope that my mom buys me lots of food.
  
  
• I did something really fun at work today. I began reorganizing an image directory. It sounds really simple at first but after you have to try and figure out what web pages point to which pictures it gets really fun.
  
  
• I found something fun to do today in linux. Run "cat /proc/kcore /dev/dsp" That basically routes a copy of everything in your ram to the sound card. If you have any recently played sounds stored in ram you w in ram you will be able to hear them. Mostly though it is a lot of clicking and chirping. Almost sounds like a techno beat. I think I could make a mp3 of the sounds of my ram if I ran "cat /proc/kore neato.wav" and then encoded the wav into an mp3. hmmmmmm something to think about.

• I got my first paycheck from the great MSU today. Wheeeee. Money is nice.

• You should go to ebay and bid on the crap I sell. Help ap I sell. Help me fund college! Isn't this much more noble a way to help with tuition than posing nude on one of those HOT COLLEGE AMATURES pages. My auctions can be viewed here.

July 29 2001

• No I was wrong. This is the fourth server I have had my page on. The second was Geocites. It stayed there a few months until ads were forced on my pages.
  
  
• So this is a new beginning for my webpage. This is the third server, ra.msstate.edu or www2.msstate.edu, that it has lived on. Before this it lived for about a year at www.redrival.com, and before that it lived at www.msms.doe.k12.ms.us. The REAL address for this site is www2.msstate.edu/~jns11 but since I own sesser.net and I can get free DNS from mydomain.com, *.sesser.net points here too.