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General News | Nate | Laura

Mama, I'm coming home... (05-14-2003)

"Yee-Ha! Copy that, you sumbitch pile of monkey nuts!" - Dr. Evil
A lot changes in 5 months. For those who haven't heard the news, I have seized upon an new opportunity at work which will allow me to work from home (and oh, by the way, also comes with a nice fat comp plan). How the hell did I manage that? I guess I'm doing something right, after all.

So, the plan is to head back home sometime around mid-September... Get us a great big convoy and truck it through the night. Laura and I were considering staging a mini Cannonball Run. Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! See Big Daddy Nate and his Spec-V of Doom battle Laura "Lead Foot" Landerman in her wicked WRX as they race from coast to coast!

Because there's blog all else to do... (01-01-2003)

"Like the first monkeys shot into space. Space Monkeys!" - Tyler Durden
Wow. New Year. Still drunk. This year we rang in the new year with a pair of New Zealanders. Smashing, really. I got to have a smoke or two. Now I can eat.
This year I resolve to get in shape and not kill the people I resolved to kill last year. Good on ya.

Happy New Year!

Bloggin' Ain't Easy (12-27-2002)

"Monkeys cause me to be both angry and happy.
It is much like a piece of metal stuck in your eye.
You like the metal because it is shiny,
but you also hate it because it is causing you a great deal of pain."
- dcopp
I like this quote a lot. Mostly because it reminds me of working on this site, I think. Much like the monkeys, it causes me to be both angry and happy. It took me far longer to implement the photo album than I expected, and there is still much to do. Yet I cannot look away. Code monkey that I am, it draws me in; it lays hold of my brain and refuses to let go until the database has been built, the foundation laid, and the code rendered. I am an addict, a geek, a dork, a techie.

I'm not even convinced that anybody reads my blog, but I write it anyway. I'm not sure that Laura likes what I've been doing with the site, but I keep coding it. Ah well. Maybe if all of you out there say "I belive in Nate" then I will come back to life and post more often. At least I've finally shown Laura how to post to her section, so maybe we'll see something from her soon.

Long Blog Days of Summer (9-2-2002)

"God, Schmod. I want my monkeyman!"
- Bart Simpson
Well, we've had quite a heat wave here in California (remind me to post a list of reasons why California sucks sometime.) Our tiny (but grossly overpriced) 1970's tenament-esque apartment does not, of course, have air conditioning. Now, I'm not typically one to point out the flaws of the world, but I recall from seeing the A/C units in the stores this summer that these gargantuan appliances seem largely untouched by modern technology. Why is it that the air conditioner in your car weighs about 8 pounds and occupies maybe a cubic foot of space, but the one in your house is still roughly the size of the QE II? Something needs to be done here.

And as long as I'm on a rant about what's wrong with the world, let me just share a small experience I had at the post office recently:

Clerk: These require a sixty cent stamp.
Me: Ok... (long pause)
Clerk (looking confusedly at stamp on envelope): Oh.

Like I said, I'm usually willing to overlook a lot... but shouldn't reading the amount of frigging postage on the stamp be one of the things that you should really strive to do well as a postal clerk?

Random Thoughts (9-1-2002)

"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."
- Robert Wilensky, University of California
I found a whole bunch of cool clip art that I really wanted to use on the site, but I don't want to overdo it. To that end I have appointed this monkey as my web Avatar, and as such he shall be present on my page at all times. Should the Monkey Avatar be unable or unwilling to fulfill his duties as my Avatar, those duties and responsibilities shall be passed to the Avatar Second-Class (be it simian or not.) In such an event, the title of Monkey Avatar shall also be directly and permanently surrendered to the Avatar Second-Class. The Monkey Avatar's prehensile tail may also be confiscated, at the sole discretion of the Board. All decisions of the Board are final. Correlation != causation.

Race Results (7-21-2002)

Ok, so it's not all that impressive. I was 188 out of just over 200. But hey, it's my first time autocrossing. I didn't knock over any cones (or spectators), and I wasn't the slowest person out there. Mostly, it just feels good to see all those WRX's below me. There was a guy there who had been racing for 35 years, with the same car as mine, and he only had me by 3.5 seconds. All in all, I think I did pretty well. Once I learn how to drive, I'll be set.

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