Another Word for Nerd

Things have been insanely busy for the past couple of weeks. They finally found a tenant for most of the vacant space in our building at work, but leasing to that tenant meant that we lost our central lunchroom/meeting space and the existing lobby (since it was part of the other wing of the building that was 99% vacant). The past week has been a lot of moving equipment, removing equipment, and throwing away computer scrap.

I’m going to order an iBook (800Mhz G4, 12.1″ screen) tomorrow, with an Airport Extreme card. I’ve already got a Linksys WRT54G on the way so I can do 802.11g wireless around the house.

From my favorite comic/graphic novel series of all time, “Transmetropolitan“:

“You want to know about voting. I’m here to tell you about voting. Imagine you’re locked in a huge underground nightclub filled with sinners, whores, freaks, and unnameable things that rape pit bulls for fun. And you aren’t allowed out until you all vote on what you’re going to do tonight. You like to put your feet up and watch ‘Republican Party Reservation’. They like to have sex with normal people using knives, guns, and brand-new sexual organs that you did not know existed. So, you vote for television, and everyone else as far as the eye can see, votes to fuck you with switchblades. That’s voting.”

My last day of vacation today. I’ve taken it easy - traded the Ibanez electric guitar and the Telecaster in for an Ibanez Artcore TXD71 semi-hollowbody, and then yesterday got a low-end ultra-budget Squier Stratocaster in Daphne Blue from the grand opening sale at the new Brook Mays Music up near the Arboretum. I couldn’t resist - with grand-opening specials, it was $82!

Back to work tomorrow.