CTRL + ALT + Go Fuck Yourself

I spent Friday evening on a low-level. Serious fun. I suggest everyone spend at least one night off firing a metaphorical round into the equally metaphorical brainpan of his blistered and haggard OS only to replace it with a copy that will surely be as pathetic and atrophied in nigh more than 4 months.

I tell myself it if because of the game support. I can’t synch with projects at work otherwise. I’ve got all these great peripherals that wouldn’t work. Shit, I’ve even told myself that it would get in the way of COH. The real reason I don’t just up and ditch XP and go the way of the über is just plain good old lazy assed convenience.

In college I was Linux boy. I wore a path-to-PERL t-shirt and refused to use anything but SSH for email. I had 3 cheap-assed laptops running benchmarks on the 3 hot distros of the day and I could mount a fucking bag of Doritos for network share if I wanted. But in college I skipped class and spent more time playing UT than breathing.

I had time all over the place. I could stay up for days dicking around with configuration and getting all excited about the newest build. College may lead to careers, but it does not properly represent the time one might need to allot to actually support one. When I come home after 11hrs of coding I could give a shit how fast my box boots; I am pretty satisfied that it boots at all most of the time.

But there is, inevitably, the day in which it does not – and that day calls for the low-level. I look at it as an investment. 2.5 Friday (or equivalent) nights a year spent on reinstall ensures smooth sailing for what little time I spend on my box at home that doesn’t involve blowing shit up.

One thing I am working on in my oh-so-precious/precarious free time is a project with Langel from firteen. It is coming along nicely and should make some waves when launched. I don’t want to be the spiller of the beans, so I’ll wait till that half-bearded bastard says something more about it.

I can tell you this much, though: chip music + programming + samples + community = geekgasm.