We’re geeks, damnit!
Tomorrow, I’ve got an interview with a company. I had one on Monday too.
I gotta tell you that I’ve been pretty depressed lately. I’ve been really thinking that I was not going to have any opportunities this soon. So I’m starting to feel better.
There is work out there…
Anyway, kind of lax about posting these days. And definitely nothing happenning on the geekforce old content/new stuff front.
Just not enough time.
Boy, do I have alot to do - it sure feels like it anyway.
So, for the first time, I made dinner remote.
I went over to Lee and Susan’s house. We really had fun! I took all the Pizza makin’ acoutrements and we made great pizza.
They have two kids. Maggie and Will. Anyway, I left the garlic off the recipe - I actually just forgot it on one pie, so we just blew it off.
It turns out that Susan is a huge football fan, just like Lee. This was pretty different, I only know women at the Sporting News that like football. So Susan was a different animal indeed.
Anyway, it was really fun. I had a great time. And I loved making the Pizza.
On a positive note, Circuit is now on site, and alive.
Sorry if the content is a little old, but I’m working from a pretty old archive of stuff. Bare with us while we increase the ‘recentness’ of things.
Also, I am moving all the old geekforce stuff - over to the new server.
See, I an found our old box geeksix, and got it over here, so that we can get all the archive stuff re-built. So, off we go…
Well, this last dinner was fantastic. While i did not take any pictures of it, there are pictures of other dinners that I have cooked… Just follow the link…
Kathleen and Mark came over. We ate and then we watched Wallace and Gromit in ‘The Wrong Trousers’ and ‘A Close Shave’.
Dinner was this recipe:
Broiled Chicken with Oregano, Lemon and Olives.
This was a really simple dish to make, and I served it with plain white rice on the side.
Make a marinade:
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
2 tbsp dry white wine
6 cloves of garlic, crushed
4-6 tsp. fresh oregano leaves
Red pepper flakes
The recipe says to marinate a whole chicken, cut into 10 serving pieces in this mixture, but I think you need more marinade than above for that much.
The above recipe was suffifient for 3-4 pieces.
I marinated overnight.
I took the chicken out 2 hours before I served it, and went to spinning class. When I cam back, I fired up the grill, and waited for guests by preparing the rest of the garnish.
Garnish:
Zest from 1 lemon (Again, this is not enough, I used 1 1/2 lemons.)
12 oil cured black olives (A guest brought these from the Olive bar at the super market, 12 black, 12 green.)
Red pepper flakes to taste.
Put all these ingredients in a bowl, and let set for about 30 minutes.
Set the Chicken on the grill, cook for a total of about 25 mintutes, turning once after about 17 minutes. (This will depend on the size of the chicken pieces you have - I have pretty large ones, so this was the time I used)
Once the chicke is done, take the garlic form the marinade, and place in aluminum foil wrapper, and place on grill to cook for about 10 minutes.
Assemble chicken in a large serving platter, and pour spread the garnish around the plate, let the dish cool and the flavors mingle. Remove garlic from grill, and spread around the dish.
This dish was served with a lovely Pinot Noir.
For appetizers, gorgonzola and volpi sausage were served, along with the Fetzer Riesling.
I hope your mouth is watering.
Well, I finally got the old webserver into the same spot as the new webserver.
Geekforce was served faithfully for the past few years by a machine that Dave and I purpose built to be a webserver. Running FreeBSD and Apache, online for almost five years straight, the old p133 with 64mb of RAM finally had to be retired when XO remembered to switch off the T1 that they had forgotten about in their rush to bankruptcy. I am sure that since he has some free time (read unemployed), Dave will work his geek mojo on it and it will be back to serving up silliness in just a little while.
And it has a EISA network card in it….
So… The RAID is almost working. I’ve got Linux built for it. That was some chore. I needed a heavily customized boot floppy to do the RedHat install.
It’s not up right now, I’ve got a bad network card in it. Anyone got a 3Com EISA ethernet card they want to donate to the cause?
Anyway, I’ve been re-building the LDAP authentication scheme for the network around here, and so far things dont really look that great. I’ve kind of hosed up some stuff, and things like su dont work any more. Luckily, login from the console does.
Anyway, i gotta keep up the job searrch around here for now.
More later.
OK, so I’ve beek taking a little time this morning to peruse the access logs, and 404’s and things.
It seems as thought there’s some demand for the the old site.
So with great pleasure, I present the Old Geekforce Site…
Enjoy.
1. Were you raised in a particular religious faith?
No. My parents were not religious in amy way. My grandparents, aunts and uncles were however…
2. Do you still practice that faith? Why or why not?
Remember that speech that Ferris Buehler gives about ism’s? Well, lets just say that that stuck with me. I’m not a big fan of religion. Recently, though, a friend of mine has me rethinking that…
3. What do you think happens after death?
I dont know… Thats why they call it death.
4. What is your favorite religious ritual (participating in or just observing)?
Weddings are cool. At least there, everyone is happy.
5. Do you believe people are basically good?
Yes, I think that people are basically good. I think that there are alot of ways that people can lose sight of themselves, and become not so good.
I have this personal philosophy that I apply to my firends, basically it says to leave people alone, dont try to tell them what to be or how to act, because that’s just your perception. maybe they aren’t ready to hear that, or maybe they genuinely have not developed to the point that they recognize that they might need to change some things.
I think that in order to really help your friends, you are first there to listen to them, and provide advice only when asked. And if you are going to criticise, then be constructive.
So, generally I think people are good, and mostly they are sort of right where they need to be. Time and personal development will take care of the rest.
This of course is wholly separate from my ideas about stupidity - which is rampant in our society.
Phil Baker