The blog of Michael Rice

I have recently gotten into this awesome show called The IT Crowd. Its really funny. I thought I would share with you a really funny clip from season 1.

Well the guys at South Park did it again. Here is a classic clip from a recent episode of South Park

• @Ponderous76 Killer choice!! in reply to Ponderous76 #
• watching south park episodes on http://southparkstudios.com/ #

• Just left frys in austin #
• Envy me. Just left the salt lick #
• @Ponderous76 Yeah I picked up a new 1TB drive and a new video card while I was there. Frys is my walmart super store in reply to Ponderous76 #
• @Ponderous76 I thought about you and Joe while I was eating my brisket in reply to Ponderous76 #
• @calebgroom It was amazing. I love that habenaro sauce they have. We need to take a field trip over there some afternoon in reply to calebgroom #
• I think I am fixing to order an asus p5q3 delux and a q9550 and build a media center pc that will also be my new file server.. over kill? #
• ended up going with the Asus P5Q SE/R and the Intel Q8200 & 2GB of RAM #
• RMS is coming to town in April: http://tinyurl.com/dng9r4 Im planning on going. #

• getting ready to head to Mr. Luckys for a few hours of tattoo fun and excitement. My arm sure is gonna be sore tomorrow #
• Getting inked at Mr Luckys #
• home at lat. my arm feels like mush #

• Why cant IIS be as easy to configure and trouble shoot as Apache? #
• standing in line at chachos #
• just finished watching semi-pro. not as funny as I hoped. I think Ill hack on some python code for a while #

• need to go to bed, why do I do my best coding when I should be sleeping? #
• @calebgroom I think I used linux for 3 or 4 years before I knew you could echo hostname > /proc/sys/kernel/hostname #
• playing some mario kart wii!! #
• watching the education of sonny carson again. this is a good flick #

• yay new lost tonight!! #

• trying to talk Summer into cooking me some breakfast. I wish I could afford to staff a short order cook #
• starving to death, I need something good for lunch today. to bad Freebirds is so far from the office #
• installed vista on my laptop with out a hitch. this is the first time its ever had windows on it. #
• watching a clockwork orange on netflix play now. Yep netflix is why I have stooped to installing windows on my laptop #

• writing documentation for our new vpn. sure do love that firepass #
• @sklnd those are some cool looking shots #
• Im thinking Bill Millers for a Po-Boy today #
• just finished lunch, going though email I noticed my patch to python-twitter for since_id in GetDirectMessages() got put in trunk yay!! #
• setting up virtualbox, I need a windows xp machine I can test stuff with #
• @calebgroom Im having issues with networking and just getting it to read my cdrom #
• ugh, no love with virtualbox, vmware server version 2 is teh suck. I need to spring for workstation here at home #
• trying to install windows xp pro on my laptop, tried 2 disks so far neither will finish inspecting my hardware. must be a sign #
• research on hp’s site about this problem has reminded me about why I have always just run Linux on this laptop. Insert disk & Enjoy! #

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• just finished pizza at big lous on ww white. mmmmmmmmm good stuff! #
• @robertmccallum that laptop would be the perfect tv box for me if only it had s-video out!! #
• watching the education of Sonny Carson #

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• heading to Chris Madrids for burgers. Can you say yummy? #
• just ate dinner at bj’s brewhouse. it was slow for a Saturday night even slower considering it is valentines day #

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• @sklnd have a safe trip you lucky dog! #
• updating wordpress is just so easy #
• @ponderous76 man that is teh sux! #
• w00t nextflix email: The Education of Sonny Carson Arriving on or around: Saturday, Feb 14, 2009
  Now if only they will add linux support!! #
• the count down to 5 has begun!! #
• @calebgroom the one over on 281 & Bitters always takes good care of us when we go over there. But its still no Frys!! #

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Well I’m back online after an extended down time. My main computer is dead. It will only run for a few minutes a day (and only on certain days when it feels like running). Tonight I managed to get it to boot and stay running for about 5 minuets before it died, which gave me just enough time to get this backup off that machine and install it on my temp web server. I hope to get a more permanent solution soon. I did go ahead and upgrade my blog to the latest wordpress so maybe it wasnt a total bust?

Well if you didn’t already know Nine Inch Nails has a new cd out. Its called The Slip, and it kicks ass. What makes it even better though, is it’s free!!!

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Its been raining a ton here. With lots of rain cool little mushrooms normally grow. I was heading to work today and at the foot of the stairs Were these nifty lookin mushrooms. I have no idea what kind they are but they sure look pretty cool.

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Yesterday we were sitting around bored trying to decide where we wanted to go get rained on. After a little bit of discussion we decided to go to the Frio River. Its right around a 2 hour drive from our apartment. The original plan was to go to Garner State Park and play in the water or something, but the park was full and they would not let us in. We drove up the road a little further untli we found a good spot to park where we could access the river. We walked down to the river got on our tubes and floated down the river about a mile to this place called Happy Hollow. They charged us 2 bucks for an exit fee then a dollar per person to shuttle us back to our car. This was mine and Aprils first time to ever go tubing. Summer had been several times before. We had a really great time. We got a few pictures of the river (none with us in it though). You can check them out here.

I was surfing the web and stumbled across this and nearly spit milk out my nose laughing. Check this out. Its almost sad how true this is.

So my car has been running kinda rough for a while now and the stupid “Check Engine” light has been on since the day I bought the car. I decided that I should get it fixed before the summer time gets here and the stupid car breaks down on the freeway and leaves me stranded.Now with my new fancy job I dont really have time to screw around with fixing my car my self, and all my tools are still in Odessa because I dont have any where to store the tool boxes. I take the car to a local shop today that was right down the street from my house. Its basicly 1/2 way to my office. I know from having wokred in a shop for most of my working life that getting a car fixed isnt cheap. Infact it can be damn expensive. I told the service writter the symptoms my car had and he told me it would be Wednesday at the earliest before they could look at it. Thats no problem for me since the car does still run it just runs kinda crappy. I set up the apointment and tell them I will be back Wednesday morning on my way to work. He tells me ok and informs me of their service chanrge to “check out” my car. Brace your self folks because I nearly passed out smooth. They have a 1 hour charge to check out the car… at a whopping $84.50. I was like holy shit!! I can recall going to a new doctor for the first time about 18 months ago and not havving health insurance and only paying $90 for the office visit. I mean shit.. the doctor went to college for what.. like 10 years or more, and I pay him $90 and I have to pay some guy who at best has a 2 year degree and most likely just took some test to get a cert like the ASE. Did I give up the being a mechanic at the wrong time.. Our shop charged $57.10 an hour and I thought we were a little on the high end.. but wow these folks may be charging more than the dealer.. I will have to look into it and find out. I do still plan on taking them my car becuase I dont really have time to go out looking for a better deal either, and with me not really having anyone here who can take me around or anything Im just gonna have to spend the money this time.. Ill keep you posted on what ends up being wrong.