Author: Ian

> 1. Your houseplants are alive, and you can’t smoke any of them.

Sort of, never had the smoking type. My Christmas Chacktus is in
flower 🙂 (I should look up the spelling of that but I wont)

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> 2. Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question.
>

Whats a twin bed?

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> 3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
>

Sadly true.

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> 4. 6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to bed.
>

Never, 7:50 is when my alarm goes off, if i feel like it I can be at work
at 9am

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> 5. You hear your favorite song on an elevator.
>

No never

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> 6. You watch the Weather Channel.
>

Only when my work building is under a foot of water and I am wonder if the
diesel generators on the roof are still running (which they didn’t)
something about the tanks in the basement and an electric diesel pump not
liking being under water.

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> 7. Your friends marry and divorce instead of hook up and break up.
>

They are getting married don’t know any that are divorced yet.

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> 8. You go from 130 days of vacation time to 14.
>

I have 180 hours of vacation, does that count?

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> 9. Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as “dressed up”.
>

I just wear a skirt when I dress up.

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> 10. You’re the one calling the police because those damn kids next
> door
> won’t turn down the stereo.
>

nope never

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> 11. Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.
>

I grew up with Black Adder and Billy Connolly. enough said

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>
> 12. You don’t know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
>

I stopped caring about that when the dropped the only veggie thing I
liked.

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> 13. Your car insurance goes down and your payments go up.
>

Payments are zero and my car issuance did go down, just a little

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> 14. You feed your dog Science Diet instead of McDonald’s leftovers..
>

Don’t eat macdonalds, haven’t for ten years.

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> 15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.
>

I never used to sleep the on the couch

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> 16. You no longer take naps from noon to 6 PM.
>

Shouldn’t that be you now take naps from noon to 6PM?

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> 17. Dinner and a movie is the whole date instead of the beginning of
> one.
>

Depends what you do after the movie 🙂

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> 18. Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3:00AM would severely upset,
> rather
> than settle your stomach.
>

Chicken no, cold pizza is still good

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> 19. You go to the drug store for ibuprofen and antacid, not condoms
> and
> pregnancy tests.
>

Mmmm condoms were still on my list along with pringles and ice cream.

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> 20. A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer “pretty good stuff”.
>

Ok you got me on that one.

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> 21. You actually eat breakfast food at breakfast time.
>

I think this is an american thing.

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> 22. “I just can’t drink the way I used ” replaces, “I’m never going to
> drink
> that much again.”
>

Hah, never, well maybe.

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> 23. 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.
>

You are talking to the uber geek. Ask me what I spent Saturday morning
doing. It wasn’t watching tv.

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> 24. You drink at home to save money before going to a bar.
>

Nope, Wait isn’t that something you used to do as a poor student?

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> 25. You’ve read this entire list looking desperately for one sign that
> doesn’t apply to you and can’t find one to save your sorry old ass..
>

I was casually looking at the Nikon website, I saw a 28mm F/1.4D AF lens. The lower the F number the better the lens. So I thought, I wonder how much it is. I know the 50mm F/1.4 is about $300 which is well within my range so I thought it might be about $500 Wrong it is more like $1,500 damb… I guess I will be getting the 50mm next 🙁 I am still waiting for the new Nikon Coolscan Scanners to come out. They are doing a great deal at the moment on the current line but I think that is just to clear out the channel. Almost no one has the current scanners which I think is a mistake when it is coming up to Xmas.

The baltimore bus system sucks. I am not a bus snob. I used to take the bus round Edinburgh and Glasgow. The rest of the time I biked.
What do I expect from a bus service.
1) Buses should be on time or be slightly late never early.
2) Timetables should be meaningful.
3) The drivers should be professional

I don’t think this is much to expect.
Last week the bus ran 30 minutes late, it was so late the next bus was right behind it. this morning bus driver kept reading his paper at the lights, at one point I told him he had a green light so he wouldn’t miss the signal.
The time maps are useless. The one I have used has 4 points listed for a 1 hour trip. So you have about 15 minutes between each stop that is listed. Thats al long time to wait if it is cold.
I think I have managed to catch the number 7 bus on the way home once. The time table at the bus stop said 6:01 pm. I was there at 5:58 and ended up taking a number 10 at 6:10. I think the bus goes past that stop at about 5-10 minutes before the time listed at the bus stop.
The driver pulls away from the stop before you have paid so you are standing in the “no standing zone” as they pull away.
The driver I got home tonight was so hard on the brakes I slid off my seat. I wasn’t sure he was going to stop when someone rang the bell.

Spam count weekending
2003 11 25 3019
2003 11 19 2496
2003 11 12 1892
2003 10 31 1347
2003 10 25 1312
2003 10 19 1143
2003 10 12 1010
2003 10 05 811
2003 09 29 769

These number will be a little screwed because on Oct 19th I reinstalled spam assassin, but I is this a horrible amount of spam. Other than deleting it I am not sure what I can do.

I think my mail system is a little more sane now. I switched from sendmail to postfix a while back and I never had the time to get it working in the same way. I discovered at one point that I had been bouncing all email for my projectphotos domain. oops. At the time I put in a hack to make it work but now I think I have almost everything working.

All mail from my internal machines should be written to @dirk.demon.co.uk.
I found the entry that was rewriting localhost to localhost.demon.co.uk instead of dirk.demon.co.uk. It now rewrites localhost host to localhost.dirk.demon.co.uk which then gets rewritten to dirk.demon.co.uk on delivery.

Mail bounces by fetchmail now come from fetchmail@dirk.demon.co.uk instead of fetchmail@internaldomain.

The one thing I have left to do is to find a way to bounce email to users that I no nolonger wish to get mail from. Currently you would get 2 emails from fetchmail. I would prefer that postfix sends just one email.