Big surprise: I play games on the internet.
I play set game pretty much every day and its awesome.
Also I was playing this other cool 3d puzzle game yesterday and it was a lot of fun. Levels 16, 19, and 23 I thought were real tough but you can beat them.
MB and I went out last weekend to the Grand canyon. I brought my cell phone along and you can see the trip and pictures at the Trimble Outdoors website. We didn’t go as far as we wanted but it was still a great trip!
So recently, my XP system fell victim to a spyware infection. I battled hard, but in the end I decided to just reformat, mostly because I hadn’t formatted in 6 months or so. So I decided to try the new Windows Vista Beta. It installed fine, looked pretty good, but one little problem: it didn’t recognize my network card. Bummer.
So I figured its time to retry LInux. I give linux a shot once a year or so as a desktop OS and I can usually put up with it for a few months and then something I need to do causes me to go back to windows. This time I tried Ubuntu. The install was very good, and with only one problem: again my network card didnt work. However unlike windows, you can do something about that.
This thread told me to enable dmfe and disable tulip, and then my ghetto davicom ethernet contoller worked perfectly. So far so good!
The one other thing to do was get my dual monitors working. I thought this would be tough, but it was very easy. The nVidia drivers are just a checkbox away using the ubuntu package manager, and then I configured X to use a nVidia thing called “TwinView” that is working very well. It emulates on X “Screen” using my two monitors. I’m thinking about changing it to use 2 Screens because TwinView seems to have a problem realizing that my LCD is my primary monitor and so I can only get fullscreen apps on my CRT 
In conclusion, so far so good! I think I might be able to get away with linux for a lot longer this time. Nice to see the community making some updates, although clearly linux still doesn’t quite pass the “mother test.” But its getting close!
Now my music is up (xmms), AOL (gaim) works great, and my browser (firefox) acts the same as windows.
So I just quit my job at asu and it was apparantly just in time to miss the hot new googleprunejuiceification (dot com).
Just to clear up any confusion, the ideas presented in that post are not bad. Organizations like ASU should concentrate on make their most visited web pages contain information that people want. I just think that the buzzwords are ridiculous.
Thanks to carmen for this, it is absolutely hilarious. Like he said:
Carmen Medici: this is fantastic
Carmen Medici: the unintentional humor is awesome
Carmen Medici: the fact that it happened is nearly inexplicable
**Apparantly this video got removed from youtube, probably because it clearly violates copywrite 
So here is a link to msnbc that has the videos. Our friend “Marvin” is the 5th video on that page. Also you have to view it in IE