http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog Dan Stoner - Personal Blog, Photos, and More thatlinuxbox@gmail.com thatlinuxbox@gmail.com Copyright 2012 thatlinuxbox.com Geeklog Wed, 16 May 2012 20:45:56 -0400 en-gb http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/article.php/six-sysadmins http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/article.php/six-sysadmins Wed, 16 May 2012 20:38:52 -0400 http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/article.php/six-sysadmins#comments Fun Stuff @ Work This is what it looks like when there is an interesting technical issue on a system administrator's computer screen. The sixth SysAdmin is me (taking the picture).<br /> <br /> <img width="600" height="338" src="http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/images/articles/six-sysadmins_1.jpg" alt=""><br /> http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/trackback.php/six-sysadmins http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/article.php/do-not-collect-army-ants http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/article.php/do-not-collect-army-ants Mon, 14 May 2012 20:11:24 -0400 http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/article.php/do-not-collect-army-ants#comments Silly or Interesting We just set up an ANTWORKS ant farm. It's pretty cool. The gel inside was developed by NASA to send ants into space. Take heed of the warning about Army Ants:<br /> <br /> <img width="599" height="313" src="http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/images/articles/antworks-warning_1.jpg" alt=""><br /> <br /> &quot;Note: DO NOT attempt to collect Army Ants in your ANTWORKS container. Should you see several hundred thousand very focused ants moving in your direction, we advise quickly leaving the area.&quot;<br /> <br /> http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/trackback.php/do-not-collect-army-ants http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/article.php/as-is-ham http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/article.php/as-is-ham Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:42:14 -0400 http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/article.php/as-is-ham#comments Silly or Interesting As-Is ham... not something we buy every day.<br /> <br /> <img width="600" height="448" src="http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/images/articles/as-is-ham_1.jpg" alt=""><br /> http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/trackback.php/as-is-ham http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/article.php/soft-star-moc3-best-minimalist-shoe-yet http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/article.php/soft-star-moc3-best-minimalist-shoe-yet Tue, 28 Feb 2012 07:37:02 -0500 http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/article.php/soft-star-moc3-best-minimalist-shoe-yet#comments Running and Fitness To be fair, the Spring 2012 shoe models from many companies are not yet widely available and I have not yet tried them all. Reviews are starting to appear on the web and some of the forthcoming shoes do look interesting. However, they would have to be really completely awesomely perfect to knock the <a href="http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/links/portal.php/link/20110214215731501" title="http://www.softstarshoes.com/" class="ext-link">Soft Star Shoes</a> Moc3 off the top of my best minimalist shoes list.<br /> <br /> The Moc3 provides only minimal protection, no cushion. I have a tendency to increase ... http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/trackback.php/soft-star-moc3-best-minimalist-shoe-yet http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/article.php/fiction-read-during-2011 http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/article.php/fiction-read-during-2011 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:30:05 -0500 http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/article.php/fiction-read-during-2011#comments Reading and Writing I read 17 works of fiction during 2011. This number is down from the previous two years. Family, running, and the <a href="http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/article.php/new-job-open-systems-cns-uf">new job</a> has cut into my reading time. I am doing my best to make more time for reading every day, mostly by spending less time squandering my time away on the Internet... but that also means less time for blogging. Hence, I find myself summarizing 2011 in the middle of February.<br /> <br /> Well, here it is, the list of Fiction that I read during 2011:<br /> <br /> ... http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/trackback.php/fiction-read-during-2011