essential info about my backpack or a bad picture of biting a fork?
Answer: Both. I sent this picture, originally, as a bad substitute for not having a picture of biting a fork--sometimes I have the caption before I have the photo. However, I get lots of questions about my backpack. One brother calls it my "Millennium Backpack". I admit that, in many ways, I'm just an aging boy scout and still adhere to the motto "be prepared". I've decided to do an inventory, both to remind myself of what the hell I'm carrying around all the time and, likely, make some changes and to have a basis for a "what's in my backpack?" contest. To answer a recent question and give you an early start on imagining what might be in there, it weighed 25 pounds when I weighed it a week ago on Friday (and that's without my laptop and charger, which adds another 7 pounds).
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So do you still carry around room temperature blue powerades? YUCK!oh yeah and that half eaten bagel from yesterday.(Just kidding!)
So today at work I requested some disk space and the unix guy mentioned spindles and that dbas care about them.. and well that reminded me of you and your opionion on the topic. Does archaic ring a bell....
Answers: You were close. Yes, there's still the occasional "blue" (probably Cascade Rush), room temperature Gatorade. Yumm-yumm! However, you should make a note that, lately, my trend has been towards the Rain varieties--just as many calories but with the illusion of being lighter. Also, yes, there usually is one or more PowerBars. Feel free to continue to smush those two clearly distinct items into "powerades" but don't discount that lack of attention to detail hurting your chances to be selected as my official biographer.
I don't believe it! I thought that after we no longer worked together I would be relieved from having to send you my policy statement on database storage issues, AGAIN! Okay, one last time, I'll find the most recent version and send it to you. Your UNIX guy is right, we DO care about them, just with different emphasis given the particulars; archaic architecture and resources requires the equally archaic but appropriate storage strategies. The next time I boot up my Commodore VIC-20 (circa 1983) to run my game program, I'll be hooking it up to the audio cassette storage and doing sequential access, using the latest "guess where it ought to be on the tape and fast forward to that area" technology--I won't be looking for an interface to a SAN with RAID-6 (7?, 23?). Why can't I find a good abacus when I need one? Anyway, thanks for remembering, it was fun working with you EVEN when you didn't agree me. (3 times? 4?)
Ok.. so maybe I was off on the name of the room temperature blue liquid in a bottle you frequently carried around, but, just so that you know in case you did not, there is a similar type drink called Powerade. So my attention to detail, although in this case a bit off, is clearly not as lacking as you may like to think. I usually pay more attention to detail with things that interest me. So the next time you feel the need to point out my error made in jest, make sure you don't leave room for me to give it back. :-)
Hm.. now that I think about it I forgot that you still work with archaic architecture where spindles should be of concern...
I know what you mean about "being prepared".
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