Geek On

The year was 1995... It was August... I was a little over two months past a divorice and still reeling from the changing realities of my existance. And... I was pretty bored at work.

That's when I was asked if I would like to take the Technical Lead position for a new account that my company was bringing on-line. It was real high tech stuff... The company we would be providing support for was called Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI). They were located in Mt. View, CA, and made very high end Unix systems. And when they said high end, they weren't kidding at the time.

The version of Unix they had created was called Irix, an so was my introduction into the world of the uber-geek operating systems.

I had fun... I spent two weeks at their HQ in San Jose learning a lot of cool things, playing with a lot of cool toys, got to see Huey Lewis and the News live at their summer picnic (complete with catered food, big tubs of ice cold beer, and California girls), and over all had a pretty good time for the next twelve months working on that account.

But that was pretty much the last time I touched Unix... Until last weekend. I've finally loaded SuSE Linux on my laptop, and am doing the best I can to not touch the World of Microsoft in order to get back into the swing of things as fast as possible within the next two to three months.

Needless to say... I'm a bit rusty... But, it's amazing what's popping back into my head every day. And, I still love the pure geek factor... Like now, for instance, as I post into my blog directly from a little utility built into SuSE. I mean... It's no big deal really... There were utilities like this that I could have downloaded, installed into Windows XP Pro, and done the same thing... But... Since this is already here... What the heck...

Ok... Enough of my non-life for now... We now return you to your regularly scheduled program in progress... Michelle Branch and Santana... I'm Feeling You...