[Grubb's] Random Thoughts of the Day

[LikeableRodent]

Do you teach English or something?

The latter.

I get paid to sit in the teachers room and study, though every few hours I get interrupted and dragged to class to monkey around for a bit in front of the students.

[Merk]

This is Adam's schedule IMO:

Wake up at 6am, ride bike to Onsen, bathe and eat Yoshitaki
Take the JR to the Shibuya district, get groped on subway
Sit in room with a bunch of little chibis from 8am til lunch time while reading manga
Eat bento box and peruse the internet on phone
Continue sitting in room til 5:00pm
Walk to the nearest game center, play Taiko no Tatsujin and some Virtua Fighter
Catch the 7:00pm train back home
Watch anime, text ladyfriend
Eat rice with some squid for dinner
Think about tomorrow's lesson plan
Watch the news
Move to bedroom
Fall asleep with TV on

[Ho]

Clearly he would ride a unicycle to the onsen.

[Merk]

I think I've mastered IPv4 subnetting finally. Now I just needs to find a good time to sit down and study the rest of my CCENT book.

That one post I made? Only about half right.

[Merk]

There is this older janitor guy with a southern drawl that keeps coming in to the office here saying the goofiest red-neck shit

"Wellll eye think I'm gonna go fer a sixer tonight I tell you what"

And then he started talking about the new Deus Ex game (yeah I don't know why either) and he's so long winded that it took like 5 minutes to say "Hey this game is neat I think I like the pistol better than the sniper rifle" to one of the other people in the office who clearly had shit to do.

He then made a phone call to reserve a lane at a shooting range for him, his wife, his daughter, and her husband.

Finally he made an observation that the weather channel shows a huge green blob of shit over Bloomington but there is not a cloud in the sky. Can't trust them weathermen I don't know why they have a job just look outside ya fukken liberals.

[Pokebis]

It was sprinkling a little bit after I came back from my Ivy Tech class. (Still in High School, just got a course there)

[LikeableRodent]

Nice try Merk, but not quite there.

My schedule for this past Tuesday was:

6:30 - Wake up, take a shower to get my hair did.
7:00 - Eat breakfast, make poops
7:50 - Bike to school
8:15 - Arrive at school, say good morning to everyone in the teachers room, go to my desk
8:18 - 12:25 - Study for CCNP
12:25 - A student comes and gets me, we go to their classroom, I eat lunch with the kids
12:55 - Finish and clean up after lunch, go back to teachers room
1:00 - 4:00 - Study for CCNP
4:00 - Switch out GNS3 frame-relay switches to frame-relay switching routers because GNS3's (dynamips?) frame-relay implementation doesn't like working when you have more than one FR switch in your project. Decide to leave school once everything is pingable
4:30 - Full network is pingable. Leave school and bike home
4:55 - Beth just got home, grab grocery bag and walk to store together
5:05 - Arrive at store, shop
5:25 - Come home and cook
6:10 - Eat dinner
6:50 - Practice guitar
8:50 - Dick around online
10:00 - Go to sleep

Depending on the day this schedule can change a bit. I had no classes on Tuesday, but I had four classes yesterday (Wednesday), so replace the 8:18 - 12:25 CCNP study with "go to class and help kids write English skits"

[SoDeepPolaris]

5:30am: Wake up for work.
6:00am: Eat first meal and drink an assload of coffee.
6:30-8am: get to work, depending on shift or what day, etc.
9am: eat
9:15-12:00: work
12:00- eat
12:30-3: work
3: drink a shake, eat a banana.
4: Work out
5:15: drink a shake, eat a banana.
5:30: shower, etc. Start dinner after that
sometime before 7: eat
7-10: 3 nights a week are WoW raiding. the other 4 are filled with VIP lounges, hot bitches or movie night with mommy and daddy.
10: eat
11-12: fall asleep, hating Drew Carey for having more money than me.

[MonMotha]

I think I've mastered IPv4 subnetting finally. Now I just needs to find a good time to sit down and study the rest of my CCENT book.

That one post I made? Only about half right.

Eh, IPv4 is obsolete. You need to learn IPv6 subnetting (fortunately, it's essentially the same as IPv4 CIDR with bigger addresses and larger prefixes).

Then again, people think I'm nuts for calculating the masks and address ranges in my head, so maybe I'm full of...something.

[LikeableRodent]

Then again, people think I'm nuts for calculating the masks and address ranges in my head, so maybe I'm full of...something.

Neh, after awhile subnetting is less "calculation" and more "recognize the pattern". Yeah it's slightly confusing at first when you first start and are told to do all this binary math, but once you get a good understanding of why it is how it is and simply get used to recognizing the patterns, it's not really that hard.


And SDP, you need to sleep more :p

[Merk]

I think I've mastered IPv4 subnetting finally. Now I just needs to find a good time to sit down and study the rest of my CCENT book.

That one post I made? Only about half right.

Eh, IPv4 is obsolete. You need to learn IPv6 subnetting (fortunately, it's essentially the same as IPv4 CIDR with bigger addresses and larger prefixes).

Then again, people think I'm nuts for calculating the masks and address ranges in my head, so maybe I'm full of...something.

Why don't you have a CCNA or at least a CCENT?

[Fluffyumpkins]

Acronyms, in general, piss me off. They're inherently exclusive, and often don't save a whole lot of typing, IMO.

[Merk]

Yeah the world of information technology is full of alphabet soup and you're right it is really exclusive which is why tech support for the general public is the worst job ever.

"Oh what are you doing with your life right now?"

"Working and studying for my CCNA exam"

*Blank stare*

"... My Cisco Certified Network Associate exam"

*Blank stare*

"... Fuck you"

[Fluffyumpkins]

I mind them a lot less when the acronym becomes a spoken word like NASA, Scuba, AIDS, Laser, ect. When people say an acronym that has a W and where all words, if spoken, have a single syllable I will LMS (lose my shit.)

Example: "WTF" takes longer to say than the profanity it obscures. That's dumb, you gay, I'm out.

[MonMotha]

Why don't you have a CCNA or at least a CCENT?

Mostly because it seems like the vendor-specific certifications wouldn't add much to my resume which means it's not worth the expense to get or maintain. The fields I play in usually either 1) don't care and instead look more at experience, or 2) want to be as vendor agnostic as possible. I actually don't know a ton about the Cisco (or what have you) specific stuff off the top of my head, but I find it's usually pretty easy to look up. If a prospective client really wants a specific certification (and honestly, other than CISSP, which is not vendor specific, it's never come up), I might consider weighing the time and expense of getting the darned thing vs. what they're willing to pay.