February 04, 2009 Archives

Wed Feb 4 01:31:57 CST 2009

one of those days...

...when i'm happy to be me, here in Austin.

Walked to The Parlor for dinner, and got a small no-cheese pizza with veggie sausage, broccoli, garlic, and basil (and four beers). (And topped the pizza with some of the nutrional yeast they keep behind the bar for us vegany-veggie types.)

Sat at the bar. In between S, a Chicagoan who moved to Austin last year, and met another guy, P, who'd lived in Chicago for 12 years. And we all have G1 phones, which is just one of those strange and pleasant coincidences. So we talk about Chicago and all of it's good and bad things, and a bunch of other stuff.

And then i start talking to D, the bartender/manager/so forth, and his computer has been dead for awhile, so i offer him the old Pentium 4 tower i've had in my closet for the last 6 months, and he's willing to try Linux on it. So i think i'll put Ubuntu on it and see how that works.

Awesome pizza, good beer, open source (google) phones, reminiscing about Chicago, and recycling an old computer by giving it to a good person (and making one less Windows machine in the world). I don't think it gets much better than this.


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