Diary of a Network Geek

The trials and tribulations of a Certified Novell Engineer who's been stranded in Houston, Texas.

4/15/2003

Haiku for the New Economy

Filed under: Personal — Posted by the Network Geek during the Hour of the Rooster which is in the early evening or 7:50 pm for you boring, normal people.
The moon is Waning Gibbous

In my “other life”, I write poetry.

I do more than network PC’s together with Netware and Windows2000. I have a life. Sure, it’s a sad, geeky life, but still, I do have one. In my other life, I write poetry and fiction. Though, I have to admit, I spend a lot more time being a Network Engineer than I do being a poet.

In any case, I finally got a bit of fiction up on my other website and thought I’d throw a link to it here. Enjoy!

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Hack Your Weight?

Filed under: Fun — Posted by the Network Geek during the Hour of the Hare which is in the early morning or 7:24 am for you boring, normal people.
The moon is Waning Gibbous

A “Hacker’s Diet“?

Well, why not? It’s actually an interesting e-book written by John Walker, founder of Autodesk, Inc. He approaches weight loss as an engineering problem, as opposed to a moral, physical, or other kind of problem. He really does take a scientific approach to input and output and how that applies to the human body and weight. Besides, the title alone might just get some over-weight hackers to do something about their weight! Sometimes, it takes a wakeup call.
My personal wakeup call was a picture of my gut hanging over my belt. It was a candid shot of me while we were looking at our new house, before we bought it. Thankfully, that was more than 40 pounds ago and now I feel much better. A little less intake, a bunch more output in the way of exercise and some conscious effort was all it took. Well, that and ignoring the grumbles of an empty stomach. Oh, being out of work for most of a year and short of cash helped some, too. It’s amazing what a little fear will do toward curtailing conspicuous consumption!!

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