Nikhil.Net

Herein lie the stories sung of Nikhil when the world was young.

07-29-2002

I am a mean web-coding biotch. Slap my fro!

07-29-2002

So, presenting to law firms with a lot of money is cool. They have fun offices. Lots of hardwood furniture and panelling.

Perhaps I should do my room like that.... Nah. Too pretentious... ;)

07-27-2002

Bachelor parties are fun, especially when there are three things involved: video games, mixed drinks, and chickies.

07-26-2002

Making presentations to CEO's is fun. And, you get to talk a whole lot. What's not to love? :)

07-22-2002

At last, after almost $1000, my car has been through all necessary work for it's 80,000 mile tune-up. And, well ahead of schedule. Excellent.

07-21-2002

That's 4 rental cars so far. 2 are Sparky's fault. I'm more than a little pissed right now, since they're $50 per day.

07-19-2002

Oh, and he made it worse, after he drained the fluid last night. How much worse? Guess what happened on my lunch break?

That's right - the water pump started to fail. Thanks, genius-boy for predicting that after the fact.

07-18-2002, part 2 (latenight)

So Bart's mechanic friend, who had "worked on the 2.4L engines before" finally tells me (after having my car for over 24 hours) that he can't fix it. Well, thanks a lot, sparky, since I broke an appointment Friday since you said you could do it for less than half price.

"Well, it's a lot of work," he says, "so you should go with their price quote. Did you know how much work this was?"

Hell, yes, goddammit, because I researched it. Apparently more than you could do.

07-18-2002

Being sick sucks. Hard.

07-17-2002

"And the prophets told Him that the river was spawned forth by the infernal device that pumped water."

"Whereupon He asked his assembled children what they believed he should do. The prophet Deal told him it would cost 850 gold pieces to pay men to rid the land of the foul abomination."

"Another prophet, Gemini, told him it would be 600 gold pieces."

"But finally, he found a disciple to do the task for 300 gold pieces. By His divine Grace, he blessed him."

07-15-2002

In the twenty-sixth year of Our Lord (2002 AD):

"And unto Him was shown a great river that sprang forth from the barren lands. Such a spectacle had never been seen before. As He gazed upon it, he became frightened when He saw that the river flowed red, as of the blood of His people."

"And He went down into that barren land, to see what Nature had created before Him, in this effluence of sparkling blood. But nothing could have prepared Him for the horror that would permeate His soul. The river was that of Dex-Cool."

07-14-2002, part deux

I can mud and tape drywall with the best of them. Yes indeed, even ceilings. I rock.

07-14-2002

Wow, it's noon already? I just woke up.

Oh. Damn.

07-13-2002

A night of bad movies and excesses. We went to see Reign of Fire (about the dragons in the future), which sucked hard. Then we went to bar-hopping and to a dance club. Total meat market - bumping and grinding and the whole bit. Zesty. Props to Ryan, the designated driver (who can also bust quite a move on the floor).

07-12-2002, evening

My cheapest dinner ever at Applebee's! I'm all impressed with myself now. A nice light dinner for $3.00 plus tip.

07-11-2002

Every time I do a speed test on my DSL over the past three days, the speed is EXACTLY the same, to the byte. And I'm testing at different times and on different servers.

When they say dedicated bandwidth, they mean it!!! HUZZAH!

07-10-2002, part deux

(14.5 seconds later)

HOLY CRAP THIS IS FAST! THIS IS BALL-TINGLING FAST!! Ow!!!

Network Diablo 2 is just unreal. Zero lag. Period. Even if a Necro goes summon-crazy.

07-10-2002

And the self-install kit arrives! And the router arrives! Hook-up took an hour and a half or so, just to run all the new wiring and get the firewall setup.

07-08-2002

DSL has been installed on the line, the DSLAM is operating fine, and my normal phones seem to work ok. Huzzah!

07-02-2002

I checked my DSL order and apparently, everything is on track for a July 8 install on my phone line. Very soon, you will witness the transformation of normal Nikhil into DSL-Nikhil!

07-01-2002

I just ordered DSL. I get a full T1 downstream and a paltry 128k upstream. I don't want to pay another 30 bucks for 384 upstream, so I'll stick with this.