AdmiNirvana

Every once in a while I run across something, that even in my advanced state of uber-geekness, puts me in a state of awe.

Behold, the lego-robot that solves the Rubik’s Cube.

Every once in a while you come across something equal parts weird and cool. Like making glowing tomatoes.

My friends, meet the EonStor A24F-R2224. 12 terabytes of fiber-attached RAID6 happiness sitting on my carpeting. Your 2 gigs of email are no match for it. It fears not your puny 1 gig of website files.

In fact, that blue light on the Dell is being illuminated simply by the eminating kick-ass-ness of the disk array. This geekout moment was brought to you compliments of The Linux Fix.

So, yesterday Jason and I were out working on putting in a new gas tank sender in the truck, when down the street comes the Persimmons/Ice Cream Lady in her ice cream truck.

The Persimmons/Ice Cream Lady is pretty nice, a bit quirky, and she loves persimmons. We’re ‘lucky’ enough to have a nice and healthy persimmons tree in our back yard, and in the fall she comes by and takes all the ripe ones she can put into boxes to make various foodstuff out of. Last year it worked out to about one hundres persimmons, which I’d otherwise have to pick up–rotting–on the lawn in the spring.

That’s perfectly fine by Phaedrah and I since neither one of us particularly like persimmons. In fact, they’re kind of gross. But the Persimmons Lady likes them, so that is all that matters. It keeps our yard tidy.

Anyway, down the street comes the Persimmons/Ice Cream Lady. At first, I tune out the jingle blasting out of the truck, but then I realize it’s none other than “Intermission” by Tool, one of my favorite bands.

I wave her over, mostly to explain she’s using a progressive-metal band  as her ‘happy’ ice cream truck song. She tells me it is indeed “funny sounding”, but was all she could find that would fit. I simply explain it’s a tad “dark” (the song is in a minor key, of course).

Laughing aside, I buy an ice cream sandwich for Phaedrah and she goes on her way blasting Tool for the masses to hear.  By far, the coolest ice cream truck song ever.