I am Victorious

I killed another computer. I tried to save my document and got this weird message, "/dev/sda1 in read-only mode". I didn't panic though, after my previous data loss fiasco I have scripts that back up my work every 30 seconds. So I do some more digging into the shell, and I get this error message back: "/dev/sda1 read-only mode: Bad block, sector 234554" (ok I made the number up) Linux, for better or worse, actually tells you what's wrong with your computer. What it means is the hard drive is dead. The good news is, I used this as an excuse to leave work an hour early. I wonder if contracts have insurance for this sort of thing.

In other news that doesn't matter...

I can't help but feeling a bit squishy lately. Although it might have something to do with me not exercising 4-5 hours a day like I did in San Diego, what I really think it's about is the pasta. Since arriving I average 2 kg a week of pasta. The solution is to get back on my meat and vegetable diet. My discovery of that diet has nothing to do with Atkins, South Beach, or whatever excuses people make to keep eating the same junk they love. It came as a freshman at the original Koreana in Cambridge, a Korean BBQ joint. I discovered that by avoiding those unassuming little metal bowls of rice, I could fit more meat. Since making this discovery I've always felt that if the engineering thing didn't work out, I could specialize in hostile takeovers of all-you-can-eat buffets.

I went to the supermarket today and discovered that "swine" costs 3€€ per kilogram less than "pork". What that means I don't know yet, it looks like meat and doesn't scream when you cut it. In spite of this it wasn't cheap, 3 kg for 15€€. That's compared to 3 kg of pasta for 1.50€, but ultimately it's irrelevant; there's nothing like well prepared meat. To summarize the menu of Yakiniku Juju, "The marinade is made of 13 natural, nutritious and delicious ingredients that, when make the meat less fatty, yet tender and delicious. It is thus an effective weapon to power up your body."