{"id":687,"date":"2004-09-11T20:53:56","date_gmt":"2004-09-11T20:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/hens-and-cocks\/"},"modified":"2004-09-11T20:53:56","modified_gmt":"2004-09-11T20:53:56","slug":"hens-and-cocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/hens-and-cocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hens and Cocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday night was Nedene&#8217;s London <a href=\"\/veghead\/pics\/henweb\" target=\"_new\">Hen night<\/a> before going back to Sith Ifrika, to have another one. They started in The Walpole after work. The uniform: denim skirts hen t-shirts (&#8220;I&#8217;m on a hen night, I need a cock&#8221; and so forth). Thoughtfully they also bought me and Rakesh white t-shirts with &#8220;I Am A Cock&#8221; on them. They fucked off pretty early leaving us all in the pub. A nice night really&#8230;I honestly don&#8217;t remember a great deal of it though.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on friday, after spending the morning working on <a href=\"http:\/\/vmap.gold.ac.uk\/\">V-MAP<\/a> I went for lunch at the Walpole (the best satay chicken I&#8217;ve ever had) and then went to change the backup tapes (long and tedious story). Sue, my replacement, is picking stuff up at a scary rate. She <i>is<\/i> the chosen one! Some people can pick things up after only being told once. She can pick stuff up before I&#8217;ve finished telling her. It&#8217;s incredible, and slightly scary. She was born to do it.<br \/>\nAnyway, we went over to the server room where, we hoped , the DoC guy would be there to let us in. He wasn&#8217;t, so we went over to the marquee to rescue the last of the graduation wine from disposal and then spent a pleasant 20 minutes sipping and discussing UNIX&#8230;in depth. In one week she has learned more than I could learn in a month.<br \/>\nNice and relaxing day, but playing with more V-MAP stuff. I&#8217;m really getting dependent on my iBook &#8211; the best, most enjoyable, fastest, joyful machine I&#8217;ve ever used. OK it has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.utk.edu\/~moore\/opinions\/how-macosx-sucks.html\" target=\"_new\">problems<\/a> but I love using it. If it didn&#8217;t exist then Linux\/BSD is a very close second (for  the desktop). For servers you still can&#8217;t beat UNIX (Free\/Net\/OpenBSD\/Linux\/Solaris etc).<br \/>\nNight yall&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday night was Nedene&#8217;s London Hen night before going back to Sith Ifrika, to have another one. They started in The Walpole after work. The uniform: denim skirts hen t-shirts (&#8220;I&#8217;m on a hen night, I need a cock&#8221; and so forth). Thoughtfully they also bought me and Rakesh white t-shirts with &#8220;I Am A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}