Land of the Lemmings, v2

It’s too early to be losing college friends. In random happenstance, Doug moved into the dorm room next door and fit right in with the group. I have fond memories of late nights of pizza, pepperoni rolls, WarCraft II, Ski and all kinds of other silly things.

I don’t know what else to say, I’m just going to post links to the obituary and the note that got posted to procrastinators.org.

So that I remember this if it happens again, if you can’t get an email account on your iPhone to delete, put it in “airplane mode” and try again.

Another Labor Day weekend, another year of Free, Hot Buttered Sweetcorn. There were a couple of improvements and changes made this year that worked out pretty well: corn was on pallets in “totes” in a reefer trailer, we had a nice donated tent over the husker for shade and we sold water and soda (in addition to the aluminum pans). Not so good was the lower total tonnage of corn that required some to go out early Monday morning and hand pick (cornjerk, if you will) another 1.2 tons so we could make it until 4pm.

And, I spent several hours at the school district Saturday night rolling the mail server over to new hardware. That’s a task I’m glad we only have to do every few years.

I hope that my packets aren’t going to Los Angeles and Texas to get from my house in Champaign back to campus, but if the router labels below are accurate…

C:\>tracert www.uiuc.edu

Tracing route to swan28.admin.uiuc.edu [128.174.254.28]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  gateway.private.betka.net [192.168.1.1]
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3   113 ms    10 ms    12 ms  ge-1-4-ur01.champaign.il.chicago.comcast.net [68.85.178.81]
  4    19 ms    19 ms    20 ms  pos-0-11-0-0-ar01.indianapolis.in.indiana.comcast.net [68.86.90.170]
  5    42 ms    53 ms    45 ms  pos-0-1-0-0-cr01.nashville.tn.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.90.169]
  6    57 ms    45 ms    56 ms  pos-1-8-0-0-cr01.dallas.tx.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.85.17]
  7   176 ms   101 ms   102 ms  pos-0-15-0-0-cr01.losangeles.ca.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.85.137]
  8    95 ms   130 ms   101 ms  68.86.89.158
  9   175 ms   100 ms   102 ms  vl3493.mpd01.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.6.229]
 10   130 ms   102 ms   102 ms  te4-2.ccr01.sna02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.3.37]
 11   117 ms   101 ms   102 ms  te4-2.ccr01.san01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.25.126]
 12   120 ms   101 ms   102 ms  te4-2.ccr01.phx02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.7.85]
 13   123 ms   204 ms   111 ms  te4-2.ccr01.aus01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.1.165]
 14   135 ms   103 ms   203 ms  te8-2.mpd01.iah01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.1.66]
 15   123 ms   175 ms   130 ms  te3-4.mpd01.dfw01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.25.93]
 16   152 ms   203 ms   124 ms  te4-3.mpd01.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.5.158]
 17   155 ms   123 ms   146 ms  te9-3.mpd01.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.25.82]
 18   166 ms   123 ms   183 ms  vl3605.na31.b002329-4.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com [38.20.36.178]
 19    92 ms   128 ms   177 ms  university-of-illinios-urbana.demarc.cogentco.com [38.104.99.42]
 20    99 ms    98 ms   102 ms  t-ur2rtr.ix.ui-iccn.org [72.36.126.101]
 21    91 ms    98 ms   112 ms  iccn-ur2rtr-uiuc2.gw.uiuc.edu [72.36.127.6]
 22   132 ms   102 ms   101 ms  t-exiteb.gw.uiuc.edu [130.126.0.73]

Saw it at the Virginia Thursday night, not a bad movie, as long as you set your expectation accordingly for a Coen brothers film.

House

More pictures of the (soon to be our) new house are up over at the gallery.

So, the University is now releasing details on the outcome of the competitive bidding process for the endowment farms. Hopefully, someone else will publish the details somewhere and I won’t have to put in my own FOIA request to read the bids.