Jacob Smock

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Star Wars III

What can I say but ‘about freaking time’. While I cannot say it was the best one out of the six, it easily beats Episode one and two. One was too fake looking, and two was just bland for the most part. Three had the action, things looked more realistic, and no freaking Jar-Jar. Well, …

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Looooooong Week

So far this week has dragged on. Oh well, the weekend is coming up and it will be a long one at that. No work on Monday means good times. This week up at work I got the Cisco 1721 router talking to the new T1. I even got the Cisco PIX 505 almost totally …

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Apple Mac Mini

Most of my growing up years I was not a fan of Apple. It is widely known by friends and family of my thoughts about not just the company but the awkwardness of the OS. That was until OSX came along. I have found it to be mostly clean and not too bad of an …

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Star Wars Episode 3

Where to begin… I for one plan to go see it soon after it comes out. I really hope that it is decent and not bile like “The Phantom Menace” and “Attack of the Clones” were. I do not care for the subtitle of this one either but “Revenge of the Sith” will hopefully be …

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No A/C and no beer make Jacob go something, something…

I am on a roll this week with my entries. Anyway, I think it was Tuesday night our A/C went out. I never remember the house getting as hot as it has gotten these past few days. Even with the windows open and almost everything that generates heat being turned off it still is horrible. …

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Those Sonic punks

One thing I have noticed is that Sonic decided to get stingy with their cherries on their mixed cherry flavored drinks. The last few times that I have been there I have had to specifically request it or say something after they bring the drink out. I know it sounds petty but I get more …

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Houston’s Metro scumbags

I have never been a fan of Metro for more than a few reasons. From what I have seen, they have sunk to a new low. Check out what it says on BlogHouston.net I think was really makes me mad is that they refuse to recant on their idiotic decision to not bring actual security …

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The Weekend is coming up

Well, this has been a long week and I am really glad the weekend is tomorrow. I do not have a lot planned so I might do some work on one of the computers I am getting working for the Inlaws. I also have extensive plans for much of the stuff in my computer room …

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The passing of a Pope

I know it has been in the news a lot reciently and the media is quickly talking about it every second they can, but most have not really said much about his life. Karol Wojtyla was his actual name and he was Polish, which is rare for a Pol to be a Pope. Below is …

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Rodeo fun

I forgot to mention when the Rodeo was in Houston that my wife and I went…three times. One thing I can say is that I got a good workout and might have lost weight in my wallet as the prices for everything was horrible. We first went to see Martina McBride then went to see …

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Easter Weekend

My wife and I just got out from going to her church. Last night we went to mine out in Plantersville. It was fun. Not much else to report at the moment…

I got a DVD Burner

It is a DVR-A09XL Pioneer drive with a black front. The max writes are below for each format it can handle. DVD-R 16x DVD+R 16x DVD-RW 6x DVD+RW 4x DVD+R DL 6x CD-R 40x CD-RW 24x The link to the page showing the specs for this unit is here. So far it is pretty sweet. …

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The evils of Scientology

I have a couple of sites for you the reader(s) of this blog. the sites talk about the horrible things that the cult called Scientology does. A lot of information exists so check them out. Operation Clambake http://www.xenu.net/ Scientology Kills http://www.scientology-kills.org/

San Antonio abound yet again

My boss and I are going to be up in San Antonio some of next week to open a new branch of First Community Bank. It will be fun. Mostly we make sure the network equipment and workstations are ready for opening day which is still slated for early next week. Thankfully I am not …

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Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy

The movie will be coming out on April 29, 2005. I cannot wait. Some people I know will gripe that it will not be exactly like the book. Some of those same people do not know or realize that it had a radio and TV show that each varied a lot from the books. I …

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Sen. Ted Kennedy’s Chappaquiddick scandal

This comic strip says something about the Sen. Ted Kennedy’s Chappaquiddick scandal that happened a long while back. I do not jump into politics often at least on here but when I saw this strip I had to post it. If you want more information on this incident go to this web site. http://www.ytedk.com/chappindex.htm

I like RAID

No, not the bug spray. RAID means “Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks”. It is a term used in the computing world for a collection of hard drives with fault tolerance so if one drive were to die, you could just replace it without downtime. Up here at work we just got a new server with …

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Been room cleaning

I have been cleaning up my computer room since we moved into our house last year. It is one of those slow processes as I have limited space and not the whole house. It is coming along good and the servers are working good in the closet. I just need to clean the work bench …

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1 Year Anniversary

On the 24th it will have been one year since my wife and I tied the knot. It has been an interesting year and I hope of many more. I love my wife very much and am glad she has tolerated my weird nature for as long as she has. Anyway, gotta go…

‘Aging’ by a 26 year old

You know you wonder where time goes when you think about how long ago you graduated high school. I happened to graduate in 1997. What kind of scares me is that I remember it like it was yesterday and I have trouble remember what I actually did yesterday. All kidding aside, I have never been …

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