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Happy Mother’s Day Announcement
Posted on May 11th, 2008 by Chris.
Filed under: Amazing Shit, News, The Twins.
Happy Mother’s Day 
:-)
New Letters After My Name: RHCT
Posted on May 10th, 2007 by Chris.
Filed under: Chris' Stuff, Linux, News, Technology.
An email was sent out yesterday by my boss to the entire organization I work within.
—–Original Message—–
From:, Pete
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 9:17 AM
To: SouthEast Market
Cc:
Subject: Congratulations to Chris Gkikas on Red Hat Certified Technician certificationPlease join me in congratulating Chris Gkikas on his attaining the Red Hat Certified Technician - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 certification. Chris is looking pretty spiffy walking around with his red fedora!
BTW, as much as I enjoy basking in the glory or Chris’ achievement, I’d really appreciate it if the congrats were directed to him as opposed to a REPLY ALL (and I suspect many of you would too! :>)
It’s extremely cool to get feedback and praise like this.
So now, this makes me, professional-certification-wise,
Chris Gkikas, RHCT, MCSA, A+, Net+, iNet+, Linux+, CNA. Talk about alphabet soup.
Today Is My Birthday
Posted on February 5th, 2007 by Chris.
Filed under: Chris' Stuff, News.
I’m 33 today.
Boulder Blizzard Photos
Posted on December 21st, 2006 by Chris.
Filed under: Amazing Shit, Chris' Stuff, News.
We had some friends move to Colorado. They sent these pictures today.
I Say Bentley Wins
Posted on December 20th, 2006 by Chris.
Filed under: Chris' Stuff, News.
Found this here.
Facts you need to know before viewing the ads:
1. BMW started it.
2. Audi answered.
3. Subaru needed to say something.
4. Bentley Chairman had the last word!
Internet Magic 8 Ball Correctly Predicts Future
Posted on December 19th, 2006 by Chris.
Filed under: Absurd, Amazing Shit, Chris' Stuff, Magic 8 Balls, News.
I clicked the Magic 8 Ball on my Google homepage just now, after asking it a series of questions. My network connection was up the whole time, so I know this wasn’t a fluke. After as many questions as I asked it, the answer was shown, in an unprecedented and indisputable way, that I will, in my lifetime:
- Become a truly rockin’ guitarist, and meet bandmates and have as much fun as possible as garage band kings…
- Successfully negotiate a hostage crisis using only a candy bar as collateral…
- Run for Mayor of a small and relatively unknown Third World country (and win)…
- Will see pigs fly, some people get what they deserve, and epiphany, all on the same day…
- Enjoy the fruits of my labors…
- Defy the odds by winning the largest lottery winnings in Florida history…
- Freak out some stranger, completely by accident somehow, and they will respond with “Eeegad!”…
- Decode the human genome…
As proof positive of these things, I’m posting a sanitized screenshot because I just know some of you are reading this.
Linux Faithful Unfazed By Vista
Posted on December 2nd, 2006 by Chris.
Filed under: Chris' Stuff, News, Rant, Technology.
Among a zillion reasons not to use Microsoft products, including its latest OS release Thursday with Vista, here are some more reasons. From a recent article on Red Herring, among the biggest goofs Microsoft has once again pulled off…
But some of the rejection of Vista is because it locks up customers, once again, into proprietary software that is expensive, Mr. Perens said. Vista is also trying lock up users with digital rights management, which will prevent the software from sharing video and music. “Unfortunately, this is very anti-customer technology,” Mr. Perens said.
Aside from its expensive price point ($200-$400) and out-of-the-box technical defects, there’s the philosophical side to this. Consumer democracy will do to Microsoft, the obviously dominant software behemoth, the same that it’s done to other dynasties in the past. Eventually more people will turn to Mac, Linux, or whatever future alternative is presented to the status-quo.
It’s technolution… the inevitable shift of preference, perspective, possibilities and priorities in the modern realms of computer usage.
MPAA Seeks To Ban Friends From Your House
Posted on November 28th, 2006 by Chris.
Filed under: Absurd, Chris' Stuff, News, Rant.
MPAA Lobbying for Home Theater Regulations
by Scott Small - as reported here.
Los Angeles , CA - The MPAA is lobbying congress to push through a new bill that would make unauthorized home theaters illegal. The group feels that all theaters should be sanctioned, whether they be commercial settings or at home.
MPAA head Dan Glickman says this needs to be regulated before things start getting too far out of control, “We didn’t act early enough with the online sharing of our copyrighted content. This time we’re not making the same mistake. We have a right to know what’s showing in a theater.”
Katie Does News
Posted on September 5th, 2006 by Chris.
Filed under: Chris' Stuff, News, Television.
Katie Couric replaced Dan Rather tonight as the anchor of CBS Evening News. Her arrival to replace Mr. Rather has been rather high profile news in itself. Rather than keep Dan’s replacement a surprise, CBS chose to spin its own news, creating umpteen photo ops, interviews, and rather drab retrospectives on Ms. Couric’s illustrious career as a newswoman. I’d rather watch someone like my Idoia or Pamela David, 
an Argentine talk show host. America’s rather fond of candy-coating its news, so why not with a more interesting host? I bet ratings would skyrocket, grow larger, swell, surge… well, you get the idea.
Katie ended her debut broadcast just now with a little montage (even Rocky had a montage) showcasing her indecisiveness about what her unique sendoff each night should be. Edward R. Murrow had “good night, and good luck,” which in our day and age is probably the most apropos farewell and Cronkite told it like it was. Idoia and I came up with a couple of suggestions for Katie:
- That’s it, we’re all screwed.
- Another day, another $.40 after taxes.
- Our news is the best news.
- I’m outta here America, my heavy upper lip makeup is beginning to crack.
- I hope you’ve enjoyed tonight’s propaganda.
Fox News gets an enema
Posted on September 1st, 2006 by Chris.
Filed under: Chris' Stuff, News, Television.
Earlier this afternoon, I’m eating my steak grilled stufft burrito and flipping through the news. No more than 30 seconds of watching, I nearly puke my burrito all over the coffee table when Martha McCallum, reading for the viewers (because they’re blind and/or stupid, watching Fox News) a graphical analysis of some American opinion poll about Iran, says, and I’m not making this up: “61 percent of Americans feel they should not tell their enemas when they’ll be leaving.” She quickly corrected herself, and managed to keep a straight face. I however, had trouble swallowing my lunch I was laughing so hard.