
And here it is. It’s a very long way. The waypoints in the middle route around downtown New York City, which last time ate up its own little two hours. If everything goes well, we should be in New Haven, CT by sundown Friday, where we will camp at a friend’s house until Saturday early morning. Then it’s on the road of no return (coincident with the road to Freakin’ Awesomenessâ„¢)
Goal of today is to prepare the computer equipment. Mostly this involves dunking the family laptop in a potent cocktail of bleach, Lysol, and paint solvent in order to clean it off.
That, or a hard drive wipe. I will then proceed to dual-boot XP Professional and Knoppix. Yes, Knoppix. Why Knoppix? Because I already had it standing around, and the latest version has a great feature set, including support for 157,000 different programming languages, 156,979 of which nobody have ever heard of.
I figure as long as I’m going to be at a place like MIT, Linux proficiency might factor heavily into my social life, and plus I’ve been meaning to use it for the past four years (like I’ve been meaning to do several other things which may start now).
Computing ideology has never been my fort£ anyway.
T-minus 23:46