Hairy Hats
Posted: 1 February 2004 at 02:14:43
My brain is a little numb.
Oh the Hairy Harry Os
Last night was a Sons of Nothing show at Harry O’s in Park City — the first SoN show of the year.
If you’ve been following the Fozzolog at all, you know I wasn’t planning on being able to go to this concert, but because I came back from Iowa early, my availability status changed significantly.
I picked up Thom around 4:40 or so and then we had to go back to my house to get the computer monitor I forgot to put in the car. I wouldn’t have been able to do much good producing computerized visuals without a monitor. So, that wasted some time. Then, we had to shove our way through the Salt Lake valley during rush hour up to Eric’s house to help him load his gear into his Sequoia.
Then, it was up Parley’s Canyon to Park City. It started snowing. Of course, this put Thom into DreadModeTM and he was stressed about nobody coming to the show.
When we got to Park City, the city was packed because of a Mardi Gras street festival going on which turned out to be great for concert attendance but made it near impossible for any of us to find parking close to the venue.
As soon as I started unpacking my gear, I realized I had forgotten something else: my KVM switch. Since I use the switch to go between the two different computers I use, not having it would mean I’d only be able to use one computer.
Fortunately, I remember my brother-in-law Adam was talking about coming up to the show, so I called him and asked him if he was coming. He was. I arranged for Christine to take the KVM to meet up with Adam so he could bring it to me. He showed up about 5 minutes before the show started and I was able to do video and visualizations for the show.
From my perspective, the show went pretty well. The new video I rendered got fairly good reception, but I’m probably going to make some changes. The band was a little loose, partly, I think, because the crowd wasn’t as intensely attentive as they usually are. Usually, there’s a nice set of bodies up by the front of the stage after a couple Floyd songs. Most of the crowd hung back by the bar this time.
I stuck around to help carry gear out and then Thom and I decided we needed something to eat after all that hard work. We hit a Dennys in the Fort Union area and then I took him home. I got home around 4:30 a.m., showered (to get all that smoke off my skin), and went to bed.
Upgrading Logan
Today, after a late start, I headed up to Logan to install Fedora Core on some of the Iodynamics servers that are housed at “an undisclosed location” in Logan. I got two of the servers moved to Fedora. I did a fresh install on one and restored the data from backup. The other, I did an upgrade. Both appear to be working fine.