Nutella and supercomputers

Walked the dog yesterday but didn't today as I felt a bit crappy. Cold has mostly gone but still a bit snotty.

Blade servers are scary things. Look at them one way and they're an impressive way to fit 14 servers into 7 units of rack space. But look at them another way and they also make a rather effective vacuum cleaner, picking up all the dust they possibly can due to the ludicrous and noisy airflow needed to keep 28 Xeon processors cool.

This is a cool site where they are running several old-school mainframes and supercomputers, including a Cray Y-MP which you can actually log into. A really cool idea. Some of the old supercomputers looked really cool. Cray always made nice looking machines, like the Cray-2 with the waterfall cooling system (seen in image above), or the Thinking Machines CM-5 with the array of LEDs showing the status of the processors.

I know Nutella is basically pretty bad for you, being chocolate flavoured lard, but it's so nice! Lunch today was a wrap from the delicatessen with salad and falafel, which was really nice. Also they are doing the strange crisps which are strawberry, sweet chilli and white wine flavour. They're really nice, despite the weird mix of things.

Drumsticks are much cheaper than I expected so I ordered some, but they haven't arrived yet. When they do, I'll record a sample of the whamola. Possibly thinking that it's too small though. Might need to look into making a longer one and finding a double bass string from somewhere. I think that would give you more control over the tension of the string.