kasia in a nutshell

It's been raining and thundering all day today and I'm feeling lazy. That means veggie burgers for dinner (I have the routine down to less than 10 minutes including fresh veggie slices and spicy spread) and watching some movie I've seen 10 times (hmm.. feels like an Indiana Jones night) with my favorite buddy while doing some light no-brain-required work on the powerbook.

That's about when I discovered an obscure server I once used to rely on for my email appears to be bouncing messages destined to my inbox.. No problem.. login in, fix sendmail (cough) all happy again. A realization struck me. This is the first time I logged into that system in about 2 years.. and I remembered the root password.

My brain always amazes me.. I have trouble remembering where I left my cell phone half the time (until it rings, I mean buzzes) yet I can remember a root password (one of those good ones, random numbers, letters and let's not forget mixed case and a sprinkling of funky symbols) I have not used in three years. That's not all.. actually.. I can remember login passwords to all kinds of systems.

We geeks are just wired oddly. Time to sprinkle some ssh keys though.

RAGM - Random Access Geek Memory - Remember all things obscure forget the useful ones.