Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Wake Up!
Back in ‘97, some friends and I used IRC a lot. It was almost like an addiction, had to chat.
We broke up our Starcraft playing with chatting.
We’d chat about chatting.
mIRC, the client of choice, has a built in feature for sounds. You can type /sound blah.wav, and it’ll play blah.wav for you, and anyone else that has the sound.
We had a sound called wakeup.wav It was this incredibly loud, annoying guy screaming “Wake up”. We would play it for each other when trying to get someone’s attention, if they happend to be home, but not actively at their computer.
I could really use that sound this morning. Since I left work yesterday, I’ve slept ~12 hours. I’m still tired. Tonight, my cohort and I will be upgrading one of the software packages we use at work, and it’s probably going to take until midnight.
I have a feeling I’ll be needing the sound, and a pot of coffee by then.