Its also the place I met e:terry. He would come in all the time and I thought he was so hot. I specifically remember admiring him in his sporty ,shimmer, basketball shorts. Then one day he came in and asked me out. "Hi,…
Back in the late 90s, one of the first fun computer jobs I had was working in the foreign language learning lab at my school. Up until that point I was dead set on botany or german as a carrier. I had computer programme…
Today, e:Terry and I are cleaning out the office and found all kinds old CDs with data going back into the late 90s. Its so interesting to see how much I documented and saved. I really don't do that at all anymore becau…
You find the strangest things in the backs of closets. Why do I have an entire pack (100s?) of caution tear-off stickies?
I was reading this article called "Pot smoking may more than double crash risk" on USA Today's website this morning http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/story/2011-10-14/Pot-smoking-may-more-than-double-crash-risk/507747…
The basic nature of sunlight indoors is that it is never direct most of the times. Almost all sunlight that filters through into rooms is reflected, diffuse and full spectrum (~5500 Kelvin). These three qualities set su…
I spent the evening moving my surebert repos from svn to git on github. After reading a lot of the git pro book I feel comfortable using it and the speed working with local repos is nice but there are a few things that …
And I thought. What is the meaning of life? Why are we here anyway? Banal questions and the themes of several works of literary merit (or not). But unanswered nevertheless. Where do we go after this life is over? Heaven…
I started trying to work hay back into the tortoises diet so they can be ready for winter. Orchard grass is okay but Timothy Hay sends me over the edge. I broke out in hives and had to use my inhaler. That was at noon. …
Why are the row and column numbers displaying as numeric placeholder skeletons in Gnumeric?? Does Gnumeric use some proprietary fonts that the mighty forces at Fedora have decided to outcast from the distro?? Aaargh. Ca…
So It is the Sabres Home opener Now I can admit that it isn't the same as say baseball where it is also kinda like the start of a season and all the stuff that goes along with that but I'll watch at least the start of t…
Okay, NOW I have tried everything except OpenSuse. Though Debian has been my favourite in terms of usability and friendliness, there is something really wrong with how Debian systems interact with R and deal with numeri…
Things are not great in linux land. Maybe my particular combination of requirements breaks things? I can't believe it. This is my list of absolutely essential software for my linux machine. These are ones that I use on …
Seriously? Behold Fedora 15's Black Screen of Death. [quote]Transcript of Error: [5.693915] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Invalid ROM contents [5.825510] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Pointer to BIT loadval table invalid [5.849874] nou…
how is it than we start off as such innocent precious beings and somewhere along the line we end so differently? as adults, we make choices which shape up as and we become who we are. i swear no matter how down i am, i …
Where on earth is the bluetooth??! According to: [quote] systemctl status bluetooth.servicebluetooth.service [/quote] [quote] - Bluetooth Manager Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service) Active: active (ru…
Escapist solution to ensuing mess:[/size] The wrestling match with Texmaker on Fedora 15 got way too confusing. I found that Texmaker has a fork called Texstudio and I have installed it instead. The x86_64 version of Te…
This is my michael jackson hand!!! It's healed I'm just waiting for my color to come back. The good thing is I can use my hand now, so I'm back to drawing with my mummy hand and some sewing. Makes me happy.
Fedora the Beefy Miracleator! ----- Totally inspired: http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail58.html But without the consummate V's.
v=bI6zLayBeJQ favourites$absolutelyawesome <- which(YoYoMa == 'Amazing' & Ennio Morricone == 'Genius')
My super-generous brother swapped out my crappy problematic System76 PanP7 this past weekend. As a result, I now have a brawny top-of-the-line quad core i7 8GB RAM Toshiba Satellite P750 with Dolby advanced audio and Ha…
