Posts from October 2010

My mom died a few hours from now 11 years ago. She would have been 71 on August 25.

Here are a few of my favorite photos of her.



She visited the Falls in 1970







My mom and I at a reception in 1974

OK, this is what I figured out. In the gnome Linux Mint 9, drag and drop does NOT work from the Desktop or if the file manager and firefox windows do not overlap.

But it does work if the file manager and the firefox winows DO overlap.



None of this works on a heavily-patched PCLinuxOS 2007 box with KDE 3.5.9 and Firefox 3.6.9. Because the PCLinuxOS is rather old and very far away from a vanilla install, I reckoned I should try something more modern like Linux Mint.

@leetee suggested that the problem might be that the drag and drop won't be supported from the Desktop so I tried drag and drop from the File Manager on both boxes. Linux Mint worked if the windows overlapped. But, alas, the ancient PCLinuxOS box was just too old and cranky and refused to work. Thank you for all your efforts, @paul. I think the mystery is solved. There is no more reason for you to do anything about this. It's a combination of user error and old software.

I've been a big fan of Mark Vidler (No relation to the East Aurora retail family) and Go Home Productions for more years than I can remember. I'm still in awe of his Sex Pistols - Madonna mashups.

MIchael Jackson's Rockin Robin and Nirvana's Smells like Teen Spirit mashed up. How does he come up with the combinations? If you are anything like me, you won't be able to listen to either song in quite the same way after seeing this.

I say now that Bass Pro is officially gone (and I don't believe that they were actually going to be here anyway) the Powers That Be should try to get an IKEA to replace it.

I just voted in the School Board election. I was the 21st voter at my local polling place for two election districts combined.

I heard that turnout was low. But I had no idea it i was this low.

I found this by accident on the google web. The Costa Verde hotel has a "house" that is made out of the fuselage of a 727.

The little boy in me says "golly gee, it's swell!"

It's snowing in Stykkisholmur, Iceland right now. It's not snowing in Buffalo, USA.

And I say that the latter is a good thing.

This afternoon I had the pleasure of running into @mrmike at our local Wegmans. It was a nice reminder that the online community extends into meat space.

Once upon there was a band called the Dead Kennedys. The first single I bought of theirs was "Too Drunk to Fuck." This is an acapella cover of the song by Camille who at one point in her life was in the bossa nova punk cover band Nouvelle Vague. Technically, I think this is an acapella cover of the Nouvelle Vague cover of the Dead Kennedys original.