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I am now the proud owner of a Linux system. First time I’ve ever owned one. I’ve worked on a lot of them, but never took the time to build my own. I built GenToo for my ancient Dell P-III (500 MHz). I picked Gentoo because, unlike SUSE or RedHat 7.3, their default image booted . . . → Read More: Ha! In your face, Linux! A new source of random crap! Tap the mother lode that is MemePool. A few examples: Sign your credit cards… Duuuuuuuuude… Dance well, and salvation is yours… In more geeky news, I’m building Gentoo Linux on my old P-III 500 MHz machine. Hopefully it’ll drive the Smart Home X10 stuff that I’m going to be . . . → Read More: Random crap fromt teh intarweb! Welcome to the dead space of the year. . . . → Read More: Yule, and the inevitable letdown Back at BWI. Sitting in the airport. Our flight to Providence seems to be one of the few that’s actually listed “on time.” I think I briefly saw the status of the flight to Buffalo as “boned,” but they changed it back to “scheduled 6:25pm, it’s 10:15pm now, merry Christmas” shortly thereafter. The natives have . . . → Read More: Christmastime in the airport A buddy of mine was, until today, a product designer at Hasbro. Today he got laid off. If anybody knows of openings for a senior type (late 30s? early 40s?) product designer, I’d appreciate the leads. He’s a good guy, though I’ve never seen his work. He’s willing to relocate, and actually wants to . . . → Read More: Anybody need a senior product designer? So, since my impulsive decision to forgo coffee on Thursday, I’ve been pretty severely limiting my intake. It’s been an unmitigated success. The exhaustion that used to settle on me in the afternoon is gone, as is the brutally sudden onset of “must sleep now” in the evening. The headaches only lasted a couple of . . . → Read More: Update on the evil bean. Well, we tasted the lambic for the first time, and it was bad. It may just be a sour beer very fresh in the bottle (5 days out from bottling,) but man that was tart. After taking away the samples I had offered people and providing them with fresh and non-vile beverages, I retired to . . . → Read More: Lambic BAD. . . . → Read More: Random crap and holiday cheer |
