| So a pirate walks into a bar. . . |
[Apr. 12th, 2008|02:05 pm] |
The spelling mistake is irritating, but I was exhausted when I made it.
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| Another way in which Leo LaPorte is better than me |
[Apr. 10th, 2008|12:46 pm] |
When he takes a picture of a walkway, it's an awesome picture of a walkway:
( Leo's picture of a walkway )
When I take a picture of a walkway, it becomes a picture of a trash can:
( My picture of a walkway ) |
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[Apr. 5th, 2008|04:50 pm] |
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The dishes got done, despite extended air guitar breaks. I just goes to show that with the power of soul everything is possible. |
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[Apr. 5th, 2008|01:42 pm] |
I find it extremely difficult to do the dishes while listening to Stevie Ray Vaughan. |
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| Hell is other people |
[Mar. 25th, 2008|06:33 am] |
As the effects of peak oil are increasingly felt in our economy, more of us will choose to live in high-density, walkable communities, due to the fact that the convenience of driving a car to accomplish our daily tasks will become prohibitively expensive. Once we do, we will be confronted with the reason our ancestors moved to the suburbs in the first place: our neighbors are assholes.
I'm fairly certain that strangling someone to death for blasting faux-metal angst pop at 4:30 a.m. is not, in fact, justifiable homicide. Although, at the moment, I cannot fathom why.
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| Computer Todos |
[Mar. 4th, 2008|12:21 pm] |
In no particular order:
- Find electronic document management software for Linux, so we can scan the piles of paper all over the house and recycle them.
- Get Gutsy AMD64 to play a friggin' DVD, like a normal operating system.
- Figure out how Avahi can get my computers so see each other on my home network, so I can do stuff like share printers and sync my palm to my notebook, like people with normal operating systems can do.
- Figure out why gdm is crapping out on wife's computer so that she doesn't have to restart X (sometimes repeatedly) in order to log in after booting.
- Figure out why the flash browser plugin randomly decides to stop working.
- Skype on Gutsy AMD64 because I hate myself.
- Get the camera working on my notebook, so that if job falls through I can make a living as a camgirl.
- Upload all pictures since July to Flickr.
- Figure out how to install hplip-gui without screwing up the hplip driver I had to compile because the version that comes with the distro is a pile of crap.
- Find a-hole who invented SELinux and strangle him. (I guess this is unfair. Nobody forced me install it. On the other hand, it is such a PITA. I think I'll just slash his tires.)
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| Leap Day! |
[Feb. 29th, 2008|11:09 pm] |
Thanks to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) llahearn for reminding me that you don't often get a chance to post on leap day. Whee!
I've been distracted because I recently found half of my lost CD collection! I've been ripping every spare moment I've had since then, in case I lose it again. I'm also watching Stop Making Sense for the first time and I'm really enjoying it. I don't know how I could have waited this long to see it and still felt I could call myself a Talking Heads fan.
I bought it last weekend from the Hollywood Video going out of business sale along with a copy of the Matrix. I guess I should be worried about the fact that Hollywood was the last place in town where I could rent a video, but I think it's just a sign of the times. Hmm, which is the name of another concert movie I enjoyed.
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| Wisdom from dreams |
[Feb. 25th, 2008|10:18 am] |
If you find yourself in possession of a sport bike, and want to return it to it's owner, don't seek help from Senator Biden's underachieving twin brother. He will offer you nothing but his scorn.
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| My Favorite Moustaches - Part the First |
[Feb. 22nd, 2008|04:38 pm] |
Charles I
Charles I was not what could reasonably be considered a successful monarch. Because he was somewhat short in stature (made significantly shorter by Oliver Cromwell in 1649), he tried to compensate by wearing tall hats with high heeled boots, being a belligerent prick, and this amazing moustache.
I'm especially fond of this triple portrait by, appropriately enough, Van Dyke, because it best demonstrates the miraculousness of this moustache. Could any subject look upon this moustache, apparently held up by the very hand--or at least the very thumb and forefinger--of God and doubt that he had been chosen to rule? Well, yes. I guess they could.
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| Things I think about. |
[Feb. 9th, 2008|10:11 pm] |
If a Gibson is a gin martini with cocktail onions instead of olives, what would a William Gibson be?
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| Writer's Block: Cooking Lessons |
[Feb. 7th, 2008|06:22 pm] |
Martin Yan and Jeff Smith taught me how to cook. |
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| Cool coffee tables |
[Feb. 7th, 2008|06:12 pm] |
I love coffee tables. And ottomans. They're essentially the same piece of furniture, with varying degrees of upholstery.
Here are two that are especially awesome:
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| Reading The Holy Bible makes you dumb |
[Feb. 5th, 2008|11:15 pm] |
As proven by Scientists of Science!1
Reading "The Holy Bible" makes you dumber than if you didn't read. However, reading "The Bible" makes you smarter than people that don't read, but still a damn sight dumber than those preverts that read Lolita. I guess if I want to be smarter, I need to get my Nabokov[2] on. I also need to stay the hell away from Zane. I've never heard of it, but it looks like it's hot stupid on toast.
1Well, at least a Graduate Student of Science.
2I didn't know the lyrics in don't stand so close to me were "That famous book by Nabokov" until my sister bought me the Police box set for my birthday 5 years ago. I always thought he said "by now becough". I didn't know what becough meant, but you know how Sting is. Sometimes he pulls crap like that. |
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| Supid imagination |
[Feb. 1st, 2008|11:58 pm] |
Until tonight, I really liked Tofurky beer brats. It's been decades since I've had a real one, and they tasted close enough for me. I liked them so much that if I was feeling lazy (which is all the time) and wanted a snack, I would just eat one cold out of the package. Tonight, as usual, I was feeling peckish, so I grabbed one. As I began chowing down on it, I looked at what was in my hand and thought, "corpse penis". I couldn't finish it. I may not be able to eat one again. Having an active imagination can be a blessing, but it can also be a curse.
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| Ride like the wind |
[Jan. 12th, 2008|11:09 pm] |
She called me while I was on my way home to let me know she was having email weirdness, and the timing really sucked because she was leaving for Mexico the next day. As soon as I hung up the phone, Christopher Cross (and Michael McDonald) started singing "I've got such a long way to go/To make it to the border of Mexico" in my brain. Shit. I've been earwormed. Sometimes the only way to deal with an earworm is to go with it. Ride it and see where it takes you. So I did.
Here's the original video. I had never seen this because it came out in 1979 and we didn't get MTV for at least another year and a half. Of course, there's no way this would have played this on MTV, anyway.
Here's the "VH1 Where Are They Now?" style video that looks like it could have been made sometime in the last 5 years. Someone forgot to tell Michael McDonald that this song isn't a duet.
DJ Michael Mann recorded a dance version of the song. There are a bunch of different remixes on YouTube, but this is the least annoying one. It's not so much a video as it is a series of photos of random floozies. The other ones are either obscured by giant ads or try very hard to make you have a seizure.
This next video is one of the most awesome motherfucking things ever. This is why we should all get down on our knees and thank unicorn baby Jesus for inventing the internet. Vintage 1988 Hair Metal from Saxon. I don't know what they did to get their hair like that back then, but it probably violated the Geneva Convention. Dig the inappropriate use of red bandanas, heavy metal calisthenics, frizzy-headed bimbos with vacant stares, and a cameo appearance by Kirk Douglas as a prison guard. Finding this was totally worth the earworm.
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[Jan. 12th, 2008|03:36 pm] |
I really enjoy reading Jim Kunstler's blog because it makes me feel good to know that there is someone out there who is more pessimistic than I am.
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| Who dat is? |
[Jan. 6th, 2008|09:56 pm] |
As I was walking through Times Square on the evening of the last Saturday of 2007, I passed a famous actor. Well, he was famous enough that I recognized his face, but I couldn't remember his name. All the way home I was trying to think of a movie that he was in so I could look him up on IMDB, but nothing came. I tried googling for "looks a bit like George Plimpton," but I didn't get anything. It's funny how the internet is excellent for putting a face with a name, but completely useless at putting a name with a face.
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| AAAIIIEEE! |
[Jan. 4th, 2008|09:26 am] |
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| Evolved? |
[Dec. 28th, 2007|10:10 pm] |
It appears that Novell (and Others, as the About page says) have finally gotten Evolution to the point where it doesn't crash every 10 minutes. I've been using it for my email on my notebook ever since I installed Gutsy. I like that it's so integrated with Gnome that I'm reminded of upcoming meetings even when it's not running. However, the keybindings really really really suck. The 'shortcut' for moving a message to another folder is Ctrl-Shift-v. Ctrl-Shift-m creates a new message. That's just hideous. There must be some way to change these to something more reasonable. The other main complaint is the editor. I've been spoiled by mutt and Sylpheed in that they allow me to use vim to compose my email. Sylpheed's implementation feels somewhat stapled on, but I've gotten used to it. Evo's editor might as well be Windows friggin' Wordpad. A few years ago I read that someone was using Bonobo to trick Evo into using Gvim as it's editor. I'll have to look into that. |
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