Last night my wireless router changed religions and wanted to be a wired router. Time for an upgrade. I picked up a newer, faster, stronger router at Wallmart and plugged it in. Immediately packed up some gear for a jam in Allston. Came home, picked up S to go for groceries. Came home again, answered emails. Think I'm done doing stuff, now.

And now it's time for the Coyote on your TV to explode. I got word that there's a very good chance of seeing a Coyote Whip on MTV Video Music Awards this year, with Panic at the Disco -- yes, thanks to raw vegan Tonya Kay.

I think tonight, of all nights, especially reminds us that everything must have an end. Beginning, middle, end. Any effort to deny the ends wastes some important middles. You spend your time building pyramids when you could be fishing. Now, there's nothing wrong with pyramids. Pyramids are cool. But if you make them as a fortress againsts the ends ( Read more... )

I am so not in the Hallowe'en spirit. No candy distribution this year. No tricks, no treats.

Apparently my handwriting is cursive, now. That's different than before.

Spent a day playing with an old AMD K6/300, 64meg ram, 3 gig hd. I have installed an extremely light o/s, Damned Small Linux (dsl). It runs the essentials, Firefox, AIM, word processing, image editing. We've also got spreadsheets and other stuff that I'll never use on this computer. Everything installed off of a CD with 50meg of data on it. It ( Read more... )

Cleric 'meat' remarks spark furyAccording to this CNN page, Astralian Islamic cleric Sheik Taj Aldin al Hilali said, "If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside ... without cover, and the cats come to eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats' or the uncovered meat's ( Read more... )

Dammit. Alarm clock rang just as a sex dream was getting interesting.

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S: "Where are your knuckles?"

D: "I'm too fat to have knuckles."

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D: "How'd you like a pina colada for breakfast?"

S: "Sure!"

D: "Come on down, I made you one!"

P: "Does she know it's just fruit juice?"

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Thinking that auto exhaust pipe would be perfect for the combustion chamber of v.4 of my rocket stove.

I built a new dns+mail server for my old partner yesterday. Installing software is easy. What's hard is

1. spending most of a day poking at conf files and watching a reinstall, because he brought in a machine that freezes up when the desktop loads
2. figuring out that the servers won't work because he turned on a firewall
3. discovering that sendmail now ( Read more... )