With respect to the attack on Vicka, Skunk came over to discuss what had happened and what could be done about it. He determined that SCUL didn't have a suitable mechanism for handling this sort of issue, and that it would have to be handled no differently from how it would be handled if SCUL was not involved, including going to the police if ( Read more... )

I'm Vicka's spouse, and have seen her interact with her partners and their partners, as well as other people in relationships of various sorts, for 13 years now. These have included relationships she has liked and relationships she has not approved of; relationships where she has liked both people and ones where she has liked only one; and ( Read more... )

The Valve project to produce a native Linux port of Steam runs into a snag:

gcc portal.a -lalsa -lXext -lX11 -lGL -lm -lsocket -o portal ( Read more... )

I hate you and I think I love you
You might wonder why I act this way
I don't know but I feel it happening
And it's really fucking killing me

Well, maybe it's just jealousy
&c

(words by C Valerius Catullus, music by Billie Joe Armstrong)

Lugete, O Veneres Cupidinesque
et quantum est hominum venustiorum:
Lingua mortua maxime latina est.
Quae necavit Romanos nunc necat me.

In the afterlife ( Read more... )

But soft, what light,
its hour come round at last, slouches
through yonder window
to be born?

This year, at the Red Sox home opener, the ceremonial first pitch was thrown by Bill Buckner. Dwight Evans, having caught the pitch (for a strike), nearly rolled the ball back to the mound for Buckner to keep as a souvenir, but thought better of it and handed it to him instead as they walked off the field ( Read more... )

If you don't want git operations to take 10 seconds each, don't configure your system to do this:

10:55:34 sendto(3, "\307\304\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\ttimesink\n\5svana
\3net"..., 37, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 37 <0.000159>
10:55:34 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 5000) = 0 <4.995564 ( Read more... )

Time flies when your clock knows about DST starting.