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Youngest son likes to sit at the Linux box starting a ridiculously large number of xcalcs. Like, forty or fifty xcalc processes, his display is literally tiled with them. And then he starts giggling, as he's starting up more. So I decided I'd ssh in, su to root and issue 'pkill -f xcalc' to kill all the processes - he's watching his display all ( Read more... ) -
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I was pondering how I learn stuff and was thinking - I might have been pretty good at electronics, too, if components didn't tend to do things like pop and start smoking when you put them together slightly incorrectly. :D -
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When I saw the video clip of President Bush getting shoes thrown at him, my first thought was that at some point in his childhood, an old Chinese man told him he had the bone structure and chi of a Kung Fu genius, and sold him a Buddhist Palm Manual for $10. -
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Someone should write (or film) a new Hardy Boys book (or movie) where they're all grown up. Joe gets knocked off by the mob and Frank is out for vengeance.
And make sure it's super dark. Like, Harry Callahan and Kaiser Soze get run over in the street by a yellow jalopy dark. With Chet in the trunk. -
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The people that run a site called 'never get busted' and have some reality show in the works called cop busters put a couple of lamps up over a couple of Christmas trees, and the house got raided ( Read more... ) -
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Apparently, MIT is replacing the SICP/scheme based introductory computer programming course with a python based one.
It doesn't really matter, I think, what language is used as long as the concepts get across, but still. This saddens me a little. -
I'm a monitor luddite, apparently.
The 17" monitor on my Linux box went bad, it just decided to go off-color. Box now has a 19" LCD widescreen display running X11 at 1440x900. First widescreen display I've owned. X actually looks much, much better. We also threw a sound card in there. Should turn into a nice web browsing box, if I can fix the damn ~ key I may start coding on it ( Read more... ) -
Ok, I'm tormenting you all with my random thoughts today.
I was thinking about man made global warming and, while I'm no climate scientist, and I don't have a rigorous opinion on the matter - it does seem pretty obvious that our culture of having fifteen vehicles each isn't tenable.
Five robotic lions should be enough for anybody.