On a whim, I figured I should log in and see what's what. I even had some sort of draft post or response in the transporter room buffer for all these years. Here's what the machine remembered ( Read more... )

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Sweet Peter Schmeichel! It's March already! Apparently it's time for spring cleaning... time to open up the windows and let the digital bits air out ( Read more... )

The insolent jerkitude of the SeattleLJ community ceased being cute by about the third day of being in it. Yet, I still felt that the occasional, random, and actually useful bits of trivia outweighed its negative aspects. And despite my general policy of ignoring all comments on the Internet, I still couldn't help reading some of the follow-ups ( Read more... )

When last we checked in on me, I had just returned from a lovely, albeit short, weekend in PDX. Alert readers will remember that I had lost my Husky Card. Fortunately, I was able to get a new one for a mere sawbuck. And I didn't even have to get a new photo because, things being digital these days, they had an archived copy of me, which they ( Read more... )

I went down to PDX last week-end for a number of things. There was a "geosciences librarianship" workshop that I signed up for some time ago, back when I had spare time. Since I was signed up already, and since it warranted a trip, I stuck with it. Despite being fairly basic, I'm glad I went, if only to hang out around Portland State and then walk ( Read more... )

Went to Magus Books in the U-District today and stumbled upon the majority of geographer John Jakle's oeuvre ( Read more... )

I rode the light rail a few weeks ago, down to the Othello stop and back. I figured that would be a long enough ride to give me a decent feel for the route. It was about a week or two after opening and I wanted to see it after some of the hype quieted down, as well as to see who was riding it. Unsurprisingly, the crowd looked like just about every ( Read more... )

When I got my EEE last year, I never had any luck even installing Ubuntu 8.04, which is somewhat ironic considering I have in the past and do now run plenty of Slackware--about as user-friendly as a punch in the gut. Yet, Slackware 12.2 installed just happily. But I had not time to monkey with trying to get the wireless or ethernet working... and ( Read more... )

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