I've been using Linux Mint as my primary OS for about 3 years now. However, some of my machines were not -- how you say? -- "compliant". Yes. Well. All of my gear is about the same age and so it all failed at the same time. As I replace dead HDD's, I am purging my non-professional world of non-Open-Source software once and for all. I've had ( Read more... )

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Busy as usual. Here are the highlights of the last few months.

( WHOAH NELLIE )

You know what's one of my pet peeves? No matter, I'm gonna tell you anyway: those damned vinyl stickers in the bottom driver's side corner of the rear window of SUV's and mini-vans with the stick-figure "daddy", and slightly shorter, a stick-figure "mommy", and, in descending height proportional to age and gender, stick-figure effigies of any ( Read more... )

Skinning a Robot Horse

You're not Facebook. I like that sometimes. Sometimes I forget that I like that. Sometimes I take the lightning-fast updatery for granted. Sometimes I just want to read about cartoons. Then, of course, I remember that LJ is still there, slowly and patiently archiving my days in a logical and orderly format. Oh, if life were only so ( Read more... )

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I should post a bunch of my recent fire pix. Damn, I'm tired. It's been a long day. Swinging a drip torch and chainsaw all day really takes it outta you. Also, all my gear smells like smoke. OT is pretty rockin'.

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