So the main HDD in the Mythbuntu box crashed and burned. I may ask to see if JRR wants to take it apart with me and see what the main means of failure was. If it was just a circuit board issue, I wonder if I can shove it into some other IDE drive and see if it works ( Read more... )

Thank you for locking up when mounting the local file system Mythbuntu. You sure are awesome that way.

The house has a huge load of flies ( Read more... )

Well, I finished speaking with the guys at Plextronics and I have to say, those dudes are all a bunch of really cool guys and it would be a lot of fun working with them ( Read more... )

So I am posting this from the conference room at Plextronics' headquarters in Pittsburgh. I'm delivering a seminar (unexpectedly) in about ten minutes, but it's something I've done repeatedly over the past few weeks so I'm not horribly concerned ( Read more... )

So apparently, between my harassing my old advisor, the interviews, and communication iwth NREL, I went way the hell over my cellular minutes ( Read more... )

One day myth, I will figure out why changes I made to xorg.conf to make the video card recognize the fact that my TV is 1920x1080 don't last if I reboot or restart xorg.

I will find out one day, and then the time of reckoning will have come.

So I have been reading a ton about Kingman Reef and sea slugs, and I thought I would do some nature fanart (if you can call it that)

( hugeness under this cut )

So it appears I have some mysis shrimp that survived flash freezing or something! They are now living in the reef tank and they seem to only show up at night, and like to congregate around the "moonlight" LEDs I have installed ( Read more... )

Seeing as how I am poor and probably going to be destitute in some aspect of nutrition, I have decided to implement a new program at home ( Read more... )