Seth Rogen and his friends team up to bring us This Is the End, and if you're one of Seth Rogen's friends I guarantee you will almost piss yourself with laughter ( Read more... )

To do this, I started with a fresh OpenSUSE 12.3 virtual machine running under VMWare Workstation 9. Besides letting the updates install, the only significant thing I did was install VMWare Tools, which is another boatload of pain covered here. Of course, you could follow the rest of this on a native operating system. But doing things like this ( Read more... )

I don't consider an installation of a guest OS in a VMWare VM really complete until VMWare Tools is on the guest OS. Having VMWare Tools lets your guest desktop resize to fit your host display and it also supports drag-and-drop and clipboard interoperation between host and guest. Sometimes it's a little glitchy, but on the whole it works ( Read more... )

FridayLearning patience. No Internet-at-home in the forseeable future. Wacky thing alluded to before potentially not happening until Thanksgiving. Got some more books ( Read more... )

ThursdayWaitin' for the Internet to arrive. The installers are supposed to come between 8 this morning and 5 this afternoon. I considered getting up at 7:45 so I'd be super ready to open the door and be dressed in daytime clothes and be less likely to be interrupted from breakfast or coffee, but, really, the odds of installers showing up at 8am ( Read more... )

Friday

Last night there was a heck of a rain storm and the power bumped at least three times. (It was good to be using a laptop. I suppose it would have been even better to be reading a book.)

At Andy's we watched Rise of the Guardians: Meh. The animation and the little jokes are good, but the story is a pain - anything based on the supposed ( Read more... )

TuesdayGood news for me: I have wheels again. I got the call this afternoon and went down to pick up the car, with a new blower switch and a half-hour's labour put in. Could have been worse. The wait was a bit on the long side, but it's the only game in town and they'd suddenly gotten busy with locals that had more serious problems ( Read more... )

Tuesday (August 13)Grampy can sometimes become ambivalent about my being here. I kind of get it. I really wanted to come down here, so I became a self-appointed caretaker - my mother and uncles encouraged it, but Grampy only acquiesced. Last year, when Nanny was here, the atmosphere was totally different. Grampy even paid me on top of what I ( Read more... )

WednesdaySomeone called here, claiming to be from Liverpool (England), about refunding some “Windows software services” or some such that Grampy supposedly purchased in May (yeah right: we're not even online) and he wanted to verify this and that. I'd picked up the phone at the same time as Grampy, heard the first bits, and I immediately became ( Read more... )

Saturday (July 28th)

Elektra: Saw it on TV (Teletoon), so I wonder how much of it was cut. The girl Abby is more interesting than the title character and really the only interesting part in general - though cute young girl™ is such an easy hook that it's not even really worth crediting the movie for using it. There's a fair bit of action in this ( Read more... )