Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md_d0 688G 605G 49G 93% /media/work
/dev/md_d1 917G 870G 908M 100% /media/home
/dev/md_d2 1.8T 196M 1.7T 1% /media/raid

Ahhhh.

Edited 2010-03-05 to include header.

Due to other commitments, I won't have time to process and stitch all of the multi-photo panoramas that I took during this recent trip to England until early March. But, I had to do one or two last night, just to get myself psyched. Click on this for a 4.6MB 7k x 4k jpeg:


( Read more... )

I was thinking today that the best way to do studio child photography (like I'm ever going to want to do it) would be to assemble a miniature teleprompter over the lens of your camera and play something that grabs kids' attention, like Spongebob, or Teletubbies, or similar dreck. That way, you can use a big, ugly, imposing, and scary lens and not ( Read more... )

Gang,

My cousin is looking to sell a Macintosh SE and a Macintosh Classic, and is being offered $100 for the pair. Is that ballpark or a lowball offer? I know little about these things except for the time that I bought an SE and hollowed out the case to make a one-shot Halloween costume.


( Read more... )

I've been reading a lot of financial blogs, and one theme keeps coming back: the belief that 1) there are more government jobs now than before, and 2) government jobs pay more than private sector jobs.

In this article, Michael Rozeff starts out by saying that wealth creation all comes from the private sector. He argues that California is going ( Read more... )

Since I can't format this in a tweet, or even a lengthy FB update, I will post it here. I hope this allows for proper exposition of arguments, instead of clever one-liners like my FB posts tend to generate (half from me, might I add ( Read more... )

Two aero projects that I just recently became aware of make me thrilled to be an aero engineer.

Sikorsky X2 helicopter: a co-axial, counter-rotating blade design with a pusher propeller in the back. This design (and accompanying technologies) improves the speed that helicopters can fly, and will probably make them safer as well. Plus, it's ( Read more... )

"In a sense, it is easier, strategy-wise, to be opposed to a full totalitarian regime than it is to try to counter a more sophisticated, strongly authoritarian one. There is some freedom. How do you explain to people what exactly they are lacking?"

Guess what country the speaker is referring to?

( This one. )

Sidewalk and driveway are shoveled (10-12" of snow). Brown rice is boiling. Thai food ordered. All floors swept. Broken CFL glass vacuumed from rug. 3 loads of laundry done. Bedspread lint-rolled. Cats lint-rolled. Cat vomit stains 409'd. Stairs swept. Mark showered. Most Christmas gifts put away. Mail sorted. Still no appreciable food in the house ( Read more... )

I keep a lot of tabs open in my Firefox, but LJ is always the first one. Others are Facebook, gmail, work e-mail, calendar, finance, reader, wave, delicious, docs, and weather. The rest are all for articles that I didn't have time to read immediately, or ideas or art that I want to go back to within the month. But still, I don't get to posting to ( Read more... )