think_too_much: 4924
me: 4908
ajacs: 4261
ccommack: 3895
glynhogen: 3668
reldnahkram: 3662
eclectic_boy: 3647

16 points...

Well, okay, not exactly silence. But at least now the loud whirr of my iMac's fan has been mostly replaced by the quiet, high-pitched hum of the CRT. Only took about 35 screws to get in far enough to replace the old fan with a much quieter one, and a bit of electrical tape when it turned out that the old fan had some sort of obsolete two-pin-only ( Read more... )

Verifying volume "oberon"
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
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Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Volume Bit Map needs minor repair
Checking volume information.
Invalid volume free block count ( Read more... )

News on the censorship front: the CEO of Six Apart has finally posted, admitting that they screwed up and saying that wrongly deleted accounts will be restored by 1200 PDT ( Read more... )

I am posting from my iMac, which now has a working OS (Ubuntu Feisty Fawn) on its hard drive for the first time since 2002. (Apparently, the jumpers have to be set to Master on an iMac; Cable Select just isn't good enough. Apple can be stupid, sometimes.) She has been newly dubbed Fittletot, after a Scottish spirit who appears as an old woman ( Read more... )

iTunes Top 25
Well, with a bit of a difference: I listen to complete albums a lot (though by no means exclusively), so if I let them, a very small number of albums would occupy the entire top 25 songs. So I've limited the list to only the most-played song from each album (and picked my favorite in the case of ties), and skipped any that came after ( Read more... )

A perspective:

If SWIL changes its name, I will feel somewhat hurt, as will many other people, for several somewhat complicated reasons. Therefore, I would like you all to repeat after me:
"No matter what you say or do to me, I am still a worthwhile person."

And, just for ~Elliot, Comma, Kyra, and Rebecca K.:
"No matter what we say or do ( Read more... )

said Winter, gleefully.

Mmm, snow.

So, um, I'm not a Christian or anything, but my local pizza place is advertising "Lent Specials!", and, while I could be wrong, I sort of feel like they're missing the point a bit. (They're also exactly the same as the regular specials that they have year round.)

Home now. Had an uneventful flight. The airport was nice and uncrowded-there wasn't even a line at security. Apparently Super Bowl Sunday afternoon is a good time to fly. The quietude was somewhat enlivened by Steven Tyler wandering around the food court, though. (He got what appeared to be a salad from Sbarro.)