Why My Life Sucks

Still alive.   Just got to make it through oh, 5-7 days or so and should be golden.

I posted some images up on Living in a Bookmobile.   Check em out.

I haven’t really done one in a while.

This, quite possibly, is the most important film made.

Warning, it’s roughly an hour and half long.

A while ago, I posted about the Bristol Stool chart.

Today, I found this.

I giggled, in fact I LOLed.

Just got weird. Again, with out violating more than my own privacy, I can’t go into the full details of why, but yeah, it’s weird.

On the geek side of life, I’ve beaten ’smallbox’ into submission, and it’s back to being mainly a Linux box, with booting into Windows if and when needed. Can’t say enough good things about Hardy Heron, the latest version of Ubuntu aka Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.

I’ve also gotten quite fond of andLinux on the laptop. Really slick design. Runs a modified version the Linux kernel as a service under XP. You get more or less the full KDE experience if you run ‘kicker’ I’ve got mine configured to be a vertical tool bar on the left hand side of the screen, normally in “hidden” mode, so all you see in windows in a small button with an arrow pointing down. Once you click that, you get the normal KDE 3.5 launcher.

In other geek news I’m going to be starting a D&D 4.0 campaign, with the first “full” game coming up this Sunday. Granted it’s ‘Keep on the Shadowfells” to start with, but until the books and SRD comes out that is what we’ve got. The enWord.org’s “Pre-release” book is also a good starting point. The offical WOTC page for it has a 6th pre gen, which gives some idea on how to level up a Warlord, which is new info.

On the personal front, other than “weirdness”, Redheaded Girl and I need to talk about what the word “puppy” means. The white dog in this photo is the “puppy” that they rescued. She had called me to find out if I could keep it for the afternoon while they dealt with a situation out at Art Dude’s property. I said sure. When I got home, well, I went out to look at the “puppy”. Sorry, if you are that size, you are a dog, not a puppy. I’ll grant it might not be full grown, but still, that’s not a puppy. Sweet dog. Gets along just fine with other dogs (or at least with our 3). No clue about cats, but I’m sure we will find out real soon, given the number of cats Redheaded Girl and Art Dude have. Might keep the semi-tamed raccoon and the opossum off her front porch, but most likely not given that the pit bulls next door to her house.

Update: White dog gets along fine with cats. Some of my cat’s don’t deal well with her however.

On the professional front I’ll be back doing work at $WeSellUsedMacs next week. Don’t know how long that will last, but I’m trying to make it a “full time” part time job. I think, I can do a 20-30 hour week now, but we will see.

More or less. This is what my living room looks like. We are finally getting our stuff out of the old house. I’ve been rather busy… Real postings to start again, soon, I hope.

I have no idea why I do well on this sort of test. My medical training, if you want to call it that is limited to being well read and having taken a few first aid courses back when I wore green a lot.

This wasn’t a perfect score, mainly because the site doesn’t seem to show images correctly with Firefox, so I need a 2nd clue on a couple of them, but I didn’t miss any diseases. A perfect score is “Doogie Howser, just BTW.

I read the National Review Online’s mass blog “The Corner”

This morning, I read this.. Andrew is one of their writers I’m least likely to have issues with.

Then, one of the writers I’m most likely to have issue with, “Klo” wrote this in reply. Kathryn, for what it’s worth, is everything I don’t like about some type of conservative women. Just for the record, she is rather violently opposed to both women in combat and gays in the military, plus seems a bit weird about parents in the military in general.

Lady, you can’t have it both ways. You seem to want young single straight male to be the US military.
Clue the first, young straight males think about sex a lot. Really a lot. You have no more chance of getting Playboy and such like out of the Military than you do getting any one under the rank of Lt. General to stop saying “Fuck”. It’s not going to happen.

Next clue. I know what they sell in the PX. What they sell is not porn. Also, at least in Germany and Ft. Bliss, where they sell Playboy’s isn’t where under age folk are going to find it. It’s not in the main PX, it’s in the ‘barracks’ PX’s I will grant that my info is a few years (few defined as roughly 20) out of date, but if your going to tell me that the 1970’s and 1980’s was less porn friendly than now, I don’t think we really live in the same world. If any thing, it’s harder to get “porn” in main stream America than it was in 1986 when I got out. It’s much harder to find real honest by gosh naked women photos in a random store than it was in the 80’s. The internet has a lot to do with that, of course.

Next clue: Playboy isn’t porn. It’s naked women, yeah, but it’s at best R rated. There have been PG movies with as much nudity as your average issue of Playboy. You can show images that would fit in a copy of Playboy without needing to jump through most of the 2257 hoops.

Next, Congress critter Broun, don’t you have any thing else better to do? I went to your taxpayer paid for page web page and your own page, which I assume is paid for by your campaign

Here are the top parts of the tax payer paid for page:

“I am committed to protecting the constitutional rights and pocketbooks of every American. I will apply the following four-way test to every piece of legislation that comes before the House for a vote:

1) Is it Moral / Right? 3) Is it Necessary?
2) Is it Constitutional? 4) Is it Affordable? “

And the news photo caption:”On a visit to the University of Georgia, Congressman Broun
talks with head football coach Mark Richt and discusses legislative issues facing the university.”

Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
I don’t want you, or any other Congress critter to decide what is Moral, much less make it your number one test. Morality is not the government’s job. I’d also be MUCH more impressed if you spoke with, oh I don’t know, Michael F. Adams , the president of the UoG or Steve Wrigley the Vice President for Government Relations of the UoG instead of the fucking football coach. Maybe you did, but that didn’t make it to your web site.

Don’t even get me started about your own flash encrusted, audio playing (with no off button) piece of crap personal page. Let’s just start with who is INTERSCAPE, INC and why are they listed as both the administrative and technical contact in your WHOIS database entry?

While I don’t live in Georgia, I can’t vote for or against you, you just made it to my watch and rant list.

Well, not really.

Just a random photo of the violets in my back yard.

Just an important safety note for all you retro-computing people out there. Don’t use the Ubuntu 7.10 network install CD to do any thing more than the CLI version. It will fail when it attempts to start down loading what ever desktop version you tell it to do. I know this, I don’t know why I keep trying.

To install Ubuntu 8.04 with a desktop worth using on an older machine do the following
1) download the xubuntu iso, burn it to CD and install from that or

2) do what I did.
Down load and burn the 7.10 (gutsy) mini iso and burn it.
Install the CLI version of unbutu
Log in.
edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file changing all gutsy to hardy
issue
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
take a break
Once you get a command line back issue
apt-get install xorg xubuntu-desktop synaptic
Take longer break.
reboot
Should be in X window with xfc4 running when you get done.

I am a Nerd Ghod. I really am. I just spent 10 minutes getting the HTML right on this damn post so that the damn images would line up right. This theme does weird things some times. Of course I could have just done a table, but I’m trying to avoid those nowadays.

She’s a Miniature Pinscher…

Together they fight Crime!

Assuming you define crime as being squirrel based.

My dogs. Keeping the US safe from the squirrel threat for all their lives.

This shot just amuse me to no end. To me it looks like a poster for a doggie version of those 1980’s cop buddy movies. Could just be me. I’m quite aware that I’m not a normal person at the best of times.